Showing posts with label Barangay Ginebra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barangay Ginebra. Show all posts
Monday, May 9, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Player of the Week: Mark Caguioa
ANY coach would like a Mark Caguioa on his team. For sure, Barangay GInebra’s
Jong Uichico does.
“Mark Caguioa is a competitor. He’s a fighter, ayaw magpatalo,” said Uichico of
the prolific guard-forward chosen as the Accel-PBA Press Corps Player of the
Week for the period April 11 to 18 after helping boost the Kings into the
semifinals and tantalizingly close to a Commissioner’s Cup Finals stint.
“It’s really nice to have a player like (him) in your team. it’s positive.”He’s
just so competitive that he wants to win… and sometimes you’d rather have that
than somebody who won’t fight at all.”
Such a competitive spirit was translated into more concrete form by the 2001
Rookie of the Year to the tune of 21.3 points, 8.0 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.3
steals in the three victories Ginebra notched in the week that was.
He highlighted his sterling performances with a 30-point, 11-rebound game in a
92-82 win against Rain or Shine last Wednesday, enabling Ginebra to buck an
unusually cold night from import Nate Brumfield.
Brumfield shot just 4-for-12 from the field and wound with just 12 points. That
didn’t matter as, no little thanks to Caguioa’s best performance since the 2010
Fiesta Conference, the Kings wrapped up their best-of-three quarterfinals duel
with the Elasto Painters, 2-1.
In the first two games of the race-to-three semis match-up with No. 2 seed
Smart-Gilas, Brumfield picked up his game and led Ginebra to 97-96 and 110-103
triumphs. But Caguioa remained as the top local King by averaging 17.0 points in
those outings.
Those wins pushed Ginebra within another of booking a seat in the championship
series and Caguioa is one player sure to crank up his game even more if that
objective is realized.
That should spell even more bad news for the opposition.
Caguioa beat out Talk N Text’s Ranidel de Ocampo (18.5 points, 7.5 rebounds in
two semis games) for his second such citation for the conference after being
similarly honored for the period March 24-30.PR
Jong Uichico does.
“Mark Caguioa is a competitor. He’s a fighter, ayaw magpatalo,” said Uichico of
the prolific guard-forward chosen as the Accel-PBA Press Corps Player of the
Week for the period April 11 to 18 after helping boost the Kings into the
semifinals and tantalizingly close to a Commissioner’s Cup Finals stint.
“It’s really nice to have a player like (him) in your team. it’s positive.”He’s
just so competitive that he wants to win… and sometimes you’d rather have that
than somebody who won’t fight at all.”
Such a competitive spirit was translated into more concrete form by the 2001
Rookie of the Year to the tune of 21.3 points, 8.0 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.3
steals in the three victories Ginebra notched in the week that was.
He highlighted his sterling performances with a 30-point, 11-rebound game in a
92-82 win against Rain or Shine last Wednesday, enabling Ginebra to buck an
unusually cold night from import Nate Brumfield.
Brumfield shot just 4-for-12 from the field and wound with just 12 points. That
didn’t matter as, no little thanks to Caguioa’s best performance since the 2010
Fiesta Conference, the Kings wrapped up their best-of-three quarterfinals duel
with the Elasto Painters, 2-1.
In the first two games of the race-to-three semis match-up with No. 2 seed
Smart-Gilas, Brumfield picked up his game and led Ginebra to 97-96 and 110-103
triumphs. But Caguioa remained as the top local King by averaging 17.0 points in
those outings.
Those wins pushed Ginebra within another of booking a seat in the championship
series and Caguioa is one player sure to crank up his game even more if that
objective is realized.
That should spell even more bad news for the opposition.
Caguioa beat out Talk N Text’s Ranidel de Ocampo (18.5 points, 7.5 rebounds in
two semis games) for his second such citation for the conference after being
similarly honored for the period March 24-30.PR
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
MERALCO-GINEBRA TIFF NO HOLDS BARRED
A gauntlet has been thrown down by officials of Barangay Ginebra and
newcomer Meralco, the two ballclubs that will duke it out in the Oct.
3 inaugural game of the PBA Philippine Cup, kicking off the 36th
season at the Araneta Coliseum.
Kings alternate governor Robert Non and Bolts board representative
Ramon Segismundo minced no words at the close of a three-day PBA
planning session in Bangkok last week in vowing to throw everything
into the encounter except their pension funds.
“Our employees wearing orange shirts will be there in full force,”
announced Segismundo, Meralco senior vice president and head of human resources.
“We know that Ginebra has a huge following, but we hope to also make
our presence felt.”
Segismundo and Non, along with PBA commissioner Chito Salud and
several other governors, including league chairman Rene Pardo of B-Meg
Derby Ace, joined sportswriters after dinner one evening at the Amari
Watergate Hotel and engaged each other in friendly banter.
Non, San Miguel Corporation’s basketball operations chief, smiled
coyly on hearing the veiled challenge.
“That, I have to see,” said Non, agreeing to a suggestion Ginebra may
have to ask its fans to come in red.”
“Puwede ‘yan,” Non said, laughing. “Para magka-alaman agad ng maaga pa.”
An opening day featuring Ginebra is a rare occurrence because the PBA,
assured of a traditionally large inaugural crowd, usually schedules
the Kings on the next play date to ensure back-to-back SRO venues.
But a special guest has personal history dating back to the glory
years of both Meralco and Ginebra, making for a gripping subplot.
