Adjustments will be key to NLEX to tie the series against TNT

    15 August, 2024
    Coach Jong Uichico (NLEX Road Warriors)
    Juan Karlo Libuano (JKL)

    NLEX Road Warriors will try to tie the series of their best-of-five quarter final series of the PBA Season 49 Governors’ Cup against the TNT Tropang Giga this Friday night, September 27, at the Sta. Rosa Multi-Purpose Complex in Laguna.

    Coach Jong Uichico said that adjustments will be the key on who’s going to win the game and even in the series.

    In an exclusive interview with Dribble Report, the nine-time PBA champion mentor shared his assessment of their last game, “Generally, it's okay. They were able to make their adjustments. We didn't react to their adjustments.”

    Uichico also said that he hoped they would find the right adjustments and how to react to the opponents as they battle the Tropang Giga anew.

    “That's how basketball is. You make your adjustments and then hopefully your adjustments will work. And then us, on the other hand, we try to react to their adjustments. Then, you know, we were not able to do that. So for the next game tomorrow, hopefully we can make the proper adjustments and react to it.,” added the Road Warriors head coach.

    Almost the same thing was shared by one of the defense anchors, Enoch Valdez, who also shared his experience with us.

    “Even though we lost yesterday, we'll make some adjustments. We'll do some viewing,” said Valdez in Filipino.

    He also said he’s sure they will be able to adjust in their next game and will try to limit the production of TNT’s import Rondae Hollis-Jefferson for them to have an advantage.

    “You don't have to stop him. You just have to limit the average of 40-30 plus a game. If you limit it to 20 plus, it's a big advantage for us,” said Valdez of RHJ.

    NLEX scoring machine Robert Bolick said that in the playoffs everything has been laid down already and all they need to do is play hard and execute what the plays of their team.

    “Our game is okay. It’s just the playoffs. Our team knows what to do, we just have to execute well,” said Bolick.

    Import Dequan Jones thought that they beat themselves that’s why they lost their first game.

    “I think to some extent they didn't beat us. We beat ourselves with turnovers. Even with the amount of turnovers we had and still to only lose by that margin,” shared by Jones.

    “I think that speaks to what type of talent and what kind of team we have. I don't think they beat us. I think we beat ourselves,” he added.

    Tip-off will start at 7:30 in the evening.

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