RP Smart Gilas team in action

[Sweetlucious]

Chris Tiu's family is super rich, he can even earn more if join his family corp.

[Sweetlucious]

ayaw ata ni manay mvp mag pba si tiu.

Did you guys notice the way mvp claps? FTW.

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Did you guys notice the way mvp claps? FTW.

nope, but we've seen how his pinky curl

[baludoy]

Chris Tiu's family is super rich, he can even earn more if join his family corp.

oo nga. he can literally buy a pba franchise and run the team however he likes

but then again, one can't ignore the 10000lb elephant in the room w/ regards to the fact if he can hack it out in the pro ranks as a basketball player or not

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nagsalita na si Tiu...

Now or never as Tiu ponders move to PBA | PBA | SPIN.PH - Sports Interactive Network Philippines

THE PBA draft beckons and for Chris Tiu, it’s now or never.

“I think if I don’t join this year, that’s it, no more basketball,” said Tiu on Wednesday night, adding that he will make the decision on whether to join the draft or become a businessman full time by Wednesday next week. The deadline for application for the draft is on August 3, two days after Tiu’s D-day.

Now 27, the amateur basketball star believes it is his last chance to turn pro.

“Because I believe at this age now, it’s the time that I’m gonna make the important decisions and the mistakes that will allow me to learn for the future,” said Tiu.

"I just pray, and pray, and pray. Pray for me that I make the right judgment."

Tiu noted he is “60 percent” leaning towards choosing basketball, but is concerned he will fall behind his peers in the business sector.

“I don’t want to be left behind in that field of business. The learning and experience compared to my batchmates at Ateneo, who've been working for several years already… several years doing business,” Tiu noted.

“I wanna start early… I’m doing it now, but of course it’s different when you’re part-timing and when you’re really immersed in it,” said Tiu, who earned degrees in Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics at Ateneo and has been involved in several businesses in the food and beverage sector.

At the same time, Tiu feels the chance to turn pro has presented itself again several years after shunning the PBA draft to concentrate on the amateurs. Major changes in the national basketball program have recently kept the former Gilas captain out of basketball.

Now the pro league beckons.

“I’m able to rest for half a year, focus more on businesses, my advocacies, some endorsements, TV work as well,” Tiu said. “Now here it comes again, cycle, umikot na naman, PBA draft.

“I think it’s now or never.”

Tiu knows this year’s draft pool is brimming with talent, much younger ones at that, but he isn’t concerned with getting picked late.

“The number’s not important, ang importante mapunta ka sa team na gagamitin ka, a team that needs you,” said Tiu.

“As a player naman you can adjust to the different systems of coaches. So as long as I’m given the opportunity to play, given the minutes on court… of course you have to earn that… I’m okay with it.”

If he doesn’t enlist in the draft, it’s not entirely zero basketball for Tiu. The veteran internationalist helps develop basketball in the grassroots level and has recently started taping an instructional segment on TV5 called 1-on1 Tiu-torials, which will air on AKTV on IBC 13.

The 1-on-1 Tiu-torials bring basketball to school children, corporate leagues and barangay tournaments and will cover basic to advanced basketball skills.

[chua_riwap]

mag business na lang siya.
sa statements nya, parang ayaw na nya mag-pba.

or join na lang siya sa aktv pba panel team, kung ayaw nya maglaro.

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oo nga. he can literally buy a pba franchise and run the team however he likes

but then again, one can't ignore the 10000lb elephant in the room w/ regards to the fact if he can hack it out in the pro ranks as a basketball player or not

To be honest and ive been saying this...he can't! Limited skills and too small for his position. Kung hinde lang sikat and high profile, no PBA team would take him, mas maraming pang magaling sa kanya na amateurs pero honde umubra sa PBA.


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malabo din sya mag #1.. mukhang papasok na si Fajardo.. tapos Petron ang #1 pick.. so malamang kunin nila si Junmar..

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^ pero non-factor naman si fajardo sa abl. baka samigue eman 2.0 ang labas niyan.

hindi ako familiar masyado sa fil-fors na papasok ngayon pero iyong chris hodges ata ang sought after na rookie sa draft

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kaya naman pala hindi na kinuha si Tiu.. may nakita palang bagong point guard si Chot.. sana kinuha na din nya si Stanley Pringle.. magaling din yun.. kesa naman kay Baracael..

Chot enlists 6-foot-5 point guard for Gilas Pilipinas | Team Pilipinas

National coach Chot Reyes has a new Fil-Am recruit in Matt Ganuela Rosser whom he included for the Smart Gilas Pilipinas team competing in the 2012 Williams Jones Cup set Aug. 18-26 in Taipei.

Rosser is a 6-foot-5 legitimate point guard fresh from his stint with the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos that he helped rule the US NCAA Division II Championship in 2010.

He’s now practicing with the national training team, visited in their session at the Treston Fort gym yesterday morning by NBA Fil-Am champion coach Eric Spoelstra of the Miami Heat.

“He’s our new find after Gabe Norwood, Kelly Williams, Joe Devance and Jarred Dillinger. He’s born in the Philippines and he holds a Philippine passport,” said Reyes of Rosser, back in the country having finished his playing years and business management studies at Cal Poly.

He started at point guard spot for the Broncos from his sophomore year in 2009-10. He averaged 24 minutes, 4.0 points and 3.5 rebounds in their NCAA title run.

Son of James Rosser and his Filipina mother Gina Ganuela, Matt played for the Temecula Valley Golden Bears in high school.

In his senior year as a Golden Bear, he averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds, and made the all-Southwestern League first team. (Matt Rosser's Complete Game Stats)

Reyes got to know this Fil-Am through his US networks, like in the case of Norwood, Williams, Devance and Dillinger.

Rosser will have his initial action as member of the national pool in the Jones Cup, playing with Marcus Douthit, Ranidel de Ocampo, Larry Fonacier, Sonny Thoss, LA Tenorio, Mac Baracael, Jeff Chan, Gabe Norwood, Rico Villanueva, Gary David, Sol Mercado, JayR Reyes and N-LEX gunner Garvo Lanete