On the eve of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Rookie Draft, where every team earns a shot at gaining a key talent to improve their team’s chances in the coming season, NLEX coach Yeng Guiao is realistic enough to understand that there’s a ceiling to that hoped-for improvement.
And if you’re like the Road Warriors, that ceiling, it seems, is fifth place.
“Ginebra, San Miguel, [TNT], and Magnolia. Those are the top four teams and I think it would be difficult to take them down,” Guiao said in Filipino during an episode of The Chasedown on Saturday. “Everyone else is just battling for fifth place.”
“Of course, Phoenix, Meralco and Alaska improved. I hope w…
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