Skip to playerSkip to main content
Japeth Aguilar plays final game as Gilas member

Japeth Aguilar plays his final game as a Gilas Pilipinas player, ending a 16-year career with the Philippine national basketball team at the Ateneo Blue Eagle Gym on Dec. 1, 2025. Aguilar and the nationals defeated Guam, 95-71, to sweep the first window of the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers and mark the end of his national team duties. Fittingly, the 6-foot-9 Aguilar ended his Gilas career that started in 2009 where his basketball journey took off -- the Ateneo de Manila University.

VIDEO BY NIEL V. MASOY

Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - vhttps://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe

Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net


Follow us:
Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook

Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram

Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter

DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion


Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital
Sign up to our newsletters: https://tmt.ph/newsletters

Check out our Podcasts:
Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify

Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts

Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic

Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer

Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein

#themanilatimes
#philippines
#tmtnews
#sports
Transcript
00:00Hello, GILAS.
00:02I'm very thankful for my wallet.
00:06I've been on and off.
00:10Are you feeling right here?
00:12After GILAS?
00:14Yes sir, yes sir.
00:16I thought...
00:18I thought that I had a lot of...
00:20I'm feeling that we were returning gold.
00:24But this one is more sweet.
00:26Because it's very nostalgic for me.
00:28Jack, what are the moments in your national career?
00:33What do you say about your head right now?
00:36It's a lot, sir.
00:38First, the GILAS 2009.
00:41We took the GILAS 1.
00:44We were young.
00:46We had a lot of training.
00:48We had a new process.
00:50The first World Cup.
00:54The GILAS 2009.
00:56We still have wish bumps.
00:58But sometimes, I think...
01:00Then, the GILAS 2009 process of the Philippine team.
01:04So...
01:05Very...
01:06Andami, andami talaga.
01:07Ako may...
01:09Ako may heads over.
01:11Do you have the message to the people who are leaving?
01:14Oh yeah.
01:15Very confident ako sa atin.
01:18Kaya nila.
01:19Malayang marating nila.
01:21Basta...
01:22Ano lang.
01:23Yun nga.
01:24Kailangan, supportahan lang natin sila.
01:26Ayun.
01:27Patuloy lang yung...
01:28Pag-trust sa system.
01:30Sa...
01:31Sa...
01:32Sa process.
01:33So, yun.
01:34Sana...
01:35Ano maging...
01:36Ano talaga sila.
01:37Healthy and maging buo yung tour.
01:40Kasi...
01:41Yun talaga din.
01:42Actually, hindi pa natin nakikita yung...
01:45Ano yung full potential.
01:46Yun.
01:47Abangan natin sila.
01:49And support natin.
01:50In her run, hindi pa naman?
01:52In her run, isang naman?
01:54Ah, hindi pa naman.
01:55Meron pa mga few...
01:56Ano ano.
01:57Ah, left in my...
01:58Contract.
01:59There you go.
02:00Diyan pa na naramdangan.
02:01Manong sinabi na yung team ko na...
02:02Starter ka for this...
02:04Um...
02:05Actually, yeah.
02:06Ah...
02:07Yeah.
02:08Very thankful lang ako i-coach din.
02:10Yun.
02:11Yun.
02:12Binigay niya sa akin yung start nito.
02:14Kasi...
02:15Alam naman natin na talagang binibigay niya sa...
02:17Mga young guys yung time.
02:20So...
02:21Yun lang.
02:22As a veteran.
02:23Yun lang yung focus ko sa defense.
02:25Hopefully...
02:26Kung paano makagtrain si...
02:28Wesley.
02:29Alam na...
02:30Alam namin na...
02:31Siya talaga yung ano...
02:32Yung...
02:33Isa sa...
02:34Ano sa...
02:35Buwang.
02:36So...
02:37Happy naman ako na...
02:38Yun.
02:39Good start kami.
02:40Ang ganda yung defense namin.
02:41So...
02:42Ayun.
02:43Tekno din ako na...
02:44Pinag-start ko namin.
02:45Dapat makatulong ba na...
02:46Punuto na sila UNB.
02:48Sila kahit kaya mas...
02:49Good second.
02:50Hindi.
02:51Ano...
02:52It's about ano...
02:53For me...
02:54Feeling ko ano...
02:58Very fitting kasi...
02:59Ano...
03:00Parang nabubuo na yung core nila.
03:02So...
03:03I feel like...
03:04Ah...
03:05Ako feeling ko lang...
03:06Ah...
03:07Si June Mark...
03:08Parang...
03:09May yung konting ano pa...
03:10Kaila...
03:11Ah...
03:12Pwede pa siya mag-spay.
03:13So...
03:14Para ano...
03:15Para...
03:16Malip niya yung mga young guys.
03:17Pero...
03:18You know...
03:19Ah...
03:20Sobrang happy ako sa...
03:21Sa...
03:22Naging process...
03:23Sobrang haba na...
03:24You know...
03:25Ah...
03:26Na-time ko with the national team.
03:27And then...
03:28Ii...
03:29Ano...
03:30Iiwan ko makikita ko.
03:31Ganyan yung...
03:32Ano yung mga...
03:33Mga...
03:34Mga...
03:35Players.
03:36Sobrang promising.
03:37So...
03:38Ah...
03:39Nariniwala din ako sa sinasabi ni...
03:40Question mo.
03:41Pwede...
03:42If...
03:43Ah...
03:44Magsasama-sama itong group na to.
03:45Malayo yung...
03:46Malayo yung...
03:47Malayo yung...
03:48Malayo yung...
03:49Kaya pala-lapot ka na...
03:50Iwan mo si June Mark after...
03:52Over a decade.
03:53Na representing the...
03:54Philippines together.
03:55Ano rin...
03:56Ah...
03:57Ano rin...
03:58Iisip ko rin...
03:59Ah...
04:00Darating at darating...
04:01Ah...
04:02Hindi forever yung...
04:03Ano yung basketball.
04:04May darating talaga yung time na...
04:06Matatapos na yung...
04:07Ano yung career mo.
04:08So...
04:09Ayun talaga.
04:10Pero...
04:11Ah...
04:12Thank ko lang ako naging kasama ko si June Mark.
04:14Ah...
04:15Yung...
04:16Yung...
04:17Yung friendship namin talaga yung sinichelish ko.
04:19So...
04:20Masaya ko sa'yo.
04:21Masaya ko.
04:22Kasi...
04:23Sa PBA lagi talaga magkalaman.
04:25Facebook...
04:25Are we moments in alan...
04:26Are we moments inпарglulan?
04:27Are we meters in a living?
04:28Are we miles away?
04:29Are we?
04:30No making sense to us...
04:31The even appeal of all saints,
04:32We'll go back to the temple.
04:33Ma ifs sa PAMOU wszystko korea.
04:34Grazie a preference.
04:35Da.
04:36Ma know Michigan you're.
Be the first to comment
Add your comment

Recommended