UAAP Season 75 na!!!

[stavros]

Kapag nanalo AdMU mamya, yari kayo kay hndpopiso!

Mamya na laban? :D

[CVT]

This is what I was hinting about earlier (his smoke cover to "silently" rally his team), in another angle... If indeed that is Pido's agenda,- I like the way he's thinking....

Read it for whatever it is worth....

The magic of coach Pido Jarencio | Sports | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere

The magic of coach Pido Jarencio

ADRIAN DY, GMA NEWS October 9, 2012 9:18pm

Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts.

The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course…it probably isn’t.

University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers head coach Pido Jarencio presents to you game one of the 75th UAAP season's Finals.

Like many before it, the game was a hard-fought, tightly-contested affair between two well-matched teams. And like many before it, there was a decent amount of questionable calls by the officiating crew that worked the game.

This in itself is nothing new. Refereeing will always be subject to human errors, but for whatever reason, the officiating in the UAAP has always been particularly spotty. Despite bringing in people from different officiating organizations, fans of each school will always have something to complain about, and there'll always be calls for PBA referees to take over, for international referees to take over.

The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary.

For coach Jarencio however, the game was not ordinary. The bad calls were not normal, not a result of human error, but something deeper.

"Unfair naman sa amin, dahil UST lang kami ganun ang tawagan? Sana ayusin nila.

"Kailangan ba mag-E-English ako para paburan ako? Ganun ba labanan dito? …Nasa Pilipinas tayo, dapat tayong mga Pilipino mahalin niyang mga iyan."

Accoring to Jarencio, it is a battle of the haves and the have-nots, the American versus the Filipino, the elite versus the masses. It is a class war. It is a race war. It is skewed away from the Growling Tigers, unfairly.

And what's more, Jarencio has even gotten Ateneo head coach Norman Black to respond, with the American mentor saying, "I think he crossed the line on that one. He made it personal.

"I can understand the frustration after the loss, but don't make it like it's a 'He's American and I'm Filipino' thing. I think it's unprofessional and I think it's below the belt."

Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled.

What exactly is it that the wily Jarencio is hiding underneath his smoke and mirrors? What doesn't he want you to see?

The answer is, his players. By making it about the referees and himself, very little notice has been given to the Growling Tigers that actually took to the court that Saturday.

While we debate whether or not Karim Abdul should have been whistled for his fifth foul, few talk about the fact that the presumptive runner-up for the MVP award took just seven shots and scored a mere nine points, while hauling down only six rebounds.

Few have talked about fifth year point guard Jeric Fortuna's poor shooting performance, making just a single field goal out of 11 attempts.

Few have talked about main reserve Clark Bautista's equally poor shooting night, where he missed all five of his attempts, each coming from downtown.

Few have talked about how Aljon Mariano surrendered a career-best 30 points to the guy he was supposed to defend like in their round one encounter, Nico Salva.

Few have talked about the absence of Melo Afuang due to dengue, and the fact that his sitting out the game resulted in a shortened rotation, just five bench points, and four out of Jarencio's starters playing a minimum of 33 minutes.

What does playing more minutes mean? It means more fatigue, which means more fouls, which ultimately resulted in their loss to Ateneo.

Oh, and those dastardly referees, can't forget them.

But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”.

On Thursday, we will see the final part of Jarencio's magic. After making his players disappear in the aftermath of that game one loss, he will now have to make them reappear, stronger, rested, and better prepared, thanks to being kept out of the spotlight in the time between games.

Karim Abdul will reassert himself down low, taking on the much-taller Greg Slaughter single-handedly, on both ends of the court.

Jeric Teng and Mariano will not only score a lot of points, they'll defend their Atenean counterparts as well.

Jeric Fortuna will show his experience by controlling the tempo and finding his open teammates.

The supporting cast will step up, and provide scoring while the starters log valuable rest on the bench.

There will be a game three, that is, if Jarencio's spell works the way he wants it to.

The truth is though, no one, not even Jarencio himself possibly, knows how long he can keep the magic going. After seven seasons, he himself has hinted at hanging up the cape. Season 75 could in fact be, his final performance.

The lights will dim anew, and the final act shall play out. The audience is still entranced, not knowing how this ends. How will Jarencio the magician exit? Will it be as an angry man, pulling levers behind a curtain, when the illusion fades? Or will it be as one of the greatest ever to have stood on a stage, pulling out all the stops on route to a grand finale for UST?

When the curtain falls, be it on Thursday or Saturday, we will all find out together. -- OMG, GMA News

Pero, IMO,- ADMU is writing history....

17.0K:out:

[Sweetlucious]

Mamya na laban? :D

Mamya ang laban kung sasakay ka rin sa time machine gaya ni sir dfopiso.

[Ry_Tower]

This is what I was hinting about earlier (his smoke cover to "silently" rally his team), in another angle... If indeed that is Pido's agenda,- I like the way he's thinking....

Read it for whatever it is worth....

The magic of coach Pido Jarencio | Sports | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere



Pero, IMO,- ADMU is writing history....

17.0K:out:

Papano yan, nabuking na agic niyan. Dapat after the championship siya nagsulat. Alam na tuloy ng AdMU. They're actually drawing plans on how 2-3 guys will have cramps in the end game of Gm 2 while UST is ahead by 30pts. :hysterical:

[vinj]

This is what I was hinting about earlier (his smoke cover to "silently" rally his team), in another angle... If indeed that is Pido's agenda,- I like the way he's thinking....

Read it for whatever it is worth....

The magic of coach Pido Jarencio | Sports | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere



Pero, IMO,- ADMU is writing history....

17.0K:out:

Pido Jarencio always has a penchant for downplaying things and stuff as part of his tactics to make things unpredictable. One classic sample is his stating "chamba lang" when they win tapos when they fall short at the end, "eh we already overachieved for what we expected". In contrast, Norman Black calls it as it is and will rely on the execution of their stated game plan. In the start of the season, Norman Black already said that UST would be one likely contender for the finals more than anyone else.

They performed sub-par in terms of offense in game 1 and i expect them to come out guns blazing in game two in terms of offense. What does Ateneo have to counter that? Basically it's stepping up their defense and taking care of the ball to keep UST from doing their time and again 10-15 point runs. And yes, during crunch time, watch out for the shooters. It's been predictable that when a shooter is open, they will go for the trey.

[greenlyt]

Mamya ang laban kung sasakay ka rin sa time machine gaya ni sir dfopiso.

ilan ba kasya dyan sa time machine ni sir dfopiso?
baka pwde makisakay par ahindi na ako maghintay hanggang bukas
pwde pa ako pumusta sa mananalo

[vinj]

ilan ba kasya dyan sa time machine ni sir dfopiso?
baka pwde makisakay par ahindi na ako maghintay hanggang bukas
pwde pa ako pumusta sa mananalo

OT: Isabay niyo na rin ng numero ng lotto. :D

[dfopiso]

pasensya na mga ka-tsikot

naka pusta me ng sweep kasi

[_Qwerty_]

ala bang live streaming yung malinaw..

[Ry_Tower]

Kaw naman kasi dfopiso, inumpisahan mo kasi. :D