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With Air21’s back against the wall, the squad needed a huge outburst, a spark if you may, to save the Express’ Cinderella run to the semifinals.
And who better to provide that than their import Wesley Witherspoon.
The 6-foot-9 forward came up big for coach Franz Pumaren, as he had a game-high 32 points on 8-of-14 shooting from rainbow country in their 94-91 Game 4 conquest to force a Game 5 in their best-of-five series against San Mig Coffee.
Notably, he owned more than half of the Express’ 15 three-pointers, which ties the league’s conference-high in rainbow shots made.
“I’ve been stressing to our import (what we lacked in our last two games), and he responded. He accepted the challenge and showed his true character,” Pumaren said.
The 24-year-old Memphis Tiger also added eight rebounds, four steals, three assists, and two blocks in the pivotal game, but for him, the win is just going back to what made the team the “uninvited guest” in the semifinals.
“We just had fun,” he said. “The reason why we’re winning games is because we’re having fun. We got away from that. We tried to be a serious team, that’s not who we are. We need to go out and have fun every night.”
On his torrid shooting night, Witherspoon credited his teammates in freeing him up, saying, “We’re moving the ball around and the guys set good screens tonight that freed me up a little bit and gave (Marc) Pingris a little trouble coming off screens, and my shots are falling so I just had to keep on shooting.”
“The guys forget that the pressure is not on us. Aside from everybody in the Air21 locker room, nobody else thought that we’ll be here,” Witherspoon said. “We’re hungry right now.”
With their conference on the line, Witherspoon just downplayed the situation and said, “It’s another game. It’s all that is. We can’t put pressure on ourselves. We can’t think of it as a Game 5.”
“We came here tonight like how we played San Miguel Beer, that if we lose, it’s over. I told them that I’m not ready to leave yet and go back home, so let’s go back and have fun.” (RL)
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