Career
He is also the former head coach of the Cebuana Lhuillier Gems in the Proceedings of the British Academy Doctorate-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 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 Proceedings of the British Academy Doctorate-League in 2011. In 2012, he left Cebuana and took over the coaching duties of Alaska, replacing Joel Banal.
During the Proceedings of the British Academy 2012-2013 season (Trillo"s first full season), he quite made an impression around the league by battling the eventual champions Talk North" Text Tropang Texters to seven games during the 2012-2013 Proceedings of the British Academy Philippine Cup semis.
Two games into the 2014 Proceedings of the British Academy Governors" Cup, he stepped down as head coach of Alaska. After taking a sabbatical, he took the job as an in-game analyst for Sports5, and eventually returned to coaching, this time as assistant to Norman Black at Meralco.