TEXTERS, GIN KINGS TAP ASIAN REINFORCEMENTS
Sam Daghles, Jordan’s top playmaker who was a big thorn to Team PHL in a number of Asian basketball battles, is Talk n Text’s Asian import in the coming PBA Governors’ Cup.
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel has also signed up its Asian import in the season-ending tourney featuring regular imports with height limit of 6-foot-5 except for those of Blackwater, Kia, Barako Bull and GlobalPort.
The Elite, the Carnival, the Energy and the Batang Pier, teams with the worst cumulative records through the elims of the first two conferences, are allowed imports with no height restriction.
As for Asian imports (non-mandatory), the Gin Kings will field Mongolian Sanchir Tungala.
Daghles, however, is easily the more famous and familiar to Filipino basketball fans, being a tormentor of Gilas Pilipinas in at least two Asian meets.
A 6-foot-3 guard who played for San Diego Mesa CC and Midwestern State in US collegiate ball, Daghles led the Jordan team in slamming the quarterfinals door shut on the PHL quintet in the 2007 FIBA Asian Championship in Tokushima, Japan.
In Wuhan, China in 2011, Daghles delivered the dagger baskets as Jordan topped the Rajko Toroman-mentored Gilas Pilipinas in a close semifinal battle.
With Daghles and naturalized player Rasheim Wright as lead lights, the Jordanians made podium finishes in the 2009 and 2011 Asian jousts.
Daghles suited up with the Sacramento Kings in the 2006 NBA summer league and later in the same year was drafted by the Idaho Stampede in the NBA D-League.
An American/Jordanian born in China in 1979, Daghles has also been a fixture in the Chinese basketball league, playing for the Jilin Northeast Tigers. (SB)
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