BATANGAS — Barangay Ginebra showed an initial glimpse of what it can do with the addition of Stanley Pringle in the Gin Kings mix, pulling off a lopsided 100-85 win over NLEX in the PBA Commissioner’s Cup at the Batangas City Coliseum here Sunday night. Unleashing their firepower together in a decisive blitzkrieg in the third quarter, Pringle, Justin Brownlee and LA Tenorio powered Ginebra to a 27-point spread at 76-49, and the Kings coasted to a second straight win and to a 4-3 overall record.
Wednesday, December 20, second game day of the 2018 Philippine Cup, NLEX Road Warriors survives Kia’s offensive onslaught in the first half, scoring 40 points in the first quarter and continued to score 18 points in the second quarter.
At one-point Kia’s lead went up to 13 points, that is until Kiefer “The Phenom” Ravena went to work filling the stat sheet with 18 points, 12 assists and 7 rebounds, not bad for a rookie playing his first PBA game.
It’s not all bad for Kia, since they showed the league that even they gave away their first draft pick they can still manage to put up a fight and almost won. In an interview Gavina said;
“We showed our grit tonight, we showed a great deal of character in being able to keep up with what I feel is one of the contenders coming into this conference. So if we can do this against NLEX, we can do this against anybody. That’s our mindset going in,”
NLEX’s next assignment will be against the Globalport on Monday, December 25 at the Philippine Arena, while Kia will face Phoenix Fuel Masters on the 27th of December at the Ynares Center-Antipolo.
