Japeth Aguilar must the greatest prospect to come out of the Philippine circuit, at 6'9 220lbs, he can run the floor, shoot three's, block shots and do amazing slam dunks but it's still not enough for him to make to the NBA, he got cut by the Santa Cruz Warriors a D-League team for the Golden State.
Now the question is. Why? Isn't this enough. D-league coaches looked at him as a guy with potential, but here's the problem. He's not physical at the downlow, he doesn't have post up moves and most of all he should be a small forward rather than a power forward. At his built and size, he should be able to put the ball on the floor like Durant. He just doesn't have the perimeter skills to back up his so called potential, and at age 25 I'm not really sure he can still develop his perimeter game. It's also safe to say that time is ticking for Japeth (although his just 25 still a young man), because there are 18-19 year old kids in US who's also 6'9 220lbs with the same potential as him and there only 18!!
Although I would love to see a Filipino in the NBA doing slam dunks and hurts me to say that Japeth didn't make it, that's just reality. Maybe if he played small forward since he was 12 years old then, he could have made it. It’s just his understanding and how he plays it, he’s a bigman not a perimeter player.
Let's just look at it this way, with a 7'0 bigman like Greg Slaughter and a coordinate 6'10 Junmar Fajardo, plus a super athletic 6'9 Power Forward Japeth Aguilar, we will have a very good chance of dominating Asia ones more even probably make it to the Olympics next 2016. By that time these guys are in their primes aging from 26-29 years old, and with the always talented Filipino guards, there is a chance.