The country’s national program has assembled promising building blocks. A young Gilas Pilipinas has been exposed to high-level continental competition and has performed beyond expectations.
The pool, teeming size and potential, will get to continue its education against top-flight teams in an Olympic qualifier.
All that might be the easy phase in the journey to the 2023 Fiba (International Basketball Federation) World Cup.
The challenge, national team coach and program director Tab Baldwin said, will be getting stakeholders to pitch in to the project.
“We have to be prepared to dance a little bit, we have to be prepared to experience some disappointment, and hav…
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