TNT sharpshooter Roger Pogoy, Calvin Oftana, Bobby Ray Parks and Jordan Heading won't be joining the Gilas squad when the team leaves for Estonia on Thursday evening.
The four members of the Gilas pool are still recuperating from separate injuries, as per Gilas team therapist Dexter Aseron.Pogoy, the Far Eastern U standout, fractured his right pinky during the recent PBA Governors' Cup Finals, while Oftana sustained a calf injury in last May's Southeast Asian Games, which Gilas won in Cambodia.Parks, the left-handed gunner out of National U, is still recuperating from a wrist injury, while Heading is also out due to back issues.
While the Gilas pool wasn't complete since Utah Jazz star Jordan Clarkson and young big man Kai Sotto also failed to make the training in Laguna, Reyes intends to work on whoever is available at this point.Justin Brownlee, one of three naturalised players in the pool, didn't participate in the training in Laguna after undergoing 'non-basketball medical procedure' in the United States, according to Reyes' update at his Instagram account on Tuesday.
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