BLUE EAGLE THE KING!; Ateneo captures UAAP title
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THE BLUE EAGLE has reigned supreme in Season 71.
Ateneo De Manila University made use of its formidable frontline to sweep past bitter rivals De La Salle University, 62-51, in Game 2 of the UAAP men’s basketball tournament finals and cop its fourth title since joining the league in 1978.
6-foot-7 center Rabeh Al-Hussaini, the league’s Most Valuable Player, and Nonoy Baclao took advantage of a depleted Green Archer quintet en route to their school’s first championship in six years.
After narrowing the gap to only three, 47-50, at the end of the third period, De La Salle came up short in the final quarter as it played without Rico Maierhofer, who was ejected from the game after incurring two technical fouls.
Maierhofer was thrown out of the playing venue with 1:31 left in the third period after being caught by game officials for giving the proverbial ‘dirty finger’ to Al-Hussaini.
Without a reliable big man in the last period, the Green Archers were limited to only 2-of-21 shooting from the field. With the victory, the Blue Eagles finished the entire season with a 15-1 win-loss record, including the Final Four and championship round.
“I’m very happy I already have my first UAAP title in Ateneo,� said Blue Eagles coach Norman Black, who lost in his maiden trip to the finals to University of Santo Tomas in 2006. “I’m very blessed.�
“I dedicate this win to the Ateneo community and to my family,� he said. “Nonoy [Baclao] is the cornerstone of our defense and Rabeh proved to everybody why he is the Most Valuable Player.�
The 6-foot-4 Baclao, who chipped in with eight points to go along with 10 rebounds and four blocks, was named the Finals MVP after averaging 8.5 rebounds, 6.5 points and 5.5 blocks in the two-game sweep.
“I did not expect this Finals MVP,� said Baclao. “All I wanted was to win the championship for my team. This is very sweet especially when you win it against La Salle. “I’m hoping to improve more.�
Chris Tiu, who is playing in his final season for Ateneo, carried the scoring load for Ateneo in the first quarter in lieu of the struggling Al-Hussaini as the Katipunan outfit built a 15-point halftime lead.
JV Casio’s three-point shooting, however, began to click in the third quarter as DLSU managed to trim the halftime deficit. Casio buried five triples to steer his school’s pivotal third quarter run.
De La Salle came within five, 49-54, before Baclao’s block on PJ Walsham jumpstarted a 6-0 Blue and White spurt that the Green Archers were never able to rebound from.
Tiu bounced back from a sluggish and foul-plagued Game 1 performance by scoring 16 points and hauling down five rebounds in 30 minutes of action.
Casio, for his part, paced his team with 18 points.
Franz Pumaren, the head coach of De La Salle, did not accept the second place trophy in behalf of his team and sent a message to the game officials. “This is the worst officiating in the finals that I have seen in my career. It’s scripted, this game was deprived of a beautiful championship.�
Before the game, Al-Hussaini was given the MVP trophy for the seniors division. He was also a mythical five citation along with Tiu, Casio, Maierhofer and Jervy Cruz of UST.
Ateneo’s Ryan Buenafe took home Rookie of the Year honors, while Baclao was named Defensive Player of the Year.
“I’m just a rookie and winning a championship is very impressive,� said Buenafe, a member of the three-time NCAA juniors champions San Sebastian College. “This is for coach Norman Black. I’m happy to deliver my winning tradition from the juniors.�
Ateneo scored 17 points off of La Salle’s 16 turnovers. The Blue Eagles also limited the fleet-footed Archers to just four fastbreak points.
The scores:
Ateneo 62 – Tiu 16, Baclao 8, Nkemakolam 8, Al-Hussaini 7, Baldos 6, Buenafe 5, Reyes 5, Salamat 3, Austria 2, Escueta 2.
De La Salle 51 – Casio 18, Walsham 8, Maierhofer 7, Revilla 5, Atkins 3, Bagatsing 3, Mangahas 3, Ferdinand 2, Malabes 2, Barua 0, Villanueva 0.
