Leonard Santillan (center) and Rain or Shine have been stretched to their limits by Terrafirma. —AUGUST DELA CRUZ
Rain or Shine needed to dig a little bit deeper on Sunday night time simply to fend off a lowly Terrafirma facet, 124-112, within the PBA Commissioner’s Cup.
However coach Yeng Guiao would somewhat body the outing as an train in tempo and sustaining effort.
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“We’ve talked about it earlier: That if we don’t begin effectively—which we didn’t—they’ll hold on and carry on threatening us. That’s precisely what occurred,” the fiery mentor stated after the hard-earned win at PhilSports Enviornment in Pasig Metropolis.
“I knew that if we weren’t in a position to shake them off early, they’ll struggle,” he added of the Dyip. “There’s no strain for them [at this point], as the whole lot to them now could be only a bonus.”
Guiao stated that the sport’s worth was in how the Elasto Painters completed it.
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“It’s this sort of [tight] video games and the best way you shut it that grow to be classes that we may use sooner or later,” he stated.
“Keep in mind the Magnolia sport? We have been up double digits after which they responded,” he stated. “However we have been nonetheless in a position to get again. I noticed that as signal and as a constructive growth. As an alternative of lashing out for squandering an early lead, I really feel prefer it was simply the best way it’s—that issues like this occur within the PBA.
“There are not any weak groups for those who’re too relaxed and also you don’t have the appropriate psychological strategy to the sport,” Guiao went on.
Behind import, Deon Thompson’s 23 factors and 17 rebounds and Adrian Nocum’s 21 and 7, Rain or Shine overhauled a 12-point deficit and accomplished a comeback that gave the franchise its fourth win in 5 conferences because the Painters stayed in second behind NorthPort whereas being the one facet that has a win streak going.
“We had a robust finish sport. It was the end, actually. We performed round matchups,” Guiao stated. “We had stops that we wanted at a vital time and we received into our transition [game just in time]. I’m simply relieved we have been in a position to do all that on the proper time.”
Maintaining Terrafirma winless
Andrei Caracut chipped in 15 factors, 13 of which coming within the third interval that greased Rain or Shine’s comeback and the following draw back within the last body that additionally doomed Terrafirma to its seventh loss in as many video games.
“We’re about to have a Christmas dinner additionally. So I’m simply glad that the temper wasn’t going to alter. Or else we received’t be capable of eat effectively,” Guiao stated with a smirk.
In the meantime, league chief Willie Marcial revealed that the PBA has but to be notified concerning the Video games and Amusements Board’s reported resolution to revoke the license of embattled NorthPort guard John Amores.
“I haven’t obtained any official communication. We’ll in all probability know extra tomorrow when it’s the weekdays once more,” he stated of the event which got here almost three months after the Batang Pier sophomore’s involvement in a taking pictures incident in Laguna.
Amores was charged with tried murder after figuring in an altercation following a pickup sport in Lumban final September. The league has since suspended him with out pay for everything of the Commissioner’s Cup and has tasked him to endure counseling—one of many a number of situations contingent on his return to the PBA. INQ
