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We are saying the same thing indeed. I did write the same thing you said. I did my job but it's nothing without shapes, without trainings, without home court (which is something we achieve, not a gift anyway. And we achieved it in a so brilliant way coming off a 0-2 from repechage) and all the other things we both mentioned.
About community, lots of players are still trained by Philippines managers. Next u21 will have Lim trained by ob1, Israel trained by f1 and many other players grown here 😊
As you surely know, success drives the community better and I hope that this gold medal can help local managers to feel themselves involved in their country destiny.
Also I am in a fb group in which we are all cooperating to grow the next generation 😊
I am not used to make comparison between coaches because everyone has his own way to play.

Your world championship medal was really remarkable. I hope to clinch the same result but taking a look at competitors... It will be difficult 😂
My previous post was simply underlying that tactic is really important when playing. And tactics have specific requirements in skills. If you ask me why aus and chn lost my answer would not be "because of Philippines hca" but it would be "because they both used the wrong tactic on offense".
It's an opinion, I don't know skills, I did only an estimate based on stats and training weeks but to play low post you should have specific players according to what I think. Low post is not a "i fear a double gdp on look inside so I play lp".
It requires good passing in centers for example, it requires good driving and is for the backcourt. And if your opponent has high defensive ratings (clearly inflated by hca but just for the record, our defensive skills were better than for example Italy, in terms of players skills, not team rating which is inflated as I said), your flow can be misdirected, your shot selection can be far from ideal.
Our offense was poor, prominent in inside scoring is really a low team rating, if you attack with a slow pace you are projecting yourself on a lower scoring effort than a fast paced. And in that case a lower scoring effort helped our (fast) offense to score the needed points to stay ahead.
I mean, these are only my opinions, my staff also identified the same thing (coach Fabio, I am talking to you! 😂). It's just to say that it's clearly true that hca is a huge factor to consider but it's also true that there was a big gap between teams and tactic choices were a key factor too.
Not using a double gdp on look inside was a precise choice we made because we predict that low post could have been used. And we considered it a mistake which could have give us the lead to win.

I am not arguing with you, it's simply that I love to speak about tactics 😂 and I love to learn something new, I won Europe and world championship with italy but believe me, I learned so many things in these three seasons as Philippines u21 Coach that gave me a boost also in my own team in Italy div 1.

Last edited by NdR619 - Pilipinas U21 at 1/29/2019 11:48:52 AM

- Pastor "The Story" Gavadan (manager Greer - Italy): he's the story of this AC. Only one world caliber big man, paired with low profile guys in every match, affordable scorer but he went down for 2 weeks, he came back, he celebrated the win vs Australia and then again another injury, another two weeks right when the semifinal (and the final) were approaching. It seemed all over for him, his manager bought a super-doctor, Gavadan came back on time to play on thursday before the semifinal, he trained shape. He was 9 in shape, he played the semi, he played the final, he won the final, he annihilated China. Good job Pastor, you're THE GUY.
- Ludivino "Ugly Ludy" Gamosa (manager Greer - again!): our team was full of secondaries, full of TSP, full of pink colors everywhere. Gamosa is not, but he's 20. And played in a final vs the #1 n the world, against proficient 21yo players with more than three times his DMI. Just to say Thank you to my old friend Greer, old because I knew him since many years (not because he's old, really), we won many things together and he's a master in training ugly centers (Hey opponents, don't lay on this, Gamosa is being trained now to be more skilled on both sides!)

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Save the rankings, we are fifth! 😂
Italy is behind us 😂

1 China U21 Asia 386 139 0.735 51731 41874 85% 1,108.0
2 Poland U21 Europe 402 137 0.746 53417 43265 94% 670.7
3 France U21 Europe 407 145 0.737 54804 46013 68% 668.8
4 Taiwan U21 Asia 306 167 0.647 44891 39070 92% 657.7
5 Philippines U21 Asia 354 156 0.694 50977 42652 86% 631.0
6 Italia U21 Europe 451 99 0.820 55748 44226 86% 598.6

Here
Seniors improved as well!

18 Philippines Asia 305 206 0.597 53911 49748 61% 308.2

Amazing, just read the thread. Congrats to all who contributed to the national team.

Am I correct if I say that that is the highest ranking of our U21 EVER?