Denden Lazaro-Revilla and Bea de Leon move to Creamline. –FILE PHOTOS
Bea de Leon and Denden Lazaro-Revilla will find their approach to powerhouse Creamline starting the following Premier Volleyball League (PVL) season as their transfers to the Cool Smashers from sister team Choco Mucho was sealed on Thursday.
League president Ricky Palou vowed for no more sister team dealings to occur again starting in June, when PVL leadership comes up with a set of guidelines that may implement a Draft proceeding, a team and salary cap, and trade rules to be sure that parity amongst monied teams and people who have less, stays.
“We now have no rule on that as we speak,” Palou told the Inquirer over the phone when asked if his office was aware of the transfer of De Leon and Lazaro-Revilla to the already solid Creamline squad. “It was obviously done by sister teams, because they (Flying Titans) rarely used Bea (de Leon) under their latest coach, and so they (Cool Smashers) lost Ced (Domingo).
“So it was obviously a move to assist a sister team out,” Palou went on. “Creamline knows that they need a middle (blocker) with Domingo out.”
Domingo is in Thailand playing for the Nakhon Ratchasima side in its local league, but reports said that the efficient middle blocker is ready for a PVL return and can suit up for Akari, which also has a sister team in Nxled.
“In the long run, when the Draft starts, there will certainly be no trades between sister teams.”
Domingo left in October, with setter Jia de Guzman leaving earlier to play in Japan as an import. The Cool Smashers still went on to brush the last All-Filipino Conference, but with the opposite teams shoring up their rosters using the disbanded F2 Logistics sweepstakes, Creamline has no alternative but to strengthen its core.
“Immediately we are able to do nothing about that if that’s true,” Palou acknowledged when asked concerning the Domingo transfer, whilst he rattled off some details of the Draft guidelines that he’ll present to the owners and can hopefully be put in effect in June.
Draft’s foremost purpose
“Needless to say, top picks is not going to be eligible for trades for whatever reason,” he said. “We don’t want what’s happening within the PBA (Philippine Basketball Association) to occur to our league, when some teams trade off their top picks for reasons everyone knows. We don’t want less-monied teams to become selling players.
“So far as the PVL rules go, for those who (player) are a high selection, you’ll stick with that team for at the very least two years,” he went on. “The aim of the draft is to make teams at par with one another. At the least two years (of staying there) for the highest picks. “I would like them to carry on to those players,” Palou declared. “There will probably be no selling of those players. And if that player will probably be traded after that, our office will be sure that it should be a good trade.”
The Inquirer first got here out with the PVL plan to implement a Draft and salary caps as reported compensation on players have grow to be a priority so far as the viability of the league for the long haul is worried.
Palou afterward did the rounds with team owners and said: “All of them just like the draft and the principles that we’re going to apply. So it’s as much as us (PVL) to provide you with them and we’re doing that as we speak.”
De Leon and Lazaro are reuniting with former Ateneo teammates Alyssa Valdez, Ella de Jesus, and afterward De Guzman. The group won the primary two UAAP titles of the Ateneo Blue Eagles in Seasons 76 and 77 in 2014 and 2015.
The Flying Titans, meanwhile, will probably be coming off their best conference in ending second to the Cool Smashers.
