{"id":58688,"date":"2015-08-11T21:54:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58688"},"modified":"2025-01-19T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:20:13","slug":"asi-taulava-on-abueva-this-guy-is-an-animal-truly-one-of-a-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/11\/asi-taulava-on-abueva-this-guy-is-an-animal-truly-one-of-a-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Asi Taulava on Abueva: \u2018This guy is an animal, truly one of a kind\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_58689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58689\" style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Calvin_Abueva.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58689\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Calvin_Abueva.jpg\" alt=\"Gilas Pilipinas player Calvin Abueva (Photo from Wikipeda)\" width=\"376\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Calvin_Abueva.jpg 376w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Calvin_Abueva-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gilas Pilipinas player Calvin Abueva (Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calvin_Abueva\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Gilas Pilipinas player Asi Taulava warned competing teams to get ready to see his teammate Calvin Abueva, which he called \u2018The Beast,\u2019 play in the 2015 FIBA Asia Championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have played so many times with the national team and I have not seen anyone who plays as hard, as energetic and as tireless as Calvin.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy neurontin online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/neurontin.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/neurontin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Damn, he is truly one of a kind,\u201d Taulava said in a Spin.ph report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalvin is an animal. He is not human. He is more than a workhorse,\u201d he added. \u201cThe Beast is one of a kind, he is made in the Philippines, straight from Angeles!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As much as he has been impressed with Abueva\u2019s performance in their practices, all the more Taulava believed that the whole Asia and even the world would be just as impressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsia, you\u2019re about to be introduced to \u2018The Beast.&#8217; This guy is relentless, I am telling you right now, you have never seen this guy play,\u201d he said in the same report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will not stand still, he will set a screen, he will be the first one back on defense, he will hit you then he will smile at you. So get ready, you will be blown away,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Abueva, for his part, was grateful and humbled with Taulava\u2019s outspoken praises.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy bupropion online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/bupropion.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/bupropion.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> All the more he vowed to give his best to the national team.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy diflucan online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/diflucan.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/diflucan.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Gilas Pilipinas player Asi Taulava warned competing teams to get ready to see his teammate Calvin Abueva, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":58689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-58688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285762,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58688\/revisions\/285762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}