Rain or Shine Elastopainters’ Adrian Nocum and Caelan Tiongson throughout the PBA Commissioner’s Cup quarterfinals recreation in opposition to Converge FiberXers. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines—Rain or Shine younger gun Adrian Nocum stored it easy: the Elasto Painters misplaced to Converge due to the little issues.
However Nocum believes that it’ll even be little issues that will assist them keep alive PBA Commissioner’s Cup quarterfinals.
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“We don’t must do something completely different or experiment. No matter we all know, we’ll do, even the small issues like boxing out or the straightforward issues. These had been the the explanation why we misplaced earlier,” mentioned Nocum in Filipino after their 118-130 beatdown by the hands of the FiberXers in Recreation 1 of the at Araneta Coliseum on Wednesday.
“We’ll simply follow the system… We didn’t have our protection and our offensive rebounds on the market [tonight.]”
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Even with Nocum’s 14 factors, three rebounds and two steals, it barely slowed the red-hot Converge squad from transferring a win away from reaching the semifinals.
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The FiberXers torched the Elasto Painters with their offensive effectivity, registering a blistering 56.3 p.c subject purpose capturing clip as a group.
It actually didn’t assist Rain or Shine’s trigger that they misplaced the companies of import Deon Thompson early within the third quarter after fouling out.
“That was so exhausting,” admitted Nocum. “It’s such an enormous factor to have an import. We actually had a drawback however we had been nonetheless there.”
Earlier than Thompson ended his early evening, he registered 14 factors and 6 rebounds.
Sadly for them, Converge import Cheick Diallo dominated when he bought the possibility and completed with one other monster recreation of 35 factors and 17 rebounds.
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All roads result in Ninoy Aquino Stadium on Friday as Rain or Shine hopes to pressure a decider in Recreation 2 of the quarterfinals.
