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From La Salle benchwarmer to La Salle killer, JD Cagulangan bids farewell to the UAAP a two-time UAAP champion, a one-time Finals MVP, and perpetually a hero of the UP Combating Maroons
MANILA, Philippines – The very best of highs and the bottom of lows.
That phrase completely summed up the enduring UAAP males’s basketball profession of UP ground normal JD Cagulangan as he bowed out a champion one final time for the Combating Maroons.
From being a non-factor within the La Salle rotation again in Season 82, the do-it-all guard captivated the nation after a pandemic-delayed, three-year wait with UP as he sunk the title-clinching three-pointer that gave the Combating Maroons their first title in 36 lengthy years.
Cagulangan would return to the finals two extra occasions after that, solely to satisfy silver-laced heartbreak by the hands of rivals Ateneo and his former alma mater La Salle in consecutive seasons.
By Season 87, his final probability at redemption, the 24-year-old star lastly broke by means of once more, serving to the Maroons precise revenge on the Inexperienced Archers in one other nip-and-tuck, three-game finals collection for an ideal, storybook ending that bought him understandably in tears instantly after the collection.
Nearly hoarse from all of the screaming he did, Cagulangan paid no scarcity of because of everybody who helped him in his collegiate journey, from each maroon and inexperienced sides.
“I can’t say anything however thanks. I’m so pleased to have gone to this program,” he stated in Filipino within the postgame press convention abruptly minimize brief with a water and champagne tub.
“They welcomed me properly and so they deserved to win this season. Thanks to teach Gold [Monteverde] I wasn’t his participant [from NU high school], however he gave his full belief. Thanks to my teammates, coaches, and sponsors. And my household, that’s the place I get my energy.”
Although he didn’t point out La Salle in his interviews, his actions confirmed rather more that what his phrases might have stated, as he joined the Inexperienced Archers of their huddle itself, not simply from a far nook, for one final alma mater hymn.
Regardless of by no means taking pictures higher than 32% for your complete three-game stretch of the finals, Cagulangan made massive performs after they mattered: photographs, passes, and all the things else in between.
In Sport 2 which UP misplaced by a hair, 76-75, it was Cagulangan who put the Maroons forward with a collection of soul-crushing threes earlier than two-time MVP Kevin Quiambao willed La Salle to a collection extender.
Then in Sport 3, it was once more Cagulangan who doused the Archers’ fireplace with a tiebreaking three with 6:55 left, 61-58, as a peaceful response to their 18-4 comeback from down 14, 54-40.
In Season 87, UP all the time had a military of stars to carry the ache in quite a lot of methods like Francis Lopez, Quentin Millora-Brown, Gerry Abadiano, and Harold Alarcon, amongst many extra.
However on the finish of the day, it was all the time Cagulangan who rallied the troops collectively along with his battle-tested smarts, talent, and most significantly, management, that he bought from years of tedious work, each from behind the scenes with La Salle and entrance and middle with UP.
“Simply thanks. I’ve nothing left to say as a result of I’m overwhelmed with help wherever I am going. Thanks,” Cagulangan concluded.
Take a bow, JD Cagulangan. Don’t journey in your cape on the way in which out. – Rappler.com
