After putting out third quarter fires, Aljon Mariano made it clear Barangay Ginebra hadn’t accomplished much yet on Wednesday night.
“We haven’t won anything,” he said in Filipino. “We’re up but it’s still the same; it’s a race-to-four series and the team that wins four games wins the championship.”
But it’s a pretty comfortable cushion to be sitting on when you’re halfway through that goal and the opponent still has to win a game. That’s where the Gin Kings currently are after a 92-90 victory over TNT gave them a commanding 2-0 lead in the PBA Philippine Cup Finals.
And to think they almost let this one slip away.
Ginebra trailed by 15 in the third period befor…
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