Published October 10, 2023 9:28pm
Updated October 10, 2023 9:28pm
De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde head coach Charles Tiu was sad regardless of an 86-80 win towards University of Perpetual Help System DALTA on Tuesday in NCAA Season 99.
The Blazers led by as many as 20 factors after Migs Oczon buried a triple that despatched them to a 75-55 cushion. However, the ALTAs would lower their deficit to simply 9, 77-68, earlier than Christian Pagaran sank three freebies to make it an 83-77 affair. Oczon then cut up his freebies to permit Benilde to flee.
Despite nearly squandering the lead en path to the win, Tiu is hoping this win — the primary time they gained back-to-back video games this season — would allow them to construct their momentum transferring ahead.
” I was happy for the first three quarters until the fourth quarter, I don’t know what we’re doing. We were up by 20 [but] the guys got careless, they think the game’s over, they can’t follow instructions, and we’re not gonna go anywhere if we played that way,” Tiu mentioned.
“Secondly, I’m amazed we’ve found a way to win despite giving up 37 free throws. Thankfully Robi (Nayve) played well, he made some big plays and we were able to escape with a win.”
The Blazers, who topped the elimination spherical final season with a 14-4 card earlier than falling to Letran within the finals, opened Season 99 with a dismal loss to league-leading Lyceum of the Philippines University earlier than barging into the win column by way of an time beyond regulation triumph towards Jose Rizal University.
After that, although, the Blazers misplaced two video games in a row after bowing to San Beda University and Mapua University for a 1-3 card.
Tiu mentioned they badly wanted the win towards Perpetual, which he mentioned is without doubt one of the Final Four contenders in his opinion, as they now improved to a fair 3-3 card.
“I hope so. I really hope so because we talked about the importance of this game. Perpetual is one of the Final Four contenders, in my opinion,” Tiu mentioned.
“We got off to a rough start so hopefully we can build on this win. We just take one game at a time.”
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
