Mark Caguioa - Wild Card Indeed

This is what I am talking about, ONLY Mark Caguioa can rock the Araneta Coliseum. He's like no other player today in the Philippines. I saw the latter part of the Ginebra-Air21 game last night while waiting for the OCEAN's 12 re-run at HBO, and guess what I witnessed over at Channel 5. It's The Spark literally sparking for a 45 point explosion to end the wild card series. A career game indeed coming in at the most crucial time of the eliminations where, about 6 team mates wore their J.S. Prom attires due to injuries. With the combination of outside shooting and relentless attacks to the basket, Mark powered the Ginerbra into advancing to the next round. But give Air21 some credit for giving their all and more. Had Mark Telan gave up the ball to his guards, they could have gotten a better shot to force another OT. He end up taking a half-baked, off-angled, Tim Duncan-impression, banked-shot that failed to hit the mark. Ginebra fans too should give a thank-you-note to Nino "Un-KG" Canaleta for doing the RenRen Ritualo fire at your will routine, firing fade-away and turn-around threes when they only need to get 2s.

After winning the game via OT, broken english and all, coach Siot Tanquingcen pronounced, Mark Caguioa is the best player in the PBA now. He is right about that but his grammar isn't.

Speaking about right and wrong...

I maybe wrong when I said yesterday that PBA is losing ground, as 11,000+ packed the Araneta Coliseum (But only Ginebra can produce that attendance). But I hit right at the center when I said yesterday that the PBA needs more Caguioas. If we only have 4 or 5 Caguioa-level players allocated throughout some teams, the PBA and Philippine Basketball will be in better shape than what we have today and I will have a lot of things to blog about.