Powerade-Team Pilipinas

okay.. good luck to team pilipinas since i think you need all the luck you can get. i'm a filipino and i love philippine basketball... i also have alot of respect to coach yeng guiao, infact i like him more than chot reyes who coached the last PBA backed national team... 

since ive said what i like, i would like to say what i dont like... i dont like the composition of these team! period... here's why... Asi thou he's still wide but he's also old and now so much slow than ever before. Pennisi, he's also old, slow, and lack of post of up moves, he's considered a shooter but he's no allan caidic. Thoss, thou you and promising but he's soft and lack strength and agresiveness. Baguio, the biggest surprise of em all, i could not believe this guy is in the team, thou he could play but still there are alot of PBA players that are much bettern than him. Dillinger, thou he's young, agressive and shows promise in his young PBA career, just like baguio i thought there is a much better player in the pba than him. how i wished kelly williams is not injured.

since i rant, i need to give alternatives and definitely my alternatives is open to criticism. In place of asi, i would have like to see enrico villanueva or dorian pena, i like either of the two, villanueva is familiar with yeng's system and he's also agressive and can score under the boards, with pena i go with his wide body since with asi being wide it's pena body that can replace an asi body. in place of pennisi, i would have put in washington, jay wash developed tremendously while in san miguel, he shoot at the three at the middle and can post up and infront of the basket and the guy can also rebound so i like jay wash because he can do alot especially if he's motivated, in place of thoss i would have put in JayR Reyes, thou i'm not a fan of this guy but i'l pick him always ahead of thoss and the fact that reyes can shoot the ball and man the post much better that thoss. Baguio now this is the position that caguioa should have if only he's healthy but since he's not healthy i would have picked alapag to shore up the PG of the team and as fadi el khatib said jimmy is the best point guard in asia (hell yeah). Dillinger, this is were kelly williams should have been, since he's not available i would have picked Hontiveros, dondon has experience, can slash to the basket and a streak shooter which is good since if he's hot then he's unstapable in scoring...

i know its too late for this post... but what the heck... i just hope that team pilipinas wound up for the top three so that the training of the smart gilas team wont be wasted... 

                                                         good luck and mabuhay....

PBA TEAM: PureFoods trades..

okay, the draft is finnished... Picked Mierhoffer... i like the pick... thou what i dont like and couldnt fathom is why the heck did they trade enrico villanueva together with rich alvarez to ginebra to gain artadi, reavis, timberlake? this is Sh*t... excuse me for my language... i just thought that the trade is so one sided in favor of ginebra... enrico alone is much better than a combined artadi and reavis... artadi has lot of flaws, isnt that reason why purefoods released him during his first stint. reavis is overrated... even surprised he's still in the PBA... then they also reaquired pingris for 1st and 2nd round draft pick next year, are you kidding me? pingris is only worth the 2nd round pick but definitely not the 1st... Pure Foods is my team in the PBA but with this trade i'm scratching my head asking why??? villanueva with raymundo and yap is already a formidable trio then they added allado last season... imagine allado playing together with villanueva, considering the rivalry between these two during college... plus the fact that if raymundo is sent to the bench allado can come in and with villanueva purefoods wont have problem's in the four and five position... the three can also play since raymundo can play the three position... it's just so unfortunate the management decided to trade villanueva... as you can see my rant is pretty much focused on villanueva being traded for almost like nothing... it's just a letdown to see one of the main core of purefoods being traded for peanuts...

The Passing of Corazon "Cory" Aquino

     Its been four days since the former president died of cancer, thus the entire filipino nation is grieving. The Philippine flags all over the world is at half mast and the international community especially the pope and leaders of different country's offered their condolence and prayers. 

    I was born before the people power revolution and too young to even remember what really happened. It was thru school that i learn the history of the people power revolution and how cory unite the filipino people to oust the dictator ferdinand marcos. For that thank you very much.

    As i watched waked thru the TV in the ANC channel, i could see that ordinary people, rich or poor came together to show their respect to president aquino. one could see the owner of metrobank and the vice president shows up to attend the first mass during the wake and while the coffin of president aquino is being transferred from la salle greenhills to manila cathedral you could see fernando zobel de ayala in the streets together with his brother in law and later said he was also with his children line up in the streets with ordinary people. It's nice to see this happen since cory is seen as a person who unite the filipino people, one can hope that even after cory's burial filipino people would find a way to unite whether it's against an abusive person or to help fellow filipino's in need.