Coach Chot Reyes has named Jayson Castro, Andray Blatche, JuneMar Fajardo, Terence Romeo, Calvin Abueva, Troy Rosario, Japeth Aguilar, Matthew Wright, Gabe Norwood, Roger Pogoy, Jio Jalalon, and Allein Malicsi to our twelve man lineup.
Left out of the lineup are Baser Amer, Carl Bryan Cruz and Gilas Cadet Troy Rike.
Here are three thoughts on our lineup:
Thought #1 No surprises here.
The twelve named were the most obvious choices. Baser Amer is still new to the program and has not proven he should be picked over Jalalon (who wouldn't have been picked either had Kiefer Ravena been available), Carl Bryan Cruz is basically Matthew Wright-light, and Troy Rike is only with the team to further expedite his entry to future Gilas lineups.
Thought #2 We're not going to do anything new.
The same old lineup doing the same old schemes that have proven to be effective for us. Tactically, it doesn't make sense for Gilas to do anything differently, given the success they've enjoyed over Chinese-Taipei. And this is taking into consideration the possible re-entry of the pony-tailed Tseng Wen-Ting and scintillating teen Jonah Morrison.
Thought #3 End-of-the-bench use
Given the vision of Gilas management for long-term continuity withint the program, wouldn't it have been better to have more of the 23under23 players here? The spots given to Malicsi, Amer, and CBCruz could have been used for the likes of Kobe Paras, AJ Edu, and Robert Bolick Jr, who could have used the experience to acclimatize to the senior men's program.
That being said, we should all support Gilas Pilipinas 100%. Win or lose, we do it with PUSO!
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