MANILA\u00a0— Magnolia may have finally found a more worthy replacement import in Wayne Chism.<\/p>\n
The Hotshots’ fourth import this PBA Commissioner’s Cup made impressive stats as they bludgeoned the NLEX Road Warriors, 116-89, at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Chism fired 27 points to lead Magnolia, which preserved a hot start with a fourth quarter shutdown of NLEX.<\/p>\n
Behind Chism and Paul Lee, the Hotshots opened a 34-18 lead after the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Banking on Mac-Mac Tallo’s heroics, however, the Road Warriors opened the second quarter on a 19-5 run to cut the lead down to two, 39-37.<\/p>\n
Magnolia closed out the first half on a 15-3 run to reopen a double-digit spread, 54-40, at halftime.<\/p>\n
NLEX threatened to come back again, drawing to within three midway in the third period.<\/p>\n
But Magnolia recovered in time to maintain control and finally repulsed NLEX with a 31-12 fourth quarter showing.<\/p>\n
Chism also had eight rebounds, four assists, three blocks, and two steals, while Lee added 21 markers, four boards, six caroms, and one block for the Hotshots, who at 5-5 can officially clinch a quarterfinal seat with a win against the San Miguel Beermen on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Olu Ashaolu, who is supposed to be the Road Warriors’ Governors’ Cup import, also had an impressive debut, making 31 points, 12 rebounds, and one assist.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MANILA\u00a0— Magnolia may have finally found a more worthy replacement import in Wayne Chism. The Hotshots’ fourth import this PBA …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[39943,17153,52701],"class_list":["post-169294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-magnolia","tag-nlex","tag-wayne-chism","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}