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| Joseph Yeo drains 1 of his 5 3's |
Joseph Yeo came up big in his first Ginebra-Purefoods clash, scoring a game-high 17 points, including five three-pointers, and dishing out five assists to lead Ginebra to a 4-1 records.
Greg Slaughter and Billy Mamaril both had double-doubles in the game with Slaughter finishing with 14 points and 13 rebounds and Mamaril chipping in with 12 and 13.
Mac Baracael scored 13 points and Japeth Aguilar added 11 points and eight boards for Ginebra.
They dominated the first quarter, 19-10, and the third, 28-17, to cruise to the win.
The Ginebra starting unit of LA Tenorio, Yeo, Aguilar, Baracael and Mamaril got the Kings off to great start, as they scored the first 10 points of the game, all of them on jumpers from the outside.
Purefoods tightened up on the defensive end after those first four minutes, but the entry of Slaughter and Mark Caguioa from off the bench paid off for them as Ginebra closed the quarter on a 7-1 run to lead, 19-10.
But Peter June Simon did his best to keep his team in the game during the second period, where he scored 10 points and assisted on another key basket to lead a Purefoods rally.
Ginebra extended their lead to 14 points, 34-20, after a 13-3 run led by Tenorio, who scored seven of the team’s points in that stretch. Purefoods’ lone basket came courtesy of a triple from Simon.
The Hotshots responded behind Simon, who hit a three-pointer and a floater to cut their deficit down to seven and, after a jumper from Slaughter on the other end, found teammate Joe Devance for a big three-pointer.
He then took advantage of a big defensive play from Mark Barroca, who smothered a pass attempt from a Ginebra player and gave it to a streaking Simon for an uncontested layup in transition.
He scored or assisted on 10 of his team’s points in a 12-2 blast that brought them to within four points, 36-32, late in the first half.
The Ginebra starters came back on as a unit and, with a red-hot Yeo bombing away from beyond the arc, came out of the break in similar fashion, outscoring their opponents, 14-4, to push the lead back up to double digits.
The Kings pushed their advantage to as high as 19 points, 57-38, after Yeo hit his fourth three-pointer of the quarter and his fifth of the game.
Purefoods came back to as close as 12 points in the fourth after a 7-2 start to the final canto.
But Aguilar scored on a three-point play, Yeo found Mamaril for a basket and Caguioa added two more points on a putback as they pushed the lead back up to 19, 75-56,
Ginebra extended their lead to 23 points, 84-61, after Yeo scored on a layup in transition.
Slaughter capped the team’s dominance with a big dunk with 1:22 remaining in the game and
Baracael hit a late three-pointer to give them their biggest lead of 25, 89-64.
Simon led Purefoods with 15 points while Joe Devance added 10 and Marc Pingris 10.
Purefoods star James Yap finished with seven points and shot just 2-for-14 in the game. He missed all three of his three-point attempts.
The scores:
GINEBRA (89) – Yeo 17, Slaughter 14, Baracael 13, Mamaril 12, Aguilar 11, Tenorio 7, Caguioa 7, Brondial 6, Helterbrand 2, Monfort 0, Forrester 0, Urbiztondo 0, Reyes 0, Ellis 0.
PUREFOODS (66) – Simon 15, Devance 11, Pingris 10, Barroca 9, Mallari 8, Yap 7, Taha 3, Melton 2, Allado 1, Reavis 0, Holstein 0, Gaco 0, Maliksi 0, Matias 0.
Quarterscores: 19-10, 38-32, 66-49, 89-66.
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