who is Gregory Slaughter???

[jesronne]

can u give us any background???

does this man have a bright future... unlike EJ Feighl

[snipes12]

the son of sgt. slaughter ? :confusedshrug:

[DirtyB41]

I know he's 6'11.....so he's gotta have at least SOME potential.

[Lebron23]

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x308/benjielyn/Gregory2.jpg


Slaughter Mania (Web Link)

2 baskets, or 4 points in Slaughter's first game on Philippine shores.

After years & years of waiting, I think at last, Philippine basketball has finally found it: EJ Feihl's replacement.

In a way, I have mixed feelings about seeing all the mania that Slaughter has generated.

First, a 6'11" player is quite a novelty, not only in Cebu, but I guess the whole Philippines. In my lifetime, & I guess for most Pinoys also, I have seen only ONE legitimate 6'11" player play out there on the court, & that is EJ Feihl.

Reading the accounts of "Slaughter Mania" at the Sun Star Cebu website, & you'd think it was Lebron James playing out there on the court, instead of a mediocre 7-foot Center.

And that, really is the problem: We just don't have height, which is a critical component in basketball at its higher levels. Tall players are just so rare that we end up celebrating such novelty when it finally comes around.

I take consolation in that we are not only the ones in this position. I saw a basketball movie recently (unfortunately I missed the title) about the greatest upset in US NCAA basketball history. In that movie, the townsfolk ended up idolizing their underdog team for the rest of their lives, even if they never got anywhere near the US NCAA championship again.

I guess sometimes, its just not about winning, its loving the game.

As for Slaughter, if ends up making "2 baskets" the next couple of games, the novelty will likely eventually wear off. His future? He MIGHT reach the PBA. After all, EJ Feihl did.

[Lebron23]

[B]Sunday, August 05, 2007

[jesronne]

dapat gastosan yan ng UV... why dont get ramon fernandez to train him personally... lyk olujawon on yao ming.... =)

[HoopNightmare]

dapat gastosan yan ng UV... why dont get ramon fernandez to train him personally... lyk olujawon on yao ming.... =)

Give him playing time if you want him to do well. Sign him up for the Sea games.

[Lebron23]

Slaughter scores 11 points in his 2nd game !!! :

Lancers zap Wildcats in fight-marred battle

By Gabby G. Malagar
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Michael Luga finished what Harlow Villanil started as the University of the Visayas (UV) Green Lancers smothered the Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT) Wildcats, 99-61, in a tumultuous match marred by a near-fight and two ejections in last night

[jesronne]

wow 70-1 graveh yan ha.... ahahahahahaha

[Lebron23]

Slaughter's recent game:



Padayao rallies USC against SWU

Monday, August 20, 2007

UNIVERSITY of San Carlos

[HoopNightmare]

What colleges do they have in the Visayas with a good basketball program?
My 18 year old brother is interested in playing college ball in our native country. He played high school basketball in North Carolina and did decent. Let me know the schools and the league info if you got em'.

[GOBB_Junior]

Slaughter bombs San Miguel with 12 points:

Beermen vanquish CESAFI All-Stars

By Caecent No-ot Magsumbol

Monday, September 3, 2007

Dondon Hontiveros put up a great show before his adoring Cebuano fans, cashing in 17 points to lead San Miguel Beer to a 90-86 triumph over the CESAFI All-Stars during their charity basketball match yesterday at the full-packed Cebu Coliseum.

The Beermen were trailing most of the way, including at 41-47 at halftime, but unloaded a 16-2 bomb in the final four minutes of the game to change the course of the match in their favor.

Hontiveros was backed up by Larry Fonacier and Enrico Villanueva with 12 markers apiece as the Beermen reminded the CESAFI young guns that experience is sometimes sharper than youth on the hardcourt.

The Beermen seemed too complacent at first, allowing the CESAFI stars to stage several rallies, but the visiting pros took care of the business with finesse when the game was on the line.

Ariel Mepa

[HoopNightmare]

C.e.s.a.f.i. ?????

[super_defender]

Guys any update on Slaughter??? I wanna see his development.

[Lebron23]

Gregory Slaughter in action


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He did not have a great performance in the Collegiate National League, and he struggle facing a much smaller frontline from the other teams. :banghead:

[Lebron23]

If we ever put Gregory Slaughter on our current National Team the coaching staff should give him limited playing time because the way i have seen him play he still needs alot of training and advance footwork.

We do not want to send players that cannot even dominate against 6'4 and below Centers because this would spell an instant doom for the RP Team.

The reason i like to see GS in the 2008-2010 National Team is to give him enough exposure, and he can learn from some of the best bigmen in the PBA because he will be forced to guard them in practice, and he will gain a huge confidence of being not afraid to dominate in the lowposts area.


He is only turning 20 yrs.old and with proper training and exposure against tough competition he might as well become the RP National Team version of Andrew Bynum despite being only 20 yrs.old he is proving to the critics that he belongs in the NBA.

I want to see Slaughter dominate the board instead of focusing in hitting his outside shoots because let's face it we have a poor rebounding performance in the FIBA Asian Championship, and the Philippines National Team have plenty of outside shooters to spread on the floor.

So, I hope our coaching staff will teach GS on improving his basketball fundamentals, and give him some tips on how to become a good lowposts scorer like some of the best center in the history of the game.

I want Slaughter to develop his footwork ala poor men version of Hakeem Olajuwon, and he need to learn on how to be physical in his game because let's face it the current trend of some of the best PF/Center is asia is that they are no longer softer, and some of them knows how to use the length of their wingspan in controlling the rebounds.

I can see him become more of a Tim Duncan instead of Dirk Nowitzki, who sucks in guarding smallers players, and cannot use his size in posting against smaller defenders that is why a fast face team undersize team can knock out the Dallas Mavericks in the playoffs.

I want to see Slaughter become a rebounding machine, so that in due time we might not actually need to naturalize another foreign players.

[super_defender]

agree to that dude

[thadzonline]

@Hoopnightmare

email me at thadzonline@basketballcebu.com

let's talk about your brother who wants to play ball here