The simple joys in life.
Adamson University endured many heartbreaks over the last 10 days.
The Soaring Falcons were on the wrong end of thrillers against University of Santo Tomas (79-72), University of the Philippines (73-71), Far Eastern University (66-65), and De La Salle University (61-58).
Despite pundits seeing it as morale victories for the Adamson team, it took a toll on the Soaring Falcons.
When will the heartbreaks end? More importantly, what will be the effect of these losses on a young team?
Well, it motivated them more.
“Of course getting better by the day, but that’s something that we teach not just to Jerom [Lastimosa] but to the whole team, again ang encouragement namin to everyone is just to make the right plays make the right decisions, and then by doing that we will get good results,” said first-year Soaring Falcons head coach Nash Racela.
“So not necessarily the wins diba? But at least good results hopefully yung play by play will eventually give us more victories.”
And finally, the misery ended on Tuesday as the learnings showed up.
Against the Tamaraws, Matty Erolon swished a cold-blooded trey that gave the Soaring Falcons a 63-61 edge with 12 seconds left.
On the other end, Adamson stopped a designed play by Nash’s brother Olsen to seal their first win in six games.
What will be the reward for the Soaring Falcons? Ice cream, of course.
“I think my team deserves an ice cream tonight.”
And an ice cream feast they had, with the now infamous Adamson Ice Cream V of Didat Hanapi, Mario Barasi, Ricky Peromingan, Joseph Fuentebella, and Ivan Maata getting plates of it.
And they can have all the ice cream they want as their next game is still next week.
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