NLEX shoots for fourth straight PBA D-League title
By Mark Giongco
NLEX head coach Boyet Fernandez expects Cagayan Valley to go all out in Game 2 of their PBA D-League Aspirants Cup best-of-three championship series.
NLEX head coach Boyet Fernandez expects Cagayan Valley to go all out in Game 2 of their PBA D-League Aspirants Cup best-of-three championship series.
Reigning NCAA champion San Beda plans to offer new coach Boyet Fernandez a three-year pact as it tries to sustain its dominance in the country’s oldest collegiate basketball league.
For the second straight time, NLEX squandered a double-digit deficit as it scrambled to an 88-81 win over winless Informatics Tuesday in the PBA D-League Aspirants Cup at the San Juan Gym.
IT’S COMMON knowledge that every time there’s a Pacquiao fight, the crime rate in the Philippines significantly goes down and thoroughfares in the country become empty.
NLEX’s big guns came out firing in the final quarter as the Road Warriors rallied from a double-digit deficit against Big Chill, 80-70, at the start of the PBA D-League Foundation’s Cup Tuesday at the FilOil-Flying V Arena in San Juan.
He roughly stands at six-foot-five and has a lanky frame that’s not built to bang in the inside.
It didn’t take long for NLEX to flash its usual brand of firepower.
Chris Ellis scored half of his team-high 20 points in the pivotal third quarter as NLEX sweated out an 89-75 triumph over Freego Jeans to seize its back-to-back PBA D-League crown Tuesday at the FilOil Flying V Arena in San Juan.
Their lone meeting this season resulted into a rout.
Flashing its vaunted firepower, NLEX came out charging from the get-go and crushed Big Chill, 89-60, Tuesday to claim the last title berth in the PBA D-League Aspirants Cup at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig.
Reminiscent of their hard-earned Game 2 triumph, fancied NLEX once again roared to a fast start and built a commanding lead over Big Chill at the half.
NLEX coach Boyet Fernandez hopes his top-seeded Road Warriors won’t put to waste their near-perfect run in the PBA D-League Aspirants Cup.
Big Chill and Freego Jeans vie to complete a semifinal sweep of their fancied opponents and arrange what had seemed as an improbable championship showdown.
