While attending to Gilas Pilipinas' gold medal redemption bid in the Southeast Asian Games, national coach Chot Reyes is also working double time in ensuring the Philippines gets the much-needed size in their Fiba Basketball World Cup buildup slated this late August.
Reyes said getting the needed big men for Gilas is foremost in his mind, noting that the Philippines' group mates in the FIBA World Cup led by world no. 10 Italy, Dominican Republic and Angola all have the size to contend with.'Our first area of concern is our size,' Reyes said during his recent appearance at former PBA commissioner Noli Eala's Power and Play sports program. 'Our three big men are all injured, Japeth , June Mar and AJ Edu are all injured.
We need to be able to shore up and solve our frontline situation very quickly,' he stressed. 'Without the big men, we will really have a hard time. Everything else will fall into place as long as we have that backbone, that anchor.'Reyes recalled that Gilas Pilipinas managed to put up a strong fight against world class national squads like Croatia, Argentina, Greece and Puerto Rico due to the presence of 6-foot-10 naturalized player Andray Blatche.
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