Yeng Guiao sees Rain or Shine depth wearing out San Mig Coffee

InterAKTV · Tuesday, December 25, 2012 · 8:17 pm

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Rain or Shine coach Yeng Guiao acknowledges that San Mig Coffee may have more superstar talent, but he believes his deeper bench will end up making the different in their best-of-seven Philippine Cup semifinals series.
“The longer the series goes, we’re fresher than they are,” Guiao said shortly after his team’s masterful 98-72 victory over the Mixers at the SM Mall of Asia Arena on Christmas Day.
“We have more stoppers than they have scorers.”
This seemed especially true in the case of San Mig Coffee superstar James Yap, who was held to just six points on miserable 1-of-11 shooting from the field. The Elasto Painters rotated a physical cast of defenders composed of Jireh Ibañes, Gabe Norwood, and Ryan Araña on the Mixers’ two-time Most Valuable Player, who was coming off a 34-point explosion in Game Two.
Guiao noted that San Mig Coffee’s top four players — James Yap, Peter June Simon, Marc Pingris, and Joe Devance — usually play heavy minutes, giving the Elasto Painters’ depth more value as the games pile up.
“We’re able to run more, we’re able to pressure more,” said Guiao.
The coach sees Game Four of the series, set Thursday at the same venue, as a huge key.
“Game Four should be the biggest game in the series,” he said. “I think if we can go up 3-1, we’ll have one foot in the door [of the finals].”
Guiao said he doesn’t plan to make major adjustments for the next match.
“The burden of adjustments shift to San Mig Coffee,” he said.

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