TNT to change import anew; Racela ‘on leave’

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Could the third time be the charm for TNT?

After replacing original import Mike Glover after their first game in the PBA Governors’ Cup, the KaTropa are once again set to change their import six games into the conference.

TNT assistant coach Eric Gonzales said the team will send Stacy Davis home after just four games.

“We’re going to change the import because he hasn’t adapted well,” said Gonzales in Filipino after TNT’s 118-114 overtime win over Columbian Sunday at Smart Araneta Coliseum. “That’s the order, change the import.”

Davis averaged 18.3 points and 10.8 rebounds in the four games he played for the KaTropa but he shot the ball rather unimpressively with an 18 percent clip from beyond the arc and an overall 33 percent from the field.

TNT team manager Virgil Villavicencio said he hopes the team will reveal its import by the end of the week.

“There are three players already lined up, I don’t want to say who because I don’t want to pre-empt anything because other teams are also eyeing these three,” said Villavicencio in Filipino. “There’s one new name and the other two have played with us before.”

Villavicencio added that head coach Nash Racela is still on leave and the team will temporarily move on without him.

“As of now, Nash is on leave, it depends what happens in the future,” said Villavicencio.