{"id":148093,"date":"2018-01-22T04:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148093"},"modified":"2018-01-22T04:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T09:30:25","slug":"lim-debuts-as-perps-coach-in-d-league-as-team-faces-chelu-ssc-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/22\/lim-debuts-as-perps-coach-in-d-league-as-team-faces-chelu-ssc-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Lim debuts as Perps coach in D-League as team faces Che&#8217;Lu-SSC-R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BOCAUE<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Frankie Lim once again made the headlines last week when he accepted the role as Perpetual Help&#8217;s new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>His baptism of fire, however, will happen in the PBA D-League, luckily against a fellow NCAA team.<\/p>\n<p>The Altas open their campaign in the Aspirants Cup on Monday night when they take on the Che&#8217;Lu-San Sebastian Revellers at the Pasig Sports Center.<\/p>\n<p>However, Lim admitted ahead of the 4 p.m. match-up that the D-League stint may be the only time he could gel together with the Perpetual Help players.<\/p>\n<p>Describing it somewhat &#8220;cramming,&#8221; he said, &#8220;We\u2019ll just have to make the best out of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, despite bringing in the core of its San Sebastian lineup, Che&#8217;Lu, which opted to take the moniker Revellers instead of the Golden Stags, will not have Egay Macaraya at its fold, as he will help CEU in its own D-League campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Stevenson Tiu will handle the team that also has former Scorpions Aaron Jeruta and Samboy De Leon and former UST Growling Tiger Jeepy Faundo.<\/p>\n<p>In the first game at 2 p.m., Go for Gold-CSB, which will also not have its NCAA coach for its D-League campaign, will clash with reigning NAASCU champ Gamboa-St. Clare.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Tiu will handle the Blazers-loaded squad, which will be known as the Scratchers when it battles the Coffee Lovers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re hoping to compete against them because we\u2019re a very young team and they are a team that\u2019s been together for a while. It\u2019s going to be a tough challenge for us,&#8221; said the younger brother of Rain Or Shine player Chris Tiu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOCAUE\u00a0&#8212; Frankie Lim once again made the headlines last week when he accepted the role as Perpetual Help&#8217;s new head &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[44336,44338,44337,44333,44335,44334],"class_list":["post-148093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aspirants-cup","tag-charles-tiu","tag-egay-macaraya","tag-frankie-lim","tag-pba-d-league","tag-perpetual-help","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}