Michael Phillips ready to face challenges of the game—and life

Michael Phillips has a laundry list of things former Gilas big man Christian Standhardinger taught him over the course of the recent Southeast Asian Games, but the La Salle standout said that the lessons beyond the game are what will truly stay with him.

“I thought, OK, we could learn so much about the game, about these veterans and how to be basketball players. But Christian, he made the extra effort to really teach me everything outside basketball,” Phillips told the Inquirer after one of the Green Archers’ games in the FilOil EcoOil Preseason Cup.

“The mentality you should have, on how to carry yourself and all these other variables that I didn’t really think about like, say…

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