Magnolia’s Paul Lee (left) and Jio Jalalon bottle up Barangay Ginebra’s Scottie Thompson. —AUGUST DELA CRUZ
Magnolia conquered a fierce rival on Sunday evening to tab a victory that meant greater than the one which in the end appeared within the PBA Commissioner’s Cup standings.
For Jio Jalalon, one of many heroes within the Hotshots’ 93-91 comeback win over crowd darling Barangay Ginebra at Good Araneta Coliseum, the gutsy stand gave his membership an concept of the heights it might nonetheless scale.
“We got here again from 26 factors down and we beat the champion, so our morale is basically excessive now,” Jalalon advised reporters in Filipino on the heels of a shocking victory that stored Magnolia’s document pristine after 4 video games
.“So long as we don’t chill out and we don’t stray from our system, we’ll do nicely,” he added.
An uncharacteristic first half had coach Chito Victolero fuming by the halftime break. And that turned out to be the nudge the Hotshots wanted to get again to enjoying the sport at their tempo.
Jalalon cranked issues up within the third quarter, scoring 9 of his whole 15 factors in that body to get Magnolia’s comeback machine buzzing. Tyler Bey then hit a groove of his personal, scoring 16 of his eventual team-best 31 factors within the closing body to assist full the rally.
“We simply tried to remind the gamers about beginning sturdy and ending stronger,” Victolero stated. “They responded very nicely to my problem and I’m very pleased with them.”
It was an electrical effort for Magnolia, tainted by erratic officiating towards the top. The PBA on Monday stated that it will likely be penalizing Peter Balao, Marty Montoya, Joel Baldago and Julius Medillo for lacking Mark Barroca’s foul on Ginebra’s Scottie Thompson within the dying seconds of the match.
In the meantime, NLEX has taken an enormous hit to its marketing campaign as cornerstone Kevin Alas has been recognized to have torn a left knee ligament.
The Street Warriors star, who has since turn out to be a PBA All-Star and an Asian Video games champion after a triumphant return from a pair of anterior cruciate ligament tears to his proper knee, harm his different leg throughout the group’s shedding stand to Terrafirma final Saturday in Antipolo Metropolis. INQ
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