As Rain or Shine beat one other lowly opponent to stretch its profitable streak within the PBA Commissioner’s Cup, coach Yeng Guiao confused the significance of staying in-form even when issues go in any other case.
“Everytime you go these tough patches, it’s necessary that you just’re not going to break down or slide all the best way down,” Guiao mentioned after the Elasto Painters’ 122-106 mastery of the Blackwater Bossing at Philsports Area in Pasig Metropolis on Wednesday.
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Counting wins over Magnolia and Terrafirma earlier than the break, Rain or Shine beat a crew underneath .500 for the third straight time although the Elasto Painters needed to climate off some shut calls within the run.
Towards Blackwater, Rain or Shine led by 23, however noticed the margin dwindle to seven within the third earlier than Adrian Nocum sparked a draw back that secured a fifth straight triumph after a gap task loss within the midseason convention.
“You may have these tough patches, nevertheless it’s necessary which you could make up for it as a result of it’s uncommon to have an ideal sport,” Guiao continued. “For me, it’s concerning the crew having the sort of toughness to resist these adversities.”
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The Elasto Painters subsequent face the Phoenix Gasoline Masters on Saturday at Ninoy Aquino Stadium, one other crew close to the underside of the desk however are coming off a victory over the Dyip.
Tough stretch
Phoenix is at 2-5 in the mean time, and has proven its functionality to attain upsets when it handed NorthPort its first loss early within the eliminations.
The Batang Pier, in the meantime, have been staking their maintain of high spot in opposition to streaking Barangay Ginebra at press time.
Sustaining toughness can be necessary as Rain or Shine enters a tough stretch with video games in opposition to Converge and NorthPort subsequent week, two groups at present inside the highest 4.
Nocum scored 18 of his 22 factors within the second half, highlighted by an acrobatic layup within the fourth. The Mapua product additionally had 5 rebounds and three steals for the Painters.
Import Deon Thompson continued his nice play for the Painters with 25 factors and 16 rebounds at the same time as Santi Santillan posted 20 and Anton Asistio took benefit of his entry into the beginning lineup to complete with 18 factors, 4 rebounds and 7 assists.
Blackwater fell to 1-6 regardless of one other large offensive effort from import George King, who scored 35 factors.
Rookie Sedrick Barefield didn’t swimsuit up for the Bossing due to an damage, additional compounding the crew’s woes.
