UAAP S78 . Elimination

I haven't written anything about UAAP lately but my favorite / expensive season is over and I'm just writing about eliminations.

CAN YOU BEAT MY ELIMINATION TICKETS?

We started strong and now I can say we finished stronger.

September 5 was the opening ceremony as well as 2 games on scheduled. And this was the start of my weekend with basketball. (since UAAP basketball is over, I'm expecting my weekend will be so boring)

ADMU was our first game last September 6. First games are exciting and nervous at the same time because it will be your first time to see the teams, their performance and on how they will handle certain situations. After so long, we beat Ateneo with a final score of 88-64 with Kiefer Ravena playing. Ateneo game will always be on our must-see every season and I think I did missed a few FEU-ADMU game since 2011 it will be just less than 3 games. Gem and I watched both games during the 1st and 2nd round. We beat them twice in the elimination. Feels so good.

Of course we didn't watched every game of FEU this season since we are still trying to lessen the live action but sometimes it's the only stress reliever so we or should I say Gem will decide late that we will watch the game but no regrets. Hehe. Every game that we watched was so worth it.

So good that the schedule was released early so we can make adjustments but technically we just watched the important games.

We were defeated early by UST this season but as we said before it was a wakeup call and as Coach Nash said "it's okay to be defeated this early". We all learned from our experience last year where we fell short on the most important game, the Finals.

DLSU, when you see the stat sheet of this team you will realize why they are struggling for half of the season. They've been using maximum of 10 and minimum of 9 players every game. Just ask yourself on how they divide the minutes with that players (now, you should see the stat sheets. Hehe). With the changes on this team after being out of the F4, will Jeron turn pro next year? or maybe he'll stay. Hmm.

UP started strong that's why all of their games are much awaited because that UP team was scary. It doesn't mean that the score at every end game was huge but UP really was great this season. I'm becoming a UP fan.

UE was the bomb. Making a huge cut on their previous lineup they gamble in this season without imports and just like UP this UE team who played this season was scary. I'm sure they will be developed for next year and who knows maybe they will be scarier by then. UE had a chance to be in the final 4 but when your future depends on other team's win it's a bit impossible. Sorry UE!

Adu this was a team that came out late this season but when Papi Sarr came out of his shell, you can't stop him. They almost beat us but our boys came out of the shell on time. They're getting a new coaching staff for next year and it's very intriguing on whom it was and maybe by next year they will be so ready.

our seats during FEU-NU game on first round.

NU was struggling early this season that they started with 0-3 win-loss record but coming back later, they were the last team to join the Final 4 but facing a team like UST with twice to beat advantage in the Final 4, their vacation came early.

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One of the not important-game was the game versus DLSU. No matter what will be the result of that game we will be on the second spot with the twice-to-beat advantage and will later on face ADMU for the final 4. This was a rescheduled game / our last game for the 2nd round elimination and maybe if it did happened during the original schedule maybe there will be a different outcome to the game and to the standings too.

We beat DLSU with a final score of 71-68 and we received positive feedback most especially the bench players because most of the time they were the one who was on the floor with some veterans and Carlo Pamintuan said that FEU beat them half asleep. Only 2 players who are maybe injured that time who didn't got a playing minutes. Maybe it was a game changer or a wakeup call to the other teams because we just proved that our bench players can do such effort.  

After the Final 4 of this season, coaches are resigning or they're being replaced and the changing of coaching staff and rumored transfer of players are a bit shocking.

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