{"id":40743,"date":"2015-02-03T21:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40743"},"modified":"2015-02-03T21:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T13:30:51","slug":"alaska-says-purefoods-is-tough-to-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/03\/alaska-says-purefoods-is-tough-to-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska says Purefoods is tough to beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12295\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Alaska-Aces.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12295\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Alaska-Aces-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from Alaska Aces official Facebook page\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Alaska-Aces-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Alaska-Aces.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from Alaska Aces official Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Alaska Milk, NLEX, Purefoods Star, and Rain or Shine will see action tonight at Smart Araneta Coliseum for their respective PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup debuts.<\/p>\n<p>NLEX Road Warriors will go up against the Elasto Painters in the opener at 4:15 p.m. Followed by last conference\u2019s runner-up Aces against the Hotshots in the main game at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska head coach Alex Compton says that they feel that they will have a hard time against Purefoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be very tough for us. Purefoods is a great team coming off a conference they\u2019re not satisfied with. They have the winningest coach with an import who knows their system and players in and out,\u201d explained Compton.<\/p>\n<p>Purefoods head coach Tim Cone resonates Compton\u2019s thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always tougher to play the runners-up than the champions. The runners-up are still always motivated going into the next conference,\u201d said Cone. \u201cWe expect Alaska to come out firing on all cylinders and we\u2019re bracing for a tough, tough game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rain or Shine coach Yeng Guiao says that his team has an advantage against NLEX because of their import, Rick Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsi Taulava will also have his matchup against Rick Jackson which solves our perennial matchup problem. The question that needs to be answered is can we match our locals against their import,\u201d said Guiao.<\/p>\n<p>However, NLEX coach Boyet Fernandez says that they are better prepared after their participation in an international tourney in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not in shape in Dubai. He\u2019s quite in it now and I expect him to help our team in scoring,\u201d said Fernandez referring to the 14th pick overall in the 2007 NBA Draft and their import Al Thornton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Alaska Milk, NLEX, Purefoods Star, and Rain or Shine will see action tonight at Smart Araneta Coliseum for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","category-uncategorized","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743","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=40743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}