{"id":208328,"date":"2019-04-04T05:13:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T09:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=208328"},"modified":"2019-04-04T05:13:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T09:13:21","slug":"number-7-spot-playoff-entry-for-northport-after-powering-through-ginebra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/04\/number-7-spot-playoff-entry-for-northport-after-powering-through-ginebra\/","title":{"rendered":"Number 7 spot playoff entry for NorthPort after powering through Ginebra"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_208329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208329\" style=\"width: 739px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55901869_2694730847210000_2591896266443063296_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-208329 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55901869_2694730847210000_2591896266443063296_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Final: 100 &#8211; 97 in favor of the NorthPort Batang Pier! Best Player: Robert Bolick Jr. with 24 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists #PBALabanKungLaban&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/photos\/a.168128433203600\/2694730840543334\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\">PBA<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NorthPort Batang Pier is officially in the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup playoffs after escaping Barangay Ginebra, 100-97, last Wednesday, April 3 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert Bolick, Jr. was the hero of the game as he scored 24 points, including the vital three-pointer in the last 52.9 seconds of the game that put his team up, 98-97. Sean Anthony, who suffered from injury later during the game, also contributed 19 points, while Mo Tautuaa added 17 points. For the Kings, it was Greg Slaughter, Jervy Cruz, and Sol Mercado who had double-digits, contributing 14 points, 13 points, and 10 points respectively. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the fifth win for NorthPort during their last 11 elimination round games, having to face Rain or Shine in the playoffs, who stands at number two. At one point in the season, NorthPort was struggling with snapping a six-game skid; head coach Pido Jarencio sharing in a mix of English and Filipino, \u201cFor us, we did well in our last three games and it inserted outright in the quarters. It\u2019s a blessing for our team.\u201d He says with excitement, \u201cWe\u2019re back in business! We\u2019re still thankful we\u2019re able to hurdle Ginebra. We all know Ginebra is Ginebra\u2014it\u2019s a complete team, well-coached and it\u2019s running a good system. It just boiled down on the breaks of the game.\u201d Coach Pido also applauds \u2018Player of the Game\u2019 Bolick for his performance, adding, \u201cRegarding this game, Robert made the big shot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, despite their loss, Ginebra head coach Tim Cone was proud of what his players showed as well, telling the media, \u201cThe way we played was more important than winning the basketball game for us tonight. Obviously, it won\u2019t be that way in the playoffs but tonight, playing hard and playing the right way was the priority and the goal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NorthPort Batang Pier is officially in the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup playoffs after escaping Barangay Ginebra, 100-97, &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":[],"class_list":["post-208328","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\/208328","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=208328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208397,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208328\/revisions\/208397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}