Joint Philippine and New Zealand partnership

How do you feel about the prospect of the Philippines and New Zealand building a more solid relationship in basketball? 

Excellent with a lot of possibilities, not only at the elite senior men’s level (Gilas and Tall Blacks) but at the different age group level as well. Games, camps either in the Philippines or New Zealand are a few of the possibilities.  Basketball New Zealand is preparing for the possibility of a merger of the two zonal groups FIBA Asia and Oceania after 2016. So obviously there is mutual interest to work together . The NZ tour helped established the connections and relationships (coach Tab and Nenad Vucenic) and moving forward should only further be developed. 

Some of the ideas are 

• Basketball camp in Auckland and Wellington targeting potential Filipino players
• Bringing an NZ NBL team to Manila to play PBA teams
• Bringing an Under 19 NZ team to Manila to play the top college teams in the Philippines
• If Gilas qualifies for the World cup in Spain a joint National Team camp/tour in Europe prior to Spain (Aug 2014)