According to ABS-CBNnews.com, Japeth Aguilar has decided to play for the Burger King Whoppers through the intervention of SBP President Manny V Pangilinan. It is reported that Aguilar will play in the PBA opener that will showcase the battle of the top two picks of this year's Rookie Draft. However, there are still some issues unresolved in my head. The most important question is: Will Japeth be able to play for SMART-Gilas in the upcoming PBA Conference? For those of you who don't know, the SMART-Gilas National Team will be playing as a guest team in the PBA. One of the main reasons for doing this is for the team to develop chemistry. How will that chemistry develop if you're missing one of the most important players on your team? Aguilar figures to play a major role on this squad, as exhibited in the SMART-Gilas victory over Powerade Team Pilipinas in the charity game last Monday. His absence from the squad would hinder the preparations of the SMART-Gilas team.
I cannot fully analyze this piece of news until we receive the full details of the agreement. And as a fan of the SMART-Gilas National Team program, I'm not sure how to react. On one side, the PBA is now "happy" that Japeth will play in the league. But then, how much time will he have for SMART-Gilas now? This will be a small sacrifice for Aguilar for the sake of stability in the local basketball scene, but can he still pull through with his commitments to the national team? All we can do for now is play the waiting game.
4 comments:
i believe rey joble said it's a 1.8M 1 year deal for japeth.(i found out through firequinito.com) if it is indeed only a 1 year deal, i think japeth will still have ample time to get familiarized with the gilas system after one season in the pba. think of this way. cawaling and ramos wont be able to commit 100% of their time yet to Gilas since they will still be part of the feu team next year and the same goes for japeth now. ok im sorry i know japeth > ramos + cawaling but i wont be worried about chemistry issues since i think he'll still be part of gilas' practices. the one thing im worried about is the wear and tear on his body as he will playing a lot of basketball if he does become a part of both bk and gilas. hey just wondering do you guys know how can i get a hand of the t-shirt that gilas wore when they were having their warm-ups? thanks!
hey! well, from what i read from the Manila Bulletin story on this, a person that requested annonimity revealed that Japeth will play some games for BK, then will be traded to Talk N Text. Then, Talk N Text will release Japeth to SMART-Gilas. I hope this is true as I do not want Japeth to be wasting his time under Yeng Guiao.
About the Smart-Gilas t-shirt, we do not know where to get it. And if you do get a hold of one, please tell us where you got it as we would like to get our hands on those shirts too :)
wow, i just the read the article you mentioned and this is a very good development. trading him to tnt has been the most popular suggestion in the internet. i'm just wondering why bk didn't trade their draft rights before signing him up. why did they choose to let him play a couple of games on bk?
just to prove a point, probably. if they trade him right away, that was tantamount to them caving on a trade demand. bad PR for a basketball team.
i think they're going to pretend to trade him "on burger king's terms" rather than on japeth's.
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