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Charles Tiu and CSB will be fine. In his 1st year, he lead benilde to the top 4. Nobody expected them to even reach the play-ins that year since they mostly comprised of untested transferees and recruits and 7 holdovers with no clear alpha since gutang decided to turn pro early.
Following year, again nobody expected benilde to be a f4 team, overachieved yet again to get the number 1 seed, leading the team to its best finish ever and first f4 appearance for more than 20 years and eventually the finals. If not for the shoddy officiating and key players cramping up in finals Game 1, they could have won italready in season 98
Season 99 was supposed to be their year but it mostly exposed how limited the players are than the system charles implemented. We cant just fault the coaches when its the players who are the one executing in the court, when its the players who doesnt have the right mentality coming to the game. Lets face it Gozum and company got over themselves after season 98 and thought season 99 would be a cakewalk. No matter how many times charles tiu reminded them they havent won anything yet, they still can get the overconfidence out of their sytem. Gozum and Corteza for me regressed and it didnt help that cullar and pasturan were bigger losses than it was believed to be since they lost 2 quality leaders on the court. Still, the team salvaged 3rd place. Again not bad for team that were consistent basement dwellers and heartbreak kids over the last 20 years.
Infact, in his early years with the team, Benilde didnt even have the same quality of recruitment consistent contenders San Beda and Letran have. They have no hs pipline and budget was not that competitive yet. Sure they had gozum but the rest were pretty under the radar. Guys like Oczon was a bakaw guard who did nothing else, corteza was undersized for his position, cullar couldnt cut it with ue as is with pasturan with adamson and marcos in ust. Still most of these guys developed with the team and we cant just credit these to the players themselves. Evident by the benildeans in the pros scene, wether international or local, the growth of benilde's program is a testament of charles tiu's ability to lead the team. Ask any benildean about him and im pretty sure everyone is a believer and thats whats important at the end of the day.
In the last 3 years, a 30-15 record, 2 final fours and a final's appearance. Again he did these with supposedly below average recruits in gozum's batch. Imagine what he could do with better players in liwag's batch.....
Following year, again nobody expected benilde to be a f4 team, overachieved yet again to get the number 1 seed, leading the team to its best finish ever and first f4 appearance for more than 20 years and eventually the finals. If not for the shoddy officiating and key players cramping up in finals Game 1, they could have won italready in season 98
Season 99 was supposed to be their year but it mostly exposed how limited the players are than the system charles implemented. We cant just fault the coaches when its the players who are the one executing in the court, when its the players who doesnt have the right mentality coming to the game. Lets face it Gozum and company got over themselves after season 98 and thought season 99 would be a cakewalk. No matter how many times charles tiu reminded them they havent won anything yet, they still can get the overconfidence out of their sytem. Gozum and Corteza for me regressed and it didnt help that cullar and pasturan were bigger losses than it was believed to be since they lost 2 quality leaders on the court. Still, the team salvaged 3rd place. Again not bad for team that were consistent basement dwellers and heartbreak kids over the last 20 years.
Infact, in his early years with the team, Benilde didnt even have the same quality of recruitment consistent contenders San Beda and Letran have. They have no hs pipline and budget was not that competitive yet. Sure they had gozum but the rest were pretty under the radar. Guys like Oczon was a bakaw guard who did nothing else, corteza was undersized for his position, cullar couldnt cut it with ue as is with pasturan with adamson and marcos in ust. Still most of these guys developed with the team and we cant just credit these to the players themselves. Evident by the benildeans in the pros scene, wether international or local, the growth of benilde's program is a testament of charles tiu's ability to lead the team. Ask any benildean about him and im pretty sure everyone is a believer and thats whats important at the end of the day.
In the last 3 years, a 30-15 record, 2 final fours and a final's appearance. Again he did these with supposedly below average recruits in gozum's batch. Imagine what he could do with better players in liwag's batch.....
