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CSB and new coach Tang off to promising start in FilOil

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Camille B. Naredo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/sports/05/03/filoil-2017-050317.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">CSB coach TY Tang confers with his staff. <cite>Arvin Lim, <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/basketball/photos" target="_blank">ABS-CBN Sports</a></cite></div></figcaption></figure></div>MANILA, Philippines – Looking to bounce back from a sorry one-win campaign in the NCAA Season 92 men&#x27;s basketball tournament, De La Salle-College of St. Benilde (CSB) has handed the keys to its basketball program to a proven winner in TY Tang.Tang, an integral part of De La Salle University&#x27;s championship team in the UAAP Season 77 tournament, took over the Blazers in January, and spent the past four months transforming them into a well-conditioned team capable of playing at a fast pace and playing solid defense.It wasn&#x27;t easy. Tang admits that it took some time for the Blazers to buy into their vision of how the team should play. It wasn&#x27;t until a solid campaign in the Fr. Martin&#x27;s Cup that the CSB players saw that Tang&#x27;s style could work.&quot;They bought in after one tournament that we had. It was really a good team-building for us, with the kind of performance they played in the Fr. Martin&#x27;s Cup,&quot; said Tang. &quot;We almost made it to the Final 4, just losing to Arellano (University) by two points.&quot;Tang unveiled his team to a bigger audience on Wednesday at the FilOil Flying V Centre, when the Blazers grounded the Mapua Institute of Technology Cardinals in the fourth quarter of their preseason game en route to an impressive 64-49 victory.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li>READ: <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/basketball/news/2017/05/03/csb-gets-better-mapua-battle-new-look-teams-25514">CSB gets better of Mapua in battle of new-look teams</a></li></ul>In what was their first game of the FilOil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup, the Blazers pressured the Cardinals into 33 turnovers, and limited them to only six points in the final quarter.&quot;Well, it&#x27;s been a change of environment from Day 1. We&#x27;ve been entailing to them and trying to put emphasis on defense, hard work, and just the intensity and energy that we want to put out,&quot; Tang said after the win. &quot;It&#x27;s 100% effort for us to win the game.&quot;&quot;It&#x27;s not really on offense, but it&#x27;s really on defense. I think we held them down to 49 points in one game and that&#x27;s just about what we&#x27;re talking about the whole time we&#x27;ve been playing together,&quot; he added.Though it is only the preseason, the Blazers showed that they are already in good condition, as evidenced by their performance in the fourth quarter. For Tang, this shows that his team has already accepted the system that they want to run.&quot;It&#x27;s just that change that we were able to rub it into them – that it&#x27;s not going to be a slow-paced game. We will put emphasis on defense on every single possession, and that&#x27;s what&#x27;s going to count if we want to move further in the competition,&quot; he said.For the CSB players, the new system is a welcome change after their lowly performances last year when they were regularly routed by other teams. It wasn&#x27;t until the final game of the season that they finally broke through against Lyceum of the Philippines University.&quot;As a player, it&#x27;s really nice because we get more opportunities to score, and the ball is really moving around,&quot; said CSB captain Gerard Castor. &quot;I think what&#x27;s going to make us successful is our team play, sharing the ball.&quot;Though they looked much improved against the Cardinals, Tang knows that it was just one game – and that they were playing against a Mapua team without its biggest weapon in two-time MVP Allwell Oraeme. Nevertheless, they relished the victory and will look to build on it.&quot;We&#x27;re just going to try to build up our confidence as we won today, and hopefully keep it rolling, get it to another level,&quot; he said.For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/" target="_blank"> ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.

Looking to bounce back from a sorry one-win campaign in the NCAA Season 92 men's basketball tournament, College of St. Benilde has handed the keys to its basketball program to a proven winner in TY Tang.

Looking to bounce back from a sorry one-win campaign in the NCAA Season 92 men's basketball tournament, College of St. Benilde has handed the keys to its basketball program to a proven winner in TY Tang.

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CSB and new coach Tang off to promising start in FilOil

Camille B. Naredo,

ABS-CBN News

Published May 03, 2017 05:30 PM PHT

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