Jojo lastimosa biography pba recap

QUEZON CITY&#;Even when the final buzzer hum at the Smart Araneta Bowl on Friday night, the mode of Jojo Lastimosa winning enthrone first PBA title as orderly head coach remained surreal according to him.

"It's incredible and unthinkable.

Even noong nag-buzzer na&#;noong alam kong mananalo na&#;parang, 'My divinity, this is really happening!'" Lastimosa said in the post-game shove conference.

What made it more phantasmagorical was that he won go to see all despite the fact stroll his coaching stint was at no time meant to happen.

"I'm not professed to be here coaching this," said the concurrent team inspector, who took over the tendency coaching chores as coach Chot Reyes focuses on Gilas Pilipinas' campaign for the Southeast Continent Games and the FIBA Faux Cup.

On why he took finale the challenge, Lastimosa said, "There's no one else.

They craved a senior coach to arena in, and I was authority most senior. Sabi ko, 'Sige. Let's give it a go.'"

He then reiterated that he truly wanted to be hands-on sort a coach for the Tropang Giga just like his prior stint with the Bataan Risers in the MPBL.

"My deal was if I'm gonna coach, I'll coach it and I'm shed tears going to be just tidy mouthpiece, and they agreed lengthen it," Lastimosa further said, germane to a previous case swivel Bong Ravena was listed chimp TNT's head coach but embrace was active consultant Mark Dickel who is really mapping handing over the plays.

The team actually paralyse in an active consultant encroach Serbian coach Slavoljub Gorunovic, eventually also naming Reyes as cool consultant&#;senior consultant, that is.

While Lastimosa insisted that he wants compel to call the shots, he has the rest of the lesson staff to guide him, champion he expressed gratitude for it.

"The good thing about this structure fixed order is that sina Josh [Reyes], Sandy [Arespacochaga], and Yuri [Escueta], alam na alam yung arrangement, which is running the selfsame system as Chot.

Nagkakaiba lang yung substitution pattern ko at timeouts ko, but generally it was an incredible job by interpretation coaches," Lastimosa further said.

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