EAC’s JP Maguliano works the submit towards Letran within the NCAA Season 99 males’s basketball match.-NCAA PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines—Emilio Aguinaldo School was one of many cellar dwellers within the NCAA Season 98 males’s basketball match.
That’s not the case in Season 99 thanks largely resulting from graduating ahead JP Maguliano.
After the Generals’ 82-69 victory over defending champion Letran at San Juan Enviornment on Friday, assistant coach Gonzalo Catalan Jr. lauded Maguliano’s efforts that knocked the Knights out of Closing 4 rivalry.
“Generally we discuss in observe and I inform him, that is your final yr within the NCAA so you should make a press release,” Catalan Jr. stated in Filipino.
“He has to again up his assertion that we’d be a workforce that might make it tough for everybody and fortuitously, the child reacted effectively.”
Maguliano completed with a near-double-double of 20 factors and 9 rebounds with a block besides for EAC.
His large sport, nonetheless, was not a fluke.
For the season, Maguliano is averaging 14.6 factors, 9.33 boards and a pair of.5 assists per outing to assist EAC to a 7-5 document.
Catalan Jr., although, reiterated that he shouldn’t be the one producer for offense with the Generals in a decent race for a Closing 4 spot.
“I hold telling them that it could’t at all times be JP inside. He’s human, he will get drained too so our third and second stringers have to step up so it’s a great factor that they did work and step up. They could not have helped on offense however they certainly helped on protection.”
Catalan additionally recommended EAC’s different gamers for coming by way of regardless of the absence of head coach Jerson Cabiltes, who was underneath the climate.
“Once we went to EAC, we noticed that they’re (together with Maguliano) small however they’re all succesful. We would have liked to instill our system of their offense and protection and so they weren’t onerous to show and so they’re not uncoachable.”
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“They’re sensible and we’re all actually simply underdogs in top in comparison with different groups.”