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Spurs takes a 2-1 lead over the Miami Heat by having a blowout game in from of their home court. 113-77. It was not the expected Big 3 of the Spurs who took lead but it was the young bloods of Danny Green and Gary Neal who took control of the game by dishing out 11 3's!

ABL

San Miguel Beermen swept the Indonesia Warriors and took home their first ABL Crown. They defeated the defending champs 70-55. Chris Banchero was named the MVP of the league. As I have watched the game, I was really impressed with Asi Taulava. Boy, he still got the moves! I seriously think he can really help our Gilas team. He is in his youth shape. He even lead the team in scoring.

SAN MIGUEL 70 – Taulava 19, Banchero 10, Avenido 10, Acuna 9, J. Williams 7, B. Williams 6, Fortuna 5, Hubalde 2, Menk 2

INDONESIA 55 – Wuysang 22, Daniels 15, Pringle 11, Thomas 5, Smith 3

FIL-OIL 

Probably the biggest upset, everyone really thought NU have this in the bag but UE came out to play and eventually win the championship game against a very strong and determined NU team! They have defeated the defending champions 81-68 with Roy Sumang leading the team. He was later named the Finals MVP.

Credits to the UE twitter account for this photo

Mythical 5 of FilOil Flying V Premiere Cup: Roi Sumang of UE, Kiefer Ravena of ADMU, Ray Parks and Aroga of NU, and Rodney Brondial of ADU.

Volleyball

Our very own Philippine Team just arrived on Vietnam for their Southeast Asian qualification tournament set from June 14-16 in Quang Tri, Vietnam. After seeing the lineup, I am very sure that we have sent a very competitive line up. I hope we can win against Vietnam(first game)! As the trend says, One for the country!

Keep the Faith.

Paolo

Houston Meltdown

Still in awe that the Houston Rockets lost against the Los Angeles Lakers. It was a good game, but the officiating is really bad! NBA clearly needs Lakers for their own benefit! Questionable calls every time, favoring the Los Angeles Lakers. But Lakers did a great job to be honest, after Kobe went down, players stepped up and did gave more energy than before. They are all playing inspired Basketball.

(Photo credits to: Houston Rockets fanpage)

Even with the disappointment because of their loss, I still believe in them. They're the youngest team in the league right now so they still need a lot of learning to do. They've proven they can beat the toughest teams and I believe they can do it against last years finals' runner up, the Oklahoma City Thunders. It would be really interesting since James Harden will play against his former team!

Focus: playoffs #beatOKC!

Here are the game results on the last day of elimination:

BOS 90 - TOR 114

DET -99 - BRK 103

ATL 92 - NYK 98

CLE 98 - CHA 105

ORL 93 - MIA 105

PHL 105 - IND 95

WAS 92 - CHI 95

UTA 70 - MEM 86

NOH 87 - DAL 99

MIN 108 - SAS 95

PHX 98 - DEN 118

HOU 95 - LAL 99

LAC 112 - SAC 108

GSW 99 - POR 88

Here are the final team standings for both Western and Eastern Conferences:

EASTERN CONFERENCE:

1. Miami

2. New York

3. Indiana

4. Brooklyn

5. Chicago

6. Atlanta

7. Boston

8. Milwaukee

WESTERN CONFERENCE

1. Oklahoma City

2. San Antonio

3. Denver

4. LA Clippers

5. Memphis

6. Golden State

7. LA Lakers

8. Houston

Keep the Faith.

Paolo

Must win situation for both Rockets and Lakers tomorrow.

Who would have thought that Lakers now have the chance to be at the 7th seed? After Kobe suffered torn Achilles and will be out for the rest of the season, the Lakers are still fighting and playing inspired basketball. They have won their last 4 games, and their latest victim was the San Antonio Spurs who are seeded #2 on the Western Conference. They did it without Kobe Bryant!

The Houston Lakers on the other hand, have the chance to be on the 6th seed, but for some reason, played really bad against the Phoenix Suns. Phoenix won 112-119. It was supposedly an easy win but the Rockets did not play their full potential. Now they are faced with the possibility of being the 8th seed if they lose their game against the Lakers later.

Here are the scenario which will affect the two teams:

HOUSTON Rockets:

HOU beat LAL + GSW loss = Houston will get 6th seed.

