I saw Bollick playing already, not leading the scoring yet but it looks like he is already comfortable with his new team. NLEX starting strong, and have finished the first quarter with a double digit lead, if this will continue, they'll like win this game and their losing streak will be over soon.
This game is now getting exciting to watch, I thought it will be another blowout win by TNT, but they are the one who are trailing here.
Bollick was just facilitating the ball and they have a good ball movement resulting to a big lead they keep after the first half.
The score now is 39-58, that's a 19 points lead, I don't think TNT will be able to come back in this game even if they'll make this a single digit game, they may owned the 3rd quarter but they'll get tired in the 4th as they are undermanned. No Castro, so no good ball facilitator.
This NLEX team is the shi**iest now.
At some point they were up 21 points and then suddenly they stop playing in the 2nd half.
I can't even imagine that they'll lose by a double digit after being up by a huge margin, I think they are done and betting on them everytime is like making a big mistake. Sorry for those who expected an easy win but was disappointed in the end.
I think they loss all their energy in the first half, they played well to offer that big lead to Asi as he was recognize for his long term journey in the PBA during the halftime break. He actually retired. read the story for those who haven't seen the game live.
Taulava calls it a careerTHE longest playing tenure in PBA history finally came to an end Wednesday night.
NLEX officially retired the no. 88 playing jersey of Asi Taulava, capping a long, 24-year playing career that had its own share of ups and downs.
The 50-year-old Taulava was with his entire family during the retirement ceremony held at halftime of the PBA Commissioner's Cup game between TNT and NLEX at Philsports Arena.
The evergreen Fil-Tongan was activated prior to the game to make it official his 24th season in the league in a career that began in 1999 as the direct Fil-foreign hire of TNT.
Coach Frankie Lim then made him part of the starting unit along with Rob Herndon, Matt Nieto, rookie Enoch Valdez, and import Stokley Chaffee.
Going back to the main topic, I see this like a similar scenario of the Warriors game where they are up early but ending up losing the game.
Just look at the 3rd (41-20) and 4th quarter (33-19) scoring.
That 3rd quarter alone TNT were able to come back in the game already, and going to the 4th quarter, we know that NLEX was already in trouble as the energy of TNT is so strong that they want to end the game with a dominant passion, and they did.