Chot Reyes continues to be keen to assist the nationwide program, however now not as its coach. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
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Sure, Gilas Pilipinas’ participation within the Fiba World Cup was a disappointing failure. Sure, he ought to be held accountable for it.
However even when for a shot at redemption, Chot Reyes is not going to be calling the photographs for the nationwide group within the Asian Video games (Asiad) later this month.
“It is going to be an excessive amount of of a distraction,” Reyes stated on Wednesday, when he assured that there shall be a distinct coach on the nationwide group bench for the continental Olympics slated in Hangzhou, China, even after the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) launched a roster that included him as coach of Gilas Pilipinas.
“[W]ith every little thing that’s occurring, I feel if I proceed to teach the group, I’ll be simply too massive of a distraction to the group,” he stated.
The brand new coach is predicted to be named on Thursday afternoon, when basketball leaders converse in a press convention that shall be held within the PBA workplace, however it’s nonetheless unsure if the brand new coach shall be a long-term appointee or a stop-game measure whereas the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) recalibrates the nationwide program.
Reyes, who got here below heavy fireplace after the group’s efficiency throughout the World Cup, beforehand introduced he was “stepping apart” to permit the SBP to faucet a brand new coach. On Wednesday, he offered readability on the statements he made after steering the nationwide group to a 1-4 document within the international showcase.
“We failed. We didn’t ship. So simple as that. Our mandate is to be the best-placed Asian group and we didn’t ship. In order that’s the principle cause why I stepped apart,” he stated.
“That’s my perception: Leaders ought to be held accountable. You maintain your self accountable for regardless of the end result places in entrance of you. Whatever the cause, in the event you don’t ship then it’s time to step apart. That’s principally what I did as a result of we didn’t ship on the end result that was anticipated of us.”
Lack of preparation
Gilas Pilipinas coach Chot Reyes throughout a sport towards Dominican Republic within the Fiba World Cup. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
Reyes narrated a timeline of issues that went fallacious for the nationwide squad however the important thing factors centered on the dearth of preparation of the group that finally competed within the World Cup.
“If we had practiced as a whole group possibly one or two weeks earlier, issues would have been totally different,” he stated.
“We had deliberate totally different schemes with Jordan [Clarkson] and Kai [Sotto] becoming a member of so late, we needed to prioritize. That was actually our fear; we have been already operating easily and [we couldn’t tell] how will this be affected when these guys are available in,” Reyes stated.
“Bear in mind in China we regarded so good and we didn’t have 25 p.c of the group,” Reyes stated referring to Clarkson, Sotto and Scottie Thompson, who sat out the exhibition match resulting from a hand harm.
With the Asian Video games looming, the brand new coach that shall be unveiled Thursday may also have a less-than-ideal preparations. Reyes can assist whoever is called prepare.
“For me, I needed to take myself out of the image in order that the federation can decide—in order that they might now not take into consideration me, making it simpler for them to not fear about me,” he stated. “However in fact, I’m keen to assist the group or this system or the federation in any capability, or any attainable wants. That goes with out saying. However I feel, proper now, the group wants a brand new coach.”
Additionally named within the preliminary POC roster have been a number of World Cup standouts together with Kiefer Ravena, who’s already in Japan to meet his duties with the Shiga Lakes within the B.League. Brandon Ganuelas-Rosser is reportedly nonetheless nursing a foot harm, whereas naturalized ace Justin Brownlee is coming off a bone spurs process.
POC president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino stated he already has knowledgeable the organizing committee of attainable tweaks to the nationwide rosters submitted, together with these of the lads’s volleyball group and the ladies’s soccer squad.
The Asian Video games unfurls on Sept. 23, and the Philippines—which completed solely fifth within the earlier version—is trying to flip in a greater outing, even at a time of uncertainty for this system.
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