HOU beat LAL + GSW win = Houston will get 7th seed.

LAL beat HOU = Houston will get 8th seed.

LOS ANGELES Lakers:

MEM beat UTA = Lakers would be assured of at least 8th seed; even if the loss against Houston.

LAL beat HOU = Lakers will get 7th seed.

both LAL and UTA wins = Lakers will get 7th and Utah will still be out.

Although their final seed will also depend of the games of the other teams, I am sure they don't want to rely on the other chances. They will definitely want to win this one.

I'm hoping for the best for my team. Harden, Asik, Lin and Parsons must really play really big later if they want to lock on this one. #rednation

Keep the Faith.

Paolo

Tracy McGrady is back!

He is back! I thought he already gave up his NBA career. I am very happy to see my favorite Rockets player back! It's sad to see that he will play for San Antonio Spurs, but I will still take it. Who doesn't want to see Tracy McGrady play again?

If I remember it right, Tracy McGrady has never won a playoff series, I think this is the perfect team for him. Spurs would definitely need him. But the question is, can he still play as good as he was before? His latest league was Chinese Basketball Association where he played for Qingdao Eagles and he averaged 25 points, 7.2 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game. Not bad at all! 

I just hope he won't face the Houston Rockets come playoffs. That would be epic and dramatic at the same time! I am not a Spurs fan, but he will be a very big boost on their NBA campaign! The Spurs are currently at 58-23, making them the 2nd seed on the Western Conference

Welcome to the Spurs Nation Tracy McGrady!

(for the complete news: Spurs sign Tracy McGrady)

Keep the Faith.
Paolo

Pray for Kobe

I am not a big fan of LA Lakers(Houston Rockets fan), but I'm a big Kobe Bryant fan. A big reason of it is because of his big heart and will to win. Playing with same intensity every night is hard especially if you are on the verge of not making it into the playoffs. Now that he is down with an injury, we have possibly seen the last game of Kobe this season. And the fate of LA Lakers making it into playoffs are now up to the rest of the team.

During their game against Golden State Warriors, he still played even though he is obviously hurting until the 3:06 mark of the game, where he injured himself and went straight to the dug out. This is a very bad situation for the Lakers as Kobe has somehow been carrying the load for the team. Kobe will have an MRI exam this Saturday.

Kobe Bryant's final 2012-13 per-game statistics: 27.3 points, 5.6 rebounds, 6.0 assists.

Here is the latest tweet of Kobe Bryant:

I am praying for him and I hope he will come back strong, I've read that he might torn his achilles but I believe that will not be the last time that we will see Kobe.

Here is his interview:

You really got to feel what Kobe Bryant is feeling right now! :(

Here is his latest Facebook status:

I know you'll be back Kobe! Come back stronger!

It's now up to the rest of the team to not put Kobe's effort into waste. 

#PrayforKobe

Keep the Faith.

The Daily Report

Since I am really inspired with the blog of my blog-icon The Professional Heckler, I was inspired to do a daily recap of everything that happened during the day. But my daily focus are just Sports, News, Technology, Music, and Entertainment. :] I will do my best. :]

SPORTS

Basketball

NBA

Are the Lakers peaking at the right time? Lakers won against Portland Blazers with Kobe Bryant scoring 47 points on their win. MVP chants are heard on the court of Portland. Kobe has been playing tremendously well and you can really see that he wants to be on the playoffs. Props also to the support of Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard. Lakers are now 1 game ahead of Utah Jazz.

Here are rest of the results:

ATL 124 - PHI 101
MIA 103 - WAS 98
MIL 103 - ORL 113
DET 111 - CLE 104
BKN 101 - BOS 93
PHX 102 - DAL 91
NOH 110 - SAC 121
SAS 86 - DEN 96
MIN 95 - LAC 111

PBA

TV5 will still air PBA games even though their contract with IBC ends on May.

Their contract with IBC will end this May but MVP has no plans of renewing it. He said that it was too expensive. I think it will be better if the games will be shown on TV5 as it will also help them to solidify their sport block timeslots, PBA fans are loyal viewers. But one thing is for sure, we will be seeing PBA on our television until the end of the conference.

