{"id":29731,"date":"2014-10-23T16:40:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T08:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29731"},"modified":"2014-10-24T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T08:43:59","slug":"kia-sorentos-triumphed-over-blackwater-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/23\/kia-sorentos-triumphed-over-blackwater-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"Kia Sorentos triumphed over Blackwater Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29337\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Manny-Pacquiao-KIA-Sorento-e1413725718577.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29337\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Manny-Pacquiao-KIA-Sorento-e1413725718577-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Aside from being a champion boxer, businessman, and congressman, Manny Pacquiao is also a playing coach for rookie team KIA Sorento in PBA's 40th season. (Photo courtesy of KIA Sorento Basketball Facebook page)\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Manny-Pacquiao-KIA-Sorento-e1413725718577-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Manny-Pacquiao-KIA-Sorento-e1413725718577.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aside from being a champion boxer, businessman, and congressman, Manny Pacquiao is also a playing coach for rookie team KIA Sorento in PBA&#8217;s 40th season. (Photo courtesy of KIA Sorento Basketball Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 For their first game in the professional league, Kia Sorentos managed to get away from the Blackwater Elite, 80-66, during the opening of PBA Season.<\/p>\n<p>The game also was Filipino boxing champ Manny Pacquiao\u2019s debut as a playing coach.<\/p>\n<p>With LA Revilla making a comeback after being dumped by Globalport last year, he made 23 points to carry his team. Together with Rudy Lingganay and Hans Thiele, they managed to make up for the slow start of Pacquiao, Virgil Buensuceso, Josh Webb, Reil Cervantes and Rich Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>The Sorentos were trailing by nine, 25-34, during the half but they managed to turn the game around during the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Revilla gave the Sorentos\u2019 the much-needed push during the third canto with two triples and four baskets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made the adjustments, and the result just happened,\u201d said Revilla. \u201cI just played my game and I was overwhelmed by the moment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team just stayed positive even after our tentative start,\u201d said Kia assistant coach Glenn Capacio. \u201cWe were a bit hesitant at first, but we were able to make the necessary adjustments on defense. When it clicked, our offense followed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After his team\u2019s impressive debut game, Pacquiao said that he will now prepare for his upcoming fight with Christ Algieri and will return to PBA after.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo problem (with Kia) as our assistant coaches will be there. It\u2019s okay with me even as I don\u2019t play for as long as we keep on winning,\u201d Pacquiao said.<\/p>\n<p>During its first game, Kia played with Pacquiao sitting on the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 For their first game in the professional league, Kia Sorentos managed to get away from the Blackwater Elite, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[8245],"class_list":["post-29731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kia","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}