{"id":952,"date":"2024-04-05T13:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T13:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/?p=952"},"modified":"2024-04-05T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T13:01:34","slug":"psl-barely-a-month-back-from-mainstream-coaching-dulay-on-verge-of-another-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/psl-barely-a-month-back-from-mainstream-coaching-dulay-on-verge-of-another-title\/","title":{"rendered":"PSL: Barely a month back from mainstream coaching, Dulay on verge of another title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Don Dulay started the Pilipinas Super League\u2019s new season as an extra voice at the Nueva Ecija Capitals\u2019 bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now he\u2019s back in mainstream coaching scene, leading his new squad immediately to a finals run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A two-time champion coach of the Davao Occidental Tigers, a team he led to titles in the MPBL and PSL, Dulay moved a few steps closer to winning his latest crown and seeing him back within grasp of capturing another diadem was a surreal moment.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally, Dulay had every reason to cherish, but so are the remaining members of the Capitals who stayed on and battled adversities in the midst of coaching changes, player movements and adjustments to a new system. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt was so surreal, we didn\u2019t expect this. I\u2019ve got to give it to the management, the Cuevas family. They showed 100% support ever since. It was my job to get the guys going and the players stepped up. I\u2019ve got to give all the credit to them,\u201d said Dulay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Dulay, the Capitals were able to sweep the San Juan Kings in their best-of-three semifinals series and the coach who knows their old rivals so well, banked on that familiarity in completing yet another huge win in a series against a team owned by Senator Jinggoy Estrada.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt feels good that we can come out and beat San Juan. It definitely helped (our familiarity with them). We know each other\u2019s tendencies,\u201d added Dulay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dulay and the rest of his new troops will have to regather to battle a young and deadlier Quezon team, which also pulled off a stunning series win over Bi\u00f1an, another powerhouse squad, which emerged as the No.1 team in the elimination round.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMoving forward, we hope we can do the same thing against Quezon,\u201d said  \u201cI expect a war against Quezon. They\u2019ve got a young core there. They\u2019ve got (Ximone) Sandagon, (LJ) Gonzales and they have a good and experienced coaching staff. We\u2019ve got to come out ready. We\u2019re happy that we won against San Juan, but it\u2019s not over yet. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don Dulay started the Pilipinas Super League\u2019s new season as an extra voice at the Nueva Ecija Capitals\u2019 bench. Now he\u2019s back in mainstream coaching scene, leading his new squad immediately to a finals run. A two-time champion coach of the Davao Occidental Tigers, a team he led to titles in the MPBL and PSL,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,37,17],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-don-dulay","tag-nueva-ecija-capitals","tag-psl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}