Published on November 23, 2011
Brgy. Ginebra knows it can beat its opponents with lights-out shooting. It can play tough defense too.
On this particular night, both facets of the Kings' game aligned which proved enough to thwart an attempt by the Alaska Aces to turn the game around for an 85-77 victory that kept the former back on track in the PBA Philippine Cup at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum Wednesday.
Published on November 22, 2011
The Alaska Aces are playing their third game in six days but they are still hoping to make it three wins in a row as a belated birthday present for Alaska team owner Wilfred Steven Uytengsu turned 50 Tuesday.
The Aces take on a skidding Barangay Ginebra squad Wednesday as the race and positioning for the PBA Philippine Cup playoffs shifts to high gear going into the last three weeks of the elimination round.
Coming off wins over Powerade and Shopinas.com, Alaska takes on the Kings in the 5:15 p.m. first game at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Games Wednesday (Smart-Araneta Coliseum)
5:15 p.m. — Ginebra vs Alaska
7:30 p.m. — Barako vs Meralco
MANILA, Philippines — The latest addition in the rosters of B-Meg and Barangay Ginebra after a three-team trade failed to create an impact when the Llamados and the Kings clashed in the PBA Philippine Cup Sunday night at the packed Smart-Araneta Coliseum.
Third year forward Rico Maierhofer played 11 minutes but only had two points, two rebounds in his Ginebra debut, while veteran center Yancy de Ocampo of B-Meg was scoreless in only four minutes of action with two boards and one assist.
B-MEG capitalized on Barangay Ginebra’s series of miscues midway in the fourth quarter and took an 88-76 win for its fourth straight victory in the 2011 PBA Philippine Cup Sunday night at the SMART-Araneta Coliseum.
James Yap tallied 17 points but was held down to just 2 in the final canto. That was when the rest of the Llamados took over and thwarted the Kings’ uprising.
Rookie Mark Barroca had another solid game off the bench with 14 points on 7-of-12 shooting, PJ Simon added 12 while Josh Urbiztondo, Marc Pingris and Kerby Raymundo each had 10 for BMEG, which now joined Meralco for fourth spot with 6-4 slate.
Published on November 20, 2011
B-Meg went to other sources when James Yap struggled as it turned back a fiesty Brgy. Ginebra, 88-76, Sunday night to improve to a share of fourth with Meralco in the PBA Philippine Cup at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum.
Yap ended up leading five other teammates with double-digit scores with 17 points but it was the uncanny tandem of Marc Pingris and Roger Yap who came through in the clutch, firing six points apiece in the crucial stretch to help seal it for the Llamados.
It was B-Meg's fourth straight victory and sixth overall to jump to a joint No. 4 with the Bolts and just a full game behind the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters and Petron Blaze Boosters, who are jammed at No. 2 on 7-3 cards.
MANILA, Philippines — B-Meg and Barangay Ginebra clash Sunday in a game that may show which team benefited more from the recent trade that involved two of their major players.
B-Meg obtained 6-9 center Yancy de Ocampo from Ginebra which in turn got young forward Rico Maierhofer from B-Meg plus Allein Maliksi from Red Bull.
The two teams collide at 5:30 p.m. at the resumption of the PBA Philippine Cup at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum and the question foremost in the minds of observers is which team got it right?
B-Meg mentor Tim Cone has no doubt that De Ocampo will improve his team’s ‘‘triangle offense’’ system.
The rivalry between Barangay Ginebra and the Purefoods franchise remains the biggest rivalry in the PBA. Even though the two teams barely figure in playoff encounters against each other — the two franchises have only met in the finals twice, in 1988 and 1997, despite having been together in the league for 24 seasons — the animosity between the team’s fans have remained heated.
A lot of it has to do with image. Ginebra has always been the franchise of the masses, playing the rough-and-tumble Robert Jaworski game, while Purefoods (now know as B-MEG) has always been the league’s glamor team, in the image of Alvin Patrimonio. The faces of the two teams, Mark Caguioa and James Yap — quite frankly, still the two biggest stars in the PBA today — are spiritual successors of Jaworski and Patrimonio, who first faced off against each other in the 1988 All-Filipino championship, won by the Anejo team that was carried by the Ginebra franchise back then. Videos inside...
Sister teams B-MEG and Barangay Ginebra clash after trading key players in an important tussle in the 2011 PBA Philippine Cup Sunday at the SMART-Araneta Coliseum.
A few days after swapping players, the Llamados and the Kings collide in the main game at 5:30 p.m. Alaska and Shopinas.com face off in the opener at 3:15 p.m.
B-MEG and Ginebra were involved in a three-team trade that also involved Barako Bull where the Kings acquired Rico Maierhofer from B-MEG and rookie Allein Maliksi from the Energy. The Llamados received 6’9 center Yancy de Ocampo in return for Maierhofer.
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