La Salle’s Kevin Quiambao–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
With Kevin Quiambao promising to return again for not less than one other UAAP season for La Salle, coach Topex Robinson not less than may have the whole instruments to tackle the problem that Season 87 will current later within the yr.
“All of the seven [other] groups proper now for positive will come out with weapons blazing, as a result of we was the hunters and successful a championship makes you the hunted,” Robinson instructed the Inquirer in the course of the holidays as he begins work early for his intrepid Inexperienced Archers.
“How we’re gonna get higher, how we’re gonna make it possible for these boys or these males will probably be at their pure finest [is the challenge],” Robinson went on. “That’s what we all the time deal with and probably not on the issues that we can’t management.”
Robinson gave the UAAP title again to La Salle in his first yr, and Quiambao gained the Most Beneficial Participant (MVP) and Finals MVP awards in his second season, making the duo an especially necessary a part of this system that desires to clearly proceed to reign longer.
So when Quiambao made his determination to remain and shun profitable provides to play professional overseas, Robinson was the primary one which was happy.
“I’ve been a giant fan of KQ ever since, and I’m not the one person who has a lot perception or appreciation for that child,” Robinson mentioned. “He simply took it to a unique degree this season.
“It’s actually what we count on him to attain, [but] possibly in his fifth yr or fourth yr,” Robinson continued, talking in awe. “He did it in his second yr and that’s how particular he’s.”
The hunters
The subsequent championship is not going to be contested till the following 10 months or so, and La Salle, and all the opposite groups for that matter, will nonetheless have loads of time to get higher.
Ateneo has already misplaced three gamers in Kai Ballungay, Jared Brown and Joe Obasa, and the Blue Eagles will probably be rebooting their program by digging deep right into a effectively of expertise that Tab Baldwin has recognized by means of the previous couple of years.
Nationwide College will stay to be a drive, and so is College of the Philippines, the runner-up to totally different groups within the final two seasons, because the Combating Maroons regroup to be able to duplicate their magic of Season 84.
After which there’s College of Santo Tomas, which gained only one sport final season after Pido Jarencio took over. However the Growling Tigers have been on a recruitment frenzy for the previous months that assures they are going to be a drive come the following season.
College of the East, Adamson and Far Japanese College even have strong applications that nobody can actually count on what’s going to occur when the brand new warfare begins.
Robinson, although, is aware of what’s coming.
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“One factor is for positive, if you happen to don’t put together to compete at a excessive degree, it doesn’t matter whichever group it’s, they’ve the capability to beat you.”