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Well what do you know? Much like in poker, Aces trump all others. Young coach? No problem. Fiery players? Asset, not liability. Arch-rival? Defeated. Finally. With last night’s win, the Alaska Aces move into the PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals, their first appearance in a championship series without Tim Cone. And [...] Read more »
WHAT THIS GAME MEANS: Before we start, can I just point out how hilarious Alvin Patrimonio’s face is on the photo above? Come on. That’s a meme waiting to happen. Seriously. Look again. Laughtrip. Okay, enough. Let’s start over. WHAT THIS GAME MEANS: The proverbial monkey is finally off of [...] Read more »
Monkey off back. Series evened. Alaska is back. Completely. Fully. No more Tim Cone asterisk. Now they’ve proven to everyone they can beat anyone, and finally have the boxscore to prove it. On a massive stage, against Cone’s Undertaker-Wrestlemania-like 9-0 record against them, the Aces showed us all who they [...] Read more »
PBA Sabado Night stayed in town last night as the Smart-Araneta Coliseum hosted a double-header of opposites. The first offering was Air 21- Globalport. A hot team against a team as cold as the pavement Walter Sharpe fell asleep on. The second game? Alaska-San Mig Coffee. Again. Tim Cone against [...] Read more »
WHAT THIS GAME MEANS: Gargantuan game for both teams. Coming into this game, the Aces’ mentality would be like “Hey, we know we have an unblemished record but we know that we haven’t fully convinced people yet that we’re the realest team in the L right now.”. Yes, something like [...] Read more »
As a PBA fan since my genius father brought me to a Ginebra-Alaska game back in 1994 (He was pretty sure that the whole Ginebra mystique would grow on me. Turns out he was terribly wrong, the Flying A has been my hero for almost a score now), I [...] Read more »
I caught up with Alaska Head Coach Luigi Trillo during halftime of the deciding semifinals game between the Letran Knights and the San Sebastian Golden Stags yesterday. I was buying a hotdog, he was buying a hotdog. I wasn’t sure if he remembered me from our analyst-courtside reporter days in [...] Read more »