I hope Baclao will recover soon. I am not actually sure what injury he got but if we will base on his body language then probably it was on his right knee. Maybe a dislocation? What do you guys think? Anyway, one thing is for sure, Cahilig had a clear block — it is not an unsportsmanlike foul.
Whatever it is, surely it's a
"horror injury".Here's the update:
https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/alaska-hopes-for-the-best-as-noy-baclao-suffers-horror-knee-injury-a1413-20190920
This looks like a very similar trend in the past conference where the weak teams usually win in the beginning of the conference but they will fail during the elimination round, hopefully this season will be different. I like to see the weaker teams to be the semis or finals this conference, teams like Blackwater and Columbian DYIP are the weakest team in the PBA.
It's different from last conference mate. Columbian DYIP started at 0-3 last conference before taking their 1st win. Then after that, they lost 3 in a row making them 1-6 in their first 7 games. That win is a good start for them. On the other hand, Northport sealed 2nd spot to have the twice-to-beat advantage last conference.
But yeah, want to see these teams battling at semi or finals. Not a fan of them but I just want to see how these teams will spoil the SMB teams hype.
Regarding calls, there are a lot of questionable calls in the NBA, we just have to get used to it because this organization can also rig games but that's hard to prove, it's just up to us to decide based on what we see.
NBA?
Anyways, rigging games is possible but seeing how the first set of games
(PBA) turned out, I don't see an obvious sided calls there.