High-flying UP forward Francis Lopez fires choice words as his Fighting Maroons engage in a pitched battle of allegations with the La Salle Green Archers over a controversial mid-game incident
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MANILA, Philippines – Social media is rife with online detectives in the last two days as the UP-La Salle coaches’ commotion that marred their UAAP finals rematch continues to pervade headlines developing into the newest non-basketball-related issue. “Our team accepts defeat and all of our coaches never told us to hurt anybody. But basketball is a physical game, a contact sport. If you can’t play through it then go cry to your mommy and daddy,” wrote the high-flying forward on Tuesday, October 8, two days after La Salle beat UP,“Fix the character. We will see you soon. No promises on anything, but we will for sure see you soon. That one action to one of our players made it personal.
Cooler heads prevailed until the end of the rollercoaster game of runs and La Salle chose to downplay the incident, dismissing it as a part of the game.through head coach Goldwin Monteverde, who backed up his coaches’ response to an unspecified affront that had “no relation to the game.”
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