As TNT faces coaching concerns, Jojo Lastimosa asserts that winning the PBA championship "might change everything"

The Tropang Giga's pressing concern comes after Lastimosa led the MVP Group's flagship team to the PBA Governors' Cup title after defeating Barangay Ginebra in six games.

“It might change everything but it remains to be seen if this is really a one-off,” said Lastimosa.

After the Tropang Giga brass decided that Chot Reyes should concentrate on his duties as Gilas Pilipinas head coach and program director, Lastimosa, who left NLEX to join TNT as its team manager, now holds the head coaching position concurrently.

With Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, the Tropang Giga won their first Governors' Cup championship in team history. Lastimosa is giving the TNT management the final say on whether to keep him as head coach for the upcoming campaign. He is prepared to simultaneously serve as a manager and a coach.

“As far as I know, this is a one-off. But I don’t know what [Manny Pangilinan] will do and Mr. Ricky Vargas will do and Mr. Al Panlilio will do. I’ll be ready just in case. But I can be a manager and a coach at the same time,” he said.

“I can do both.”

Lastimosa, who won titles three times as an assistant coach and ten times as a player, won his first championship as a head coach by defeating Tim Cone, his former coach.

Following Cone and Justin Brownlee's arrival, the Tropang Giga became the first team to defeat the Gin Kings in a conference with a high import presence in the finals series.

“I’m not supposed to be here. I’m not supposed to be coaching this. My deal was is if I’m going to coach, I’ll coach it. I’m not going to be just a mouthpiece and they agreed to it,” said Lastimosa.