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Blue Eagles beat Growling Tigers on home turf

The Ateneo de Manila Blue Eagles defeat the UST Growling Tigers on their home turf at the UST Quadricentennial Pavilion on Oct. 19, 2024, escaping with their second straight win, 67-64, in the UAAP Season 87 men's basketball tournament. Ateneo improved to 3-6 as UST dropped to 4-6, with its third straight loss.

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Transcript
00:00Let's show you that the process that you're entailing with this team has so far been working,
00:26and it's presenting the same outcome.
00:30The easy answer to that question, Randolph, is yes.
00:33You know, you pop the bubble every time a team has a win and some of the pressure goes off.
00:38But, you know, it kind of depends on what your perspective is and what you're looking at.
00:43And, you know, we're trying to achieve some things this season now.
00:51I was going to hide the fact that it was a horrendous, difficult first round.
00:57Not all of our play was horrendous, but, you know, who doesn't focus on results?
01:05So we try not to focus entirely on results.
01:10So it would be a little bit, I guess, exploiting the moment if I said that getting a result all of a sudden makes everything okay.
01:20It really doesn't.
01:22It does take some of the pressure off.
01:25It does relieve things a bit.
01:27But we're really trying to mature a lot of younger players, a lot of players that lack significant experience.
01:36You know, this group of guys had to replace a lot of players that were expected to be here this season.
01:44And you guys know their names.
01:46You know, you can write their names if you want.
01:49But when we got half our squad as first year players, half of that half didn't arrive until May, June.
02:01It has to be about their growth.
02:07Nobody likes to give results away.
02:11So it's always, you know, kind of a joyous occasion when we get a result.
02:17In other years, we would have been very circumspect about enjoying our results because we would have been focused on loftier goals.
02:27This year, we don't want to get too carried away when we get a result, but these guys deserve to enjoy them.
02:36Because trust me, tomorrow in practice or Monday in practice, the focus is going to be again on maturation and evolution and development.
02:48With a view to winning more games.
02:51But more importantly, to seasoning players for whatever future they have at Ateneo, whatever future they have in basketball.
03:00And, you know, because we had such a tough start, it allows us, I guess, to be a little bit more laser focused on how these guys are growing and developing as players.
03:11And we all know that the philosophy of the Blue Eagle program is that process yields results.
03:19So it's really consistent with what we've always taught.
03:23It's just that there's more pressure on the process externally because people want results.
03:30But we will maintain, you know, our same, I guess, integrity and purpose that we always try to maintain.
03:39And that is that these young men deserve the very best from the coaching staff to help them become professional basketball players.
03:46And in the meantime, represent our community and our university to the best of our ability.
03:52All of it is based on experience.
03:54That's true.