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UAAP: Pumaren considers Season 84 as 'springboard' for La Salle

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Camille B. Naredo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="La Salle head coach Derrick Pumaren gives instructions to the Green Archers during their UAAP Season 84 Final 4 game against the UP Fighting Maroons. UAAP Media" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/05/10/pumaren.jpg"/><figcaption>La Salle head coach Derrick Pumaren gives instructions to the Green Archers during their UAAP Season 84 Final 4 game against the UP Fighting Maroons. UAAP Media</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA, Philippines -- De La Salle University head coach Derrick Pumaren believes his team overachieved in UAAP Season 84, despite a painful exit in the Final 4 against the University of the Philippines (UP).La Salle reached the semifinals as the third seed and pushed the Fighting Maroons to a do-or-die game where they built a double-digit lead in the fourth period. But they fell apart down the stretch, with rookie big man Carl Tamayo leading UP to a 78-74 win and a spot in the finals.While conceding that they failed to close out a winnable game, Pumaren also noted that the Green Archers pulled off some surprises by making the Final 4 in the first place.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/06/22/uaap-up-completes-comeback-vs-la-salle-to-enter-finals">GAME RECAP: UP completes comeback vs La Salle to enter finals</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/07/22/uaap-84-nelle-apologetic-after-la-salle-season-ends">READ: Nelle apologetic after La Salle season ends</a></li></ul>&quot;In all honesty, we&#x27;re not even being considered to make it to the Final 4 at the start [of the season],&quot; said Pumaren, whose squad was bannered by star big man Justine Baltazar and high-profile transfers like Evan Nelle and Mark Nonoy.They also added Filipino-American standouts Deschon Winston and Michael Phillips in the offseason, with both players emerging as contributors in their campaign.&quot;We were not even being counted as a final title contender, but we&#x27;re able to work our way up,&quot; said the coach. &quot;We&#x27;re able to achieve our immediate goal which is making it to the Final 4.&quot;&quot;I think that we had a successful season, in spite na we fell short, probably 10 minutes short, closing out and making it to the finals. I&#x27;m happy with the way they performed,&quot; Pumaren added. &quot;Of course, masakit that we could&#x27;ve moved to the next round, but God has other plans probably for this team.&quot;La Salle will only lose Baltazar and Kurt Lojera to graduation at the end of Season 84, and they expect players like Phillips, Nelle, and Nonoy to make a leap after their debut campaigns for the Green Archers. Winston is also eyeing more consistency after an up-and-down season.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/08/22/pba-baltazar-brandon-rosser-headline-draft-prospects">READ: Baltazar, Brandon Rosser headline draft prospects</a></li></ul>What&#x27;s crucial for Pumaren is that his players developed their chemistry in Season 84, after a truncated preparation period that kept them from truly figuring out how to play with each other. &quot;We&#x27;ve not really played to our full potential kasi medyo nagkakapaan pa. The chemistry is there but hindi pa &#x27;yung gusto natin na fluid talaga,&quot; he explained. &quot;We&#x27;re looking forward to Season 85.&quot;&quot;Let this [Season 84] be a springboard for us coming into the next season, and hopefully that we can start early practice. We&#x27;ll be a better team coming to Season 85,&quot; Pumaren guaranteed.

La Salle head coach Derrick Pumaren believes his team overachieved in UAAP Season 84, despite a painful exit in the Final 4 against UP.

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UAAP: Pumaren considers Season 84 as 'springboard' for La Salle

Camille B. Naredo,

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Published May 10, 2022 01:14 PM PHT

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Updated May 10, 2022 01:15 PM PHT

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