Thoughts on Powerade-Rain or Shine Game 1:
- The first quarter of Gary David was like coming out of the locker room 20 minutes right after the B-Meg game. He quickly nailed a couple of three-pointers to open his game. Parang hindi nagbakasyon ng 10-plus days. End of first half, he got 17 points. That's not a good start defensively.
- JVee Casio and Marcio Lassiter still didn't score much in the first half but Powerade bench players, namely Josh Vanlandingham and Rudy Lingganay, surely made up for it. Two bench guys leading the second charge. ROS defense got worse.
- Speaking of bad defense, it's quite awful to see a messed up Rain or Shine defensive rotation out of a Powerade off-ball motion offense that end up JR Quinahan guarding Rudy Lingganay 20 feet away from the basket. Little man got high basketball IQ and blew by Quinahan and powerful enough to make a couple of and-one plays from a terrible help defense.
- Speaking of Rudy Lingganay, panalong monicker ang binigay ni Dominic Uy sa kanya. Rudy "The Anay" Lingganay. The best! And mind you, take this one seriously. Siya ang pesteng maaaring sumira sa Elasto Paint ng Rain or shine.
- Yeng Guiao's halftime dissatisfaction scream must have went a little something like this. "PUTANG INA! ALAM NYO YUNG SALITANG DEPENSA?!?!?!"
- Coming in the third, it's not really the good defense of Rain or Shine that did the trick to close in at Powerade, but it's Gary David got less touches during that quarter. They started to setup half-court offenses that didn't really involved much Gary David in the rotation, which resulted to Rain or Shine not messing up their defensive rotation. Now how did David scored? Last second decisions.
"Shit! Sira na ang play. O Gary... ikaw na bahala!"
- Fourth Quarter is where Rain or shine played tremendous defense and get their transition offense going. After Ronjay Buenafe touched the ball with two hands for the first time in a half-court play, a lot of steals and a lot of fastbreaks happened after. Magic?
- Here's where I had a funny exchange with my brother. Remember how Powerade were so thankful to the Lord after their monumental upset against B-Meg? I have no intention of being blasphemous with regards to this, but hey, it's always true that "nasa Diyos ang awa, nasa tao ang gawa."
Re-enactment of a Powerade timeout.
Alex Compton: Coach, let's call time. We need a play.
Bo Perasol: Yes Alex, we need to pray.
*buzzer
Utility boy: Coach, eto na yung whiteboa...
BP: Guys! They're up! Kaya pa natin habulin yan. Tara, let's close our eyes and pray.
*20 second silence from the team
BP: Lord, help us to execute this play. Amen.
JVee Casio: Coach, ano yung play?
*buzzer
BP: Sige, play na kayo. Kayang kaya pa yan! Focus!
Any similarities to the aforementioned sequence is completely coincidental.
- Whoever said Paul Lee couldn't make three balls is a liar-for-the-day. He nailed a lot of them in this game. Whoever said Jeff Chan isn't a deadly shooter is a total liar. (Well, we can put an asterisk to Paul Lee's three-point shooting. It was practically garbage time when he made those threes.)
- When the lead grew to double-digits in the fourth, and Gary David couldn't nail it anymore outside, I knew it was ove... hold on a second! Gary nailed one! Lead down to twelve! Ayan na! Gary David againnnnnnnnnnn... short! I knew it was over. Rain or Shine 1-0.
- Now this is where I can say that Paul Lee is given excess hype that could turn bad in the future. Tonight was a good example. Paul Lee, 3 points first half, 22 points second half. Jeff Chan, 12 points first half, 15 points second half. If consistency gets the nod, Jeff Chan is the best player of the game. But conventional media goes for explosion, so Lee gets the nod even though Chan scored consistently throughout the game. (Okay, I only made up Chan's breakdown of his 27 points divided into two halves. I'm not a stats guy, but the point I was making was pretty much clear. What, not yet? Go find another blogger.)
What does the Powerade coaching minstry... er, I mean, staff should do the next game?
First, call 117 to ask help to find a missing person in the name of Marcio Lassiter. Second, it's a pretty effective scheme to give the ball to JVee Casio in a half-court set and let him and another big man do their thing. Seeing him stroll around ROS' defense and find an open Doug Kramer underneath is a thing of beauty. They should be reminded that assists was the vital (well, maybe David's explosion was the more vital one) key to their upset against B-Meg. Third, play defense. ROS defense was just so bad that's why they got the lead in the first half, and by them not playing defense made them knocked-out in the second half.
What does the Elasto Painters need to do the next game?
JR Quinahan is reportedly absent in the next game because of his wedding. With Beau Belga being only the legit beef to man the middle, they must concentrate their collective defense underneath especially if Casio will play Steve Nash and Kramer or Sean Anthony will play Amar'e Stoudemire in the next game. So far, they've done everything right (except for that first half daydreaming) from making Gabe Norwood play defense to letting Jeff Chan do his thing and Ryan Arana do his thing and Coach Yeng Guiao do his thing. (I still believe Coach Yeng screamed that in their dugout).
Ayon sa post ni @Joeloresca74 sa Twitter... "bakit locals pangit binibigay na monicker - Lingganay Anay, Omolon Boy Abang, Arboleda Snatcher." Mainam na din siguro na ganyan ang mga bansag sa kanila dahil sadyang nakakapeste naman talaga ang mga ginagawa nitong mga ito laban sa kalabang koponan. Kaysa naman mabigyan ka ng isang monicker dahil sa kapalpakan mo sa sarili mong team, tulad ng Dudut "five fouls in the first two minutes of the game" Jaworski.
