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The Mixers and the Elasto Painters meet in the lone game at 5:15 p.m. with the winner taking a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.
San Mig Coffee tied the series with a resounding 106-82 victory in Game Two that pruned down the showdown to a best-of-five affair.
Mixers coach Tim Cone expects the Elasto Painters to come out strong.
“Although neither team will actually win or lose the series in tomorrow’s game, I do feel it is the pivotal game of the series and both teams are not going to take prisoners,” said Cone.
“We’re really looking to follow up our last game and put us in a position to start dictating the series.”
James Yap exploded for a personal conference-high of 34 points in Game Two despite playing with an injured right knee.
Despite losing badly, Rain or Shine coach Yeng Guiao is confident that his wards can bounce back in Game Three but he hopes there will be better officiating on Tuesday.
“We’ll correct some things, but we cannot correct the referees. It’s the league’s job to correct the officiating. Hindi namin trabaho ‘yun,” said Guiao, who was ejected late in the third period of Game Two.
“They’re a great offensive team. Tabla lang naman ngayon. We’ll get set on Christmas Day game.”
Meanwhile, the PBA will be giving away Molten basketballs, toys to the first 100 kids and raffle off My Phones starting today up to December 30 as part of the league’s “Isang Linggong Pamaskong Handog ng PBA” to its fans.
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