Smart Gilas gets practice time for Fiba Asia with shortened PBA Governor’s Cup
By Celest R. Flores
With players tied up with responsibilities to their mother teams, time has always been an issue when it comes to the national team.
With players tied up with responsibilities to their mother teams, time has always been an issue when it comes to the national team.
THIS SERIES has seen everything except a winner. After all the injuries, the great and not-so-great games and the drama on and off the floor, Rain or Shine and B-Meg go at it again one last time today to determine the PBA Governors Cup champion at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
B-MEG was in its finest form last night when Rain or Shine was at its worst, and the best-of-seven series for the PBA Governors Cup many thought was over will go the full route after all.
James Yap scored a conference-high 30 points as B-Meg turned back Rain or Shine, 91-81, Wednesday night to force Game 6 in the PBA Governors Cup Finals at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.
AFTER practically giving up with still more than a quarter left on Friday, Tim Cone certainly left a bad taste in the mouth as far as B-Meg’s legions of fans are concerned.
With its outside guns on target for most of last night, Rain or Shine stormed to a 2-1 lead in the PBA Governors’ Cup title series with B-Meg after a 93-84 conquest of the Llamados at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Rain or Shine hardly felt Paul Lee’s absence as it hammered B-Meg, 93-84, to seize a 2-1 series edge in the 2012 PBA Governor’s Cup finals at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Yeng Guiao’s words reverberated all over the press room Wednesday night and practically everywhere else the morning after.
WITH B-Meg’s 85-80 win in Game 2 last Wednesday, the PBA Governors Cup Finals is now a series.
B-MEG tied the best-of-seven series for the PBA Governors Cup at 1-all last night with an 85-80 victory over Rain or Shine that lost super rookie Paul Lee due to injury with the game still in the balance at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
(COURAGEOUS CALL: It was the lifetime motto of newspaperman Nixon Kua to stare truth in the eye—and report everything without fear or favor.
James Yap came through in the clutch to lift B-Meg over Rain or Shine, 85-80, and tie the two teams’ PBA Governors Cup best-of-seven Finals series at 1-1 Wednesday night at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.
With a non-traditional team one of the protagonists, the championship pairing for the PBA Governors’ Cup undoubtedly lacked the box-office appeal present in previous title series.
