Posted on 20 February 2010 | 1,480 views
The ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) Finals head to Indonesia for Game 3 of the best-of-five series.
The Philippine Patriots can wrap up the first-ever ABL title in this match while Satria Muda BritAma will attempt to delay the title celebrations at home. Join Red Crew Erwin Wong as he brings you the play-by-play action on court live from Jakarta’s BritAma Arena!
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i wonder why they always have a live commentary in jakarta and not in manila..
3stars, I would appreciate it if you would not imply we have something against Manila-based/Filipino teams.
The reason is very simple – it’s cheaper for us to go to Jakarta than to Manila from Singapore and we are also not running Red Hoops full time.
I went to manila once to cover a Patriots game during the regular season but I can’t afford to keep going back.
If you’re in manila and would like to do the live chat yourself for Red Hoops readers, please let us know and we’ll hook you up.
In the meantime, we provide whatever live commentary we can.
Outside of our own volunteer crew, good folks like Jonathan Chuongco and Jahred Salazar have chipped in with stories from Manila and Jakarta respectively.
At Red Hoops, you send it, we post it.
@3stars. I noticed that as well, which always left me to wonder on why in the world it’s more expensive to travel to Manila from Singapore or any destination from Southeast Asia. I experienced that myself.
Same is true when flying to Australia. It’s much cheaper to fly from US to Sydney than from Manila to Sydney.
CONGRATULATION PHIL. PATRIOT – the 1st ABL champion!!!
@les,
“i wonder why they always have a live commentary in jakarta and not in manila..”
where in the sentence did i imply you have something againts manila team? you ASSUMED that i did..for me its just a simple question.. a curiosity.. why so defensive?
@3stars
Thanks for the clarification.
It’s because we were taken to task before for having a satria muda vs slingers playoff story come out before the patriots vs kl dragons playoff story.
That reader implied we had something against the Patriots.
That’s the background.
@ les.. ok.
btw.. now that abl has ended i hope this site will continue to update us with the latest asean basketball news.. specially the additional teams, upcoming new imports and sponsors.. and i really hope other abl teams will organize basketball clinics and summer camps and continue to develop basketball in their country in between season.
@3stars and all those interested in keeping this site going until the ABL comes around in October 2010 – We are all spread across ASEAN and so if we want this site to work for us, then we’ll all have to pitch in a little to make it interesting for each other.
There was an earlier suggestion that this site continues to cover tournaments like SEABA, the FIBA Champions Cup, Jones Cup.
I’m exploring covering the SEABA tournament in April.
There was another suggestion that this site covers the local leagues of each country. That, as you can appreciate, is even more of a challenge than covering the ABL.
So I, living in Singapore, will cover the Singapore league. It’s coming up in April.
If anyone would like to volunteer their time to cover the local leagues in Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia (is there one in Thailand?), please drop me a note.
http://redhoops.com/contact/
Let us flourish this site in the service of ASEAN! one ASEAN! so whenever any one of asean countries will be playing international or local hoops.Let us put it here!
ONE ASEAN!
I am with you all! ONE ASEAN! ONE LEAGUE!
Go thailand tigers!
Go satria muda britama !