Yeng Guiao offers Mac Belo chance to reboot once promising career
Mac Belo shipped to Rain or Shine. –PBA IMAGES
Mac Belo, as soon as touted as a high prospect after a starring function within the collegiate ranks, will get his probability at revitalizing his Philippine Basketball Affiliation (PBA) profession after being acquired by Rain or Shine in a commerce with Meralco on Thursday.
“I hope this might be helpful to him and naturally to us,” Rain or Shine coach Yeng Guiao advised the Inquirer.
The Elasto Painters received Belo in trade for Norbert Torres in a one-for-one deal accepted by the league’s commerce committee—and the swap might be helpful for each side transferring ahead.
Guiao stated the Painters sought out the deal after trying carefully on the versatile ahead.
“He was benched quite a bit however that was as a result of he was injured. However we had our sources telling us that he was okay already and we requested Meralco if he was obtainable. They stated he was,” Guiao stated.
YENG GUIAO: A wizard at drawing the most effective out of his gamers—PBA IMAGES
The commerce may go wonders for Belo, whose two-year stint with the Bolts has been forgettable to say the least. His alternative to regain his confidence will relaxation on whether or not he can impress coach Guiao, regarded for honing gamers which are diamonds within the tough.
“All we will actually do is give him an opportunity,” Guiao added. “The remaining is as much as him.”
Belo joined Meralco in February 2021 after being dealt by Blackwater, the workforce that drafted the versatile ahead out of Far Jap College (FEU) by means of a particular draft for amateurs who have been a part of the Gilas Pilipinas program 5 years earlier.
Anticipated to shore up the Bolts roster, the minutes of the Midsayap, North Cotabato, native dwindled in his two-year keep, and he appeared in solely 9 video games through the 2022-23 season.
Enormous distinction
On this file picture, Mac Belo lifts the trophy throughout Far Jap College’s championship conquest within the UAAP Season 78. Photograph by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.web
It was an enormous distinction to his UAAP days when he carried FEU to its ultimate title so far in 2015, incomes Finals Most Precious Participant honors after the Tams defeated College of Santo Tomas.
To get Belo, Rain or Shine had to surrender Torres, who progressively improved throughout his five-year stick with the workforce. Meralco would be the fifth workforce of the ex-La Salle cager.
Identified for being a strong front-line presence with a comfortable perimeter contact, Torres hopes to spice up the massive man corps of Meralco, which seeks to lastly land a first-ever PBA championship.
“We consider that he’ll make a optimistic affect on the workforce, and we sit up for working with him as we put together for the upcoming season,” the Bolts stated after the deal was introduced.
Within the meantime, the 2 gamers will attempt to make the most of the upcoming PBA on Tour exhibition collection to seek out their means into their workforce’s most important rotation.
Blackwater and NLEX open the two-month collection on Sunday in Caloocan Metropolis.
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