With Norman Black taking on the Gilas Pilipinas teaching reins for the 2025 Southeast Asian (SEA) Video games, the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) mentioned will probably be as much as him to resolve who will make up the squad.
Black, who dealt with the nationwide workforce within the 2011 SEA Video games, was named as the top coach of the Gilas squad once more within the biennial meet this December with the PBA ongoing by then.
“Sa choice ni Coach Norman [Black] ‘yun, kung sinong gamers ang dadalhin,” mentioned SBP government director Erika Dy when requested in regards to the doable composition of the nationwide workforce for the biennial meet.
Dy mentioned the eligibility of gamers may even be decided after the assembly of the Southeast Asian Video games committees on August 27.
The schedule for this 12 months’s Southeast Asian Video games, which is able to run from December 9 to twenty, doesn’t fall inside a FIBA window. This can make it tougher for Gilas Pilipinas to assemble its common gamers as they’re dedicated to their respective golf equipment, both domestically or overseas.
The PBA, nonetheless, previously stated that it will allow a certain number of players to join the SEA Games roster.
SBP additionally mentioned having Black name the pictures for Gilas within the biennial meet doesn’t essentially imply there might be a second nationwide workforce, as this system stays dedicated to its long-term imaginative and prescient.
“This system stays the identical. The SEA Video games is just a little bit difficult as a result of it is not a part of the FIBA calendar, so it is actually a distinct event,” Dy added.
Beforehand, Gilas Pilipinas fielded collegiate standouts, also referred to as the Gilas Cadets, to compete within the SEA Video games, similar to in 2013 and 2015.
—JKC, GMA Built-in Information
