Monthly Archives: December 2006

And Then There’s My Resolution

…Continued from here and here. As for me, my basketball New Year’s resolution… – Get Solar Sports’ Basketball TV, by hoop, er, by hook or by crook. – Stay away from watching NBA games covered by Chinese NBA carriers. – Post at Hoops.Blink.Ph more and not be lazy. – I vow not to use myaaa

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New Year’s Resolution: PBA Style

…Continued from here. Here below are the resolutions and wishes of/for the PBA personalities. Yeng Guiao – Coach vows not to stand-up again while coaching to delight of crowd behind the Red Bull bench. Now they can watch with no obstruction. Frankie Lim – He promises to still protect his million-peso center, Asi Taulava, againstaaa

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SYDMAN’s LOOKS AT 2006!!!!

This is my year-end report. Hmmm… what to say… Here are the questions and my answers. Now you answer the things that you want to add. Yeba. Time to play the game! 1) The Philippine Team. Here are my picks for the Philippine selection. WE NEED HEIGHT AND BRAWN! 1) Asi Taulava 2) Dorian Penaaaa

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Message Sent… Package Delivered… The TNT – Air21 Story

Conjugal property. If these two were actually people, we can say that they have some kind of secret romance. Sure yeah, we have four teams trading players, management, and let’s not hope… ballboys, but we know that they are sister teams. So why is Air21 and TNT sharing their players like they are required byaaa

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PBA Teams New Year’s Resolutions

A la Steve Kerr, let me do the PBA New Year’s resolutions and wishes. Because I am well-entrenched in the inner circles of the PBA, I got texted, phoned, faxed, VoIP’ed, YM’ed, emailed, pm’ed and whatnot by these PBA personalities and team representatives. They want their resolutions and wishes be known to mankind. I amaaa

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Christmas Basketball Bullets

The actual Christmas day is almost over (exactly 3 hours to go as I start this entry) and I have decided to end my day with a basketball BANG! Some hoops thoughts… First of, since yesterday, I have been playing PS2 – NBA Live 2007. My fingers are hurting bad right now. Playing the Lakersaaa

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PBA Restricted Trading List Approved

One-sided trades, or those than seem hard to fathom, may now be a thing of the past in the PBA. The PBA Board of Governors recently approved the passing of the Restricted Trading List or the so-called RTL in which teams can only trade their best players for each other. Under the rule proposed byaaa

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A Ginebra – Red Bull Game Log

Note that, in case Ginebra wins this one, it will also give its sister team, San Miguel, an outright entry to the semis. How about that for an added motivation? Beating long time rival Red Bull PLUS a free ride for your sister. Opening minute. Salvacion does one thing, that is, to shoot. Two three-pointaaa

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Philippine Basketball Team Revisted

I was actually to answer SYDMAN 3-question primer via his post-reply then I started to make a long answer. And so, a separate entry was made. Thanks to SYDMAN for bringing this matter up. I’ll soon get to your 2 questions and leave some questions too for you and others to ponder. To the storyaaa

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China win basketball gold

Despite the absence of Yao Ming, who was allowed to stay in the United States with the Houston Rockets, China had the best of a lively encounter and their relentless attacks and tight defensive play proved too much for the Qataris. China’s coach Jonas Kazlauskas praised his entire team but singled out Wang for hisaaa

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