‘We didn’t get stops,’ Lassiter says after torrid shooting

Marcio Lassiter TRISTAN TAMAYO/INQUIRER.net

Marcio Lassiter has been in a place so many players dream of but never set foot in.

He was in the zone.

Lassiter shot 10-of-17 from three, third-best in PBA playoff history, for a career-high 31 points, but his heroics were a little too early as Rain or Shine stunned San Miguel late in the fourth quarter for a 113-110 Game Two victory in their best-of-five series in the PBA Governors’ Cup semifinals.

What hurts more for San Miguel was Painters import Wendell McKines hitting a career-high 53 points to go along 17 rebounds.

Lassiter put it simply, “we didn’t get stops.”

“I’m just so bummed, give credit to Rain or Shine,” a dejected Lassiter said. “It’s hard to just lose, give up a lot of points and don’t get a defensive stop.”

San Miguel had a decent fourth quarter with 21 points but Rain or Shine had a masterpiece with 36 points.

“I don’t think we got one defensive stop,” Lassiter said. “One player scoring 53 points, we didn’t come close to stopping him.”

“As a team, we could all do more.”