the UST Growling Tigers 2012-2013 First Five

By the looks of how the recruitment wars in the UAAP for next season, it seems my alma mater will not have any chances on landing any recruits. Jeron Teng was "signed" by DLSU, the La Salle Juniors stand outs are also going to DLSU.  NU will land the RP Youth Team Captain. TADMU will of course be TADMU.

Moving on, UST will most likely not have any true rookies: Hainga and Estabillo as far as I know are not true rookies and I have not seen them play.

But on a positive note we will have some returnees.

the First Five. 

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Point Guard - Jeric Fortuna 


Jeric Fortuna is one of; if not the most, under rated Point Guard in the UAAP. This guy can facilitate for his team mates he averages 3.4 assists per game. Also this guy can defend he averages about 1.5 Steals per game. Lastly this guy can score, either by driving to the basket or from the perimeter his last season average is 14.1 points per game. Not bad for an under rated Point guard. And by the way he is in the top 5 of 3 Statistical Categories.

UST returnees 2012 - 2013

UST surely missed the presence of this 3 players who were out last season for various reasons. It is nice to see that UST will have a chance to compete even if we did not land any "bluechip recruits".

The Savior ?

Aljohn Mariano will be returning and from the looks of it his game has not been affected by his previous injury which sidelined him last season. Basing from the Off-season tournaments he has joined as part of the UST Tigers he will be Tigers primary Offensive Option. This guy can score either by penetrating the shaded area or by scoring from the perimeter. When this guy is in the zone UST will be difficult to beat. Also the good thing is that this kid can also defend.