Leonard Santillan (center) and Rain or Shine had been stretched to their limits by Terrafirma. —AUGUST DELA CRUZ
Rain or Shine needed to dig somewhat deeper on Sunday evening simply to fend off a lowly Terrafirma facet, 124-112, within the PBA Commissioner’s Cup.
However coach Yeng Guiao would slightly 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 may hold on and carry on threatening us. That’s precisely what occurred,” the fiery mentor mentioned after the hard-earned win at PhilSports Area in Pasig Metropolis.
“I knew that if we weren’t in a position to shake them off early, they may struggle,” he added of the Dyip. “There’s no stress for them [at this point], as every part to them now’s only a bonus.”
Guiao mentioned 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 turn out to be classes that we may use sooner or later,” he mentioned.
“Bear in mind the Magnolia recreation? We had been up double digits after which they responded,” he mentioned. “However we had 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 should you’re too relaxed and also you don’t have the suitable 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 powerful finish recreation. It was the end, actually. We performed round matchups,” Guiao mentioned. “We had stops that we would have liked at a vital time and we obtained into our transition [game just in time]. I’m simply relieved we had been in a position to do all that on the proper time.”
Preserving 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 next draw back within the closing 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 vary. Or else we gained’t be capable to eat effectively,” Guiao mentioned 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 acquired any official communication. We’ll most likely know extra tomorrow when it’s the weekdays once more,” he mentioned 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 recreation in Lumban final September. The league has since suspended him with out pay for the whole lot of the Commissioner’s Cup and has tasked him to bear counseling—one of many a number of circumstances contingent on his return to the PBA. INQ
