{"id":209114,"date":"2019-04-09T04:47:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T08:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=209114"},"modified":"2019-04-09T04:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T08:47:47","slug":"magnolia-forces-do-or-die-game-to-enter-2019-pba-philippine-cup-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/09\/magnolia-forces-do-or-die-game-to-enter-2019-pba-philippine-cup-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnolia forces do-or-die game to enter 2019 PBA Philippine Cup playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_209116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209116\" style=\"width: 739px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/56907733_2702741916408893_2319828423456849920_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-209116 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/56907733_2702741916408893_2319828423456849920_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Final: 106 &#8211; 77 in favor of the Magnolia Hotshots Pambansang Manok! Best Player: Jio Jalalon with 17 points, 6 assists and 5 steals #PBALabanKungLaban&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/photos\/a.168128433203600\/2702741909742227\/?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;\">Both the Magnolia Hotshots and the Ginebra Kings now have to face a sudden death match for their entry into the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup semifinals after Team Magnolia fired back to Ginebra\u2019s Game One win by dominating Game Two, 106-77, last Monday, April 8 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ian Sangalang was the highest pointer in Magnolia\u2019s victory, providing 21 points and nine rebounds. Robert Herdon and Jio Jalalon also chipped double digits at 18 points and 17 points respectively, while Mark Barroca, Paul Lee, Rome Dela Rosa provided 13 points, 13 points, and 11 points as well. For Ginebra, it was only Sol Mercado who was able to deliver at 13 points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Magnolia Head Coach Chito Victolero said that his team learned of their shortcomings after losing the opener last Saturday, April 6, saying, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was not Magnolia Hotshots basketball. We had a good bounce back. The most important thing is our mindset. We needed to go all-out in all possessions both offense and defense.&#8221; He also added in the post-game interview, \u201cThis is what exactly we had hoped for. A chance to compete. With the same level of effort and desire, I think we\u2019ll have a chance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greg Slaughter, who was the highest pointer for the Kings during the first game, did not shy away from expressing his disappointment of Ginebra\u2019s 20 turnovers during the game, believing it is what caused them their loss. \u201cYou know, that first game we only had three in the first half, and I think that\u2019s what let us get it off to a big lead. But you know, this game was obviously different,\u201d the seven-footer big man reveals, \u201cThat just gives them the fast break. And it\u2019s hard for us, for our team to defend turnovers.\u201c He concluded, \u201cWe just got to get more of our teammates involved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decider for who enters the semifinals of this season between Magnolia and Ginebra will happen on Wednesday, April 10 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Magnolia Hotshots and the Ginebra Kings now have to face a sudden death match for their entry into &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-209114","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\/209114","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=209114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209159,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209114\/revisions\/209159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}