Gilas Pilipinas coach Tim Cone provides Sean Chambers (third from the left) to his teaching employees. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines—There’s one other connection brewing inside Gilas Pilipinas’ camp en path to the Fiba Olympic Qualifying Event in Riga, Latvia.
Coach Tim Cone has added one other long-time colleague to his teaching employees within the type of Sean Chambers.
Chambers and Cone had an Alaska connection constructed manner again from 1989 to 2001 with the previous as an import and the latter as the top tactician.
So when Gilas discovered themselves shorthanded within the employees division with LA Tenorio being busy resulting from Ginebra duties, Cone had no hesitations in bringing in Chambers.
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“Sean got here on the final minute. He stepped in. He performed with me for 13 years, he is aware of me personally in addition to anyone I’ve ever met,” mentioned Cone after Gilas’ 74-64 win over the Taiwan Mustangs at Philsports Enviornment on Monday.
Cone additionally revealed that it took some “begging” from him to the Far Jap College, which has put in Chambers because the Tamaraws’ head coach for the upcoming UAAP season.
“We begged him and we begged FEU. Thank goodness, he mentioned sure and FEU mentioned sure,” defined the Ginebra mentor.
Throughout their time collectively within the early 90s, the tandem of Cone and Chambers went on to win six PBA titles together with a Grand Slam within the 1996 PBA season.
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It was additionally underneath Cone’s tutelage that Chambers gained the Finest Import award through the 1996 Governors’ Cup and the “Mr. 100%” Award within the 1991 season with the now-defunct Milkmen.
Now with the tandem on full show within the Gilas’ teaching employees, Cone is glad to have one among his former gamers calling the photographs who is aware of play his personal system.
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“He is aware of our system, he is aware of the Triangle, so he’s simply the right man. When you have been round him, he’s one of the helpful individuals round you,” Cone mentioned.