[Music] [Music] Basketball prospect Kyle Gamber has been nominated
to the 2023 McDonald's All-American team. Kyle Gamber and he's the guy, guys that we're
gonna have to watch today. Open triple for Gamber and he knocks it home! The Ateneo Blue Eagles regain the UAAP men's basketball crown. In context... [Tagalog] [Music] She posted me like on her Instagram. Yeah.(Mariah Carey) [Music] We going to Disney you feel me. Next week you feel me. I'm gonna be coming back, gonna be a little
tan you know.
[Chatter] [Music] My name is Kyle Gamber I am in the class of
2023 and I'm from Dover Delaware. Yeah I grew up in Delaware I went to Holy
Cross for most of my life first 10 years like from preschool all the way to eighth grade
but I was born in Maryland. It's a really competitive environment everybody
in Delaware wants to make it out. The end goal is to always make it out of Delaware
try to get somewhere beyond this and so I would definitely say like every game it's
like everyone's trying to ea
rn their own spot and earn their own name and so that's how
I take it personally going into every game I try to make it known like yeah I'm trying
to earn my name for myself as well but I would say it's very competitive there's a lot of
underrated talent in Delaware as well there's a lot of people that don't really get the
recognition they deserve but yeah. That's how I'd describe it. Recruiting in basketball I would say basketball
is the hardest sport to get recruited. You really think about it
there's only 12
spots on a team I mean 15 spots on a team and only 12 of them are going to be on scholarship
the other three are going to be walk-ons where in like football where there's 50 players
on a team and there's more opportunity for you I'm not saying football is hard or nothing... I'm always here if I'm not here I'm at school. If I'm not at school then I'm training somewhere. My freshman year I fractured by fibula and
I was out for the season and it was a big deal for me just cuz I was
, there was too
freshman on the team and I was one of them. Came back though I think that was like my
biggest like inspiration just because after I came back that my sophomore year the first
game of the season we played the same team I got hurt and I had 29. The season opener that was the Covid year
so it was an empty crowd but like going into that game I was just like I really gotta turn
up this because I haven't played in so long. This is my brother David my actual brother. How many brothers y
ou got? Because I was saying like this my bro this
is my bro but that's my actual brother David Gamber, one of my biggest Inspirations I would
say a lot of my humor and like personality comes from him we grew up hooping because
my dad was like big on us playing basketball but he kind of grew out of it and started
playing football in high school and then that's where he found his love. Gamber is currently in the last year of his term as a player at Polytech [Music] High School in Woodside Delawar
e in
the United States as he goes to college made possible with the help of Coach Eric of Familya
Washington DC Gamber decided to provide his services to the Ateneo Blue Eagles. Part of this Kyle Gamber played for Gilas
under-18 squad last year so other than a successful collegiate career Gamber also aims to play
for the Gilas Pilipinas men's basketball team. [Music] Basketball was uh was always our first
love being Filipino you didn't need shoes you could play barefooted right bare feet
and all
you needed was a ball. That was my first love basketball was always
my first love and my dad put up our if you will a makeshift basketball court because
we in the Philippines you play in the streets in the streets the sewer you know all that
slippers dust Jeeps tricycles going through so my dad's like oh well we'll build the court
and it just took off from there. It was his skill set which changed over the
years it was his hard work his determination His motivation to push himself, his persever
ance. His father his father's the key to all this
at the end of the day nobody else nobody has pushed Kyle to the extreme to get to this
level. To become what he's become at this point in time except for his dad. He owes it all to his dad he put in all the
hard work but his dad was there every step of the way to say that from where he was before
to where he is now obviously there's a big difference. I shot it deep in the game. Probably from right here. I said I should've made it. You were down 1
0? Uh 13. Dang! In the fourth quarter? Sheesh! Then I got the post game interview. Yeah I saw that too. Like coach Eric the guy that runs everything
he just kind of you'll probably talk to him but he kind of just like be calling my dad
like yo Kyle has to do this this so he'll be like Kyle so you got to come take pictures with kids
or like come. Here we are today we're at Paint Branch High
School provided by the Filipino Community we're gonna be training kids today. We should take that home. You
know this guy? He played for the Gilas Pilipinas. You too you will be good too OK. We're about to do stretching and then warm up a little bit. It's cold in here. Coach Kyle right here my buddy you're gonna follow him ok. Come on guys we're gonna start with stretching alright come to the baseline! Hi my name is Coach Doods of Familya Washington D.C. The program that we have especially in the summer is we do training and we play in different Filipino- American tournaments such as we played in
Las
Vegas in New Jersey and uh Virginia Beach so it's a it's a lot of a lot of filipino-american tournament before
going to our major tournament which is the city in September. To the free throw line we're
gonna stop we're gonna say ball ball ball ball ball we're gonna slide all the way down
all the way down all the way down you're gonna get to this side run up go to the half court
just slide down all the way there and then you're gonna sprint down and they're gonna come back
and fill into the line
