ANTIPOLO – The entire San Miguel Beer coaching staff stayed behind for a post-game meeting in light of the team’s stunning 104-99 loss to NLEX in Sunday night’s PBA Commissioner’s Cup game at the Ynares Center.
Coach Jorge Gallent and his battery of deputies composed of Ato Agustin, Peter Martin, Boycie Zamar, Biboy Ravanes, and Dayong Mendoza along with consultant Leo Austria came out of the dugout an hour after the end of the game and long after the players and team staff had left the venue.
READ Bolick goes off for 39 points as NLEX sends San Miguel crashing
SMB team governor Robert Non and team manager Gee Abanilla also went ahead earlier and left the coaching staff behind.
Gallent later begged off from a post-game talk, sweet-talking the waiting members of the media by telling them to take care going home.
Truly, the loss was a disaster for the reigning champion, which led NLEX by as many as 65-46 during the third period and appeared poise of notching a second straight win.
But the Beermen collapsed in the final quarter behind an avalanche of points from Road Warriors’ shooting guard Robert Bolick, who tallied 20 of his game-high 39 points during that stretch to help his team complete the dramatic comeback.
Bolick ended up shooting 9-of-17 from the field including 3-of-3 from three-point distance and 2-of-3 from the four-point line. He also added nine assists.
The Road Warriors outscored the Beermen from the perimeter, 46-32, and fastbreak points, 11-4, negating San Miguel’s 54-38 advantage off paints in the point and 38-23 edge in bench points.
NLEX raised its record to 3-1 while dealing San Miguel its first loss in the conference for an even 1-1 record.
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