{"id":170086,"date":"2018-07-09T21:53:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T01:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=170086"},"modified":"2018-07-09T21:53:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T01:53:28","slug":"smb-steals-quarterfinals-game-1-from-tnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/09\/smb-steals-quarterfinals-game-1-from-tnt\/","title":{"rendered":"SMB steals quarterfinals Game 1 from TNT"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_170089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170089\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/San-Miguel-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170089\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/San-Miguel-1.jpg\" alt=\"San Miguel rallied back from a huge deficit to take a 121-110 win against TNT at the start of the PBA Commissioner's Cup quarterfinals at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on Monday night. (Photo: PBA\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Miguel rallied back from a huge deficit to take a 121-110 win against TNT at the start of the PBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup quarterfinals at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on Monday night. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/photos\/a.841558309193939.1073741951.168046639878446\/2266730166676739\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/\">PBA\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; San Miguel rallied back from a huge deficit to take a 121-110 win against TNT at the start of the PBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup quarterfinals at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Beermen witnessed the KaTropa explode early on as they found themselves down, 18-40, late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>However, SMB showed why it is the defending champion of the conference, slowly crawling back and finally breaking away with a 16-0 run late in the fourth quarter to complete the comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Renaldo Balkman put up another impressive all-around game, tallying 36 points, 16 rebounds, four assists, two blocks, and two steals for the Beermen, who can clinch a semifinals seat in Game 2 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Junemar Fajardo added 27 points, 13 rebounds, two assists, one block, and one steal as he held his ground against the burly Joshua Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Marcio Lassiter also caught fire, making 26 markers with six caroms, four dimes, and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and RR Pogoy each made 17 points for TNT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; San Miguel rallied back from a huge deficit to take a 121-110 win against TNT at the start of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[50381,30058,10410],"class_list":["post-170086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports","tag-pba-commissioners-cup","tag-san-miguel","tag-tnt","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170086","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=170086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}