Jakarta—If there is an archive for past basketball results, there should also be a database for game plans and scouting reports.
In order to save time, Philippine team coach Yeng Guiao is proposing to the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas the creation of archives that could help the national team program in future international campaigns.
The materials that will be put in a databank will be under the intellectual property of the SBP.
“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 said. “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 Rain or Shine-led Pilipinas team came and competed in the Asian Games with little ideas about their rivals.
In creating an archive of game plans and scouting reports, it will certainly help the future national squads since 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,” said Gregorio.