Feeling good outside: Beermen, Gin Kings because of dogfight

Time for Reflection: Beermen, Gin Kings for Air Combat

Nelson Beltran (philstar.com) – July 31, 2018 – 4:18 pm

Wed Wednesday (Smart Araneta Coliseum)

7:00 pm – San Miguel vs Ginebra

MANILA, Philippines – The San Miguel Beermen and the Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings are preparing for a real battle while they've broken their game of a match at the resumption of the commissaires of the PBA. Cup finals at Smart Araneta Coliseum Wednesday night

The Beermen and Kings could focus on each other and could be expected for a dog fight in the third game at 19:00

A and they took us by surprise in the second game. I do not think there will be many surprises in the third game. Tim Cone, Ginebra's coach, said, "I think our team will be pinned because we know that coach Tim Cone is a great coach. He is one of the best coaches in the PBA with 20 championships. But I think we will be prepared. We will try to prepare ourselves as well as possible in order to be adequately reinforced, "said Alex Cabagnot, ace of San Miguel

.The two teams are back to square one after Ginebra has won a 127-99 Game One victory, then San Miguel came out as dominant in hacking a 134-109 rout in the next game.

But, without a doubt, both teams will still be engaged in a series of games.

I'm glad we made the right adjustments and it worked (in the second game) (But) it will not work out on Wednesday so we'll have to stay ahead of the learning curve Said Cabagnot, SMB's biggest hero Sunday with his 33-point game

and dominance at the painting by June Mar Fajardo and Renaldo Balkman as the most crucial factors in their Game 2 triumph [19659006] Obviously working on the SMB's favor was Cone opting to play Greg Slaughter on the bench.

Cone is likely to tinker with his early five while Austria should stay with his three-small-and-two-big combination.

"They are trying to look for a discrepancy for June Mar trying to avoid a collision between June Mar and Greg Slaughter, same thing for us," Austria said.

Ginebra's big problem in the second game was that Joe Devance was not as successful as it was in the first game. "1965" Day 1 of Joe Devance. He scored against everyone we put him in then, "said Austria.

Then there is the energy and intensity of the Beermen that they hope bring to the next game.

"It looked like step by step in Game One as we allowed them to run their game. In the second game, we went out to play a championship game," said Austria