chinoyhoopsfan:
Hopefully everyone’s forgotten about DLSU and Serbia by now.
At least, that’s what the PCCL organizers are hoping. After the Archers won the 2008 incarnation of the tournament, they were supposed to go to Serbia to represent the Philippines at the World University Games in Serbia the succeeding year. Stuff happened, if by stuff we mean “epic fail” at the hands of the local organizers, and La Salle wasn’t able to go, leading the Taft-based squad to cry “foul!” on account of supposed bias on the part of Manny Pangilinan.
Flash-forward to 2010 and the PCCL once again said that the tournament’s winner would represent the RP in the 18th Super Kung Sheung International Basketball Invitational Championship. That’s next week by the way.
In any case, Ateneo won, so presumably, MVP is happy about that. However, given that Ateneo is all about the student-athlete, the school is opting not to send the entire squad, to give some players the opportunity to concentrate on their academics.
The roster of players going on the Ateneo side are:
That’s 8 players on what’s supposed to be a 12-man roster. Who’s going to fill in the gaps?
- Kirk Long
- Nico Salva
- Eric Salamat
- Bacon Austria
- Frank Golla
- JP Erram
- Juami Tiongson
- Art Dela Cruz
Adamson players, that’s who. So in addition to the above 8 Eagles, Coach Norman Black and co. have worked out a deal for 4 Adamson players to come along, with Coach Leo Austria helping Coach Black in an assistant role. How cool is that? The four Falcons coming along are:
On paper, that’s a great looking squad, capable of putting up a whole bunch of points from the perimeter, though it could use a few more post players, aside from Colina. This group should be interesting to watch and hopefully, some local station will be smart enough to broadcast a few of the games.
- Lester Alvarez
- Jan Colina
- Eric Camson
- Alex Nuyles
Props to Canmaker on the Blue Eagles Nest forum on Gameface for the info
