Gilas Pilipinas interim head coach Tim Cone expressed his confidence that the five new players integrated to the national team pool for the Asian Games can catch up despite the short notice and with roughly only a week left before its first game.
It helps that the multi-titled mentor was already familiar with how his new personnel – Marcio Lassiter, Chris Ross, Arvin Tolentino, CJ Perez and Kevin Alas – play, having been able to coach against them in the PBA.
“We took Ross and Lassiter because they had a bit of a feel for us in the SEA Games. We didn’t use the Triangle System as much back in the SEA Games, but we’re incorporating it more now, so that’s new to them. However, the defensive philosophy, system, and techniques are very familiar to them,” Cone said of Ross and Lassiter who was part of the 2019 SEA Games team Cone handled.
Of all the players called up, there’s no one more familiar to Cone’s system than Tolentino who spent his first few years in the PBA as part of Ginebra.Arvin has experience with the Triangle; he knows it. It’s just more of a refresher for him, so he should be able to fit in seamlessly,” Cone said of Tolentino who he shared two PBA titles together before the sweet-shooting forward was traded to NorthPort.
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