Player of the Week: Larry Fonacier

ONCE in a while, a player comes up with a career game. And when that comes at a
time when his team needs it the most, the feat becomes extra special.
Such was the case with Larry Fonacier, who re-set some personal milestones while
helping Talk N Text draw closer to an immediate goal in the PBA Governors Cup.
The reserve guard earned the Accel-PBA Press Corps Player of the Week honors for
the period June 20 to 26 when he made a career-high 27 points in powering the
Tropang Texters to an 89-85 squeaker over Powerade last Saturday at the Davao
del Sur Cultural, Sports and Business Center.
The performance, anchored on a remarkable 8-of-11 three-point shooting, enabled
Talk N Text to overcome an error-filled night, preserve its unblemished start in
the season-ending tourney and help boost its confidence in its chase for a
season-sweep.

“”He bailed us out,” said Texters coach Chot Reyes of the 2005-06 Rookie of the
Year who came into the game averaging 8.0 ppg but on that particular night
finished with a 9-of-13 field shooting laced with four rebounds and two assists.

“We had 25 turnovers and Powerade did a good job of taking away our
penetration,” Reyes added. “Larry’s outside shooting was our counter.”
It was the most number of treys the league has seen since Ronjay Buenafe, then
with Air21, had the same output in the season-opening Philippine Cup.
This one becomes more memorable since Fonacier’s final triple shattered the
game’s last deadlock at 85 in the last 18 seconds and pointed Talk N Text to its
third win.
That performance made the scribes give the former Ateneo stalwart the nod over
Alaska’s Sonny Thoss, who posted two-game averages of 17.5 points, 10.5
rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.5 blocks in the Aces’ wins over B-MEG and Air21.PR