Friday, August 5, 2011

Gilas Hopes Military Basketball Gets Them To Olympics!

Show off your skills but do it within the system.

That, in a nutshell, is how Coach Rajko Toroman managed to rein in 12 bright basketball talents and mold them into a cohesive team.

Gilas is giving up a lot of height and heft to teams from China, Iran, South Korea, Japan and Lebanon but will try to make up for it with precision basketball and unmatched cohesiveness.

The Nationals hope that the team-oriented, regimented style of basketball that Coach Toroman has installed will translate into an Olympics slot. The last time the Philippine Basketball Team went to the Olympics was in 1972.

More on this story here.

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