LA Tenorio helps out throughout Gilas Pilipinas apply.-MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines—Ginebra veteran guard LA Tenorio will take the reins as the latest head coach of the Gilas Pilipinas Youth program, the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) introduced Tuesday.
The longtime PBA playmaker admitted feeling strain in taking the position of guiding the nationwide staff’s juniors basketball program after the departure of Josh Reyes.
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“There’s numerous strain within the position as a result of I’ll have large footwear to fill,” mentioned Tenorio in a press launch by SBP.
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“What coach Josh Reyes achieved by making it to 2 World Cups isn’t a simple feat however I’m excited to work with our younger gamers and assist them attain their full potential.”
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Tenorio’s appointment comes with SBP’s plans of aligning with the route of the Gilas Pilipinas males’s staff program headed by Tim Cone.
FILE–Ginebra guard LA Tenorio is the brand new coach of the Gilas Pilipinas youth staff. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
Tenorio, who can also be a part of coach Cone’s employees at Gilas, mentioned he has already talked to his Gin Kings’ tactician.
“I already talked to teach Tim and I’ll be operating the same system so our Youth gamers can simply transition to the boys’s staff,” he mentioned.
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SBP Government Director Erika Dy mentioned Cone’s curiosity in having a steady program from the boys’ division to the boys’s staff made the choice to convey Tenorio in a lot simpler.
“Coach Tim is large on continuity and that has been the explanation why we’ve had a small pool for Gilas ever since he took over,” mentioned Dy.
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“Appointing Coach LA as head of our age group groups on the youth degree strengthens that course of. The objective is to finish the participant journey from our grassroots to the elite degree, and having a Youth coach who is aware of the system of coach Tim by coronary heart can be helpful for everybody concerned,” she added.
Tenorio’s shut ties to Cone and coach Norman Black, who heads Gilas’ grassroots program, is one thing to sit up for as Gilas hopes to take a step in the precise route.
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“He has nice relationships with coach Norman Black who heads our grassroots program and coach Tim Cone of the elite degree and he’ll function the bridge between the 2,” mentioned SBP President Al Panlilio.
“He’s a pure chief and a winner on and off the court docket. He’ll train our younger athletes classes they’ll use not solely in basketball however in life as nicely,” he added.
