Tabo Baldwin, born in 1956, took over as the head coach of the Philippine men's basketball team at the end of last year. The 57-year-old coach has long been famous. His most famous story is that he led New Zealand, a "third world country" in basketball, into the semi-finals at the 2002 Men's Basketball World Championships. Baldwin also had a record against China in that game. He led the team to reverse and beat the China men's basketball team led by Faye Wong with Yao Ming.
Baldwin has rich coaching experience in Asia and has served as the head coach of Lebanon, Jordan and Malaysia. Among them, China fans are most familiar with his miraculous performance in coaching the Jordan team in Wuhan Asian Championships four years ago. At that time, Jordan eliminated his favorite Iranian in the 1/4 final, which caused a lot of trouble for China after entering the final and almost won the championship. Jordan was able to go to the dark at that time, and Baldwin's excellent arrangement and on-the-spot command contributed.
In addition, Baldwin briefly coached the CBA Fujian team in the 20 12- 13 season, and it was under his leadership that Wang Zhelin made rapid progress. In the semi-final of this year's Asian Championships, he led the Philippine team to beat Iran again. This experienced coach, who is very familiar with Asian teams, will be the biggest threat to China's men's basketball championship tonight, except for Bracher.