The NBA Finals have recently concluded and to no one's surprise, Golden State Warriors win again over the Cleveland Cavaliers 4-0. Seriously, NBA is no longer that entertainning anymore and even long-time fans of the NBA are quitting the fandom altogether in favor of other sports such as hockey, football(soccer), and any other sports out there. Only retarded people and the Peenoise cares about this joke of a final, Even the free TV carrier of the NBA is showing those stupid tweets made by them whereas i see none in other sports coverages.
The Philippines is well-known for being a Basketball-crazy country but despite the passion and zeal of the Filipino baskeball fans, our country's basketball team, GIlas Pilipinas, gets routinely beaten all the time by other countries most especially by the Korean team, who prioritizes other sports such as Football(soccer)Baseball, and Esports. Sure we can always shout "puso" and "laban" on top of our lungs all we want but those things doesn't make a good basketball team.
I have read one of the articles on GetRealPhilippines written by FallenAngel about how Filipinos, when it comes to basketball, only focuses on the heart, or puso, not on the brains, or the analytical side, of basketball. It's because the Philippines is one of the most emotional people on the planet and that the false belief of "Pinoy Pride" would "inspire" them to be a "better" people where in fact would make them worse off than ever before. This is why there's such thing as sports science to begin with in the first place.
One of the important factors of the sorry state of Philippine sports is the lack of support from the Philippine government, and the reluctance of the Filipino to support the "elitist" sports of not-basketball. The common Filipino who weren't that much exposed to those kind of sports because of the lack of interest, would find those not-basketball sports "difficult" or "elitist" unless they know of it from those Hollywood movies or the occasional news reports about it.
Another factor for the sorry state of Philippine sports is the celebrity-centered society. I mean our celebrity-athletes have become senators like PBA legend Robert Jaworski and boxer-"basketball playing coach" Manny Pacquaio. Since the people here only focuses on those celebrity athletes, the teams that unfortunately don't have those kinds of athletes won't have the support of the Filipino unless they won gold at some international event like in the case of my country's ice hockey team.
In conclusion, unless we either diversify in terms of sporting interest and/or improve our sporting ability by investing on the analytical side of things. Philippine sports will and always will be a joke.
