Silva, UE planning for possibility of Pasaol joining PBA Draft

Joe Silva’s first year as a head coach in the collegiate ranks has been bittersweet at best.

A multi-titled coach with Ateneo in the juniors’ division, Silva’s early stay in the UAAP Season 81 men’s basketball tournament produced just one win against 10 losses.

Despite the miserable record, though, Silva has a silver lining in the talented forward Alvin Pasaol.

Pasaol has been a consistent 20-10 player in the league at this point of the season with 22.1 points and 10.7 rebounds-per-game but Silva knows those numbers could come to an end with UE.

Silva is aware that Pasaol’s draft stock continues to rise with every game he plays in the UAAP and the idea of his player getting drafted is already in the back of his mind.

“Alvin and I still have to talk, and also with the management, because he might enter this year’s PBA Draft,” said Silva in Filipino.

Pasaol still has two more years of collegiate eligibility after Season 81 but with the way he’s playing he’s already seen as a viable lottery pick in the PBA.

“We’re going to talk to him and whatever he wants that’s what we’ll go with,” said Silva.