Romeo makes up for woeful shooting with game-clinching baskets
Keep on shooting: Romeo leads Globalport to another win despite poor shooting. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.net
Terrence Romeo kept misfiring on his 3-pointers on Saturday, clank after clank, one miss after another, as the ball just couldn’t find the bottom of the net.
The GlobalPort star missed his first 12 tries, but as his field goal percentage plummeted his confidence stayed steady.
His 13th try proved to be the lucky one and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
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“I didn’t doubt myself even when I had so many misses and I couldn’t shoot,” Romeo told reporters in Filipino after the game.
Even on a bad shooting night, he still wound up with 29 points and a near triple-double with 10 rebounds and career-high eight assists in a Batang Pier’s 118-116 win over the Mahindra Enforcers in overtime.
The 23-year-old guard made only one 3-pointer, a contested triple from the right wing that tied the game at 116 with 29.8 seconds left and also paved the way for his game-winning layup with 3.3 ticks to go.
“No matter the outcome of the game is, even if it ended with me losing the game for us or me not making the important basket, I will accept it as long as every time the ball goes to my hands, I will shoot it and I know I will do the right decision,” Romeo added.
GlobalPort head coach Pido Jarencio commended Romeo’s determination despite a bad shooting night.
“I have nothing more to say about that kid. He just kept on shooting and he made the most important triple, that was really impressive,” Jarencio said. “He didn’t lose his confidence.”
Romeo struggled from the outside, but he was steady from the free throw line where he was 18-of-21