Volleyball

After losing their first game, Arellano bounced back to win their game against the struggling but very sneaky University of San Carlos. Danna Henson of AU was named as the best player of the game by scoring 17 points. Arellano University def. San Carlos: 25-19, 25-18, 18-25, 22-25, 15-8

On the second game, Ateneo De Manila University still proved that they can defend their title by winning in four sets against the powerhouse San Sebastian College lead by their Thai import Jeng Bualee. Not surprisingly, Alyssa Valdez was on her usual form and scored 25 points. Ateneo leads their bracket with 2 wins and no defeats so far.

Next games of Shakeys VLeague will resume on Saturday, April 14 with games between UST and DLSU-D (2pm) and NU vs ADU (4pm)

Good news to all volleyball fans! We can now watch the games on our televisions!

Shakey's V-League will air on GMA News TV.

Fans of the much-followed volleyball league can now watch the games' telecast starting April 15, 1pm after noon-time newscast Balitanghali."

(c) GMA News Online

ENTERTAINMENT

SURVIVOR

Michael got eliminated. Interesting scene was Malcolm getting the idol of Reynold on the tribal council surprising everyone. In the end, it did not matter as Malcolm did not receive any vote.

FHM

The FHM 100 Sexiest of 2013 voting has now begun. You just need to log on to FHM to cast your votes. It was Sam Pinto who was named the sexiest woman for the past 2 years.

Still figuring how will I sum up everything on a short note so that it won't get boring. :] that's all for tonight!

Keep the Faith.

Paolo

Rising Stars: Houston Rockets

I am a self-confessed Houston Rockets die hard. From the time of Tracy McGrady, Yao Ming, Trevor Ariza, Luis Scola, Aaron Brooks until the resurgence and additions of Chandler Parsons, Carlos Delfino, Greg Smith, Omer Asik, Jeremy Lin and James Harden. I'm Houston Rockets all the way! #RedNation

What made me support the Rockets? They are strong, but they don't realize their full potential yet. They win big games, they lose easy games. I like that they acknowledge that they still have a lot of things to learn but you can see the big potential of this team. Being the Youngest Team in the NBA today, (avg of 24.9 years old) you can just see the bright future for this team. There is now way but to go up from here.

The Houston Rockets are currently at the 7th seed with a record of 43-34, and 1 game behind 6th seed Golden State Warriors with a record of 44-33. I believe they can be on that 6th seed come playoffs. This will be a very good improvement for the team. 

It has been 4 years since the last playoffs of the Houston Rockets, the last was where they were beaten by the Lakers, 4-3 in a best of 7 game series. I still don't know what will happen to the Rockets if they will be facing either Oklahoma or Denver. Both great teams and very strong on both offense and defense, but one thing is for sure. Rockets will definitely not give up easily. 

What are our chances? Let us look at the stats:

POINTS:

Leading the team is James Harden with 25.8 points per game, making him the 5th best scorer.

Chandler Parsons:  15.3 ppg
Jeremy Lin: 13.2 ppg
Carlos Delfino: 10.7 ppg
Omer Asik: 10.3 ppg

Pretty solid offense for the Rockets, we can also acknowledge the court presence of Greg Smith, Francisco Garcia and Terrence Jones who are providing really great support.

REBOUNDS:

Omer Asik: 11.6 rpg (3rd)

Rebounding is not the strongest skill of the Rockets, I would like to see improvements on this skill of the game.

James Harden, Greg Smith and Thomas Robinson are the ones supporting Asik on rebounding.

ASSISTS:

Jeremy Lin is the guy for the assists. He averages 6.1 apg making him the leading Rockets in assists. James Harden and Chandler Parsons averages 5.9 and 3.1, respectively to back up Jeremy Lin.

STEALS:

James Harden once again leads the team with 1.8 spg, with Jeremy Lin come close to 1.7 spg.

BLOCKS:

No surprise, its Omer Asik with 1.08 bpg. Greg Smith comes second with 0.51 bpg.

Summary:

It is really James Harden almost doing it all. He is the heart and soul of this team. He is the leader of the team. With Jeremy Lin and Chandler Parsons providing equal leadership on and off the court, there is no doubt that this trio of Lin, Parsons and Harden are the trio to beat come playoffs.

With few more games to go before playoffs, I am excited on what will happen next! But one thing  is for sure, I am with #RedNation all the way!

Next game of Rockets will be against PHX tomorrow.

Credits to: Google and NBA.com for the photos. :]


Keep the Faith.
Paolo