Meralco’s Philippine Cup title-retention bid veering off course

COACH Luigi Trillo admitted Meralco has the urgent need to make a course correction with its PBA Philippine Cup title-retention drive veering off track lately.

After hurdling their first two assignments, the Bolts have stumbled to back-to-back-to-back 12-point losses to plummet in the standings.

“We have a lot to figure out,” Mr. Trillo said after Rain or Shine extended Meralco’s skid with a 128-116 verdict.

“Are we better than that? Of course we are, but we’ve got to be more precise in what we’re doing,” he added.

Prior to the setback to ROS, the Bolts bowed to San Miguel Beer in their “retro” finals rematch last April 9, 110-98, and fell to an ambush from erstwhile winless Phoenix four days later, 109-97.

“Any team can beat anyone like Phoenix beat us, we beat Terrafirma, Terrafirma beat Phoenix. So at this point, every game is important, every quarter is important,” he said.

“We look like we’re not there. We look a little bit slow, a little bit hesitant in what we’re doing. It’s tough to watch because we’re better than that, we’re better defensively, we’re better offensively,” he added.

Meralco has a lot of time to do its soul-searching and make amends as it will return to action on May 9 yet against NorthPort.

“We should be better,” said Mr. Trillo. — Olmin Leyba