all right. Well I'm not surprised about his skill
development and he developed a uh a good ethics and attitude towards his game towards his
teammates and towards his coach. I know that there's still a lot of improvement
for him to to do and I'm proud of him what he has been
accomplished so far and recently I learned that he was nominated in the McDonald's All-American. I'm really proud of him about that and he
played for Gilas last summer so I know that he's gonna get far because you know he li
kes
sports and he's very passionate about improving himself. You come up. come up a little bit, Luke come
up you come up a little bit you come up a little bit. Back and forth back and forth Line up line up make a line. Luke you go first make
a line right here all right come on. Right now this season he is playing uh for
our in-house league and I know they're gonna get really tough they're a championship
team under coach Eric and I have my own team as well this is like an open division no age
lim
it you know as young as 15 and as old as 25 or 30 can play in this Division and it's
a very tough division now I don't know yet if he's going to be able to play for uh uh
the Filipino-American tournament starting in April because I don't know if he's gonna
go already to the Philippines and play there but I'll see. You're gonna be on the inside and inside the
court for you you're gonna be on the right side Luke you're gonna be on the left all
right yeah I need you guys to back up go to the baseli
ne if you're not going you don't
stand there so watch out watch out you guys back up. [Cheering] get a drink leave , it's alright Oof I'm tired dang that's a lot. My like my voice is out. This is Coach Eric. A million followers now. [Laughter] Are you done? No I'm just tired. Oh no you can down I'm good. Oh no I got it. Woah that's really tiring Mom. I was about to switch get your group my my
group on your side. You guys wanna see me dunk? You said I can't dunk? Two's over here. 2's 2's 2's. Two
ooooss. I like two's they have good energy. This is one's. Get a drink get a drink. You want to see this Tressi real quick hold
up. Lil Tressi. How'd I do? Did I do good training? Alright bet. If you go on my Instagram I say he can't guard
me in a video but he really a bucket like he just had like 60 the other week. I was just shouting you out saying like you a bucket
even though you really can't guard me. He can't guard me. I don't know I think I might start lowkey. It seems like I'm about to b
e playing-playing. Like last year I played for WeR1 select which was in all the Hoop Group tournaments but a lot of my exposure came
from playing from the national team as well that's how I got the looks in the Philippines
playing in all the Filipino tournaments as well. From playing the Filipino tournaments I was
able to do good in those games and then that got me looks to play for the national team
and then from playing the national team that's how I got all the looks in different colleges
the
re as well [Music] So do you think more Filipinos will
come up in the sport? Yeah Filipinos, Filipinos definitely have
a love for the sport that's why I have all the support in the Philippines right now and
there's also the Filipino tournaments around the east coast and all the Filipinos in
Cali and everyone everyone else in America. It's just a matter of how much work we can
put in as a community like if we can embrace each other and like support each other and
continue to work hard and so othe
r people can share this jacket with me but it's matter
of supporting each other and working hard that's all I got. I definitely have faced some adversity growing
up as well I'm not less as I've built a name I've heard things of course like people have
called me different names and I know a lot of other Asian basketball players that are
in America have experienced that. To be able to bounce back from that like okay yeah you're
gonna call me that and I'm gonna get a bucket like I'm gonna prove my
spot like I'm gonna
earn not your respect but earn the respect of everyone else watching. How are you doing this is coach Enrico, Eric Coach Q, Quintana. I'm the founder and the president of Familya
of Washington DC basically we run our program every quarter for four for four times a
year we have some leagues right here that's going on and we're running tournaments uh
in leagues all year round so basically our program runs through the kids you know
we're running clinics, camps so we're trying to
get our kids to keep on going like you
know for for cultural and for you know to keep it up in our Filipino American community
and we're bringing some players back home in the Philippines and we're trying to run
our program to keep kids active and just show keep on dreaming like this is a lifelong learning
through basketball so we're teaching the kids how to you know get adversity by through
through sports and the camaraderie and friendship. Kyle back when he was 10 years old we're running
AAU
and tournaments in the filipino-american community. I trained Kyle back he was 10. Back then
when he was 10 years old he's already tall but we wanted to make him run as a point guard
the program runs through him runs through everything that we do and we wanted to produce
more like Kyle. You know a good student a good player a good teammate and from becoming a boy to
become a man. Kyle is a jolly, friendly and listens you know easy to, easy to coach and
well behaved; his personality. He keeps us
like you know the leadership basically
so he's a good leader. He said pick me up like play with them. Being Filipino. For some reason everybody is your aunt and uncle. I don't even know who that lady is but I just had to say hi to her. You've been chosen. You've been chosen by the baby. I think uh the red's one gonna win. Yeah because they're winning right now. That's pro. Is it tied? Yeah now it's tied. Pot roast and rice. Over the summer I was in I went on a cruise. Yeah he was with me. Haiti.
