Mamaril says ‘physicality’ in Aces-B.Pier series an ‘acting job’

GlobalPort’s veteran enforcer Billy Mamaril. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.net

Game 2 of the Globalport-Alaska series may have heard more whistles than a traffic stop, Bill Mamaril said that the physicality of the game now was nothing compared to what he has experience before.

Billy Mamaril, GlobalPort’s 35-year-old center, said after the heated tiff between the Aces and the Batang Pier that times may have changed as he has been in more physical games in the past.

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“The physicality, some of those stuff, just don’t look at it that much, it’s not really physical,” Mamaril said after the Aces 100-76 win in game 2 of the semis. “There’s been more physical games before, I guess it’s the new rule, they don’t want anything drastic to happen.”

Mamaril finished with two points and four rebounds in a game which had 16 technical fouls, owing to near bench-clearing brawl in the first quarter where several players and coaching staff members where whistled with the tech.

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The game’s number of technical fouls tied with Alaska-Shell game back in 1997.

“It wasn’t physical at all, it was an acting job.”