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The ABL – The overview as of Nov 25, 2009

Check your TV sets during Sundays and simultaneously with the first of PBA’s Sunday double header, you have just earned front row seats to the Asian Basketball League. The league is a super-league designed to lure the top basketball players of the South East Asian region (that can’t or barely play in the PBA). Thisaaa

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Happy Birthday Chrisangelo! – My 19th Birthday Basketball Wishlist

Actually my birthday ended about 17 minutes ago but what the heck, it has been one super busy week so don’t expect me to do any extra-curricular activities on time. So yeah, just yesterday I celebrated my birthday and just like any other typical college boy, I too have my own wishlist on my birthday.aaa

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Polls: Smart Gilas FTW

Now that FIBA 2009 is over and done, finishing 8th this time, who would you like to represent Philippines next time? Smart Gilas Pilipinas National Team (48%) PBA-backed Team Pilipinas (36%) Screw it, let’s quit playing hoops! (16%) Almost half (48%) of the respondents (105 voters) picked Smart Gilas Team as the team to beat,aaa

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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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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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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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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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Hard Balls: Unang Putok

his could have been a perfect breakdown… but this is more of bored talk more than anything. Still, there is basketball in these sentences so this could pretty much look like a review. Or a hype article for the FIBA games. Whatever. Think of this as the Hardball guys without any sense of decency… Chrisangelo:aaa

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