{"id":199672,"date":"2019-01-28T20:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=199672"},"modified":"2019-01-28T20:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T01:52:19","slug":"tnt-gains-back-to-back-wins-after-conquering-smb-rosario-returns-to-help-katropa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/28\/tnt-gains-back-to-back-wins-after-conquering-smb-rosario-returns-to-help-katropa\/","title":{"rendered":"TnT gains back to back wins after conquering SMB; Rosario returns to help KaTropa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Final: 104 – 93 in favor of the TNT KaTropa!
Best Players: Jayson Castro with 24 points and Troy Rosario with 22 points (File\u00a0Photo<\/a>: PBA<\/a>\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>Talk N Text (TNT) Katropa continues their winning streak as they triumph over defending champions San Miguel Beermen (SMB) 104-93 last Sunday, January 27 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum for the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n

Veteran guard Jayson Castro led his team once again with 24 points, five rebounds, 11 assists, and four steals; his consistent performance for the second game in a row making him the very first Cignal-PBA Press Corps Player of the Week. <\/span><\/p>\n

Castro also shared Sunday\u2019s \u2018Player of the Game\u2019 title with a masked Troy Rosario, who made his 2019 Philippine Cup debut with an injured nose, shooting 7-of-13 shots from the field, 6-of-12 shots beyond the arc, contributing a total of 22 points. Rosario believes that the black protective mask was his \u201clucky charm,\u201d saying in Filipino, \u201cIt\u2019s my first time to return to the conference, good thing it\u2019s the right way,\u201d with the former National University (NU) star adding to the media, \u201cMy nose kind of hurts right now, I think it\u2019s swollen inside. But, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that bad. It\u2019s a good thing it\u2019s not bleeding!\u201d He reported that he got \u201cpressured\u201d by the injuries of the other players, sharing, \u201cMy injury doesn\u2019t seem like a reason that I can\u2019t play or work because I can run and I can shoot, which is why I decided to tell the coaches that I can try to play with this mask even during practice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime, former Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) Blue Eagle Von Pessumal also scored his career high for TNT opponents SMB with 23 points, but in his words, \u201cI\u2019d rather have zero [points] and get the win,\u201d referring to the Beermen\u2019s fall to a 2-2 standing. He added in Filipino, \u201cWe\u2019ll just bounce back.\u201d Pessumal\u2019s teammate Christian Standhardinger performed as well with 24 points, but it was not enough to lead them to the win.<\/span><\/p>\n

TnT Katropa will try to continue their winning streak as they face the Meralco Bolts at the Cuneta Astrodome on January 30, while the San Miguel Beermen will try to redeem themselves on February 1 facing the Rain or Shine Elastopainters at Ynares Center in Antipolo.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talk N Text (TNT) Katropa continues their winning streak as they triumph over defending champions San Miguel Beermen (SMB) 104-93 …<\/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-199672","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\/199672","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=199672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}