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Congrats Coach NdR 36pt win not bad 😊😊😊

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We won! Let's wait for Pro_Shot press conference in order to elect the first MVP of this season!
I've been 4 times in a Final, 2 in Euro 2 in World championship and today I was so thrilled as it was one of that finals.
I followed the whole game in chat together with coach fabio and his/our proud staff, it was a pleasure

Something was fine, something clearly not. We still need to improve since we're behind some teams and if we want to clinch good goals we need to get better in some areas, but we're confident about it.

Let me say I care so much this U21 coaching role, to me Philippines are the same as Italy as enthusiasm, passion and dedication, and I hope to fill the community with a bit of it. That's why every week's MVP will make his manager earn an interview done by our great Press man

Will follow update on this!

GO GILAS!

Idiot.

You will lose without me.

Last edited by NdR619 - Pilipinas U21 at 04/23/2018 08:46:27

Adding to my goals:

...kick some italian's asses during the World Championship.

And yes, that means we will reach the World Championship. Maybe not this time, but I will try my best to do it.
And then you, YOU ITALIANS will face the real fear.

Big man tandem gives Pilipinas U21 a boost against Macau U21.



Pilipinas opened their tournament with a resounding 129 - 93 win over Macau.
Pepe Macalinag showed up at the right place at the right time pouring in an efficient 20 points together with Benedict Lagare's 27 markers.

Both big men took advantage of great ball movement around the defense as they often found themselves open for layups and dunks. Lagare lead all scorers as he poured 11 points in the first quarter and doing additional damage in the 3rd before he sat out the rest of the game.

Victor Gotardo facilitated the offense early dishing 8 of his 14 assists right after tip off as the Filipinos finished the 1st quarter ahead, 33 - 17. Meanwhile, Miguel Guardia came off the bench to record a double-double, 12 points 12 rebounds, and the only one with double digit rebounds as Pilipinas struggled to control the boards against Macau's big men.

Despite the huge win, newly elected Pilipinas coach NdR619 wasn't happy about everything.

"Well, we came, we played, we won. Nice threes, nice assists, nice everything but... F*CK, REBOUND GUYS!... rebounding output really bothers me, we need to improve... Gotardo was amazing in the first half, 12 assist at halftime, 8 1st quarter."

Macau was lead by J. Changjia who had 22 points and 16 boards, and Cen Qingyi emphasized their dominance in rebounding with 21 points and 13 rebounds including 7 in the offensive end. Hua Ruxuan scored 11 points and also had a feasting on the boards tonight with 4 offensive rebounds and 9 total for the game.

Pilipinas U21 will now be looking forward to their game against Kazakhstan U21 next week and the coach will be hoping to make adjustments to avoid another problematic showing on the boards.

The Scores:

PILIPINAS U21 - 129
Lagare 27, Macalinag 20, Montemayor 16, Salinas 16, Ocampo 12, Guardia 12, Rios 11, Valerio 8, Gayoles 4, Gotardo 3, Rojo 0, Carbon 0

MACAU U21 - 93
Changjia 22, Qingyi 21, Ruxuan 11, Baokang 11, Can 8, Runliang 8, Guangkai 6, Pingkang 4, Chongying 2, Beigou 1


Last edited by Pro_Shot 🇵🇭 at 04/23/2018 23:57:36

And now my point on this.
It was my first match here and even if Macau could seem a low level opponent in my mind they were not. Their big men are at our level.. Their inside attack was some kind of good compared to other teams in the competition. Their lack was on D and they paid for it.
Speaking together with my staff we identified some key factor on this game: lagare matchup, our bench and fouls in fast paced match.
Basically about lagare and the bench we were right.. Since Benedict did his damage and the bench outscored macau's one 56-23.
Both their big men have high fouling rating but today they turned their soul on heaven without committing fouls.
Their low Out Def helped us our flow, we almost every time picked the right spot, our shot selection and percentage was great.
What was definetly not great is our rebounding. Our bench reduces the gap since macau's bench was simply not as good as ours but our starters suffered a lot. We allowed too many second chances and that's something we need to work on.
The other thing a bit disappointing is the low scoring outcome and percentage on the pg position: gayoles and gotardo did amazing things while passing and ugly ones while shooting.
Next one will be against Kazakhstan.
Keep on training your Filipino boys and preserve their minutes and game shape!

Let's rock. GO GILAS!

Hahahaha