{"id":223431,"date":"2019-07-19T01:39:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T05:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=223431"},"modified":"2019-07-19T01:39:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T05:39:40","slug":"tnt-enters-semifinals-with-no-1-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/19\/tnt-enters-semifinals-with-no-1-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"TNT enters semifinals with no.1 spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_223432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223432\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/67142656_2892291744120575_7979135090833752064_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-223432 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/67142656_2892291744120575_7979135090833752064_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-223432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Final : 98 &#8211; 83 in favor of the TNT KaTropa! Best Player: Terrence Jones with 26 points, 13 rebounds and 8 assists #PBACommsCup #PBALabanKungLaban&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/photos\/a.168128433203600\/2892291740787242\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/?tn-str=k*F\">PBA<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talk N Text KaTropa have secured the top seed entering the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner\u2019s Cup after overcoming the Magnolia Hotshots, 98-83, last Wednesday, July 17 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the KaTropa\u2019s import Terrence Jones who successfully led his team to the number one spot at 26 points, 13 rebounds, eight assists, and five blocks. RR Pogoy assisted Jones with 20 points in total, the KaTropa firing in the first quarter with a 10-0 run against the Hotshots. Jayson Castro and Brian Heruela added 13 points individually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the Hotshots, it was Paul Lee and PJ Simon who kept their team breathing at 23 and 16 points respectively, while Ian Sangalang totalled 15. New import and former National Basketball Association (NBA) player Rakeem Christmas made his debut for Magnolia, but he struggled with eight points and 14 rebounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TNT head coach Bong Ravena commented on his team\u2019s win, saying in Filipino, \u201cWe just wanted to end the elimination round on a winning note. At the same time, we wanted to make winning into a habit. We&#8217;re building our consistency so that we can carry over our record and our momentum to the playoffs.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The KaTropa, who finish the eliminations with a 10-1 win-loss standing, are still awaiting their matchup for the playoffs as Alaska and Meralco tough it out for spot no.8 next Friday, July 19 at the Mall of Asia Arena, while fans can expect a Manila Clasico matchup, or Barangay Ginebra against the Magnolia Hotshots, in the next leg of the season. Magnolia stands fifth place at five wins and six losses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first playoff match for TNT is on Sunday, July 21 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, while the Hotshots are facing the Beermen a day before that at the Mall of Asia Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Talk N Text KaTropa have secured the top seed entering the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner\u2019s Cup 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-223431","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\/223431","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=223431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223509,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223431\/revisions\/223509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}