{"id":193237,"date":"2018-12-09T22:22:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T03:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=193237"},"modified":"2018-12-09T22:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T03:22:52","slug":"aces-speed-past-hotshots-for-third-championship-game-of-2018-pba-governors-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/09\/aces-speed-past-hotshots-for-third-championship-game-of-2018-pba-governors-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces speed past Hotshots for third championship game of 2018 PBA Governor\u2019s Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike Harris led his team at 36 points, nine of them from straight triples during the third quarter, even converting one shot into a four-point play. (File\u00a0Photo<\/a>: PBA<\/a>\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Alaska Aces refused to go down to a 0-3 standing against the Magnolia Hotshots in the best-of-seven championship series for the 2018 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governor\u2019s Cup, handing their opponents their worst finals loss in finals history at 100-71 last Sunday, December 9 at the Ynares Center in Antipolo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Harris led his team at 36 points, nine of them from straight triples during the third quarter, even converting one shot into a four-point play. He was aided by teammates Vic Manuel and Simon Enciso, who scored 14 and 12 points respectively. Import Romeo Travis was the highest scorer for Magnolia, contributing a total of 18 points, but only he and teammate Mark Barroca, contributed double digits – Barroca providing a total of 13 on the Hotshots\u2019 scoreboard. For the top-scorer of the game Harris, he said that he\u2019s \u201cvery fortunate to finally hit some outside shots,\u201d referring to this breakout game to be thanks to his teammates, stating, \u201cThey know what I\u2019m capable of, and they just told me to keep shooting. Today was just one of those days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Aces Head Coach Alex Compton attributed their win to \u201cgreat defense\u201d and \u201cmade shots,\u201d saying, \u201cOverall, the story of the game in the first three quarters was we made a bunch of shots and we didn\u2019t turn the ball over.\u201d At the first half alone, Compton\u2019s team already built a 50-36 advantage. The Filipino-born American basketball player-turned-coach looks forward to their next challenge, saying he \u201cguarantees there won\u2019t be another game like this,\u201d concluding, \u201c[Magnolia] is too good, too well-coached, too talented. And we just made some shots. I expect Game 4 to be a lot more like Game 2,\u201d referring to the second game of the series where they lost 77-71. They\u2019re currently at a 1-2 standing, Magnolia, also victorious in the finals starter with the score ending at 100-84.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alaska and Magnolia will go head-to-head again for Game 4 on Wednesday, December 12 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Alaska Aces refused to go down to a 0-3 standing against the Magnolia Hotshots in the best-of-seven championship series …<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-193237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193237","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=193237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}