Rondae Hollis -Jefferson – Marlo Cueto / Inquirer.net
The weight of missing an opportunity to give TNT in the final of the PBA commissioner’s cup was not lost on Rondae Hollis-Jefferson last Sunday evening.
The importation of Tropang Giga, which was the last to leave the team’s locker room at the Mall of Asia Arena, even took responsibility for the 71-70 defeat which allowed Barangay Ginebra, the same series of championships for the best of seven.
“You know, we played a really solid defense. But credit in Ginebra, they played excellent defense and made things really difficult for us, “said residents to strengthen a frank conversation with journalists.
“Very, very bad shot on our behalf, but you have to give credit to these guys,” he added about Gin Kings. “They wanted to win, they played hard and they did the job.”
The sloppy luck has in fact supported even heavier for Hollis-Jefferson, who had two chances of putting his team at the front in the last 32 seconds of the pinch of pinching and tape observed by 12,925 fans.
A goalscorer in good faith that can flow practically any type of shooting, Hollis-Jefferson was suffocated by Stephen Holt de Ginebra, Scottie Thompson and Jamie Malonzo, who all played incessant in these two sequences of the crunch.
“I’m probably going to look at the gunshots 20 times. The two goods in which I did not even have a gunshot? It’s on me, “said the former NBA starter who directed TNT to his last two crowns.
Loss is a loss
“(But) this is something I want to improve or grow. I’ll watch it. I’ll watch it. I am not afraid to see where I was spoiled or where I made a mistake. I hope that Chot (Reyes) calls me, but I’m fine-it’s about improving, “he said.
Hollis-Jefferson, who finished with 25 points and 15 rebounds in the match, was not too eager to make a positive turn on the loss, taking the result for what he really was: a defeat.
“I mean, not really. They obtained victory, “he said when asked if Ginebra’s difficulties and the thin margin provided a kind of consolation. “It doesn’t (sic) know how they got it. They obtained the victory.
Hollis-Jefferson then set his goal on match 3, which will be played this Wednesday in Philsports Arena. But not without reaffirming his faith in himself and his teammates – like Roger Pogoy and Calvin Oftana – who were also icy that night.
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“It is about believing in you first, and your teammates also believe in you,” he said. “They got the victory, so we look at him, it’s even 1-1. Back to the drawing board. Inq
