UST Growling Tigers through the ultimate sport of their marketing campaign within the UAAP Season 86 males’s basketball event.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
In his first season again with College of Santo Tomas (UST), coach Pido Jarencio vowed one thing alongside the strains of a comeback and ended up taking the blame for a sorry end.
However the mercurial mentor didn’t lose his trademark fireplace and instantly obtained again to work on the Growling Tigers, who’re displaying a starvation to be higher within the Filoil EcoOil Preseason Cup.
“We’re constructing a successful tradition right here within the [preseason] league,” Jarencio mentioned on Wednesday night time.
However UST missed its probability for a quarterfinals seat Thursday after a 79-72 defeat to Far Jap College to finish its stint with a 3-4 standing.
These three wins, nevertheless, might matter loads for the revamped Tigers within the upcoming UAAP season so far as getting that feeling of victory is worried.
The Tigers have been backside dwellers within the final three seasons of UAAP, one thing that Jarencio is seeking to change now that he has had extra hand shaping his present roster.
“This workforce is mine; that workforce final 12 months wasn’t mine. I simply discovered [the roster] already there once I got here again,” the embellished mentor advised the Inquirer in a separate interview in Filipino.
Jarencio solely retained a number of of the final season’s personnel that completed with a 2-12 report reminiscent of Nic Cabanero, Migs Pangilinan, Christian Manaytay, Echo Laure and Angelo Crisostomo.
‘A blessing’
That core is now backstopped by former Ateneo standout Forthsky Padrigao, incoming rookie Amiel Acido, former College of the East gunner Kyle Paranada, Chase Lane and Zain Mahmood amongst others.
“The gamers are working laborious after which it’s a blessing that Amiel arrived who may help us,” Jarencio mentioned of his prized cog from the juniors program of Perpetual Assist who earned the Most Invaluable Participant recognition. “Everyone seems to be finishing the puzzle.”
“We wish to win even when it’s simply preseason tournaments now so we are able to carry that mentality come the UAAP season,” Jarencio mentioned.
“We’ll begin and wield this workforce from right here on out so this system shouldn’t be discontinued so we enhance yearly,” Jarencio added. “This workforce needs to struggle. And we’ll struggle.”
