Charles and Benilde have to get it together, be composed, and adjust. Can't have the same mentality and easily-read plays in the Finals.
Kudos to the mapua scouts. I asked before how mapua will neutralize benilde's offense, this how, block the passing lanes. Force to's and kill the blazers in transition. For a team that relies to much on set plays and assisys, this how you beat them. I mean mapua isnt even pressuring them unlike the losses before, mapua's jusy doing a greeat job reading benilde's passes off.
The beda boys flopped big time. Ynot was a big negative, sanchez was only slighty better and even with cometa scoring in double digits, he had some questionable decision making on the offense. Counted around 27-28 to's, yeah they aint winning anything with that. Lots of 50/50 balls grabbed by mapua and a couple of supposed steals getting counter stolen by mapua. Add the god awful sorry misses. Yeah they have to do a lot better than this if they want a game 3. This sould go down as their worst lost of the season.
Hopefully the finals experience have finally sank in and they respond better in game 2. On the bright side, benilde has not lost back to back games, they usually come out better in the next games.
The passing lanes don't even look blocked. They're just off the anticipation of the Mapua guards.
Thats been mapua's bread and butter, if im not mistaken theyve done a good job of doing that ever since escamis came in last season. Thats why even if the cardinals run a simple offense, lots of iso plays, they do by with the loads of points in transition they get from those tipped passes. Kudos too to their players for getting those 50/50 balls
On Sanchez, I don't know why Charles subbed Liwag off for Sangco when it was Sanchez who should have been taken off. Sanchez didn't have the best game on offense, and he was cooked on defense.
Mapua was more energetic and more mentally prepared. They were the better side, simply put.
When he does his basketball analyst duties, charles pet feeve was players missing lay up atyempts as if its mortal sin to miss those shots, this gmae i see almost if not all his players missing it..
They were, obviously better prepared and equipped. Wasnt really surprised with the loss, its more on how mapua was able to contain every fight back benilde had in the game. That for me shows growth of this mapua team compared to last year, i mean considering that most of their key vets even moved on from their team and the ones who are playing know are rookies and transferees, kudos to their staff on that.
Charles Tiu honestly is gonna have to answer some questions if csb doesnt win again this year. UP has at least won one.
Charles Tiu honestly is gonna have to answer some questions if csb doesnt win again this year. UP has at least won one.
Charles tiu will be gone either way. He'll be with converge full time after the season so job security wont be his issue. I think its time.to give someone else the job anyways and my money is on current assistant pao layug.
In my opinion, whoever losses this series will have a lot to answer for. While this is benilde's 2nd finals appearance in 3 years, for mapua naman this is their 3rd in 4 years with both not winning anything yet. Not to mention the mapua drought has been way longer. I wasnt even born yet when they last won.
Its his second finals. Shouldnt he be the one to prepare the players?
If they arent ready thats on you as a coach