After absorbing their first loss within the 2023 PBA Governors’ Cup, it’s time to transfer ahead for Barangay Ginebra.
The defending champions opened their convention with a 3-0 begin earlier than falling to the Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots, 118-88, on Sunday.
“We don’t want to use the schedule as an excuse,” stated head coach Tim Cone, whose Ginebra squad performed 4 video games in a span of eight days. “But we do know the value of moving on and moving forward.”
“We’ll move forward. We have another really tough opponent in San Miguel,” stated the multi-titled coach because the crew faces the Beermen on Friday. “We didn’t expect to go undefeated in this conference. We didn’t expect to go undefeated in a stretch of four games.”
For Cone, what occurred within the 30-point blowout loss was a ‘excellent storm.’
“It was a perfect storm of negatives for us tonight. I hate to admit this but we were really a tired team tonight, you could see it in our body language. our lack of activity,” stated Cone.
“We were tired and we played a team that was desperate and had a new life with an import.”
Cone added that the tight schedule caught up with Ginebra in what he described as an ’embarrassing evening’.
“It just turned into a really embarrassing night. You don’t want that on a Manila Clasico night. The schedule just caught up to us,” Cone stated.
“Before this stretch started, it felt that if we could get to 3-1 or 2-2, I’d be happy, but once we got to 3-0, we were greedy, we wanted to get to 4-0. Not getting to 4-0 with a chance to get the 4-0, now it’s just disappointing.”
Despite the loss, Cone nonetheless noticed loads of positives with the likes of Christian Standhardinger and LA Tenorio taking part in prolonged minutes after coming off accidents.
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
