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Searching for to rapidly mature, the Ateneo Blue Eagles get pleasure from their first style of consecutive wins within the UAAP Season 87 males’s basketball match
MANILA, Philippines – Contemporary off a “horrendous, troublesome” first spherical, the Ateneo Blue Eagles are abruptly inside placing distance of a UAAP males’s basketball Closing 4 slot.
Because of a 67-64 win over the UST Growling Tigers on Saturday, October 19, the Blue Eagles have discovered themselves at fifth place with a 3-6 file, holding the tiebreaker towards the Adamson Hovering Falcons and the FEU Tamaraws.
Years faraway from its dynastic methods, Ateneo reveled in its first consecutive victories this season after enduring a dismal 1-6 run within the first spherical.
“It does take a few of the strain off. It does relieve issues a bit,” stated Blue Eagles head coach Tab Baldwin. “However we’re actually making an attempt to mature a variety of youthful gamers, a variety of gamers that lack vital expertise. You recognize, this group of fellows needed to exchange a variety of gamers that have been anticipated to be right here this season.”
“No one likes to provide outcomes away so it’s all the time, you understand, sort of a joyous event after we get a outcome. In different years, we’d have been very circumspect about having fun with our outcomes as a result of we’d have been targeted on loftier objectives. This 12 months, we don’t need to get too carried away after we get a outcome, however these guys should get pleasure from them as a result of belief me, tomorrow in observe or Monday in observe, the main focus goes to be once more on maturation and evolution, and growth with a view to profitable extra video games.”
In a uncommon occasion not seen for the reason that Nineteen Nineties when Ateneo used to host video games on the Loyola Heart (now Blue Eagle Gymnasium), UST loved the privilege of internet hosting a real dwelling sport on the Quadricentennial Pavilion.
Nonetheless, the visiting Blue Eagles proved to be the hungrier workforce, main by as many as 13 within the first quarter, a bonus that they protected till the ultimate buzzer.
Ateneo additionally made some key defensive stops and had solely 8 turnovers, fewer than its league-leading mark of 10.4 by way of its first 9 contests.
“We just like the outcomes. The coaches will get collectively for a meal now, we’ll be glad, and we’ll be joyous. However the gamers will go their very own manner and have an amazing night time, I’m positive, and so they deserve that,” stated Baldwin.
“However, you understand, in a New York minute, we’ll be targeted on our issues and areas that want enchancment.”
Up subsequent for the Blue Eagles are the Falcons, defending champion La Salle, and perennial finalist UP — a troublesome stretch of formidable groups that may check Ateneo’s mettle. – Rappler.com
