Coach Tim Cone believes championships are meant to be seized swiftly.
“You don’t want to nonchalantly walk to it, you’d want to race to it,” he said on the eve of Game 5 of the PBA’s Philippine Cup Finals.
That might very well describe the way the Gin Kings won their first all-Filipino crown in 13 years. Barangay Ginebra turned back TNT on Wednesday night, scraping past undermanned TNT, 82-78, at Angeles University Foundation.
Three of Ginebra’s wins went down the wire and may have forced a lot of hard labor out of the Kings side, but the team seized the series in a shorter time than many would have thought. Part of it was the injuries that TNT suffered during the …
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