If ever there was a time in the PBA Commissioner’s Cup that everything went haywire, it has to be in this championship series between defending champion San Miguel and Barangay Ginebra.
Both teams have won two games apiece and will head to Game 5 on virtual stalemate after four matches have been decided by at least 25 points.
There have been sentiments that both teams will eventually clamp down and slow this madness down, but Ginebra forward Joe Devance thinks things will still be in fever pitch.
“It is pretty crazy,” said Devance Friday at Smart Araneta Coliseum. “But again, coach Tim [Cone] said when you have two great teams and one just gets on a roll like that, it’s hard to stop when they get that momentum.”
“I’m sure Game 5 is going to be pretty crazy so I’m excited.”
Ginebra was the first to taste the intoxicating satisfaction of a blowout after its 127-99 Game 1 win, but the Beermen retaliated in Game 2, 134-109, and in Game 3, 132-94.
San Miguel’s 38-point victory tied the league record for biggest finals win after Alaska bombarded the Beermen, 99-61, in the sixth game of the 1998 Philippine Cup finals.
Devance, who had 18 points and five rebounds in Game 4, added that both teams will be able to mix things up come Game 5 and that no two games, despite sharing lopsided margins, are always the same.
“Every game is going to be different so we can’t expect to do the same thing the next game,” said Devance.