FEU NOT DWELLING ON BAUTISTA'S SORRY MISS LATE IN LOSS TO DLSU

A SORRY miss from Jorick Bautista denied Far Eastern University a chance to complete its comeback against La Salle on Wednesday.

The 24-year-old playmaker overshot a last-second layup that would’ve forced overtime, with the tally tied at 74-all.

Instead, the Tamaraws yielded defeat for the third time in as many matches, joining University of the East as the last two winless teams in UAAP Season 88.

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Rather than give the team’s longest-serving ace a mouthful for a missed opportunity, coach Sean Chambers didn’t even feel the need to have that conversation on that final sequence in his postmortem.

"We didn't even discuss it because there's about 99 plays in the game, and that's just one play," Chambers told SPIN.ph.

"We could have made a stop. We could have made a rebound. That play doesn't matter."

While other coaches would’ve rued such a mistake, Chambers saw a piece of his old self when Bautista was left distraught at the sidelines after a sorry miss.

The Tamaraws' tactician recalled a similar moment in college when one of his most expensive errors as a player became a launchpad for the single biggest moment of his young career.

"I remember my senior or junior year, I literally missed a point in a layup like that to win the game or tie the game, and I missed it," he recalled.

"My coach told me, don't worry because you'll be able to make the next one. And one of the greatest shots of my high school career, I won a shot at the last second, I can show you a video, where we won a championship off of it."

Bautista will bounce back

Without having to rub it on Bautista’s face, Chambers isn’t doubting his skipper even in the slightest to turn a sorry setback into a momentous comeback soon enough.

"You got to just let it go. I still thought we did today well. Just our execution on the offensive end today was phenomenal," he said.

"But we're not going to talk about the layup. I’ve said it so many times last year. He'll make a big shot later on. It's just basketball. It happens."

2025-10-02T04:15:12Z