Ateneo Defeats La Salle Twice In A Week

For the second time in a week, the Ateneo Blue Eagles defeated the De La Salle Green Archers.  In their first match of the season last week, Ateneo escaped with a narrow four point victory over La Salle with a final score of 76-72 in OT.  In their second meeting of the season, however, the Blue Eagles showed their basketball prowess by posting an 81-65 win over Green Archers.

It was a bitter pill to swallow, but that’s how it goes.  I was only able to watch snippets of the last game and it was clear why Ateneo is on top.  Their execution and playmaking was way better than La Salle’s.  The Archers, on the other hand, played lazily and lacked heart.  Though I’m a Lasallian, I’d be the first to admit that I saw more aggresiveness in Ateneo, their desire to win was smoothly translated into their play by play execution. 

La Salle’s chances of getting into the Final Four just got slimmer after their previous setbacks.  Of course, I’m still rooting for my team to win and at least enter the Final Four this season.  But the Green Archers need more than their mediocre plays and sloppy executions to win games.  Of course, Franz Pumaren’s magic will always be a big factor, but if the players can’tget their acts together, La Salle would surely be in deep sh*t. 

Kudos to Ateneo taking the two season games against us, but I believe that La Salle would always find ways to bounce back. 

Keep it green, guys!

 

-fouledout

Captain Hook Saves the Day

Macmac Cardona’s late game heroics helped the Talk n Text top the Alaska Aces 124-122 last night.  In the dying seconds, Cardona converted a three-point play and drained a triple to save the day.  Talk n Text squandered a 19-point lead in the fourth period but survived the game by riding Cardona’s end-game salvo.  Cardona finished with 16 points.

Tiras Wade led TnT with 35 points including seven triples, while Jimmy Alapag and Jared Dillinger added 17 points apiece. 

Alaska Aces was led by Rosell Ellis with 30 points and 17 rebounds.  Joe Devance chipped in 20 points and backcourt tandem, LA Tenorio and Willie Miller contributed 18 points each.

 Talk and Text moved up to the .500 spot with a 3-3 record while the Alaska Aces dropped to 2-5 (.286).

-fouledout

 

Ateneo Bonfire Incident

Ateneo’s bonfire celebration was just classless. Well, not only it was classless, but it was also tasteless and uncalled for. Who would’ve thought that a Catholic school, run by priests, would do such thing? We know that the priests were not directly involved with the incident, but still, the fact that one of their former students orchestrated the name-burning is just unacceptable.

You guys already won the UAAP crown, what more do you want? We don’t have problems with you guys celebrating your victory; just don’t take things too personal. I mean, it’s just basketball, why’d you have to burn planks with people’s names on it. If this thing was done in La Salle’s campus, I bet Ateneo would also be fuming with anger.

But it’s all over now, so I guess it’s all gonna be good, at least for now. I just hope that things like this do not happen again in the coming years.