RP National Team: "The Others" Edition

Yesterday, I came up with a list of who would make the national team roster if we could only get players who were A) from the SMC bloc and B) weren't in danger of being suspended by FIBA. If you haven't read it yet, click this link

Today, let's explore what the roster would look like if we could pick from the players from the PBA teams not affiliated to either PLDT or SMC. So the teams in play would be the Alaska Aces, Blackwater Elite, Columbian Dyip, Globalport Batang Pier, Phoenix Fuel Masters and Rain Or Shine Elasto Painters.

Starters: JP Erram, Raymond Almazan, Gabe Norwood, Mac Belo, JVee Casio
It's depressing that this is the best starting five we can go with. Almazan and Erram are young bigs with lots of potential but aren't skilled or experienced enough yet to be the main guys against international bigs. Gabe Norwood will always be solid but he's a glue-guy, the man who fills in the gaps as opposed to being the main man. Mac Belo is still recovering from injuries and JVee Casio just isn't on the same level as Castro, Romeo, or Ravena.

WHEN WILL THE BLEEDING STOP?

The loss was expected. After all, Lebanon made its bones on dominating the Philippine basketball team.

Vogel was gone but in his place were 2 more naturalized American, a former NBA player in Jackson Vroman and collegiate stand out Brian Feghali.

Vroman scored 24 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 steals. Feghali had 29 points and 10 rebounds in an efficient 8-9 shooting display.

The Philippines had Jayjay Helterbrand leading the team with 12 points. Japeth Aguilar was solid once again, scoring about 8 points and had 3 blocks, 2 of which came with Aguilar nursing 4 fouls.

The Philippines had 27 turnovers for the game. That's more than twice the number of turnovers Lebanon had (12). Willie Miller turned the ball over 3 times with the same play (driving to the baseline then throwing a bounce pass behind him straight to a chasing Lebanese player).

So when will the bleeding stop? Maybe we should stop playing this game and concentrate on boxing?