San Miguel-Team Pilipinas

San Miguel-Team Pilipinas basketball team
Leagues	Philippine Basketball Association
Founded	2005
History	San Miguel Beer 2005–2007 San Miguel-Magnolia 2005–2007 San Mig Coffee 2005–2007 Purefoods Carne Norte Supremo 2005–2007
Arena	None
Location	Philippines
Team colors	Blue, white and red
Head coach	Chot Reyes
Championships	2005 Brunei Cup 2006 Brunei Cup
Website	San Miguel Corporation
Home Away

San Miguel-Team Pilipinas was the basketball team that represented the Philippines in international competitions from 2005 to 2007. The team was organized by the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) during the period when the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP), the national sport association for basketball, was suspended by FIBA. The team was sponsored by San Miguel Corporation. San Miguel-Team Pilipinas was succeeded in 2009 by Powerade-Team Pilipinas, sponsored by Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc.

The team represented the country in the 2005 FIBA Asia Champions Cup (fifth), the Las Vegas Global Hoop Summit (most exciting performing team), the William Jones Cup (third), and the 2005 Shell Rimula-Sultan Cup of Brunei (Champion). The team was bannered by Asi Taulava, Rommel Adducul, and Ren-Ren Ritualo. The Philippines was suspended by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) due to political conflict between leaders of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP).

In 2006, it finished sixth in the William Jones Cup and fourth in the Al-Emadi International Basketball Tournament, held at Doha, Qatar. The team has recently played in a goodwill series against Lebanon and won the Shell Rimula-Sultan Cup title in Brunei for the second year in a row.

After the FIBA suspension of the BAP was lifted in February 2007, the team underwent intensive training in the United States training camp that was attended before by NBA players. During the said training trip, they also played some tune up games with some NCAA teams. Next stop for San Miguel–Team Pilipinas was the FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2007 held in Tehran, Iran. They played mostly against Arab teams that have two imports while they played without an import. After playing 8 games in 8 days, they finished 4th place in the tourney, a creditable showing as all the other teams played with imports.

List of Players

Pos. No. Player School SG 4 Mark Caguioa Glendale PF/C 5 Danny Seigle Wagner PG 6 Jimmy Alapag CSU San Bernardino SG 7 Dondon Hontiveros University of Cebu C 8 Asi Taulava BYU–Hawaii PF/C 9 Ranidel de Ocampo St. Francis of Assisi PF 10 Enrico Villanueva Ateneo de Manila PF/C 11 Mick Pennisi Eastern Michigan PF 12 Kerby Raymundo San Juan de Letran PG 13 Jayjay Helterbrand Kentucky State SG/SF 14 Ren-Ren Ritualo De La Salle PF/SF 15 Tony dela Cruz UC Irvine

Pos. No. Player School PF/C RL Rommel Adducul San Sebsatian PF RL Rudy Hatfield UM–Dearborn PF/C IL Rafi Reavis Coppin State SF RL Niño Canaleta UE SF RL Kelly Williams Oakland SG RL Gabe Norwood George Mason Position Name/s Head coach:  Chot Reyes Assistants: Aboy Castro, Nash Racela Consultants: Scout: Tim Cone, Norman Black, Jong Uichico, Ryan Gregorio Binky Favis Manager: Robert Non IL= Injured list RL= Reserve list San Miguel

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