New FEU Tamaraws head coach Denok Miranda. –UAAP PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — Denok Miranda is utilizing his expertise from enjoying within the UAAP to the PBA in rebuilding Far Japanese College’s males’s basketball program.
As he makes his teaching debut for FEU when it battles La Salle within the UAAP Season 86 on Sunday at Mall of Asia Area, the previous Tamaraw places a premium on composure.
“Unang una yung composure kasi faculty ball, faculty gamers ang bilis ng tempo eh. So, tinuruan ko sila this season na mag-compose lalo na ‘pag up and down yung laro, scrappy. Ma-compose, ‘wag ma-rattle,” mentioned Miranda, who began working as FEU assistant coach in 2018 till he was promoted final January.
(I taught them to be composed as a result of faculty ball is a fast-paced recreation. Particularly when the sport is up and down and scrappy, they will’t be rattled.)
His championship runs within the UAAP in 2003 and 2004 and his 12-year expertise within the PBA ready the 41-year-old to take the teaching reins for his alma mater.
“After I was a participant I used to be just like the second coach, particularly in the course of the time of coach Koy [Banal] in FEU. Principally, I referred to as the performs and executed my very own technique. Within the PBA, my teammates additionally let me play my recreation,” he mentioned in Filipino. “I would like my gamers to do the identical factor as a result of I’m solely within the sidelines instructing them and the scenario is completely different while you’re contained in the courtroom. They must create their very own technique.”
Miranda admitted that the staff, bannered by LJ Gonzales, Cholo Añonuevo, Xyrus Torres, Patrick Sleat, and James Tempra, remains to be adjusting to his system.
“Thus far, the staff remains to be mastering our system. I launched them to a brand new system and it’s not straightforward to adapt straight away. It gained’t occur in a single day, we’re nonetheless a piece in progress,” he mentioned.
FEU seeks to rise again to the Closing 4 after it missed the semifinals for the primary time since 2012 final yr.
“My purpose this yr is to enhance from final season. We now have to take it one recreation at a time as a result of you possibly can’t predict the competitors at this time since all of the groups are sturdy. Hopefully, we are able to make it to the Closing 4,” Miranda mentioned
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