{"id":213395,"date":"2019-05-08T23:26:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T03:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=213395"},"modified":"2019-05-08T23:26:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T03:26:31","slug":"smb-ties-pba-philippine-cup-finals-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/08\/smb-ties-pba-philippine-cup-finals-series\/","title":{"rendered":"SMB ties PBA Philippine Cup Finals Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_213396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213396\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59968729_2755837171099367_8082821906371182592_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-213396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59968729_2755837171099367_8082821906371182592_n.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-213396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Final: 114 &#8211; 98 in favor of the San Miguel Beermen! Best Player : June Mar Fajardo with 31 points, 14 rebounds and 13\/14 FGs #PBAPhilCupFinals #PBALabanKungLaban&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/photos\/a.168128433203600\/2755837167766034\/?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 score is now 2-2 for the best-of-seven finals series between the San Miguel Beermen (SMB) and Magnolia Hotshots for the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup after the Beermen claimed victory over the Hotshots, who had an upper hand, 114-98, last Wednesday, May 8 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six-time Best Player of the Conference awardee June Mar Fajardo used his strengths as a big man by scoring 31 points and finishing with 14 rebounds, only missing one of his 14 shots from the field and going 5-of-6 from the free throw line. Terrence Romeo stayed consistent from his last game as well with 18 points, while Chris Ross chipped 15. Christian Standhardinger, Arwind Santos, and Alex Cabagnot delivered double-digits as well with 13, 12, and 11 points respectively. For the Hotshots, it was Jio Jalanon and Mark Barroca who fought hard to retain their series lead with 22 points individually, while teammate Ian Sangalang contributed 19. However, they could not intervene with the Beermen\u2019s successful 52 percent from the field. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is the kind of game we are looking for,\u201d SMB head coach Leo Austria remarked, \u201cFrom start to finish, we were able to sustain our energy. It\u2019s a matter of effort and we were able to score a lot in the shaded area. That\u2019s the time when our players can shoot from the perimeter, unlike last game.\u201d He adds, \u201cWhat I liked was that my players&#8217; focus and pride prevailed tonight. It was a team effort. Everyone was so focused.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for Fajardo who dominated the night, he said that the \u201ccredit goes to the management, the coaching staff, and [his] teammates,\u201d saying, \u201cMy coaches design the plays, my teammates create plays for me. So all credit goes to them. We were able to follow our game play. Everyone stepped up.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inching closer to hailing the winner, Game Five between Magnolia and SMB is happening on Friday, May 10 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The score is now 2-2 for the best-of-seven finals series between the San Miguel Beermen (SMB) and Magnolia Hotshots for &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-213395","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\/213395","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=213395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213399,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213395\/revisions\/213399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}