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    Pba Mvp Dapat

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    LA Tenorio (at least for this Fiesta Conference)- He puts sanity to Alaska's system; fits the triangle scheme to a T; has tremendous court smarts

     

    (Imagine SMB coying a shout/slogan: 'Beat LA' as their championship game creed - a glaring recognition of what the guy can do)

    Women To Avoid - merged thread

    in Matters of the heart

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    A woman that reads Harlequin Romance novels.

     

    The point here is to avoid women who have unrealistic views of men. You are not her knight in shining armour. You are not going to rescue her life from its current pathetic or semi-pathetic state. You're just her companion and lover. If she consumes like popcorn books and movies that portray men as sweeping women off their feet and making their lives all better, you have to know that she thinks that her life sucks and it's going to be your job to make it all better. (No, you can't.)

     

    A woman who says "You don't know what I've been through!" (A consequence of her own irresponsibility, perhaps?)

     

    Any woman who can't put her past behind her is either: a) suffering the after effects of a terrible life, which means that you have to put up with the suffering and the after effects, or B) is setting the stage for future bad behaviour by laying out her reasons up front. Of course, it feels more defensible to get rid of her in the latter case, but you should in the former as well. Let her sort out her problems on her own and then find love. Your job is not to save her. Your job is to find yourself a good companion.

     

    A woman that has no sense of humour.

     

    Well, there are senses of humour and senses of humour. Totally humourless women are bad news, unless you're the type who likes to be ordered around. For me, the real message of this one is to avoid women who can't take what life throws at them with a shrug and a laugh. If you go on a trip and the airline loses your luggage, what does she do? Does she laugh and adapt to the situation, rail against the stupidity of airlines and demand that "someone" fix the problem, or does she turn in the Princess in Distress and wait for someone to rescue her? You want the first one. When she plans a wonderful dinner but the roast chars to a crisp, what does she do? Does the adapt or go on the warpath? If you tell her that you don't like her music, does she accept the comment with a laugh, or rip into you for being an uncultured boor? In other words, as I said, can she take life's disappointments in stride and laugh about them, or is she brittle and demanding?

     

    A woman who dresses nice, but can never seem to keep her phone bill paid for.

     

    This should be simple, but so many men fall down on this one. She makes about as much money as you do, but she just seems to spend it all every month. Or, she's totally scatterbrained and as such seems totally incapable of looking after the more mundane aspects of daily life. This speaks in part to her priorities (clothes are more important than credit ratings), or her capabilities. Looking after day-to-day finances is, like washing dishes, washing clothes, cleaning, and ironing, part of daily life. Anyone who is utterly incapable in a big "daily life" item is, in essence, waiting to thrust that job onto someone else. Oh, and don't think that because you're handling the day-to-day bill paying that she will have nothing to say about money. On the contrary: out of sight means out of mind, and she will shortly be asking why you can't both fly to Italy once a year. You'll get no thanks for paying the bills, but will instead by roasted for "spending all of the money," or treated as the ogre who won't loosen the purse strings. I know from firsthand experience. Trust me.

    Team Pilipinas Basketball

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    The problem before why this scenario doesn't taken place way back during the creation of the Smart - Gilas are the conflict of interests between the PBA (specially the teams' managements) and SBP. If I remember it correctly the main issue was the reluctance of the PBA teams (as well as the players) to commit their players to SBP's long - term basketball program, thats why the SBP had to resort to develop top collegiate players for the international basketball scene. Other side issues were Eala and PBA's unpleasant parting (bad blood)...

     

    In short pulitika, pasiklaban at pride ang dahilan kung bakit hindi umaasenso ang Pilipinas sa larangan ng basketball at sa kahit saan pang larangan...

     

    Very true indeed...

     

    Politics is (and has always been) rearing its ugly head in our sports program and development!

    Basketball brawls

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    Of all the locals I think its only Art Dela Cruz and Anthony Dasalla who really went mano a mano with imports, no Sharma-like sucker punching and running.

     

    Art Dela Cruz mixed it up with former Tar Heel hotshot Rodney Monroe -- what started out as a fistfight evolved into a wrestling match when Monroe started to literally hold on to Dela Cruz's arms to prevent him from continuing throwing punches.

