For 16 years, PBA fans are used to seeing LA Tenorio run the show at backcourt as a playmaker for San Miguel, Alaska and for the last 10 years, with Barangay Ginebra.
But for a change, the 39-year-old Tenorio will have a new role as he serves as one of Gilas interim coach Tim Cone's assistants in the Philippines' preparations for the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.Tenorio admitted the role switch caught him by surprise initially, considering he was set to work out as he prepares for his much-awaited comeback since being diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer several months back.
In fact, just a few days into his new role under Cone, he can sense the tension considering that they only have two weeks to whip the rejigged Gilas squad into one unit that will try to win the country's first Asian Games gold medal since the 1962 edition in Jakarta, Indonesia.'The biggest challenge, no. 1 is the lack of time to prepare, but we, the coaching staff, are doing our best for the preparation since we only have less than two weeks to prepare the team.
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