{"id":212327,"date":"2019-05-01T23:40:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=212327"},"modified":"2019-05-01T23:42:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T03:42:04","slug":"magnolia-takes-game-1-of-2019-pba-philippine-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/01\/magnolia-takes-game-1-of-2019-pba-philippine-cup-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnolia takes Game 1 of 2019 PBA Philippine Cup Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_212328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212328\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59295163_2743727508977000_8948509883850817536_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-212328 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59295163_2743727508977000_8948509883850817536_n.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-212328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Final: 99 &#8211; 94 in favor of the Magnolia Hotshots Pambansang Manok!<br \/>Best Player: Ian Sangalang with 17 points and 12 rebounds #PBAPhilCupFinals #PBALabanKungLaban&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/photos\/a.168128433203600\/2743727505643667\/?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;\">The Magnolia Hotshots are off to a good start in the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup Finals, after taking Game One from the San Miguel Beermen, 99-94, in the best-of-seven championship series last Wednesday, May 1 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul Lee led the way for his team with 18 points and six rebounds, while Ian Sangalang soon followed with a double-double of 17 points and 12 rebounds. Mark Barroca and Jio Jalalon chipped 17 and 16 points respectively. Rafi Reavis also added 12 points and nine rebounds, while Justin Melton had a double-digit performance as well with 11 points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, running Most Valuable Player (MVP) June Mar Fajardo scored a total of 35 points &#8211; 15 of those points solely in the fourth quarter. He also contributed 21 rebounds for the Beermen, who are the four-time defending champions. He was aided by Alex Cabagnot, Arwind Santos, and Von Pessumal who chipped 18, 13, and 11 points respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the game, Magnolia head coach Chito Victolero told the press in a mix of English and Filipino, \u201cI talked to my players during halftime. I told them that we can\u2019t beat San Miguel in an offensive game. They scored 55 in the first half and that isn\u2019t our game. Although we were able to shoot, we weren\u2019t able to do what we\u2019re known for &#8211; what our identity is. So, I\u2019m very happy that they responded and we had to play defense in the second half.\u201d He elaborated, \u201cThe key is we limit them under 100 points. We can\u2019t be at the same pace as them,\u201d adding, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t end here. We learned from experience. We know that San Miguel will keep coming back. It\u2019s only game one. It\u2019s nice that we started well first, but nobody won a best-of-seven series with only one game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Game Two of the series is on Friday, May 3 at the SM Mall of Asia Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magnolia Hotshots are off to a good start in the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup Finals, after &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-212327","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\/212327","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=212327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212349,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212327\/revisions\/212349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}