Yeah we went to Haiti, Puerto Rico. The Bahamas. Oh yeah. But then afterwards I went to the Philippines to train with the team and everything. And then after training with the team we flew to Qatar, this is for the tournament.(FIBA) Flew to Qatar and that was our connecting flight to Iran. We were there for ten days and then we had all our games and everything then we flew back to the Philippines. My dad was waiting for me back in the Philippines and that was that, for August. My birthday's in
August. I got a playlist for when we go to Florida. I got "Miami" by Will Smith. [Music plays] Does the "P" on your thing stand for Polytech? Great guess that's where I go. I just graduated... so I start work in March. Virginia Tech. For Civil Engineering. One of my favorite nephews. Yeah one of my favorite nephews. Well my favorite baller. Do it again. When I do it in school we do in in like this study hall period. It'll probably take like fifteen minutes. It's just a matter of making it clean
for real. That's my little brother. These are good! I ate all of it. It was yummy. They already moved all the games... because that William Penn game was supposed
to be when I come back Super Savage training we talked about a little
bit before, it all started with me as an athlete and my cousin Daquan Harris also born and
raised in Delaware. Big brother figure to me he started off at
a hill right behind Radnor's training me to become a better football player, prepared
me for college as well as a
couple of friends of mine that were also at the college level. He trained us and from there on kids started getting wind of it and they wanted to train
with him. I got a little injury when I was in school up there in college dislocated my
shoulder wasn't really too happy I can't even hold you I was in the state of depression
so I came back to Delaware. Came back to Delaware and started working
with my cousin Quan he said "Hey cuz" we can really take this over. Super Savage Training
was the name
of the brand and from there on we just took off. We do a little bit more we can do the traditional
training we can do speed training this we really call this a One-Stop shop for all things
for sports if you need it we can find a way to get it for you. [Music] My first client
was when I was in the eighth grade my best friend Gabe Rivera he had his little brother
named Miguel Rivera another good friend of mine and Miguel we always made a joke because
me and Gabe we were the athletic ones we were
fast we were strong, we were jumpy, Miguel just
he could hit a baseball. Good pitching he actually played D1 um he wanted to get faster so what
we did "Hey Alex how do I get faster." We went in the backyard I had a parachute of my own
I started training him and I was in the eighth grade so I kind of found a little love for
it I've always loved giving back it's always been a bigger picture for me I'm a big we
guy I'm not like I said to you I'm not good at talking about myself because I like talki
ng
about others giving back to the youth is what makes me be a trainer is what makes me want
to be a trainer here in Delaware it's a good profession but it's not for everybody. A lot
of trainers are here for the money that's not me. I'm not here to collect a check I'm
here to make you better yes the money is involved in it but at the end of the day it's about
getting these kids to the next level and then the ones that are at the next level it's about
getting them to be the best at that level lik
e I said when Kendall Gray Juwan Gray, two
professional basketball players that I've trained good friends of mine when they come
back from overseas they come here to Super Savage training to elevate their game. Talent
is here in Delaware it's just hasn't been able to be displayed and with people like
you that do the media I mean you guys are helping us out a big ton and then with us as
trainers we're starting to see more trainers pop up. It's a big state it ain't a huge state
but it's a big stat
e it's a lot of room for everybody to eat so I love to see that kids
are trained I don't necessarily like I said it's a bigger picture thing I love to see
kids training if you're not training you really don't have an excuse now in 2023. [Music] Our next senior is Kyle Gamber! [Music] Everyday. Anytime I get a chance to touch the ball I'm getting shots up I'm dribbling. Even if like it's a rainy day or I can't go out. I have the opportunity to dribble in my garage, just get a dribbling workout in
. If it's not if it's nice out I'll go outside and shoot around. If it's not nice out I'm blessed to have my dad that's willing to drive me and get my rebounds. Any day I get the chance I get shots up and workout. [Music]
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