Mark Nonoy chases his first championship. —AUGUST DELA CRUZ
Mark Nonoy and CJ Cansino are again within the UAAP Finals, however on reverse sides of the ground this time.
4 seasons after falling simply wanting giving College of Santo Tomas (UST) the championship, Nonoy and Cansino may have continued to be dominant gamers for the gold-and-white if not for the “Sorsogon bubble” on the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic tearing up Aldin Ayo’s stable program to items.
That bubble in Ayo’s hometown was a coaching camp for the Growling Tigers, who had been priming as much as be championship contenders for the next season regardless of all of the well being uncertainties within the nation that made the federal government declare all types of well being protocols to forestall bodily contact.
The core of that Santo Tomas workforce that included Rhenz Abando, Beninese middle Soulemane Chabi Yo and Brent Paraiso was a formidable one that may have at the very least contended—if not received—a title had it stayed collectively.
Quick ahead to in the present day and Ayo has moved on to the Philippine Basketball Affiliation with Converge and listed below are Nonoy and Cansino—who’ve remained regular pals off the ground after shifting to La Salle and College of the Philippines (UP), respectively—taking pictures for a title.
Cansino already has a championship underneath his belt with the Combating Maroons which they received in Season 84, a yr that began a pattern for UP being within the title collection.
Nonoy, in the meantime, remains to be working for his first with the Taft-based squad, which is again within the Finals after an extended six-year wait not typical for a program that’s so formidable.
UP and La Salle cut up their elimination spherical clashes and dispatched of their Last 4 foes with relative ease final Saturday to move to the Final Dance that begins on Wednesday.
The environment can be electrical at Mall of Asia Enviornment for certain, and each ex-Tigers can be there combating for his or her respective alma maters.
However by all of it, Nonoy believes that the bond they shared in España remains to be there, and can stay to be there in spite of everything of that is stated and achieved.
“We nonetheless speak typically. We simply wish to give the followers a very good combat and do our greatest,” Nonoy stated of his former teammate.
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“On the courtroom we’re rivals, however the friendship remains to be there being former teammates,” Nonoy stated. However nobody can actually inform what is going to occur when everybody’s within the warmth of the battle. INQ