Monthly Archives: August 2009

Reality Bites

8th place, out of a field of 16.  Team Pilipinas ends its campaign in the 2009 FIBA Asia Basketball championships as a middle of the pack team, one place higher than 2 years ago.  First off, much appreciation should be given to the players and coaching staff.  The task at hand was already a tallaaa

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Iran, China & Jordan Get Turkey Tickets

Polls: Who will make it to the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey? (We expected that Pinoys will cast Team Pilipinas as their World Championship, registering 96 hopeful votes. Philippines aside, China got the most votes, followed by eventual Asian champs Iran and then Jordan. Same with the poll, that’s how the tournament final threeaaa

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HooPh Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16

Will be doing a live feed of the Team Pilipinas vs Chinese Taipei game tomorrow. Live feed starts at 4! twitter.com/bassman500 -chrisangelo # a consolation for the sokor loss… http://bit.ly/fWrTQ skyrus the new samboy lim of phils in intl play? – ben # phils 2nd round: Taiwan Aug 10 4pm, Iran on Aug. 11, 11aaa

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End of the road: Jordan 81 Philippines 70

Just like my past few Team Pilipinas post, here are my in game tweets and post game thoughts here. Pre-Game NBA 360 is over. Now we go to serious stuff. GO Team Pilipinas! This is it boys and girls. Hopefully Coach Yeng has a plan to stop Wright cause that dude is a effin monster.aaa

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Poll: Who’s making the best moves this PBA offseason?

Are you surprised that the SMC teams fared well in this poll? I am not. To improve their team, they are known to trade amongst each other. SMC teams just need to hook up with a cooperative team to act as a conduit, which we all know, the PBA has a lot of.

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The Expendables

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expendables_(2010_film): A team of highly-skilled combat mercenaries goes on a mission to South America to overthrow and execute a villainous dictator and his army, who has been causing devastation and chaos for the last 20 years.  This is a movie that will feature Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, Stoneaaa

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Operation: Upset

So it is official.. the Powerade Team Pilipinas will be going to the Quaterfinals. Which means, it’s one and done time for everybody. That means, there are no time for bad nights, mental lapses and excuses. Right now, it is win or go home for every team. I repeat, EVERY TEAM. Finishing 3rd in theaaa

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PUSHING IT AS FAR AS THEY CAN

Hours before our quarterfinals match, here are the ten best players in the team that is playing for the Top 3 spots of the 2010 World Championships. Read on. By the way, obviously left out of the rankings are Kerby Raymundo and Arwind Santos. Raymundo was one of the best players in the Tokushima tiltaaa

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Iran 88 Philippines 78 Twitter Posts and Post Game Blog

It’s a sad loss but, still we fought good, fought hard. It’s tough but I’ll take that. Much like my post yesterday, I’ll be posting my PBP Tweets and post game blog over here. First quarter Game starts now, Asi, Thoss, Dilinger, Helterbrand and Baguio to start for RP Cyrus opens up the game withaaa

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Philippines 77 Chinese Taipei 70 – Twitter Posts and Post Game Blog

View my original tweets here Pre Game Home now. Live feed starts at 4! Early results Korea 78 Kuwait 58 Iran vs Japan now. Jordan whooped Kazakhstan earlier, 98-80 End of 1st, Iran 29 Japan 14 Meh, the Iran – Japan game is getting boring. Iran by 26 now. I’ll be leaving you guys andaaa

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