ADAMS HITS 49 ON FRIDAY THE 13TH
Games today (Ninoy Aquino Stadium) 5 p.m. – NorthPort vs Meralco 7:30 p.m. – Converge vs Terrafirma
His job security under threat, import Jordan Adams responded with a monster performance for San Miguel Beer.
Reactivated after yielding the floor to Sheldon Mac in the previous match, Adams turned on beast mode and punched in 49 big points to anchor SMB’s 139-127 romp over Phoenix in the PBA Governors’ Cup last night.
Adams lit up the Smart Araneta Coliseum’s scoreboard with buckets from inside and out as he set the tone for the Beermen’s third straight victory and 5-2 overall in Group B.
“Welcome back, Jordan,” SMB coach Jorge Gallent told Adams by way of starting the post-game presscon.
A man on a mission, Adams knocked down both his two attempts from the fourth-point arc while making four of his seven tries from the three-point line to highlight his scoring rampage on Friday the 13th.
He laced it up with 11 rebounds, three assists and two steals ꟷ all the while committing just one turnover in 37 minutes of action.
“I just went out there and played hard and tried to get the win for my team,” said Adams, who was backed up by CJ Perez (23 points, seven assists), June Mar Fajardo ( 22- 11- 6) and Marcio Lassiter (16), whose five treys put him only three away from dislodging Jimmy Alapag from No. 1 position in all-time threepointers made (1,250).
Gallent explained that they experimented by bringing in Mac in place of Adams in their 119-114 win over NLEX last Wednesday. Mac posted 16 points but only had one rebound, one assist, one steal and one block and the team deemed it best to deploy Adams anew.
Later, Justin Brownlee dropped 40 as Ginebra got back at Rain or Shine, 124-102, to extend its streak to four games and catch up with the E-Painters and SMB at 5-2.
The scores:
First Game
San Miguel 139 – Adams 49, Perez 23, Fajardo 22, Lassiter 16, Cruz 9, Trollano 8, Romeo 5, Tautuaa 4, Ross 3, Rosales 0, Brondial 0, Manuel 0, Teng 0.
Phoenix 127 – Francis 48, Perkins 18, Soyud 12, Rivero 11, Muyang 9, Tio 8, Salado 6, Jazul 5, Tuffin 5, Ballungay 3, Alejandro 2, Ular 0, Daves 0, Garcia 0, Manganti 0, Verano 0. Quarterscores: 32-29, 67-55, 103-88, 139-127. Second Game
Ginebra 124 – Brownlee 40, J. Aguilar 21, Holt 18, Thompson 17, Abarrientos 14, Ahanmisi 13, Garcia 1, Go 0, R. Aguilar 0, Adamos 0, Pinto 0, Cu 0.
Rain or Shine 102 – Fuller 28, Clarito 16, Lemetti 15, Nocum 12, Caracut 8, Santillan 6, Villegas 6, Tiongson 5. Mamuyac 4, Norwood 2, Datu 0
Quarterscores: 38-30, 58-54, 90-79, 124-102