Yap (not verified) — Fri, 04/11/2008 - 1:36pm

To the officials and committee,and, of course, the fiba secretary of the asean region, are you now satisfied that you won?! it was so clear that you were all bias to the host nation, Indonesia!. how much did the indonesians had paid you?! you have exchange this tournament, the spirit of sportmanship, and camaraderie to money! if we only knew that you were already planning something, it would be great if team philippines didnt join the tournament anyway. you robbed us with the championship! its a desaster! we feel like we were robbed! to the fiba secretary, sir! you are the fiba secretary here in asean, you should act like one! you used your position, the fiba body itself, are you not ashame of what you have don?! you went "missing" in that important game. your not worthy to be called secretary of the fiba in the asean region. you have started to corrupt the fiba organization here in asean, and it will never be a surprise that this things will happen again. and one last thing, you didnt allow one of our imports to play, sam ekwe, you were insisting that he should have the clearance from nigeria to play as an import where he, sam, is not even a pro basketball player? for your information, "mr. secretary", he's just a collegiate player, his playing for the san beda red lions in the philippine NCAA basketball league. he doesnt need a clearance from nigeria 'coz in the first place he didnt played for the nigeria national team. he had just even learnd to play basketball here in the philippines. and i know that as a fiba rule, u dont need some clearance from your home country if u havent played there. your so selfish, arrogant, last year we won the seaba title in a fare and square match,so sad that this years seaba, the philippines had lost its title off the court. what a shame! nice work! "organizers"!

and to that reporter who said that there where 4 filipinos from the US plus 2 imports in the philippine team, are you blind? there where no fil-americans in that line up. more so, we had only 1 import 'coz the "great", "honorable", fiba "secretary" has just denied one of our imports. they were all local players and it was not even a selection line up. they were all players that HARBOUR CENTRE,if you dont know,harbour centre is a ballclub under the amatuer league, the PBL. in short! it wasnt the best players that we have. if only the SBP can approve it, sending an all high school players can do that job. but it was harbour centre who won the bid to participate since last year where they won that seaba tournament fare and square! by comparison, player to player, our high school players are even more good than that of your senior national team members. philippines are still the best. you may have our best coaches but still, filipino players have good, better, best, basketball fundamentals in asean. thats the reality! filipino players are still taller, bigger, stronger and athletic. so to that reporter/journalist, keep your mouth shot!