Breaking news - The Taiwanese organizers of the William Jones Cup just un-invited the Gilas Pilipinas to join the said competition.
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But why NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW?
It's really sad to think that our national team will not be able to defend their title because of the dispute between Taiwan and the Philippines. We all knew that the Jones Cup will be the one of the huge preparations of the Gilas for the FIBA Asia that will be happening this August in the country. In the Jones Cup, the Gilas will have the opportunity to play with different Asian teams that will compete also for FIBA Asia, they can also scout the players and they can prepare more specific gameplans for each Asian team that will be joining the Jones Cup and the Fiba as well. There are many setbacks because of this...but what can we do?
(1) They really need to find alternative invitational cup/s to join so that they can practice more as a team.
(2) Well, it can be a blessing in disguise because other Asian teams will be having a hard time to scout the team.
But at the back of my mind, I'm still hoping that the Gilas can still play for the Jones Cup and beat the Chinese-Taipei team. ;)
SFG
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