Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin strikes on from worst UAAP loss

Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin throughout a UAAP Season 87 males’s basketball sport 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 Last 4 of the Season 87 males’s basketball event. 

Baldwin suffered the worst outcome 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,” stated Baldwin. “We now have three video games arising 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 robust loss and  “work their tails off to complete the season on a really constructive notice.”

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“To have a nasty sport 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 kind within the subsequent sport. Actually, we’re not that form of staff at this level. However we’re a staff that may react to a really dangerous sport,” Baldwin stated.

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“We must be the form of staff and gamers that react positively to that. And confront these demons, after which come out and change into a greater staff, a greater group of individuals, due to the adversity you face.”

With a 3-8 file behind fourth-placer College of Santo Tomas (5-6), Adamson (4-7), and Far Japanese College (3-7), Baldwin burdened the significance of being an assertive staff as they face a troublesome problem of reaching the Last 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, taking part in extra assertive basketball,” Baldwin stated.

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 Last 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 as a result of inclement climate. 

“At this level, outcomes should go our manner for us to also have a likelihood. And it’s unlikely that that’s gonna occur. However we have now 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 stated.

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“We’re all underneath the gun. All of us should really feel like there’s a knife at our throat. And the one approach to take that stress off is to achieve success in every little thing that we do,” he added.