Luigi Trillo
| Meralco Bolts | |
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| Position | Assistant Coach |
| League | PBA |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
July 13, 1975 Manila, Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Career information | |
| College | De La Salle University |
| Career history | |
| As coach: | |
| 1999–2004 | Adamson Falcons (UAAP) |
| 2006–2012 | Cebuana Lhuillier Gems (PBL)/(PBA D-League) |
| 2007 | Philippines (men's 3x3) |
| 2011–2014 | Alaska Aces |
| 2014–present | Meralco Bolts |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Luis Antonio Trillo, (born July 13, 1975) better known as Luigi Trillo is the former head coach of the Alaska Aces in the Philippine Basketball Association. He is also the former head coach of the Cebuana Lhuillier Gems in the PBA D-League. Currently, he is the assistant coach of the Meralco Bolts.
Unlike most coaches, Trillo did not play professionally at first. He was out of the bird’s nest quite early when he first got the offer to coach for a private school for boys called Southridge in 1997.
After Southridge, he became a co-coach with George Gallent in the junior Philippine Basketball League. He then got an offer as an assistant coach for the Cebu Gems in the now-defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association, where he went straight to the finals in his first year.
In 1999, he joined the Adamson Falcons and, at 23 years old, became the youngest head coach in the UAAP at the time. His inexperience showed as the Soaring Falcons did not win a game in his first two seasons with the team at 0-28.Those first two years were really trying times for me because, remember, you're inheriting a team that's in last place and then we had to recruit,", he said as he explained the early parts of his 4 and a half years with Adamson.
His hard work resulted in a UniGames title for Adamson. Although his time with Adamson wasn’t the brightest of years, it still remains just as significant to him because it made him “realize how tough coaching was.”
While at Adamson, he was also offered by coach Tim Cone, who was then his neighbor, to be his assistant coach At Alaska, which he accepted. He juggled learning about coaching through the UAAP and with the Alaska franchise.
After his stint with Adamson, he became head coach of the Cebuana Lhuillier Gems of the PBL in 2006, and of the PBA D-League in 2011.
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