PBA Astig Dolls: Featuring “Lauren”

Due to insistent visitors’ demand or should I say, due to the search logs (Google, upper right of this site) we are receiving looking for PBA’s “Astig Dolls”, we too made some strides to search some materials ourselves.

And guess what, we found one, or two, or more. Read more

What Will be the Repercussions?

Or will there be any?

San Beda dominated the recent NCAA basketball tournament and ended their 28 years of drought for a title. Nigerian student, Sam Ekwe, showed his stamp on the year by acquiring both the Rookie of the year and MVP honors plus an NCAA championship on his first year!

Now observers are talking that this could be a precedent in the college wars of the NCAA and the UAAP. Will schools now recruit like crazy dominant big men like Sam Ekwe just to get that desired championship? People are saying that what will stop alumni of rich schools like Ateneo and La Salle from going abroad and find a dominant player? In fact people got to see La Salle with a Yugoslav by the name of Beatrivec in the Homegrown Cup and Ateneo still has Australian Zion Laterre. Ateneo also has a Nigerian by the name of Jobe suiting up for Team B.

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PBA’s Tough Games Index

In a PBA.ph article, TnT coach Derrick Pumaren expressed his optimism in saying a final four appearance via short route is still possible. But his team, on whirlwind roller coaster ride the entire season, will be playing the top four teams (Sta. Lucia, Barangay Ginebra, Red Bull and San Miguel) in its last five games.

So more likely, his pronouncement is for the boys (his players) and for the men (his bosses), just to motivate and inspire. It then made me wonder, if he knows his team’s itinerary relative to others.

In my quest to learn whose team will be having the hardest grind to finish off the eliminations, I have commissioned myself to sort out the digits and do the stats. A la Hollinger (ESPN). I tried to get the measurement of how tough teams’ sched based on their final games below: Read more

Stern Warning: Take Down NBA Videos at YouTube.com

Sooner or later, this was to happen.

The National Basketball Association last week asked YouTube.com to take down all NBA video content because of copyright concerns.

“We have submitted requests to YouTube to pull down images that are a violation of our copyright and they have,” NBA spokesman Matt Bourne said.

David ‘The Dictator’ Stern, fresh from imposing zero tolerance scheme, ball change, dress codes, is now back at it. Stern thinks it’s as simple as that. YouTube pulls out NBA videos and everybody happy. Well, far from it. If any, NBA owners will be happy. Read more

Hoops Quick Edits

Over the past few days, we’ve done some tweaks in our site. See below:

-One by one, we are removing the ‘beta’ tag on some of the pages.

-We put up the blue bar at the top right side bar to pick up some select entries from previous weeks buried on our database. Read more

PBA Weekly ASTIG Rankings - Week 8: Alaska’s Three Straight Wins Propels Them To Top

Nearing December and the end of eliminations, each loss, each won game should impact if these teams will have a Merry Christmas not. Let’s see who’s been naughty, who’s been nice in giving away Ws. Certainly not Alaska, winning two-of-two games thereby getting in the first place in this week’s edition. Four bottom teams didn’t move at all but a rundown was still given.

Note that this ranking is not based on current team standings but based on how teams performed during the week. So if you failed to catch the PBA this week or you just want to see if your team is on the upside, might as well read this up.

1. Alaska
Rank Last Week: 6
Record: 5-7
Games: Alaska vs. Talk N Text 110 - 105; Red Bull vs. Alaska 94 - 105
Notes: Alaska shoots up to first place by beating formidable line-ups of Talk N Text and Redbull. Tony dela Cruz again led Alaska’s attack against Redbull. They now have won three straight games. Related entry here. Read more

Alaska Milk On Track

Alaska followed up their victory over Welcoat Dragons last Friday with a convincing 110-105 win over Talk ‘N Text. Powered by 2002 MVP Willie Miller’s 29 points and crucial efforts by Tony Dela Cruz and Jeffrey Cariaso in the final minutes.

For Alaska, could these back-to-back wins be the start of good things to come? The Alaska Milkmen have won 3 of 4 games and they did showed up in a game they dropped against Sta. Lucia (101-98). So they are playing good past two weeks. Read more

On Watching Ginebra-Coke Live

The stars have lined up for me to watch a live PBA game.

It’s a Friday. My work is light. The game is at Cuneta-Pasay Astrodome (near my place, being at Makati). My legs are stiff. I need to get out. I have P500 to spare. Read more

Angelica Panganiban Retouched

I have been in some sort of a ball-block and doesn’t have anything to say about hoops, players, coaches and all. PBA, NBA or inter-barangay basketball, I got none.

And so, I made this entry. I got NO basketball thoughts but let’s talk Ginebra San Miguel still. How’s this? Let’s talk about the up and coming Ginebra San Miguel 2007 Calendar that features Angelica Panganiban. Read more

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: DARKO MILICIC

Currently 3-8 this season (as of November 23), Ben Wallace must not be happy with how the Chicago Bulls are playing this season. Leading the team in minutes, his 6ppg and 10rpg’s aren’t enough to produce the big W’s the Bulls thought they could own with his acquisition. Despite having four players in double figures (Deng, Hinrich, Gordon, Nocioni), they are still resorting to small ball due to the lack of inside scoring which alongside Wallace (well, hardly) falls to the hands of prized catch Tyrus Thomas. With Thomas, Wallace, and P.J. Brown not giving that all-important post-up threat, John Paxson should be smacking his head on why he decided to let go of Tyson Chandler early.

That being said, with $60 million knocking on the Big Ben’s footsteps, surely the Detroit Pistons must have a backup plan set up. Yeah, the Nazr Mohammed acquisition (6.6ppg 6.5rpg) got them that replacement (also taking something out of the San Antonio Spurs’ dominant frontline), and when Antonio McDyess (4.4ppg 5.8rpg) regains his game, something might come out great (highly unlikely). Read more

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