I'm not sure why everyone wants to bring back the 80's and 90's of pinoy basketball (import height limits, no fil-foreigners, no foreign coaches, etc). Everyone has fond memories of it (me included) but the sad fact is that this was the era when Philippine basketball DECLINED internationally.
At a time when basketball leagues all over the world have far more global/relaxed roster prerequisites (see Europe, Middle-east leagues, and even communist China), we still want to stand by on our "full-blooded pinoys" only rule. And this height limit crap (6'4"??) is laughable even by high school and college basketball standards.
We may want to note that "full-blooded pinoys" genetically do not exist and are merely offshoots of legal technicalities. If we wanted it that way, we would not have seen players like Robert Jaworski and Ricardo Brown play.
Duremdes needs to move forward. We are not in 1995 anymore.
And btw, if someone challenges this MPBL policy at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, this league will get publicity it won't need. Besides, the CAS has ruled on cases like this many times and the results have always favored the player, not the league.
Might be OT.. but yep agree. even Tab Baldwin observes the following:-
Tab Baldwin believes local basketball coaching has become “relatively insular,” and when coaches search outside of the country to learn more about the game, they go Stateside instead of Europe.
Without trying to be too negative, I think that it’s somewhat immature. I think part of the reason that is is that I think the Philippines has cloistered itself in basketball terms,” Baldwin explained.
“You know, it had a period in the ’90s and early 2000s where it was outside of international basketball. You can go back in history and it was very involved in international basketball. It had a great reputation. But then what happened in the ’80s, ’90s, early 2000s is we became very insular and even in the PBA it’s not a league that brings in foreign coaches often . . .
“We’re relatively insular compared to other nations, and I think what that means is we don’t get the stimulus of knowledge or information and when we do look outside, where do we look? We look to the US, we look to the NBA, which is not really a reservoir of basketball knowledge.”
Baldwin added: “The NBA is dominated by talent, Europe is dominated by wisdom in basketball. So I think if you want to advance your intellect within the game, my advice is to look to you Europe, and that’s what I try to do.”
http://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/22/18/basketball-ateneo-coach-tab-baldwin-shares-his-thoughts-on-ph-coaching