Quarter scores: 16-10; 41-26; 50-47; 62-51
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Casper
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008 at 8:37 pm
Pss. Swerte lang ni RYAN MARQUEZ di nagttraining si Presbi. Si ryan grabe mag training, Si presbi painom inom lang and payosi yosi lang sa taft. Nanalo lang yang si ryan dahil wala sa condition si presbi. Sobrang onti lang alam ni presbi sa mma tlga pero nakakabilib dahil he showed a great fight. Inupakan nya lang sa simula yan si ryan eh. Wala lang tlgang training and conditioning kaya nachoke yang si pres. Kahit sa labas mag away yan, dudurugin lang ni presbi yang ryan. Ateneo supot! Haha
Casper
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008 at 9:07 pm
ANIMO LASALLE!!! INAMO ATENEO!!!
franz pumanget
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008 at 9:38 pm
@casper
Nabasa mo na ba ung Aesop’s Fables? Basahin mo ung THE FOX AND THE GRAPES, makikita mo sarili mo dun.
La Sallian
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Wednesday, 8 October 2008 at 6:15 pm
@ I-bleed-blue
If you are going to put quotation marks on a text, please make sure that it is lifted verbatim from the original. Below is an actual excerpt from the first paragraph of Bro. Armin’s speech and as you will see, there is no mention of “BLUE” with the word “campus”:
“I have always marvelled at this happy occasion that we are in. There is no other occasion where we see every person in a room beaming with pride, with a heightened sense of accomplishment than during commencement exercises. For many of you, today is but a formal rite of passage. Much like what we see in most reality shows today, you can rejoice at the thought that you have gone through the worst and survived it. Depending on how lucky you were in avoiding DLSU’s most-feared professors, your stay in La Salle could very well be likened to navigating the perilous warzone along Vito Cruz, or an experience of crawling a rat-infested sewer in Leveriza or jumping from the 21st floor of Andrew Hall. The campus can very well be an island in Thailand’s Satun Province where the only way of surviving is by maximizing your meager resources and beating the other tribe, hopefully without having to resort to bribing the tribal council or cheating your way to victory.”
Please be careful because just by adding the word “blue”, the text can be seen in an entirely different light…
i-bleed-blue
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Wednesday, 8 October 2008 at 8:33 pm
La Sallian: My previous post may not have strictly followed the Chicago Manual of Style Guide for the use of quotation(s); after all, my comment was no effort to do a formal theme nor release an official journal article. Nevertheless, I strenuously dissent on your position that your direct quote has changed the real color of Bro. Armin’s snide statement.
Having witnessed that commencement exercise, with my brother who graduated that day, Bro. Armin’s derisive remark might as well have been marked “blue” in the fact that my brother, and his batchmates, myself and my uncle (who was also Atenean) have all picked-up the same thing from what he said. All of us there (green and blue alike) knew what campus he was referring to; albeit implicitly.
IMO there is no greater act of hypocrisy and cowardice that can be done by a school administrator who invokes undue acrimony and feelings of hatred and contempt in your studentry and audience in the guise of tacit accusations against your rival school.
You can cover this most recent embarrassing issue on yet another representative of your school all you want. Sweep it under that green dust-filled rug of yours. What else is new?
Some of my best friends, closest relatives and most respected associates are La Sallites. It is therefore a shame that their Basketball program, headed by Franz Pumaren, has become a very poor representation of this fine school…
In your graduation, you issued 2nd honors… Made me wonder. Isn’t that a badge of disgrace for you?
franz pumanget
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Wednesday, 8 October 2008 at 9:05 pm
My greatest failures this season:
1. not winning when it matters
2. not peaking at the right time
3. not following my script that says “it’s not how you start the season, it’s how you end it”
jru pride
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Wednesday, 8 October 2008 at 10:23 pm
pero mas masama gnwa ng ateneo…mali un sunugin un name ng mga players…ibang usapan na un
Green Grapes
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Wednesday, 8 October 2008 at 11:52 pm
@ jru pride
Tama ka tol, masama mansunog ng kahoy na may pangalan diba?
Ok lang na i-justify natin yung bang-bang patawa ni ka-kosa LA Revilla dahil sa school pride naman diba tsong? Accept natin yun, people easily accepts an act like that naman kse childish gesture lang naman yun, kahit na nasa college na siya and old enough to have his own kid.
