My 2nd team are minor league Champs! and my other players teams are major league Champs!
Double Champs - my friends, my boys, my players!
It's great to see your success double up with the people you play with and the friends you share your passion.
This is a great weekend for me.
The FEU tamaraws recently visited our small island nation and it feels like dejavu again for those NCAA-UAAP days a decade ago.
It's great to see this young players take on the torch of leadership with great power and responsibility. I would bet a thousand dollars that a lot of them would be future PBA pros in the next years ahead.
Also, it was a good moment for me since this is my 2nd championship experience with a very young team. As the saying goes, basketball is played by five people, not one. Our victory only shows that thru hard work and determination, added with a grain of luck and a lot of a heart, small people can be made into Winners.
We have fought back in the last 2 games, with very convincing wins on a come from behind story.
Our championship was a picture of David vs Goliath, with our players fighting on the ropes trying to put the score on an evenly match game. At one point in the 2nd quarter, bad luck struck us again when our star Player-A landed on the wrong foot and suffered a terrible sprain.
Nevertheless, our other players played with pride and heart and didn't give up fighting every score to match the game until the 4th quarter. My strategy was to delay Player-A's return until the crucial 4th quarter, but he hobbled off the pain and the other players took the leadership slack and combined great plays and scoring load. Players added dagger after dagger of great shots when it trickled down into the crucial minutes. It was a good win combined with a lot of drama and intensity.
Now this championship is worth savoring.
