"A True Llamado”
As many of you know that I really like basketball and I even consider it as a part of my life, of course I still follow and watch PBA (Philippine Basketball Association). PBA is like the NBA here in the Philippines. All the moves and strategies I’m working on and imitating are from the PBA, especially from my favorite team. As a basketball fan addict, it’s usual that you have a favorite team maybe because the player that you idolized is playing for that team, or maybe you just simply like the team because of their superb performance as a team. In my case, my favorite team in the PBA is the BMEG Llamados! I like this team not only because of their incredible performance and as you know, my idol, James Yap, is playing for BMEG Llamados, but because of their rich history. They’ve been in the PBA for a very long time already from the name “Coney Island” to “Purefoods Giants” and up to the present with the name of “BMEG Llamados”. This franchise team had produced efficient coaches at its hands and great players that became one of the greatest players in the PBA and one of them will be James Yap in the mere future! As a result, this team had won a total of 8 titles and accomplished this golden “winning tradition” for them that will not be removed from their spirits. For your information, “Llamado” is a term which means one who is superior/has the advantage over the other. Just based from the team’s name, it’s really obvious that they are the “Llamados” because of their rich winning history.
Tim Cone of BMEG
In this season, BMEG Llamados have been performing well and efficiently as a team, except for what happened to them during the playoffs of the Philippine Cup. In that conference, the Philippine Cup, this team started slowly and struggled because of their new head coach, who is a veteran and a multi-titled coach in the name of Tim Cone. Tim Cone is a successful coach because he had won 13 titles under his belt when he was still with his former team, Alaska. He is known for using the “triangle system” and that system has been successful in the PBA that’s why he’s a multi-titled coach. Now, with his arrival to the BMEG Llamados, he will implement his “triangle system” to this team and will share his strategies with BMEG with a winning tradition like him. So BMEG adjusted to that system and they struggled but when time passed by, the team finally adjusted and they finished 1st in the eliminations of the Philippine Cup with an 8-game winning streak before entering the playoffs. In the playoffs, as expected, they are the “Llamados” against the 8th seed team, who played poorly during the eliminations, which are the Powerade Tigers. The unexpected just happened and the 8th seed Powerade defeated and upset the leader 1st seed BMEG Llamados by winning 2 games in a row against BMEG because of the blazing yet “lucky” shooting of Gary David, the star player of the Powerade. With that, BMEG’s hopes to capture a title was banished. Now, PBA is in Commissioner’s Cup and it’s a brand new conference. I can say that BMEG is playing another superb conference led by their main man, James Yap, with a current 4-2 win-loss record and I hope this time, they will finish better and I hope their quest for a title will be fulfilled. Of course, you will be happy if that happens if you are a true “Llamado” like me!
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