“Who can resist when you have the Big J, Robert Jaworski, there on
opening day?” said Salud, who revealed that the former Meralco star –
during the old MICAA days in the ‘70s – and immensely popular Ginebra
playing-coach – in the ‘80s and ‘90s – has been invited to grace the
curtain-raiser.
Jaworski, along with Alberto ‘Big Boy’ Reynoso, Jimmy Mariano, Gene
Lucindo, Orly Bauzon, Alfronso Marquez, Larry Mumar and a young
Francis Arnaiz, among others, stood in the forefront of the Meralco
Reddie Kilowatts’ bitter rivalry with the Crispa Redmanizers, a feud
the spilled over to the PBA after its formation in 1975, Meralco’s
eventual disbandment, and Toyota acquiring Jaworski and Co.
When Toyota folded early in the ‘80s, Jaworski and Arnaiz went to
Gilbey’s Gin, the forerunner of the Barangay Ginebra Kings, giving the
PBA its biggest attraction since Crispa-Toyota and Robert Non and
Ramon Segismundo, many years later, their merry bone of contention.(pr)
newcomer Meralco, the two ballclubs that will duke it out in the Oct.
3 inaugural game of the PBA Philippine Cup, kicking off the 36th
season at the Araneta Coliseum.
Kings alternate governor Robert Non and Bolts board representative
Ramon Segismundo minced no words at the close of a three-day PBA
planning session in Bangkok last week in vowing to throw everything
into the encounter except their pension funds.
“Our employees wearing orange shirts will be there in full force,”
announced Segismundo, Meralco senior vice president and head of human resources.
“We know that Ginebra has a huge following, but we hope to also make
our presence felt.”
Segismundo and Non, along with PBA commissioner Chito Salud and
several other governors, including league chairman Rene Pardo of B-Meg
Derby Ace, joined sportswriters after dinner one evening at the Amari
Watergate Hotel and engaged each other in friendly banter.
Non, San Miguel Corporation’s basketball operations chief, smiled
coyly on hearing the veiled challenge.
“That, I have to see,” said Non, agreeing to a suggestion Ginebra may
have to ask its fans to come in red.”
“Puwede ‘yan,” Non said, laughing. “Para magka-alaman agad ng maaga pa.”
An opening day featuring Ginebra is a rare occurrence because the PBA,
assured of a traditionally large inaugural crowd, usually schedules
the Kings on the next play date to ensure back-to-back SRO venues.
But a special guest has personal history dating back to the glory
years of both Meralco and Ginebra, making for a gripping subplot.
“Who can resist when you have the Big J, Robert Jaworski, there on
opening day?” said Salud, who revealed that the former Meralco star –
during the old MICAA days in the ‘70s – and immensely popular Ginebra
playing-coach – in the ‘80s and ‘90s – has been invited to grace the
curtain-raiser.
Jaworski, along with Alberto ‘Big Boy’ Reynoso, Jimmy Mariano, Gene
Lucindo, Orly Bauzon, Alfronso Marquez, Larry Mumar and a young
Francis Arnaiz, among others, stood in the forefront of the Meralco
Reddie Kilowatts’ bitter rivalry with the Crispa Redmanizers, a feud
the spilled over to the PBA after its formation in 1975, Meralco’s
eventual disbandment, and Toyota acquiring Jaworski and Co.
When Toyota folded early in the ‘80s, Jaworski and Arnaiz went to
Gilbey’s Gin, the forerunner of the Barangay Ginebra Kings, giving the
PBA its biggest attraction since Crispa-Toyota and Robert Non and
Ramon Segismundo, many years later, their merry bone of contention.(pr)
Thursday, July 9, 2009
FOR FANS’ SAKE PBA SETS GAME 5 ON MONDAY
FOR FANS’ SAKE PBA SETS GAME 5 ON MONDAY
In keeping with its policy that welfare of the fans is optimum priority, the PBA has decided to extend the championship break of Barangay Ginebra and San Miguel Beer and resume the Finals of the 2009 Motolite PBA Fiesta conference on Monday.
As per schedule, today marks a break in the best-of-seven series between the Kings and the Beermen with the pivotal Game 5 supposedly set for Sunday at the Cuneta Astrodome.
But the unforeseen got in the way, spoiling the thrilling showdown between two of the league’s most popular clubs.
During a routine check in preparation for Sunday’s event, maintenance staff of the Astrodome discovered that four of the venue’s eight air conditioning blowers are down and repair couldn’t be completed in time for Game 5.
“There is a tremendous clamor for tickets for Game 5. And based on our assessment, the air conditioning system won’t hold up to the huge crowd that we are expecting,” said PBA commissioner Renauld “Sonny” Barrios. “We always want our fans to watch the games as if they are in the comfort of their homes. Obviously, that’s not possible under the present situation at the Astrodome.”
The league would have loved to hold Game 5 at the Araneta Coliseum because it would also be able address the huge demand for tickets but the Big Dome has been booked by the UAAP for Saturday and Sunday.
Holding games on a Monday is not something new for the PBA. Just last April 20, it scheduled a twinbill at the Cuneta Astrodome to kick off the 2009 All-Star Week.
This is the first time though that the league has scheduled a championship game on a Monday.
“There is always a first time for everything. But there will be no substitute to the welfare of our fans,” Barrios said.
The series is tied at 2-2 with the defending champion Kings aiming to become the first repeat champs since Red Bull in 2001.
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