Jericho Cruz
For the second consecutive Sunday, the action in the final of the Cup of the Philippines of the PBA between the beer of San Miguel and the TNT of the Chasing of the Grand Slam somewhat took the rear seat of the so -called and facts on the ground.
These are only the very things that the two teams do not need, but what the League can benefit from – as the Beermen are finally trying to relaunch the Tropang 5G challenge and make them a world of injury for the second time in the past 14 years with another denial of their triple crown dreams.
Although the arbitration was not the center of the controversy this time, Jericho Cruz and Chris Ross becoming the target of the Irate Tropang 5G team manager, Jojo Lastimosa, who estimated that the two were “arrogant” during the last moments of the 105-91 victory from Beermen to Sm Mall of Asia Arena.
“It is as if they had already won the championship,” said Lastimosa in Philippin, because this defeat of match 4 put Tropang 5g at the forefront of Cliff and with the task of winning three times consecutive with a list seriously decimated by injuries.
Lastimosa broadcast her frustration for the first time on Ross, who was consolidated a coating erram after the match. Erram played through a swollen right ankle and even treated pain on his left knee during match 4, and Ross felt the need to express his respect for the TNT center to leave everything on the ground.
But Lastimosa saw this differently and signaled that Ross returned to the Pirogue of San Miguel. He later said that Ross was “not a nice guy, has the talent to be a” complainant “, while taunting the TNT bench and his supporters sitting in the back.
Ross, however, defended himself by saying that he only wanted to show his respect for Erram.
“I am not a nice guy ??! You have no idea who I am as a person,” said Ross on his X account.
It may be that the San Miguel veteran was able to catch part of the weight of Lastimosa’s anger towards Cruz, the hero of match 4 whose celebrations on the ground were obviously seen in a different light from the executive and the legend of the TNT League.
The final act came with about 15 seconds to play, when Cruz tried what looked like a dribble movement imitating those made in streetball mixtapes of the 2000s on Vosotros Almond, overwhelming more Lastimosa.
“Dinandaan Na Lang Sa Yabang Lahat (he’s just showboating),” said Lastimosa to the media out of the TNT cloakroom. “The guy has problems. He has problems and brought it to the field.”
Lastimosa did not say exactly what these problems were before providing a separation stroke.
“He acts like a little boy,” he added.
Internet users quickly destroyed Lastimosa, even discovering unflattering moments during its play days with Purefoods and Alaska.
When he told him about the remarks of Lastimosa, Cruz was taken by surprise, since the two were together at the Nlex for some time around 2019 when Lastimosa was one of the staff of Yeng Guiao coaches.
“I thought he was upset against Chris Ross. I really have no idea what it was,” said Cruz in Philippin.
The emotions have been boiling since the defeat of the match 1 of San Miguel, two Sundays were marred by the decision of the technical committee to call the dunk of Mo Tautuaa as the interference of the basket. And it seems that it lit a fire on the side of the Beermen which has a chance to close things on Wednesday at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
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“We want to be emotional,” said Ross. “When we play like that (with emotion), the best spell.” Inq
