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Guiao stays positive after meltdown: ‘We just have to be a better team’
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It’s hard to imagine how Rain or Shine would pick up the pieces after its stunning loss to San Miguel Beer on Tuesday night.
It was a painful loss, something the Elasto Painters – who wore long faces as they marched back to their locker room amidst wild celebration by San Miguel fans – surely didn’t see coming.
They completely dominated San Miguel in the first three periods of the series opener of their semifinal duel and led by as much as 22 points so it’s mind boggling how they ended up on the losing end on a night they looked invincible.
“It’s unbelievable,” was how San Miguel coach Leo Austria described their 109-105 comeback victory during the post-game interview.
Never known to back down even under the most challenging situations, ROS coach Yeng Guiao maintains a positive outlook and exhorted the team to put the debacle behind and move on. Game 2 of the best-of-seven affair is on Thursday at the Smart Areneta Coliseum.
“It’s a very disappointing loss. The game was ours to lose and we can’t blame anybody but ourselves. But we don’t want this game to stop us from doing what we need to do,” offered the fiery coach, who is still chasing his first All-Filipino championship.
The Elasto Painters led 93-73 with 11 minutes left in the fourth quarter but a series of turnovers and poor decision making down the stretch led to their demise.
Interestingly, it wasn’t the first time ROS had squandered a big lead in the playoffs. The Elasto Painters also blew a 24-point advantage and went on to lose, 95-101, in Game 1 of the 2015 Governors’ Cup semifinal series also against San Miguel.
ROS went on to lose that series. Can the E-Painters avert the same fate this time?
Perhaps, Guiao answered it well when he said:” Looking this game positively, the fact that we were able to dominate San Miguel for most part only means we have a chance to beat them. We just have to be a better team on Thursday and learn from the lessons of today.” (Dave Coros)
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