{"id":21971,"date":"2014-08-14T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T23:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21971"},"modified":"2025-01-13T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T06:16:08","slug":"up-maroons-looks-forward-to-final-four-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/14\/up-maroons-looks-forward-to-final-four-stint\/","title":{"rendered":"UP Maroons looks forward to final four stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21975\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/UP1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21975\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/UP1.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; After recently ending their 27-losing streak, the University of the Philippines (UP) Maroons aims to get a slot in the Final Four of the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) senior basketball category.<\/p>\n<p>For this season, the team set a practical three-win target getting their first one at the expense of the Adamson Soaring Falcons, 77-64.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy mounjaro online <a href=\"https:\/\/visualhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/mounjaro.html\">https:\/\/visualhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/mounjaro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>This drew a large amount of support, prompting the Maroons\u2019 team manager Dan Palami to think of bigger goals for the Maroons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we have a lot of supporters coming in, we\u2019re looking at the long-term. \u201c[The semifinals] will be the target because UP is the host next year so we need to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added rebuilding the Maroons team already started. The team holds a poor record over the course of eight seasons with only 10 wins out of 105 games played.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course we\u2019re looking at strengthening the current crop of players as well as looking at new players,\u201d said Palami.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy amoxicillin online <a href=\"https:\/\/visualhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/amoxicillin.html\">https:\/\/visualhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/amoxicillin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> He also shared that the team already sent \u201ccompetent people to identify talent\u201d overseas.<\/p>\n<p>More work lies ahead and a lot is still expected from him, according to Palami. Many supporters are waiting for him to do what he did to help raise the Philippine football team Azkals.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy wegovy online <a href=\"https:\/\/visualhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/wegovy.html\">https:\/\/visualhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/wegovy.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s the reason they invited me to manage the team\u2014whatever I did for the Azkals, they hope I can do for the Maroons,\u201d said Palami. \u201cBut I told them it\u2019s not magic, it\u2019s just hard work. We have to make sure we have a strong team, recruitment program and proper organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than aiming for a slot in the Final Four, the immediate goal of the team is to start the second round of eliminations in a positive note.<\/p>\n<p>Palami said that the first win against Adamson is important in starting their momentum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ll just concentrate on getting that second win,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; After recently ending their 27-losing streak, the University of the Philippines (UP) Maroons aims to get a slot &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1673],"class_list":["post-21971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-up","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21971","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283150,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21971\/revisions\/283150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}