Rain or Shine Elastopainters’ Adrian Nocum and Caelan Tiongson in the course of the PBA Commissioner’s Cup quarterfinals sport towards Converge FiberXers. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines—Rain or Shine younger gun Adrian Nocum saved it easy: the Elasto Painters misplaced to Converge due to the little issues.
However Nocum believes that it’s going to even be little issues that will assist them keep alive PBA Commissioner’s Cup quarterfinals.
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“We don’t need to do something totally different or experiment. No matter we all know, we’ll do, even the small issues like boxing out or the easy issues. These had been the the reason why we misplaced earlier,” stated 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 keep on with 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 shifting 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 % discipline purpose capturing clip as a group.
It actually didn’t assist Rain or Shine’s trigger that they misplaced the providers 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 night time, he registered 14 factors and 6 rebounds.
Sadly for them, Converge import Cheick Diallo dominated when he acquired the possibility and completed with one other monster sport 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 power a decider in Recreation 2 of the quarterfinals.
