June Mar Fajardo (with Ball) and the Beermen face the Hotshots. —PBA Images
Coach Chito Victolero agrees that 2-0 departure from Magnolia in the Philippine PBA Cup should serve as a good sign after a series of disappointments in previous conferences.
At the same time, he does not want to get carried away by the first successes of the hotshots.
“It is still too early and we have to take a match at a time,” said Victolero.
His beer counterpart in San Miguel, Leo Austria, also benefits from a similar record that could well increase during the redemption tour that the legendary Boule club is determined to finish.
But with Magnolia due Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on the Smart Araneta Coliseum on Wednesday, the game final before the League took a week -long break due to the wrestling season, the Beermen are impatient to deliver another declaration game to support their chances.
“So that we win, we have to work harder because many teams play really well,” said Austria.
The winner will get his head solo after seven playdates in the PBB’s most prestigious tournament before the other contenders can finally see the action.
After Saint Twobill Wednesday, which opens with Northport and Rain Shine at 5 p.m., the next games will take place on April 23 in the same place, because the league has chosen not to hold a double-head on Easter Sunday.
The said playdate opposes the beginnings of TNT, looking for a great historic home, against Nlex and Barangay Ginebra, losing the finalist during the two previous conferences, taking Terrafirma.
The hotshots have accumulated victories on the boss of Blackwater and converges Fiberxers mainly directed by the second student Zavier Lucero, who showed signs of being a major figure of the rotation.
Near Triple-Double
On the other side, June Mar Fajardo and CJ Perez as major weapons for the Beermen when they defeated the Nlex Road Warriors and Meralco Bolts via contrasting results.
The two games, however, saw San Miguel almost slide big tracks, which he hopes to prevent moving forward.
In the first match, Northport seeks to go 2-0 and to prove to prove that the dream semi-final in the commissioner’s cup was not a stroke of luck.
He will ride again on the shoulders of the superior man of Batang Pier Arvin Tolentino, who almost had a triple-double in the rout of Terrafirma last Saturday.
Rain Shine wants to bounce back from his defeat against Nlex but will have to do it less the veteran Beau Belga, who is absent for a month because of Vertigo.
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