Rafe Bartholomew
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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And watch the Aerial Voyager go. He is up, up, and he is gone.
He would get up there and figure out what to do later because he could.
And the Skywalker on the attack on the right side challenges to defend.
Sam Boy Lim, may he rest in peace. He was a hero in a famous 1985 game against a version of the United States. This was not the senior United States team. Right. But this was in a regional tournament, and it was the only time the Philippines has a win like that over any Team USA. And this was not—these were good. Jay Billis was on that team. Eat it, Jay. And then the other—sort of the next—
version of these acrobatic finishers the league produced was Bong Alvarez. who is known as Mr. Excitement. Mr. Excitement. Probably dunked better than the other guys, at least in his highlights. Scored 71 points in a game. Yeah, excitement may have been an understatement, actually. He was playing for a very wholesome, branded team owned by the Alaska Milk Company.
But this is a milk brand that cared a lot about a family image, and Mr. Excitement, he got shot in the butt outside of a massage parlor in Manila early in the morning. A hoomst among us. Yeah, and it was time. Certainly, Brad from Bohekang has done worse. But Alaska decided to part ways with him and actually made a trade that helped them become the dynasty team of the 1990s.
The PBA has felt their fans becoming less engaged over time. The league doesn't attract as many fans to PBA arenas as they used to, and that may not be the league's fault. The PBA in the 70s and 80s, really all the way into the early 2000s, was such a prime mover in Philippine football.
pop culture and entertainment basketball players were as famous as the most famous singers and actors and not only were they as famous as politicians in some cases they went on to become the politicians and to lose that status even if the PBA's business is in many ways pretty healthy right I mean first of all
The team owners mostly care about marketing their product and having it on TV and now on YouTube and on the internet. And that goal is still achieved. But to feel your status sort of drip away leads them to taking some dramatic measures, looking for that shot in the ass.
So it really starts at last year's PBA All-Star game, where just for fun, hey, let's put this 27-foot four-point line out there.
And maybe the guys will have fun with it, and they did. Four-point play! That game ended up with a guard hitting two four-point shots and one of them with a foul to send the game into overtime, and then they won it.
And that ending, I think, put a little seed in the league's head where they thought, well, if this worked in our All-Star game, why don't we just roll it out for the regular season?
Well, the PBA indeed has its own competition committee. What they didn't do was consult them in this case before the PBA Board of Governors happened to come back and say, by the way, we have a four-point shot now. We loved it at the All-Star Game. We want the game to be as exciting as possible. So congrats, guys. Have fun with this four-point shot.
That's where the PBA's galaxy brain kicks in. What if we don't ask the coaches? They can't go crazy if we don't ask them. And so the coaches of the league were not consulted before the Board of Governors announced announced that there would be a four-point shot.
And so the coaches actually had three weeks to adjust to a new four-point line 27 feet from the rim with their teams that was just going to be painted on the floor at PBA games.
So over those first few months, teams attempted 5.8 fours per game. So it's slow.
It's maybe one of the first times I've ever thought about describing an aspect of Philippine basketball with the word restraint. And so I spoke with one of the most accomplished coaches in the Philippines period, Chot Reyes, who is the head coach of the talk and text Tropang Giga in the PBA, but has coached in the league as a head coach since 1993.
Actually, we just discussed it today as the coaching staff. And Chot said you have to guard that four-point line and you have to do it either without fouling or fouling before the guy gets the shot off. And that's actually the way that Chot wound up losing one game.
And that was one of his two four-point game winners so far.
27 feet, I think, is definitely a little too close for the NBA or NBA caliber players like Scotty Hobson is right on the fringe of being. And there are lots of players like that out there in the international basketball world. There are too many players in the NBA who could make this shot pretty easily. And there are players, I mean, Steph Curry, Dame Lillard, they're easy to think of.
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