Webb doesn’t want to be just an also-ran replacement for a legend

Jason Webb takes over the coaching reins for the Star Hotshots.

How pressured is coach Jason Webb when he takes his position as the lead tactician for Star?

He’d rather not think about it too much.

Webb downplayed the feat of him and his dad Freddie joining the PBA history books as the first father-and-son to coach in the PBA.

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“It’s an honor, but it’s just some kind of decorations.”

“What really matters if you’re gonna be successful or not. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the position for ten generations. Once you get a job, the question is ‘Are you gonna be successful?'” he said.

Freddie made his coaching debut with Shell in 1985. Thirty years later, it will be his son who will be following suit.

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But as much as Jason is proud of this feat, he just doesn’t want to follow the steps of the other coaches who also had to fill the shoes of their legendary precedents.

“I just want to be different from the Tim Floyd’s, the Rudy Tomjanovich’s, and the Mike Brown’s. These guys are the ones that came after Phil Jackson, the greatest coach of our generation in the NBA, and they didn’t really have a lot of success. I’m filling to the vacancy left by coach Tim, the greatest coach of our generation in the PBA. I just hope to be different from those guys,” he said. CFC