Nung napanood ko nga yung ginawa ni idol LA sa TV, nanlamig ako. Cold-hearted kid kse si idol. Akala ko the shooting incident is no joking matter, e pero nagsaya pa yung mga ka-teammates niya sa green bench, naisip ko it’s cool!
Akala ko medyo mapagsasabihan at mapapangaralan na mga ka-kosa natin sa green side, buti na lang hindi. Na-depensahan silang maigi ni boss chief coach at ni Bro. Vermin. Ang galing diba?
O sya, tara na ka-kosa, kantahin na natin tong paborito kong alma matay song natin, sabayan mo ako ha:
Fail we did our alma mater
We have maling asal.
We hold our trophies left and right
Return all these we might.
We always get involved in a fight
Sapak and then we bail
Fail we did our alma mater
Fail fail JAIL.”
BLUE CHAMBA
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Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 1:22 am
ou nga…tae ne yoh
king_kong
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Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 8:24 am
@i-bleed-blue, bat ka pa tumatanggi. tama si La Sallian. you deliberately misquoted bro. armin’s speech and by that there’s no other way to see it as to cause intrigue between the two schools.
why use the word “blue” instead of “red” or “yellow”? surely there was malice on your part.
and you immediately alluded to the word “campus” as yours when in fact he could have been comparing college life at La Salle to that of an episode in the Survivor series.
ano tinamaan ba kayo nung phrase na “cheating your way to victory”? dapat hindi.
bluenote
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Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 9:07 am
@kingkong
pare, its been a week already since the bonfire incident, it has been two weeks since the end of Season 71 basketball, & here you are still ranting about our victory, & the bonfire incident, which our President already apologized for & your Bro. Armin already accepted & issued a sincere acceptance & understanding of the incident, “THAT ONE WRONGDOING OF ONE ALUMNI DOES NOT REPRESENT THE ATENEO AS AN INSTITUTION & ITS COMMUNITY”. what do you expect from us? that we will take all this bashing/thrashing w/out defending ourselves & our school w/c you have maligned a couple of times in your posts here? Well, if that makes your day, so be it. To think that we here at this thread represent only what? not even a percent of what our community feels & thinks, in fact, a lot of my friends & batchmates does not even know about the bonfire incident, or forums such as this.For the majority of them, life goes on after season 71. At the end of the day, i still co-mingle with my lasallian officemates, friends as well as numerous relatives, but let me tell you this, not once did we rib each other about our school status, or our win in the seniors basketball (w/c they acknowledge as truly deserving due to our strong line-up & a convincing 16-1 run.)I hope that you find peace & closure to season 71,, because all i find in your posts are full of bitterness. Peace.
king_kong
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Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 11:16 am
@bluenote, i was responding to i-bleed-blue’s rants.
puwede ba magbasa ka muna!!!
bluenote
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Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 11:24 am
@kingkong
pare, hindi ako nakikipagaway sa yo, pero have it your way.masyado kang galit sa mundo, pati na rin sa sarili mo, ang babaw mo. well, im outta here, no sense corresponding w/ people like you, ang layo mo sa mga lasalistang kilala ko, bitter ka man!
Grrr!
+1
Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 11:26 am
alin ang mas masama, sinugin ang pangalan ng kalaban sa bonfire o magbasag ng bote at magsuka at umihi sa kalye dahil sa kalasingan?
haha
+0
Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 11:51 am
@bluenote
ganyan talaga yang si king_kong. Masyadong emosyonal. Parang iyaking babae.
he’s just one of those Lasallian sourgrapes. Easy to punish by mere intellect.
king_kong
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Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 5:35 pm
@bluenote at haha, sino bang nakikipag-away? sinagot lang naman kita dahil mali ang ipinahihiwatig mo. away na ba yun?
tignan niyo muna mga posts niyo. lalo na si haha, dinadaan kuno sa tawa pero habang nagta-type yan pumputok ang butse sa inis sa mga lasallista dahil wala siyang magandang putback.
