{"id":52094,"date":"2015-06-17T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52094"},"modified":"2015-06-17T19:16:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:16:01","slug":"ph-may-consider-sending-pro-players-to-next-sea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/17\/ph-may-consider-sending-pro-players-to-next-sea-games\/","title":{"rendered":"PH may consider sending pro players to next SEA Games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 – OCBC Arena Hall 1 – Singapore – 14\/6\/15
Basketball – Men’s Semifinal – Philippines’ Almond Vosotros (L) in action with Thailand’s Wutipong Dasom
(Photo Credit: Singapore SEA Games Organising Committee)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 After Sinag Pilipinas won the gold in the 28thSoutheast Asian (SEA) Games men\u2019s basketball finals, the Philippine team has then been considering sending pro players in the next games to adapt to the fast changing basketball trends in the world stage.<\/p>\n

Bagging the gold was not easy for Sinag Pilipinas, going through Thailand in the semifinals and Indonesia in the finals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure what our options are. You have to remember USA Basketball went through the same thing,\u201d coach Tab Baldwin said after the team\u2019s final match.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey sent amateurs for so many years in major tournaments and all of a sudden they realized the world had caught up. We\u2019re going through the same thing,\u201d Baldwin added.<\/p>\n

Winning another gold this season, Philippine basketball had been keeping up with its continues domination in the sport.<\/p>\n

But with the emergence of the Asean Basketball League, Balwin believed that the Philippine basketball should level up to stay in its lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur amateurs are very, very good basketball players. But these professionals are playing in the ABL and other countries are catching up,\u201d\u00a0Baldwin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re going to do with that, I don\u2019t know. But it\u2019s certainly worth the discussion,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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