{"id":9554,"date":"2024-08-17T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T04:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2024-08-17T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T04:12:25","slug":"anta-picks-four-collegiate-players-to-help-tell-their-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/anta-picks-four-collegiate-players-to-help-tell-their-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"ANTA picks four collegiate players to help tell their stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With global sportswear leader ANTA holding its SHOCK 4 Tournament annually in the Philippines, this year\u2019s iteration has been bigger than ever with eight legs spanning nationwide with games being played from Pampanga City all the way to Davao City.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the tournament’s third season opened about a month\nago, ANTA decided to implement the four-point line in the Philippines, an\ninnovation adopted from SHOCK 4 international tournament rules. This lines up\ntimely with the Philippine Basketball Association\u2019s (PBA) recent announcement\nof the four-point shot beginning in its 49th season\u2014allowing SHOCK 4\u2019s young\nplayers to adapt to the new kind of shot in competitive play in preparation for\ntheir PBA aspirations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with the new rule, ANTA has once again hand-picked\nfour collegiate players to help tell their stories as it reaches new heights\nthis time around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jommel Puno, Steve Nash Enriquez, Lauren Lopez, and Rey\nRemogat are notable names from the college level who are about to unleash their\ntrue potential. This bodes well with the tournament\u2019s unorthodox schematics of\na full-court 4-on-4 format with a first-to-21 scoring system as it displays the\nphysical and quick Filipino style of play. Their journeys have set them up to\nshock the local basketball scene later this year similar to the SHOCK 4\ntournament aspirants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Beda University Red Lions guard Jommel Puno is coming\noff a championship season just as a rookie. For Puno, the work doesn\u2019t stop\nthere as he\u2019s been brushing up on scouting reports from his first year to\npinpoint what areas of his game need improvement. For the 6-foot-5 guard, the\ngame is all about \u201cadvantages,\u201d as it resonates with the tournament\u2019s hoopers\nlooking to take advantage of the opportunity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going for a championship repeat, Puno claims, \u201cI feel\nlike this is the most important year of my career and that I\u2019m at my peak\npotential. All that\u2019s left for me to do is show people what I got.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For National University Bulldogs floor general Steve Nash\nEnriquez, he is instilling a \u201cno expectations\u201d mindset to his teammates now\nthat he is their main playmaker. With bigger responsibilities, Enriquez aims to\nsteer them in the right direction\u2014exuding the camaraderie shared in the SHOCK 4\ntournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMay <\/em>mentality kasi si <\/em>Coach [Jeff Napa] na <\/em>\u2018next man up\u2019, kaya gagawin lang namin yung <\/em>best namin at ng tama<\/em>,\u201d he shared on how his team\u2019s off-season\npreparations have been like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Coach has a \u201cnext man up\u201d mentality, which is why we\u2019re\njust going to do our best in the right way.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a whole different scenario for incoming freshman\nAteneo Blue Eagles guard Lauren Lopez being one of the standouts moving up to\nthe seniors\u2019 ranks. Attributing to the high-paced play of the SHOCK4 tournament\nas an energy spark of her own, Lopez hopes to crack the rotational guard spot\nlater on this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing in the intensity of her game, Lopez talks about\nwhat she\u2019ll bring to her squad sharing, \u201cI think I could help my teammates by\ncoming in with a new perspective and a fresh mindset.\u201d This alludes to SHOCK\n4\u2019s nature of taking the competition by storm as Lopez gives her thoughts on\nthe tournament, \u201cIn Filipino basketball, magulo\ndiba<\/em>. It\u2019s kakaiba<\/em>. 4×4\nrepresents the Filipino culture as a unique one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transferring to the UP Fighting Maroons is a member of\nlast year\u2019s UAAP Men\u2019s Basketball Mythical Five in Rey Remogat. The Gilas\nPilipinas 3×3 representative is currently serving a one-year residency from\ncollegiate ball with the transfer but that hasn\u2019t halted his progression. \u201cIt’s\nall about [your] mental [state] talaga na\nkahit na hindi ka maglalaro ngayon,<\/em> yung\n<\/em>work ethic mo<\/em> parang ka pa rin lalaro<\/em> this season,\u201d he\nposited on how he has been treating a non-playing year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describing his game as \u201cunbothered\u201d, Remogat is a\ntestament to the SHOCK4 Tournament\u2019s culture of playing for oneself despite any\ndoubts that could be encountered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The athletes are grateful for the opportunity to\nrepresent an internationally-recognized brand like ANTA, especially since the\nSHOCK4 tournament bolsters its participants’ development on and off the court.\nPuno, for example, was able to get his early jitters out before his debut\ncampaign when he joined the SHOCK4 Tournament\u2019s first season. Meanwhile,\nEnriquez, Lopez, and Remogat expressed that the tournament would have aided\nthem immensely before their breakout periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As ANTA continues to highlight the raw and underrated\ntalent the country possesses, everyone is invited to watch the remaining legs\nlive with updates to follow on ANTA\u2019s social media pages.  The 2024 SHOCK4 Tournament will excitingly be\ncapped off with its National Finals on August 18th at the Filoil EcoOil Arena\nin San Juan City as the top two teams ying to come out on top will be rewarded\nwith ANTA basketball footwear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As ANTA continues to highlight the raw and underrated talent the country possesses, everyone is invited to watch the remaining legs live with updates to follow on ANTA\u2019s social media pages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[488],"class_list":["post-9554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9557,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions\/9557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}