San Miguel Beermen Basketball Updates

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The San Miguel Beermen starts its Qatar Invitational Tournament stint against the giants of the Qatar National Team aimed at preparing the basketball players for the next PBA conference.

The Qatar National Team will be reinforced by tall  players including Hashim Zaidan Zaidan who stands at 6-11. This is a great test for the Beermen’s frontliners that include Dorian Pena, Danny Seigle, Marc Pingris, and Jay Washington. Mick Pennisi opted not to join due to other commitment.

I don’t really expect much from the Beermen to win games in this tournament. If a win comes, that’s already a bonus. What’s more important are the experience and the chance to get familiar with each other’s play – a key ingredient to winning games in the Philippine Cup.

But I don’t think the Beermen will give up that easily as there’s still some pride at stake here with OFW fans will troop to support the team.

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Beermen debut versus tall Qataris

Source: INQUIRER.net
by Romina Austria | September 18, 2008

DOHA — San Miguel Beer will have to work double time when it faces the Qatar national team on Thursday as the host country boasts a lineup that has only two basketball players standing below 6-feet.

To make matters worse, Lordy Tugade, Danny Ildefonso and Mick Pennisi did not join the Beermen, who arrived here Tuesday night. Tugade is nursing an injury while Ildefonso and Pennisi have other commitments.

The 6-foot-5 Marc Pingris will play on Thursday but will return home for a family affair, missing the Beermen’s succeeding basketball games against Egypt’s national basketball squad and local ballclub Al Sadd.

Qatar’s tallest basketball player is 6-11 Hashim Zaidan Zaidan. It also has 6-foot-9 Omer Abgader Salem, 6-8 Ali Turki Ali, three 6-7 basketball players in Erfan Ali Saeed, Baker Ahmad Mohammed and Hammam Omer Ismaili and 6-6 Khalid Suliman Abdi.

Only 5-7 Khalid Masoud Al Nasr and Mansour Atif Elhadary, who is 5-11, stand below 6 feet.

Coach Siot Tanquingcen thus expects Pingris and 6-6 Dorian Peña and Danny Seigle to rise to the occasion.

The basketball game will also serve as a good workout for 6-7 Jay Washington, who was sent by Talk ‘N Text to San Miguel last month.

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