{"id":60637,"date":"2015-09-02T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T09:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=60637"},"modified":"2015-09-02T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T09:31:26","slug":"sbp-considers-revisiting-gilas-cadet-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/02\/sbp-considers-revisiting-gilas-cadet-program\/","title":{"rendered":"SBP considers revisiting Gilas cadet program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Gilas2013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22825\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Gilas2013.png\" alt=\"Gilas2013\" width=\"250\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Getting a \u2018volatile\u2019 support from PBA teams, the Samahanag Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) has been eyeing returning the Gilas Pilipinas cadet pool program to get the best players for the national team.<\/p>\n<p>Needing more support than what PBA teams now give, SBP vice chairman Ricky Vargas considered revisiting the program which was launched in 2011 but was discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to come up with a long-term program for SBP rather than rely a hundred percent on the PBA because it\u2019s very volatile&#8230; Sometimes they\u2019re there, sometimes they\u2019re not there. There\u2019s no assurance,\u201d Vargas said in a Spin.ph report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ang problema ko<\/em> we can\u2019t rely on the commitment of the PBA. <em>Hindi lahat<\/em>. <em>Nagpapasalamt ako sa lahat ng tumulong<\/em>, but it\u2019s volatile. One day they wake up with full support, the next time partial support, the next time one player per team<em>. So 12 lang yon, kulang pa. Paano kung ang ibibigay mo hindi kailangan, kahit two players pa per team?<\/em>\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>(My problem is that we can\u2019t rely on the commitment of the PBA. Not all. I\u2019m thankful to all of those who helped, but it\u2019s volatile. One day they wake up with full support, the next time partial support, the next time one player per team. So that\u2019s only 12, that\u2019s insufficient. What if what you give is not needed, even two players per team?)<\/p>\n<p>Not wanting to continuously beg for support and commitment to Gilas Pilipnas, Vargas believed that now would be the perfect time to return the cadet program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Getting a \u2018volatile\u2019 support from PBA teams, the Samahanag Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) has been eyeing returning the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":22825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-60637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60637","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=60637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}