#TankSoHard

Too good to be tanking, yes?
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The best thing to ever happen to Blackwater Elite's Marcus Douthit this PBA Governor's Cup, is the 2015 South East Asian Games where he is on loan to the Gilas Pilipinas team.

That's it.

Is he (still) paying for the sins of that disastrous post FIBA World Gilas stint in Korea? Wherein he bore the brunt of the blame, for being unable to do an Andray Blatche and basically carry a fatigued and injury-riddled team to a medal finish? Why on earth did he sign up with the Elite in the first place? Oh, yeah, the Team MVP ties which is becoming as clear as the team's bootleg Talk'n'Text jerseys.

We feel that Leo Isaac can coach in the PBA. We feel that Douthit (43 mpg 2- ppg 13 rpg 3 apg) still has some gas left in the tank.

That Brian Heruela (38 mpg 9 ppg 5 rpg 5 apg) is a borderline elite-level point guard, Cebuano Mike Cortez in the making. That Reil Cervantes (24 mpg 10 ppg 4 rpg 1 apg), love him or hate him, is trying his darndest.

That Bambam Gamalinda (22 mpg 8 ppg 4 rpg 1 apg) deserves more touches and minutes in a league that has tolerated a guy like JC Intal for years (whose game dropped unexpectedly and inexplicably so much from college to the pros).

We feel that the Elite is a fighting team, with a decent roster that has Eddie Laure, Raphy Reyes and Sunday Salvacion, to only merit a win in seven games played this conference.

So why the losses?

#TankSoHard

Why?

2015 PBA Draft 1st round pick, which looks like it's headed to TNT (owing to an earlier trade), that's why.

This is the scenario that everyone failed to see when Team San Miguel was busy blatantly making farm teams out of Barako Bull/ Air21 and GlobalPort. That at some point, Team MVP (TNT, Meralco, NLEX), will do the same and "invest" on a team of the similar setup.

Remember that one year wherein Barako Bull inexplicably traded their Top picks right then and there to San Miguel?

Yeah. So here's the league's karma biting it in the ass.

A team that's talented enough to win, but doesn't see the need to thanks to its unconfirmed yet obvious ties.