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WHAT THIS GAME MEANS Proving a point. The Alaska Aces are 48 minutes away from proving to the world that they are for real. There will be no doubt in anyone’s mind if the Aces pull a 3-1 series win against the San Mig Coffee that this team is a [...] Read more »
What happens when you cut the Commissioner’s Cup Semis into two parts, when you deprive Ginebra, San Mig Coffee, Alaska, and Talk ‘N Text fans an abundant source of joy and elation? You get 23,108. 23,108 rabid fans were crammed like sardines in the SMART-Araneta Coliseum despite the rain 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 »
19 imports have come on over to our shores and played some hoops with the best basketball players in the land. All of them gave us something different to the table. Some brought excitement, some brought diarrhea, some brought drama, while other brought chokes. One thing that is for sure [...] 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 »
The reigning Commissioner’s Cup champs in the San Mig Coffee Mixers will be taking on the number one seeded Alaska Aces in a best-of-five semifinals. Just reading that sentence, you already get excited about what this series will bring to the PBA fans. So many storylines. So many ways that [...] Read more »
WHAT THIS GAME MEANS Semis. One more game to go. At least 48 minutes left before the semifinals are set. But, who will be the fourth and final team to make it into the next stage? San Mig Coffee is coming off of a huge win against the Bolts and [...] Read more »
WHAT THIS GAME MEANS: After 15 games of asking “How the hell does Meralco win games?!”, I think by now we should know that (1) they have the best import of the conference and (2) they just effin’ aim to outplay the other team every damn night. They did that [...] Read more »
Year after year, conference after conference, the #4 vs #5 match-up is usually the most anticipated series of the playoffs because of how even the two teams usually are. This time around, the two teams might not be on level peggings when it comes to firepower on paper, but the [...] Read more »
WHAT THIS GAME MEANS: First to draw blood. Game 1 should mean the same to both teams. But if Meralco wants to steal this series or at least make things tough for SMC, this is the game they have to win. For SMC, a huge Game 1 win should be [...] Read more »