Siot Tanquingcen

Bethune "Siot" Tanquingcen

San Miguel Beermen
Position	Consultant
League	PBA
Personal information
Born	(1972-11-03) November 3, 1972 Manila, Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Listed height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Listed weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Career information
College	University of Santo Tomas
PBA draft	1995:
Selected by the Sunkist Orange Juicers
Playing career	1995–2000
Career history
As player:
1995–1997	Sunkist Orange Juicers
1997–1998	San Miguel Beermen
1999–2000	Pampanga Dragons
As coach:
2004-2006, 2011-2013	Barangay Ginebra Kings
2007-2010	San Miguel Beermen
2014	Barako Bull Energy
2015-present	San Miguel Beermen (as consultant)

Bethune "Siot" Tanquingcen is a Filipino professional basketball head coach who currently consultant of the San Miguel Beermen in the Philippine Basketball Association.

Prior to his current role, he was former player for the UST Growling Tigers in the UAAP, the Sunkist Orange Juicers and the San Miguel Beermen in the PBA and the Pampanga Dragons in the Metropolitan Basketball Association. Tanquincen led Ginebra to two PBA titles as its head coach from 2004-2006 and also give San Miguel one championship in 2009 Fiesta Cup. He studied at the Philippine Cultural High School.

Basketball career

Tanquingcen was one of the role players for the UST Tigers in their historic four-peat run from 1993-1996 under head coach Aric del Rosario. Other members of the said squad were Chris Cantonjos, Estong Ballesteros, Rey Evangelista, Dennis Espino and Bal David.

Siot also played as the starting point guard for the Philippine team alongside Poch Juinio that won the gold medal in the Sea Games.

He went undrafted in the PBA Rookie Draft in 1995 but was signed by Sunkist late in the season. He got to play for a total of 3 games.

He also played for the San Miguel Beermen from 1997-1998 as a 12th man for the team. In 1999, he joined his former UST mentor del Rosario in the MBA's Pampanga Dragons, usually as its starting point guard.

Coaching career

San Miguel under Jong Uichico

After his stint with the Dragons, Tanquingcen became the assistant coach of the San Miguel Beermen under Jong Uichico. In 2002, Tanquingcen was the team's interim coach with Uichico tasked to lead the Philippine national basketball team in the 2002 Asian Games. Despite a limited lineup of Dorian Peña, Boybits Victoria and imports Lamont Strothers, Art Long, Shea Seals and Terquin Mott, he coached the Beermen to a respectable fourth place finish in the Governor's Cup and finished third in the Commissioner's Cup.

Barangay Ginebra Kings as head coach: 2004-2006

Tanquingcen would return to his assistant duties for the next two seasons. However, midway through the 2004 PBA Fiesta Conference, Barangay Ginebra mentor Allan Caidic was relegated as team manager and hired Tanquincen from its sister team as its new head coach.

The change led to changes in the Ginebra system, as Tanquingcen used more of Jayjay Helterbrand on the point guard spot instead of the inconsistent and injured Bal David. This and other changes led to the Kings' improbable championship in the said conference, defeating Red Bull Barako, 3-1.

In the 2004-05 Philippine Cup, Tanquingcen once again led the crowd-favorites to its first back-to-back title in franchise history after defeating the Talk 'N Text Phone Pals in six games.

2006-07 Philippine Cup: Demotion and Move to Interim Coach

During the 2006 offseason, Jong Uichico was named as the new head coach of the Barangay Ginebra Kings, after a big overhaul by almost all of the then-four PBA teams of San Miguel Corporation (the Coca-Cola Tigers is now under the Coca-Cola Company). Tanquingcen, however, was demoted as Uichico's assistant, reprising the role he had with the Beermen.

Despite the limited role, Tanquingcen was normally spotted mapping out offensive sets for the Kings during timeouts as Uichico looks on. The Kings would eventually won the Philippine Cup as an assistant defeating sister company, the Beermen after winning the last four games following a 0-2 hole.

