Source: Manila Bulletin
A re-tooled La Salle squad is hoping to translate the experience it gained from last year’s UAAP season into their advantage this year.
But whether it is enough to make them title contenders in the coming UAAP season will be partly known when the Archers see action in the 2010 Filoil Flying V Invitational Cup which starts this Saturday at The Arena in San Juan.
Two years after winning the UAAP championship, the Archers – with the graduation of top players TY Tang, Rico Maierhofer, and JV Casio – could only post five wins.
They also missed the Final Four for the first time since 1994.
Aside from six new faces, the team will have a new coach in Dindo Pumaren, who took over the rein from older brother Franz.
The Archers recruited highly-touted cagers 6-foot-7 Arnold Van Opstal and guards Nico Elorde and Luigi dela Paz from La Salle Zobel plus added NCAA juniors Mythical Five member Jarelan Tampus from Letran.
Other additions are former San Sebastian guard Almond Vosotros, who last saw action in the NCAA juniors division in 2008 when the Staglets completed a four-peat, and La Salle Greenhills standout Aiki Herrera.
Aside from that, sophomores Papot Paredes and Martin Reyes, a former big man for La Salle Greenhills were inserted from the team's second team for this tournament.
They will join holdovers Joshua Webb, Maui Villanueva, Yutien Andrada, Simon Atkins, Gab Banal, Ferdinand, and Joel Tolentino as La Salle tries to improve on its quarterfinal finish in last year's Fil-Oil tilt.
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