FILE–La Salle coach Topex Robinson within the Filoil preseason Cup. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines—La Salle coach Topex Robinson is aware of how a lot stress there may be on the Inexperienced Archers’ facet after UAAP Season 86.
And he’s keen to embrace all that with hopes of seeing his wards do the precisely similar.
After escaping Adamson within the Filoil EcoOil Preseason Cup, 80-72, at San Juan Area on Wednesday, Robinson stated he’s conditioning his Inexperienced Archers to journey with the rising stress of being the league’s defending champions.
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“The following query is; how dedicated are you to feeling the stress that everyone will at all times play their finest each time they’re taking part in? Like I instructed them, whether or not you’re within the backside or on the prime, there’ll at all times be stress,” stated the highest coach.
“We at all times ensure that this place proper now could be one thing we must always maintain on to pricey life with. We’ll hold reaching as excessive as we will and we at all times attempt to problem ourselves as a result of there’s at all times going to be UP, Ateneo, UST, so on and so forth however we inform ourselves, we’ll hold difficult ourselves.”
One of many beneficiaries of La Salle embracing the stress is Jonnel Policarpio.
Policarpio has proven nice leaps in growth through the offseason, which implies he may presumably be given extra duties as a crew chief regardless of simply being in his second 12 months with the squad.
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Fortuitously for Robinson, Policarpio isn’t frowning on the concept.
“For me, I’m simply doing my work. All of us assist one another out so we will all stand up on the similar time,” stated the ahead in Filipino after dropping 22 factors on the Hovering Falcons.
It hasn’t been a straightforward cruise for the Inexperienced Archers within the preseason, although.
With the stress of replicating their Season 86 Finals mastery, La Salle fell to rival College of the Philippines, 89-77.
However in case you ask Robinson about it, he noticed positives within the defeat regardless of their shocking beatdown by the hands of the Preventing Maroons.
“You lose, you study. You win, you study. That’s at all times going to be our crew. We respect that UP gave us an excellent combat and we had quite a lot of studying alternatives due to that.”
“They’re not our rivals, we don’t take a look at them as our enemies, we take a look at them as any individual who could make us higher.”