2007: San Miguel's coach

In the 2007 PBA Fiesta Conference, Tanquingcen was sent back to San Miguel as an interim coach for Chot Reyes, who focused his role as head of the Philippine national basketball team. At the time Tanquingcen was named head coach, San Miguel struggled with a 0-6 record, and eventually posted a 1-7 card.

But, the Beermen began a surprise run in the tournament, that began with an eight-game winning streak, before finishing with a 10-8 record, and a wild-card appearance.

In a wildcard match against the Coca-Cola Tigers for the final quarterfinals berth, San Miguel won a 102-101 miracle score despite trailing by four points with only 13 seconds left.

Their run continued in the quarterfinals, scoring an upset against his former team, Barangay Ginebra, in the best-of-three series before falling to eventual champion Alaska Aces in a grueling six-game tussle.In 2009 fiesta conference they (San Miguel Beermen) defeat the crowd favorite baragay ginebra kings in seven games 90-79 to get his third pba title as a head coach.

2010: Back to Ginebra as assistant

SMC made its announcement in August 2010 that Ato Agustin will be the new head coach of the San Miguel Beermen beginning 2010-11 season. Siot Tanquincen has been transferred back to the Barangay Ginebra Kings as assistant to Jong Uichico.

2011/2012: Ginebra as Head Coach

SMC management once again decided to relegate Siot Tanquincen as the head tactician of the Barangay Ginebra Kings together with Jong Uichico. They were both head coaches but Siot having the last call for the team. After one conference Jong Uichico then decided to move to Pangilinan owned Meralco team as a consultant right after being considered to be part of Smart Gilas coaching staff. At the start of the second conference Siot becomes the lone coach of the country's most popular team with Allan Caidic, Marco Januz Sauler and Art dela Cruz as assistants.

2014: Barako Bull Energy

Tanquincen took over the coaching duties of Barako Bull from Bong Ramos after a dismal 2-7 win-loss campaign in the 2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup. In his first conference with Barako during the Governors' Cup, his team barely squeaked in the quarterfinals with 3-6 win-loss record, and was eliminated by Talk 'N Text.

He was fired before the start of the new season due to conflicts with management. He was replaced by Koy Banal.

Coaching record

Season	Conference	Team	Elims./Clas. round				Playoffs
			W	L	PCT	Finish	PG	W	L	PCT	Results
2004 Fiesta		BGK	4	10	.400	7th	11	8	3	.727	Won Fiesta Conference
2004–05	Philippine Cup	BGK	13	5	.722	1st	11	7	4	.636	Won Philippine Cup
	Fiesta	BGK	8	10	.444	7th	2	0	2	.000	Lost in wildcard phase
2005–06	Fiesta	BGK	9	7	.563	2nd	9	4	5	.444	Lost in third-place playoff
	Philippine Cup	BGK	7	9	.438	7th	8	5	3	.625	Lost in quarterfinals
2006–07	Philippine Cup	(Did not coach)
	Fiesta	SMB	10	5	.667	5th	10	4	6	.400	Lost in third-place playoff
2007–08	Philippine Cup	MBM	10	8	.556	5th	2	0	2	.000	Lost in quarterfinals
	Fiesta	MBM	10	8	.556	5th	10	4	6	.400	Lost in third-place playoff
2008–09	Philippine Cup	SMB	9	9	.500	6th	12	6	6	.000	Lost in third-place playoff
	Fiesta	SMB	11	3	.786	1st	13	8	5	.615	Won Fiesta Conference
2009–10	Philippine Cup	SMB	13	5	.722	2nd	7	3	4	.429	Won third-place playoff
	Fiesta	SMB	13	4	.765	2nd	10	5	5	.500	Lost Fiesta Conference
Totals			117	83	.585		105	54	51	.514	Won 3 championships

See also

• Barangay Ginebra Kings
• UST Growling Tigers

References

• Hardcourt: The Official Philippine Basketball Association Annual

External links

• PBA.ph