Ramil de Jesus rues ‘lost confidence’ as La Salle rebounds at Adamson’s expense

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The sleeping giant of UAAP women's volleyball reawakens in full force after a brief gloomy spell as Angel Canino-led La Salle rediscovers its winning mettle at the expense of feisty Adamson and super rookie Shaina Nitura

MANILA, Philippines – La Salle Lady Spikers head coach Ramil de Jesus is never one to mince words, win or lose, but especially after defeats.

One week after his wards absorbed a shock sweep loss to defending champion NU, the legendary tactician made a rare postgame presscon appearance following La Salle’s bounce-back blanking of Adamson to hammer home the point of what the vaunted Lady Spikers missed in their last outing.

“I saw their confidence return upon stepping on the court [against Adamson]. Last Sunday, that wasn’t the case. They were in a feeling-out process,” De Jesus said in Filipino after La Salle denied Adamson, 25-21, 25-23, 25-20.

“I have full confidence in them, but that’s the very thing they first lost from themselves that they should bring back.”

Unlike their UAAP Season 87 debut game, the Lady Spikers set the tone from the get-go and never lost control of the match, despite super rookie Shaina Nitura’s best efforts.

On the heels of veteran Alleiah Malaluan’s game-high 16 points and former rookie MVP Angel Canino’s 15, La Salle only briefly gave up a 24-23 set point to Adamson in the second frame before blasting away in the third for the breakthrough win.

“As coach said, no one loses. All of us just learn, so we don’t consider that a loss,” Malaluan said in Filipino. “We learned from that and at the same time, that loss became motivation for us to bounce back in today’s game.”

“As Alleiah said, if you think you’re a loser, you can’t move forward to think of where to improve next,” Canino added in Filipino. “I think we took that loss hard, but we had to move forward. We had to stop negative comments and thoughts and focus on improving ourselves and as a team.”

The Lady Spikers getting that losing sting and pressure out of their system can only bode bad tidings for the rest of the UAAP. They are still, after all, on par with the best of the best, and now, that precious belief is back, ready to serve as winning motivation the rest of the way. – Rappler.com