The rain or the sun imports Deon Thompson against the strengthening of TNT Rondae Hollis Jefferson in the semi-finals of the PBA Commissioner’s Cup. –PBA Images
The longer the series goes for a long time, the better with the rain or the brilliant after the elastopians finally went on the board in their series of semi-final of the cup of Commissioner PBA with a TNT side which faces many adversities.
“If we can push this series longer, the better for us,” said coach Yeng Guiao Sunday after the painters survived Tropang Giga in match 3, 93-88, at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
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Rain, or Shine reduced its deficit in the series for the best of seven to 2-1 with the victory and the opportunity to capitalize on the absence of the veteran goalkeeper Jayson Castro and the incident involving the teammates of TNT Poy Erram and Glenn Khobuntin.
Castro was excluded for the rest of the playoffs and all season after a knee injury in match 2, and his absence clearly affected how the Giga Tropang played throughout the competition, the rain or the sun had desperately won.
Erram was then a little untangled in the second trimester when, after being slapped with a technical fault to complain continues, he entered a verbal fight coupled with a few bumps with Khobuntin, who tried to pacify his colleague Cagayan de Oro Pal.
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The two immediately corrected things, but that worsened what was a difficult night of basketball for TNT, which, despite an effort of 34 points, 19 years from Rondae Hollis-Jeffers, failed to put an interview in the semi-finals.
The rain or the sun will also try things in match 4 Wednesday in the same place, and Guiao promises a combat effort in his neighborhoods, as he had shown during his two defeats.
“We are the outsiders of this series, but the most important thing is that you show that you are fighting every night, play your best and that you are walking the basketball public they are looking for,” said Guiao.
Rain Shine has not reached a series of finals since he won this same conference in 2016.
By the way, all the PBA titles of Guiao came to Conferences in import.
The rain or the shine-tnt contrasts with the unilateral affair between Barangay Ginebra and Northport, who were confronted with their own match 3 at the time of the press.
Ginebra is favored to take an advance of 3-0 after a pair of eruption victories, unless Northport presents itself and makes things interesting.
Import Deon Thompson collected 19 points and 18 rebounds with four assists for the rain or the sun, but the Caelan tiongson has set up key contributions to both ends of the soil and Adrian Nocum has offered large baskets that have seduced the public.
Tiongson, which was the subject of online discussions after being linked to AIAH of the group of popular girls Bini, produced 18 points, seven rebounds and four assists while forcing Hollis-Jefferson to work for his baskets.
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Nocum added 16 points, eight rebounds and four assists and made key conversions in the last moments to put TNT at a distance. Inq