- The first quarter of Gary David was like coming out of the locker room 20 minutes right after the B-Meg game. He quickly nailed a couple of three-pointers to open his game. Parang hindi nagbakasyon ng 10-plus days. End of first half, he got 17 points. That's not a good start defensively.
- JVee Casio and Marcio Lassiter still didn't score much in the first half but Powerade bench players, namely Josh Vanlandingham and Rudy Lingganay, surely made up for it. Two bench guys leading the second charge. ROS defense got worse.
- Speaking of bad defense, it's quite awful to see a messed up Rain or Shine defensive rotation out of a Powerade off-ball motion offense that end up JR Quinahan guarding Rudy Lingganay 20 feet away from the basket. Little man got high basketball IQ and blew by Quinahan and powerful enough to make a couple of and-one plays from a terrible help defense.
- Speaking of Rudy Lingganay, panalong monicker ang binigay ni Dominic Uy sa kanya. Rudy "The Anay" Lingganay. The best! And mind you, take this one seriously. Siya ang pesteng maaaring sumira sa Elasto Paint ng Rain or shine.
- Yeng Guiao's halftime dissatisfaction scream must have went a little something like this. "PUTANG INA! ALAM NYO YUNG SALITANG DEPENSA?!?!?!"
- Coming in the third, it's not really the good defense of Rain or Shine that did the trick to close in at Powerade, but it's Gary David got less touches during that quarter. They started to setup half-court offenses that didn't really involved much Gary David in the rotation, which resulted to Rain or Shine not messing up their defensive rotation. Now how did David scored? Last second decisions.
"Shit! Sira na ang play. O Gary... ikaw na bahala!"
- Fourth Quarter is where Rain or shine played tremendous defense and get their transition offense going. After Ronjay Buenafe touched the ball with two hands for the first time in a half-court play, a lot of steals and a lot of fastbreaks happened after. Magic?
- Here's where I had a funny exchange with my brother. Remember how Powerade were so thankful to the Lord after their monumental upset against B-Meg? I have no intention of being blasphemous with regards to this, but hey, it's always true that "nasa Diyos ang awa, nasa tao ang gawa."
Re-enactment of a Powerade timeout.
Alex Compton: Coach, let's call time. We need a play.
Bo Perasol: Yes Alex, we need to pray.
*buzzer
Utility boy: Coach, eto na yung whiteboa...
BP: Guys! They're up! Kaya pa natin habulin yan. Tara, let's close our eyes and pray.
*20 second silence from the team
BP: Lord, help us to execute this play. Amen.
JVee Casio: Coach, ano yung play?
*buzzer
BP: Sige, play na kayo. Kayang kaya pa yan! Focus!
Any similarities to the aforementioned sequence is completely coincidental.
- Whoever said Paul Lee couldn't make three balls is a liar-for-the-day. He nailed a lot of them in this game. Whoever said Jeff Chan isn't a deadly shooter is a total liar. (Well, we can put an asterisk to Paul Lee's three-point shooting. It was practically garbage time when he made those threes.)
- When the lead grew to double-digits in the fourth, and Gary David couldn't nail it anymore outside, I knew it was ove... hold on a second! Gary nailed one! Lead down to twelve! Ayan na! Gary David againnnnnnnnnnn... short! I knew it was over. Rain or Shine 1-0.
- Now this is where I can say that Paul Lee is given excess hype that could turn bad in the future. Tonight was a good example. Paul Lee, 3 points first half, 22 points second half. Jeff Chan, 12 points first half, 15 points second half. If consistency gets the nod, Jeff Chan is the best player of the game. But conventional media goes for explosion, so Lee gets the nod even though Chan scored consistently throughout the game. (Okay, I only made up Chan's breakdown of his 27 points divided into two halves. I'm not a stats guy, but the point I was making was pretty much clear. What, not yet? Go find another blogger.)
What does the Powerade coaching minstry... er, I mean, staff should do the next game?
First, call 117 to ask help to find a missing person in the name of Marcio Lassiter. Second, it's a pretty effective scheme to give the ball to JVee Casio in a half-court set and let him and another big man do their thing. Seeing him stroll around ROS' defense and find an open Doug Kramer underneath is a thing of beauty. They should be reminded that assists was the vital (well, maybe David's explosion was the more vital one) key to their upset against B-Meg. Third, play defense. ROS defense was just so bad that's why they got the lead in the first half, and by them not playing defense made them knocked-out in the second half.
What does the Elasto Painters need to do the next game?
JR Quinahan is reportedly absent in the next game because of his wedding. With Beau Belga being only the legit beef to man the middle, they must concentrate their collective defense underneath especially if Casio will play Steve Nash and Kramer or Sean Anthony will play Amar'e Stoudemire in the next game. So far, they've done everything right (except for that first half daydreaming) from making Gabe Norwood play defense to letting Jeff Chan do his thing and Ryan Arana do his thing and Coach Yeng Guiao do his thing. (I still believe Coach Yeng screamed that in their dugout).
Ayon sa post ni @Joeloresca74 sa Twitter... "bakit locals pangit binibigay na monicker - Lingganay Anay, Omolon Boy Abang, Arboleda Snatcher." Mainam na din siguro na ganyan ang mga bansag sa kanila dahil sadyang nakakapeste naman talaga ang mga ginagawa nitong mga ito laban sa kalabang koponan. Kaysa naman mabigyan ka ng isang monicker dahil sa kapalpakan mo sa sarili mong team, tulad ng Dudut "five fouls in the first two minutes of the game" Jaworski.
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