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Gilas Pilipinas Youth hopes to return to its profitable methods with LA Tenorio on the helm as basketball officers see the veteran Ginebra guard as a ‘pure chief and a winner on and off the courtroom’
MANILA, Philippines – The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) appointed veteran flooring common LA Tenorio as the brand new head coach of Gilas Pilipinas Youth, the federation introduced on Tuesday, November 19.
Tenorio, 40, succeeds Josh Reyes, who stepped down from his submit final September following a string of dismal showings in FIBA tournaments.
“The SBP is worked up to have a real sportsman and function mannequin in LA Tenorio as our Gilas Pilipinas Youth head coach,” stated SBP president Al Panlilio in a press release.
“He has nice relationships with coach Norman Black, who heads our grassroots program, and coach Tim Cone of the elite degree, and he’ll function the bridge between the 2,” he continued.
“Once we first talked to LA in regards to the thought, he was open to the problem instantly and he even had a brief record of coaches that he wished to work with. He’s a pure chief and a winner on and off the courtroom. He’ll educate our younger athletes classes they’ll use not solely in basketball however in life as nicely.”
Tenorio donned the nation’s colours for greater than a decade, making the game-winning floater within the Philippines’ William Jones’ conquer america in 2012.
He was additionally a part of Gilas’ 2013 FIBA Asia Championship silver medal-winning group, in addition to the squad that performed within the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain.
Bonnie Tan first gave Tenorio a shot in teaching, allotting him an assistant spot when the previous coached the Letran Knights within the NCAA.
Following his retirement from nationwide group taking part in obligation, Tenorio served as an assistant underneath Gilas Males head coach Tim Cone within the nineteenth Asian Video games gold-medal romp in 2023, whereas he was recovering from most cancers.
“Coach Tim is large on continuity and that has been the explanation why we’ve had a small pool for Gilas ever since he took over,” stated SBP govt director Erika Dy.
“Appointing Coach LA as head of our age group groups within the youth degree strengthens that course of. The objective is to finish the participant journey from our grassroots to the elite degree, and having a Youth coach who is aware of the system of coach Tim by coronary heart will probably be useful for everybody concerned.”
Tenorio, who remains to be an lively participant for Barangay Ginebra, expressed his pleasure over this new alternative.
“There’s plenty of strain within the function as a result of I’ll have large sneakers to fill,” he stated. “What coach Josh Reyes achieved by making it to 2 World Cups isn’t a simple feat however I’m excited to work with our younger gamers and assist them attain their full potential.”
“I already talked to teach Tim and I’ll be operating the same system so our youth gamers can simply transition to the boys’s group,” Tenorio added. – Rappler.com
