Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin throughout a UAAP Season 87 males’s basketball recreation in opposition to UP Preventing Maroons. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines — Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin refuses to sulk over the worst lack of his UAAP profession, saying the Blue Eagles want to maneuver ahead with three video games remaining to attempt to attain the Remaining 4 of the Season 87 males’s basketball event.
Baldwin suffered the worst consequence since teaching within the UAAP in 2016 as Ateneo was dominated by the College of the Philippines, 75-47, within the second spherical of the Battle of Katipunan on Wednesday at Mall of Asia Area.
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“It’s irrelevant. It’s a really disappointing loss. [But] it’s a loss that you just gotta put behind you and transfer ahead,” mentioned Baldwin. “We’ve got three video games arising that we wanna make a optimistic impression for our gamers going ahead.”
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The four-time UAAP champion coach hopes his younger Blue Eagles will be taught from the robust loss and “work their tails off to complete the season on a really optimistic word.”
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“To have a foul recreation isn’t, I suppose, as dire a circumstance as some individuals wish to make it out to be. You’ll be able to return to Lakers, Celtics, and 35-point blowouts, and (3:40) then a reversal of kind within the subsequent recreation. Actually, we’re not that type of workforce at this level. However we’re a workforce that may react to a really unhealthy recreation,” Baldwin mentioned.
“We must be the type of workforce and gamers that react positively to that. And confront these demons, after which come out and grow to be a greater workforce, a greater group of individuals, due to the adversity you face.”
With a 3-8 report behind fourth-placer College of Santo Tomas (5-6), Adamson (4-7), and Far Jap College (3-7), Baldwin careworn the significance of being an assertive workforce as they face a troublesome problem of reaching the Remaining 4.
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“A few video games within the second spherical, we’ve been extra assertive. We’ve been higher for longer stretches. (So I believe we have to get again to that mentality of believing in ourselves, enjoying extra assertive basketball,” Baldwin mentioned.
It is going to be a troublesome street for the Blue Eagles from right here on out, with even a sweep of their final three video games not assuring them a Remaining 4 ticket.
Up subsequent for Ateneo is FEU on November 9 at Good Araneta Coliseum, College of the East on November 13 on the UST Quadricentennial Pavilion, then wrapping up in opposition to Adamson after their match final week was postponed because of the inclement climate.
“At this level, outcomes must go our manner for us to actually have a likelihood. And it’s not going that that’s gonna occur. However we’ve to place that out of our minds. We’ve got to go play three optimistic basketball video games. We’ve got to do all the things we will to win these video games. We’ve got to have gamers perceive that their future in this system is partly being measured by how they stand as much as these three video games,” Baldwin mentioned.
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“We’re all underneath the gun. All of us must really feel like there’s a knife at our throat. And the one technique to take that strain off is to achieve success in all the things that we do,” he added.
