The San Miguel Beermen will likely be coming off a 12-day lull when it takes on a hungry and sharp Meralco squad within the PBA Philippine Cup Finals, however they’re hoping this will play to their benefit.
San Miguel head coach Jorge Gallent mentioned they tried to maximise the break, making ready for various outcomes whereas awaiting their finals opponent because the Bolts needed to first survive a grueling semifinals sequence in opposition to Barangay Ginebra.
San Miguel, in distinction, swept Rain or Shine of their aspect of the semis bracket, leading to the remaining.
But the defending champions have been solely capable of finalize their recreation plan after final Friday, when the Bolts booted out the Gin Kings in Game 7 of their affair.
“We were off for 13 days and we couldn’t prepare because we just knew who we would play against so we just prepared right after they won on Friday,” Gallent mentioned in the course of the Finals press convention on Monday on the Crowne Plaza.
“We’re sort of okay kasi ‘yung 11 days na ‘yon, we did a lot of scrimmages and a lot of talking about what to do in case Ginebra or Meralco wins.”
Squaring off against the Bolts would also serve as a chance to earn some redemption as it was actually Meralco who dealt them their only loss in the elimination round.
But for both the Beermen and the Bolts, they are both back to square one in the series.
“It’s the previous, it’s already completed. We’ll simply be taught from our errors in that recreation and we simply must get higher,” Gallent added.
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
