Gilas builds data bank of game plans, scouting reports for future national team references
JAKARTA — It’s time for the Philippine men’s basketball team to put an archives of game plans, scouting reports and any reference materials that could help the national team program in future international campaigns.
Head coach Yeng Guiao suggested it to all the members of the coaching staff and wants to put a databank under the intellectual property of the Samahang Baseketbol ng Pilipinas, the governing body of basketball in the country.
“We need to do this for future references, so that whichever group is handling the national team, they won’t be left out in the dark,” Guiao told
BusinessWorld. “We want to share this database because this is for Philippine team after all. We will keep our files secret for our respective mother teams in the PBA as this belongs to ours, but not for the national team because these files would help the program in the long run.”
Built for only two weeks, the Gilas Pilipinas team came and competed in the Asian Games having to strive on their own, scouting on players overnight and studying the team and players’ tendencies.
In creating an archive of game plans and scouting reports, it would help the future national squads in saving time doing its homework and giving them idea as they have files to look over.
Ryan Gregorio, chief scout of the squad competing here in the Asiad, who was also appointed just recently as Special Assistant to SBP President Al Panlilio, will make the files official under the property of the governing basketball body.
“The main proponent of this is Coach Yeng Guiao. We hail Coach Yeng to high heavens as a person who puts the best interest of the country and put this program a priority. I will operationalize it as part of the SAP function in the SBP,” wrote Gregorio in a text message. —