3X3 Basketball: Manila Chooks to take part in NEOM
Super Quest
Manila Chooks! is
to begin its post-Chico Lanete era on November 4 on the sunny beaches of Neom,
Saudi Arabia.
The country’s
second-ranked 3×3 team will compete in the 2022 NEOM Super Quest — a qualifier
for the 2022 FIBA 3×3 Hong Kong Masters and a part of the NEOM Beach Games
2022.
Composing Manila
is a tall and young lineup, namely 6-foot-5 Dennis Santos (PH no. 5), 6-foot-8
Ken Holmqvist (PH no. 10), 6-foot-11 Nigerian import Henry Iloka, and 6-foot-7
Dave Ando.
“While we are still looking for new players for the
crucial 2023 season, we still need to compete to close out the year,” said Chooks-to-Go president Ronald
Mascariñas. “And this opportunity to compete in NEOM
will help us gauge who will be our foundational blocks for our teams next
year.”
“Magandang test ito para sa Manila kung uubra ba ang
big lineup namin against yung top teams in the world,” added Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3×3
head trainer Chico Lanete. “Very crucial yung November 2022
to November 2023 kasi hindi lang competiting ang habol natin, kailangan na rin
nating manalo. For the rest of the season, we will look to mix and match mga
lineups natin.”
Manila Chooks!,
seeded ninth in the tournament that has $10,000 going to the champion as well
and $5,000 for the runner-up, is slotted in Pool A along with world no. 3 Riga
of Latvia and no. 19 Warsaw of Poland.
Manila Chooks!
will take on the Latvian quartet of Nauris Miezis (world no. 4), Karlis
Lasmanis (no. 14), Edgars Krumins (no. 18), and Agnis Čavars (no. 19) on Friday
at 8:45 PM.
The Filipinos
then face the Polish quartet of Przemyslaw Zamojski (world no. 50), Szymon
Rduch (Poland no. 2), Łukasz Diduszko (Poland no. 5), and Mateusz Bierwagen
(Poland no. 8) at 10:45 PM.
Also competing
in the slam dunk competition is Pinoy high flyer David Carlos in the Slam Dunk
competition.
Hungry is Manila
Chooks for a victory as their Cebu counterparts suffered a sweep during the
2022 FIBA 3×3 Tainan City Challenger last October 22.
The quartet of
PH no. 1 Mac Tallo, no. 2 Brandon Ramirez, no. 11 Vince Tolentino, and
Cameroonian import Mike Nzeusseu finished ninth among 16 teams after falling to
world no. 1 Ub (22-14) and Utsunomiya (21-10).
Source: https://tiebreakertimes.com.ph/
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