king_kong
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Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 5:40 pm
ang hirap sa mga atenista todo tangi pa rin sa mga pagkakamaling nagawa. mismong presidente na nila ang nag-apologize may iba pa diyan na may sinasabi na “there’s no need to apologize”. mismong head ng school nila dine-deny din nila.
tingin ko hopeless na mga atenista. forever saksakan ng yabang ang mga yan. buti nga pahiya kayo sa bonfire incident. lumabas ang tunay na pagkatao niyo.
it would take one of your priests to take the humility route kaso yung ibang students and alumni tingin ko hopeless na maging humble pa.
king_kong
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Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 5:46 pm
bluenote, haha, i-bleed-blue, etc. require a good reality check. they thought winning the uaap men’s senior basketball championship rendered god-like status to themselves and their ilk.
wake up you idiots. marami pa kayong mga atraso sa lipunan at mamamayang pilipino.
btw, saan ba kayo tumulad ng bonfire rituals niyo? sa ku klux klan?
king_kong
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Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 5:59 pm
person 1: i admire ateneo grads especially their law graduates.
person 2: bat mo naman nasabi yan?
person 1: well, almost all of them do well in their careers and a lot occupy positions as judges in our courts.
person 2: kaya pala mabagal ang hustisya sa pilipinas.
person 1: pero marami din occupy high positions in government.
person 2: kaya pala laganap ang korapsyon sa gobiyerno.
person 1: but we intend to change all that with the new generation of graduates.
person 2: naglalakad ako kahapon sa katipunan at nasagi ko lang ang isang estudyante from ateneo at ang sabi sa akin: “gago, tignan mo nilalakaran mo!”
ingkong
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Friday, 10 October 2008 at 10:00 am
@kingkong
Sunugin si kingkong!
ingkong
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Friday, 10 October 2008 at 10:04 am
@kingkong
Nampucha ka, kung saan saan kita hinanap, andito ka lang pala. Parati ka kasing tumatakas sa rehab, parati kang naghahanap ng rugby. Mga cabalen, pagpasensyahan nyo na po si kingkong, mabuti naman siyang tao, yun nga lang, adik kasi.. nagsimula lahat ito ng bumagsak sa ACET!
Greg Oden
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Friday, 10 October 2008 at 6:32 pm
galit na galit si DLSU TGP. mukhang papatay ng tao hahahaha relax bro
zohan
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 at 3:01 am
@greg oden
grabe siya ano. hahaha. tsk tsk tsk. may mga ganiyan pala sa magandang paaralan.
Proud2Bsupot
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 at 9:11 am
@DLSU TGP
Peke ung cp no. na pinost mo. Subukan mo pumunta d2 sa katipunan, isama mo mga katribo mong talunan.
Ibig sabihin ng DLSU TGP – De Lose Sore Univ. Taong Grasang Panis!
Greg Oden
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 at 11:47 am
naku lalong maghihimutok ang ilong nyan sa galit. baka mag combust na lang yan biglang magliyab sa galit. hahahahaha TAONG GRASANG PANIS! magaamok na! ano ba meron sa Taft Mcdo at lahat pinapapunta dun? may kids party ba? baka si DLSU TGP ang mascot dun. invited din ba ako?
zohan
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 at 10:25 pm
nakakainis talaga mga tau gamma. mga warfreak. hanggang labanan lang naman kaya nila.
si rabeh was even recruited in tau gamma ateneo once, pero naka away nya mismo mga bro nya. tssk tsk tsk.
nene
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 at 10:33 pm
tatay, bakit po nagmumura ang ilang sa mga nag post ng messages dito? hindi po ba nakakahiya dahil galing sila sa prestigious school?
Greg Oden
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Sunday, 12 October 2008 at 11:15 am
di na sumagot si DLSU TGP. cguro nasira na nya ung computer nya sa sobrang galit nag amok. di ba ganun talaga un? kapag duwag kang mayabang sumali ka sa frat para may mga kabrod ka na sasalo sayo kapag nakipagaway ka. maaangas kasi kaya laging napapaaway sa kapwa maaangas.
Shaze
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 at 4:46 pm
@zohan
are you referring to that fight dati dun sa smocket sa harap ng SEC A?
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