All I can say is that my rookie year here in the UAAP has been AMAZING. Hearing the screams of the fans, the beats of the drums, the history of this great league, and playing for your alma mater are just some of the sights and sounds offered to the people through this amazing piece of a basketball league. Nobody really expected us to be a contender this year because our team was very much different compared to the champion team who came before us. Coming in with 5 veterans and 11 rookies, we pretty much had a new and very young team.
But despite the doubts and everything, for me our team may have even overachieved. I myself was very overwhelmed when we swept the first round with a 7-0 win-loss record. It seemed that all the hard work that we've been doing for the past year has been really paying off and everything was just falling into place. Our confidence came very high with all the wins which we did not really expect.
The second round was a different story. We were struggling and we saw that teams were already scouting on our basketball system. The team was not aware of it at first but we just kept on adjusting to the teams and continued the things we did that gave us the wins. At one point in time people encounter problems. We suffered our first loss to the very unexpected Adamson Baby Falcons. The final score was 72-71 and after the game we were just in a state of shock. Immediately after the game, our coach told us that the loss was alright. Sometimes, experiencing a loss is a good thing because it serves as a wake up call to the players. It's better to experience a loss early in the season rather than, losing when it matters most.
To sum it up, we finished with a 12-2 win-loss record after we lost one more time to the Ateneo Blue Eaglets 77-74 in the last game of our elimination round.
The final four has its own story in my next post =)
A lesson learned:
"Life is a cycle. Sometimes you're up on top where your achievements come into you even when you least expect them to come. Sometimes when you've achieved already too much, maintaining it would cause too much pressure and it would be something that would cause you to brink down into suffering. The cycle would just repeat over and over. This is where life happens."
Until the next time.
Phim
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