Kings for a difficult exit

Tim Cone knows what he and his Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings have just done.

"We were humiliated," Leo Austria, Leo's beer counterpart, said on Friday night after the Kings had screwed up his Beermen. 99 Match 1 win in their series of titles from the PBA Commission Cup. "It's the kind of game I do not want to do, especially in a series of championships."

That's why Cone is preparing for a San Miguel fight unlike any other, if he and his kings manage to resist in 18:30 The Sunday match at the Smart Araneta Coliseum would bring Ginebra closer to her powerful pedestal.

"We waved the hive and they're going to stick it to us in the second game," Cone said during the post-game interview where he admitted being surprised at how easy they were with were able to handle the Beermen. "It was just one of those nights when we had them and they did not do it."

It was perhaps the best game Ginebra played all the tournament and one of the worst San Miguel came with the whole season. The series' predictions look like bullshit, most experts expect it to be close.

They are a team of veterans and they have been in this situation many times before, "said Cone." We know the resilience of this team and we expect a real match of strength from them in the second match "

Austria seemed vindictive during his time of talking with the media and eliminated defeat." Losing 40 or 50 points only loses one match, "said the l & # 39; Austria. "It's a good thing that this is a best-of-seven series. It's the same as a loss of one point. We must go ahead. "

Things should have been easier to accept for Austria a few hours after the debacle, all the more so as he admits to having been losing in his battle with Cone on this one.

"The great master (Cone) has really moved his pieces," conceded Austria later. "Our talent that we used in the playoffs was not enough [for this game]. They really went out prepared. I was late and we were not able to execute our game plan.

San Miguel's game plan was slopped early when Justin Brownlee scored 18 points in the first quarter to launch Ginebra's offensive. The Kings defense also did its job on the players who counted on the other end, especially June Mar Fajardo

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