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UAAP: I don’t get paid to be just in the final 4, says Adamson’s Franz Pumaren

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Karl Cedrick Basco, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/sports/11/28/20181128-franz-pumaren-md.jpg"/><figcaption>While Adamson head coach Franz Pumaren considered his three straight final 4 appearances an achievement, he revealed that he is frustrated with how the Soaring Falcons ended the season. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</figcaption></figure></div>Adamson head coach Franz Pumaren was disappointed after his team fell short of advancing to the UAAP finals despite initially enjoying a twice-to-beat advantage heading to the final 4. The Soaring Falcons finished the elimination round with a 10-4 record to secure the No. 2 seed in the semifinals. However, University of the Philippines axed the Falcons at Araneta Coliseum on Wednesday, beating them twice to reach the title series.Adamson squandered a six-point lead midway in overtime, a collapse that gave the Fighting Maroons their first finals berth since 1986.While Pumaren considered his three straight final 4 appearances an achievement, he revealed that he is frustrated with how the Soaring Falcons ended the season. &quot;I&#x27;m a non-conformist guy. I don&#x27;t get paid to be just in the final 4. It&#x27;s kind of a frustrating year for me, expecting that we&#x27;ll be in the finals,&quot; Pumaren told reporters. Pumaren said it was the Fighting Maroons&#x27; senior players who dropped the hammer on Adamson, with Paul Desiderio pouring five of his 16 points in the crucial stretch in overtime&quot;Today&#x27;s game showed (UP&#x27;s) maturity. It&#x27;s their senior guy who took over. They really wanted it more and played with a lot of passion. This one game is probably one of the best games I&#x27;ve seen. They just played hard,&quot; Pumaren said.Still, he added: &quot;I&#x27;ve been with college for the longest time. I know the ups and downs but I can be proud of the program we were able to establish here.&quot;Despite the loss, Pumaren said the school properly developed its players, evidence of which is the Soaring Falcons&#x27; consistent appearance in the semifinals.&quot;It just showed to you that the program is rock solid. We know how to develop players even though we didn’t get the blue-chip rookies,&quot; Pumaren said, adding that Adamson&#x27;s relative success in the league has attracted recruits.&quot;This one, you really have to . . . it’s a learning process pa rin for us. You cannot teach that. It’s just like being a successful CEO, being a successful president, walang course dyan,&quot; he said.For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.

Falcons head coach Franz Pumaren deems Season 81 a failure, but the program that has produced one final-4 appearance after another for Adamson isn't.

Falcons head coach Franz Pumaren deems Season 81 a failure, but the program that has produced one final-4 appearance after another for Adamson isn't.

UAAP: I don’t get paid to be just in the final 4, says Adamson’s Franz Pumaren

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UAAP: I don’t get paid to be just in the final 4, says Adamson’s Franz Pumaren

Karl Cedrick Basco,

ABS-CBN News

Published Nov 29, 2018 12:39 AM PHT

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