{"id":182702,"date":"2018-09-24T02:03:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T06:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=182702"},"modified":"2018-09-24T02:03:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T06:03:38","slug":"tnt-wins-bong-ravenas-debut-head-coach-trounces-ros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/24\/tnt-wins-bong-ravenas-debut-head-coach-trounces-ros\/","title":{"rendered":"TNT wins in Bong Ravena&#8217;s debut as head coach, trounces ROS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_182703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182703\" style=\"width: 920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9f864562be406f4ae0b7ea5c57ebdfcc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182703\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9f864562be406f4ae0b7ea5c57ebdfcc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Bong Ravena coaching TNT Katropa for the first time (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pba.ph\/gallery?id=551\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pba.ph\/home\">PBA\/Website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The TNT Katropa gave Bong Ravena a win in his first game as head coach, trouncing debuting Rain Or Shine, 110-104, in the lone Saturday night offering of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors&#8217; Cup at the Passi City Arena in Iloilo.<\/p>\n<p>The KaTropa, which had a slow start, sizzled in the third quarter, outscoring the Elasto Painters, 44-29, to overturn a 45-49 halftime deficit to an 89-78 lead entering the fourth period.<\/p>\n<p>TNT then started the final frame with seven unanswered points for its largest lead at 18, 96-78.<\/p>\n<p>ROS threatened a comeback, going on a 17-4 run to cut the lead down to five, 100-95, with 4:52 left, but a Don Trollano triple in the next possession helped TNT douse cold water on ROS&#8217; final surge.<\/p>\n<p>Marqus Blakely continued to show the form he has been known for when he was still with the Magnolia Hotshots, coming close to a triple-double with 26 points on 9-of-14 shooting, 14 rebounds, and eight assists with three steals and one block in his debut for the KaTropa.<\/p>\n<p>Troy Rosario added 24 points, seven rebounds, and one assist, while Terrence Romeo chipped in 22 points, five rebounds, and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Bullock scored 23 points, while James Yap added 21 for the E-Painters, who opted to play with Raymond Almazan, Beau Belga, and Gabe Norwood coming off the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The TNT Katropa gave Bong Ravena a win in his first game as head coach, trouncing debuting Rain Or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182702","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}