Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin throughout a UAAP Season 87 males’s basketball recreation towards 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 Closing 4 of the Season 87 males’s basketball event.
Baldwin suffered the worst end result 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 now have three video games developing that we wanna make a constructive 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 powerful loss and “work their tails off to complete the season on a really constructive word.”
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“To have a nasty recreation just isn’t, I assume, as dire a circumstance as some individuals want to make it out to be. You possibly can return to Lakers, Celtics, and 35-point blowouts, and (3:40) then a reversal of type within the subsequent recreation. Actually, we’re not that sort of group at this level. However we’re a group that may react to a really dangerous recreation,” Baldwin mentioned.
“We ought to be the sort of group and gamers that react positively to that. And confront these demons, after which come out and develop into a greater group, a greater group of individuals, due to the adversity you face.”
With a 3-8 document behind fourth-placer College of Santo Tomas (5-6), Adamson (4-7), and Far Japanese College (3-7), Baldwin careworn the significance of being an assertive group as they face a troublesome problem of reaching the Closing 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 will likely 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 Closing 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 towards Adamson after their match final week was postponed because of the inclement climate.
“At this level, outcomes need to go our method for us to actually have a likelihood. And it’s unlikely that that’s gonna occur. However we now have to place that out of our minds. We now have to go play three constructive basketball video games. We now have to do every little thing we are able to to win these video games. We now have 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 below the gun. All of us need to really feel like there’s a knife at our throat. And the one solution to take that strain off is to achieve success in every little thing that we do,” he added.
