PERHAPS we do not need an American coach in basketball, because we know all the techniques and strategies.” So said the Philippine basketball’s foremost leader, the late Senator Ambrosio Padilla, the fiercest defender of the faith that Filipinos were the best players in Asia. It was late 1965, 13 months…
PERHAPS we do not need an American coach in basketball, because we know all the techniques and strategies.”
But the “critical moment of the sixties came to pass frustratingly, silently,” in Albano’s words. Instead of an “audacious stroke to re-imagine the future,” the moment became a “step taken backwards…pride in the nation’s basketball tradition prevailed over a bold strategic change in direction in mid-decade. Believing that the key to their deliverance still could be found in the past, Filipinos turned more inward-looking than ever.
The book’s most lyrical part comes when it hits the 1950s when Filipinos, incomparably talented, enjoyed a near-absolute dominance of Asian basketball. Leading the Filipino gladiators were the peerless Carlos Loyzaga, Lauro Mumar, Antonio Genato, Ramon Campos, Rafael Hechanova and later Carlos Badion, Bonnie Carbonell, Constancio Ortiz Jr., Gerry Cruz, Alfonso Marquez, Kurt Bachmann, Narciso Bernardo and Edgardo Ocampo.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Teddy Boy Locsin is President’s special envoy to China for special concernsFORMER Foreign Affairs secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has been appointed as the President’s Special Envoy to the Republic of China for Special Concerns, the Presidential...
Read more »
Philippine Latest Cars & Vehicles: Buyers' Guide, Prices, & SpecsFastest growing car classifieds site in the Philippines, with a wide database of car and commercial vehicle listings, prices, features, specs, news and information
Read more »
TXT ends 2nd world tour with standout concert at Philippine ArenaKOREAN boy group TOMORROW X TOGETHER (TXT) has successfully staged the conclusion of its second world tour “ACT: SWEET MIRAGE”
Read more »
Philippine National PoliceRAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public Interest
Read more »
Meco chair to Philippine government: Secure land as training ground for overseas agriculture gradsMANILA Economic and Cultural Office chairperson Silvestre H. Bello urged the government to provide a sizable piece of land to graduates of Agriculture studies from universities overseas. This took special relevance, as the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office recently feted Filipino scholars who recently finished their graduate and postgraduate courses…
Read more »
Philippine eagle’s important habitat: Pasonanca is PHL’s 10th Asean Heritage ParkAn important life-support system in Zamboanga City, the Pasonanca Natural Park (PaNP), is a legislated protected area (PA) that is teeming with diverse species of rare plants and animals. It is one of the 94 PAs legislated under Republic Act 7586. as amended by RA 11038, also known as Expanded…
Read more »