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Leaving a legacy and winning a championship is all that matters for JD Cagulangan

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Romwel Anzures

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<div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1725768202141UAAP S87 MBB - JD CAGULANGAN-1200.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="UP’s JD Cagulangan. Photo from UAAP Media."/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">UP’s JD Cagulangan. <em>Photo from UAAP Media</em></span></span></span><span>MANILA — JD Cagulangan lived up to his billing as the UP Fighting Maroons’ leader during their UAAP Season 87 debut.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>The 5-foot-9, fifth-year player of the Diliman-based team had an admirable showing against the Ateneo Blue Eagles on Saturday at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, putting up 17 points, 10 assists, seven rebounds, and two steals to start the year on the right note.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/9/7/jd-cagulangan-flirts-with-triple-double-as-up-posts-statement-win-over-ateneo-2103" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><span><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/9/7/jd-cagulangan-flirts-with-triple-double-as-up-posts-statement-win-over-ateneo-2103" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>READ: JD Cagulangan flirts with triple-double as UP posts statement win over Ateneo</strong></a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>However, he downplayed the stellar performance that wowed the maroon side of the 12,923 fans inside the Big Dome. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>“Sa akin, since it’s my last season in UP, gusto ko lang siyang sulitin, yung experience at opportunity na binigay sa amin,” commented the UAAP champion guard. ”I know na mahirap every game, but yung process is ine-enjoy ko lang.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>Cagulangan and State U are coming off back-to-back seasons wherein they absorbed heartbreaks in the Finals — Season 85 against Ateneo and Season 86 against the De La Salle Green Archers.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>Aside from this, despite having several recruits coming in at the end of those two years, key cogs have also either moved on to the pros or graduated from UP, with some of them being Carl Tamayo, CJ Cansino, and Malick Diouf.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>But even with Cagulangan seeing the departure of such players firsthand, he maintained that it is not about necessarily filling in the void that they left in terms of statistics. He would rather stay true to his calling for the team.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>“Pwedeng araw ko, pwedeng araw ng iba kong teammates,” said JD. “So kung ano yung role ko, yun lang yung lalaruin ko. Ang gusto lang naman naming lahat is manalo, so kung sino man yung may stats na ganyan [mataas], happy kami para sa kanya.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>“Yung role ko to facilitate is hindi ko tatanggalin para maset up ko sila ng maayos.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>He also bared that his numbers against their Katipunan rivals were not motivated by facing former UP recruit Jared Bahay who was supposed to take the mantle from him before the Cebuano guard eventually chose to play for the Blue Eagles.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1725768251381UAAP87 MBB - JD Cagulangan-0975.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="UP’s JD Cagulangan. Photo from UAAP Media."/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">UP’s JD Cagulangan and Ateneo’s Jared Bahay. <em>Photo from UAAP Media</em></span></span></span></span><span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>”I feel bad for Jared kasi nung lumabas yung mukha niya sa screen, yung ibang fans nag-boo sa kanya. Ang pangit ng simula niya sa UAAP. But wala naman akong against kay Jared kung maglaro siya sa kung anong school. Gusto ko malaman niya na yung team UP, wala kaming problema sa kanya,” he said.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>“Kung san niya gusto, walang problema. Happy lang ako para sa kanya na nag debut na siya sa UAAP,” said the former Green Archer. “Sana sa fans na nag-boo kay Jared, sana itigil na natin yun kasi ang sama talaga. Ang sama nung pasok niya sa UAAP.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>What Cagulangan is focusing on instead is how he can help the Fighting Maroons not only be a force to be reckoned with much like the past three seasons, but also reclaim their spot at the top of the UAAP. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>“Walang pressure, gusto ko lang mag-enjoy at laging ibigay yung 100 percent ko,” said JD. “Sana makuha namin yung championship.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>And another thing that matters, shared Cagulangan, is leaving a legacy that will be forever etched in UP history.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>“Gusto ko yung legacy ko na maalala ng tao is yung tipong pag nakikita yung JD Cagulangan is sasabihin niyo na winner,” he noted. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span>“Alam natin na since dumating sila Coach Gold sa UP, ang ini-insist sa’min na mindset is maging winner talaga. Para sakanya, yung winner hindi lang yung sa court, kahit sa buhay. Lagi sinasabi samin ni coach na yung pagiging champion lifestyle yun,” continued Cagulangan. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:13.8px"><span></span><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br/></div><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="3068090"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script>

<p>JD Cagulangan lived up to his billing as the UP Fighting Maroons’ leader during their UAAP Season 87 debut.</p>

JD Cagulangan lived up to his billing as the UP Fighting Maroons’ leader during their UAAP Season 87 debut.