     

    Dasalla on the other hand went toe to toe with Billy Ray Bates -- note that Dasalla has some American blood in him too so though he grew up here and finished his studies at FEU he technically was a Fil-Am.

     

    But as far as really standing up is concerned, nothing will beat how Dante Gonzalgo stood up to Presto's Abe King, Dennis Abbatuan and the PBA's most notorious sucker puncher and cheapshot artist combined Bong Ramos. What happened was Gonzalgo dove for a loose ball that went to the direction of the Presto bench, unfortunately for Gonzalgo his momentum forced him to land on top of Abbatuan on the bench. Claiming (during the investigation that soon followed) that he was caught by surprise, Abbatuan started punching Gonzalgo who then naturally retaliated with his own punches, Ramos and King then joined in the fray but both of them also took punches from the Ginebra forward before Gonzalgo disengaged himself from the Presto bench and ran to the safety of the Ginebra side. After the referees sorted things out the four prontagonists together with Aldo Perez (who referees claimed to have also seen throwing a sucker punch behind the head of Gonzalgo) were thrown out. Sonny Cabatu was also assessed a technical for, get this, taking a fighting stance during the melee.

    San Miguel Beer

    in Basketball

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    Just saw the last 5 minutes...why was Gee Abanilla calling the shots, nandun naman Siot? Kung dinemote si Siot, I thought SMB is grooming Ato Agustin.

     

    Nonetheless, good job Gee- but could have done better pa! Buti na lang bitin tira ni Skyrus...

     

    I just read on Philstar the answer to my query:

     

    On-the-job training

    SPORTING CHANCE By Joaquin Henson (The Philippine Star) Updated August 17, 2010 12:00 AM Comments (9)

     

     

    Relieving San Miguel Beer coach Siot Tanquingcen of the primary responsibility of calling the shots in Game 5 of the PBA Fiesta Conference finals proved to be a smart decision after all.

     

    Tanquingcen’s assistant Gee Abanilla steered the Beermen to a gut-wrenching 96-94 win over Alaska at the Big Dome last Sunday to stay alive in the best-of-seven series. It wasn’t the first time that Tanquingcen took a back seat to one of his assistants – Ato Agustin did the same thing to the former UST guard earlier.

     

    Robert Non, who represents Barangay Ginebra in the PBA Board of Governors, said the switching is like on-the-job training in an office. “Anybody in the staff can be called out to take over as head coach,” he said. “Everyone is prepared for that eventuality. We work as a unit.”

     

    A loss to Alaska would’ve ended the series and formalized the Aces’ 13th overall championship. Perhaps, the thought of it put too much stress on Tanquingcen who’s clearly feeling the pressure of bailing out the beleaguered Beermen. In Game 4, for instance, Tanquingcen proved no match for coach Tim Cone in their battle of wits and the defeat threw San Miguel into a deep 1-3 hole.

     

    While Abanilla’s ascension wasn’t expected, it wasn’t a surprise. Abanilla stepped up to the plate with less pressure on his shoulders than if Tanquingcen presided. That’s the wonder of the San Miguel system. The pieces in the unit are interchangeable.

     

    What Abanilla brought back to the San Miguel team was trust in each other. Five locals scored in double figures to back up Gabe Freeman and major minutes were given to Denok Miranda and Mick Pennisi who curiously, both sat out Game 1. Miranda, in fact, was named Best Player of the Game.

     

    Abanilla will again pilot the Beermen in Game 6 tomorrow. If San Miguel forces a Game 7, it will be Abanilla back in the hot seat.

     

    Next season, the rumor is Agustin will take over as San Miguel head coach. Abanilla may move to the former Purefoods franchise to replace Ryan Gregorio. Jorge Gallent is another candidate to succeed Gregorio who will bring Ronnie Magsanoc along to Meralco. Where the game of musical chairs will leave Tanquingcen is a question mark. He could end up as one of Joseph Uichico’s assistants at Ginebra in the end – and that’s really not a bad thing.

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