(From PBA)
The North team played up-tempo basketball to overcome the South squad’s height and heft advantage, eking out a 133-130 decision in the 2010 PBA All-Star Game at the Puerto Princesa Coliseum here Sunday night.
Gabe Norwood and his teammates pushed the ball hard and scored heavily on transition plays as they avenged their defeat in the last North-versus-South game held in Bacolod in 2008.
Delivering several highlight plays and knocking in crucial baskets at the finish, Norwood won the Handy Fix All-Star Game MVP award.
The versatile Rain or Shine Fil-Am guard piled up 17 points, five rebounds, four assists, two steals and block in the game where the two teams figured in duel of runs with no one leading by more than nine.
Earlier, active players Jeff Chan, Mark Macapagal and Yousif Aljamal humbled old stars Alvin Patrimonio, Kenneth Duremdes and Rhoel Gomez, 51-29, in the Legends Shootout.
Aljamal gave the active players a good start with 15 points, an initial boost sustained by Chan with 19 and concluded by Macapagal with 17. The oldies couldn’t match the youngsters’ hot shooting as Patrimonio and Duremdes could only make 10 each and Gomez nine.
Jonas Villanueva, the Obstacle Challenge winner Friday, had another winning moment, leading his team to victory in the Shooting Stars competition.
Their team clocked 38 seconds through five stages, winning over the teams of Renren Ritualo (52 seconds) and Macapagal (1:14).
Late Saturday, PBA technical chief Ramil Cruz, a former UP Maroon, nailed a charity as the PBA Board/Commissioner’s Office team nipped the PBA Press Corps, 60-59, in another side event of the annual mid-season spectacle.
Ely Capacio, a 6-foot-4 center who played pro ball with Tanduay, starred for the PBA team that included other league governors in Lito Alvarez, Ely Capacio, Robert Non and Rene Pardo.
The All-Star Week had a fitting conclusion with the North team beating the South in a fun, exciting and thrilling contest.
“We used our quickness to the hilt. Knowing they have extreme height advantage, the only way to win is to push the ball and score on fast break. Luckily, the effort was enough,” said North coach Ryan Gregorio.
Also calling the shots for the North team, Gregorio won over Joel Banal in 2005 and lost to Boyet Fernandez in 2008.
Push the ball and score on fast break the North team did as they overcame the South’s domination off the boards.
Asi Taulava and Kelly Washington hauled down 11 rebounds each and the South team totaled 69 as against the North’s 57.
The South team towered in the rebounding battle but couldn’t score at endgame.
Norwood, Macmac Cardona, Willie Miller and Arwind Santos, meanwhile, sizzled for their team at crunch time, enabling the North to take a 5-4 lead over the South in their head-on duels since the All-Star Game was institutionalized in 1989.
Cardona, Santos, Miller, Ranidel de Ocampo and JC Intal also scored in double figures for the North.
Kelly Williams pumped in 17 to pace the South which also drew double-digit outputs from Cyrus Baguio, Sonny Thoss, Jimmy Alapag, James Yap, Asi Taulava and Reynel Hugnatan.
The North put the game beyond reach as Norwood, Cardona and De Ocampo scored six straight points to make it 133-125 with less than a minute left to play.
The two teams played as how the All-Star Game should be in the early goings – show time.
Norwood and Intal sent the crowd rocking early with the former executing three thunderous jams and the latter doing two throw-downs in the opening quarter.
The North started with a 15-6 run then the South answered with nine unanswered points to set the tone of the see-saw duel. (SB)
The scores:
North 133 – Cardona 20, Norwood 17, Santos 17, Mercado 14, Miller 12, De Ocampo 12, Intal 11, Artadi 9, Reyes 7, Pinris 6, Helterbrand 6, Maierhofer 2.
South 130 – Williams 17, Baguio 15, Alapag 14, Thoss 14, Yap, J. 11, Hugnatan 11, Taulava 10, Tubid 9, Devance 9, Yap, R. 7, Menk 4.
Quarterscores: 38-39; 76-69; 104-101; 133-130
The North team played up-tempo basketball to overcome the South squad’s height and heft advantage, eking out a 133-130 decision in the 2010 PBA All-Star Game at the Puerto Princesa Coliseum here Sunday night.
Gabe Norwood and his teammates pushed the ball hard and scored heavily on transition plays as they avenged their defeat in the last North-versus-South game held in Bacolod in 2008.
Delivering several highlight plays and knocking in crucial baskets at the finish, Norwood won the Handy Fix All-Star Game MVP award.
The versatile Rain or Shine Fil-Am guard piled up 17 points, five rebounds, four assists, two steals and block in the game where the two teams figured in duel of runs with no one leading by more than nine.
Earlier, active players Jeff Chan, Mark Macapagal and Yousif Aljamal humbled old stars Alvin Patrimonio, Kenneth Duremdes and Rhoel Gomez, 51-29, in the Legends Shootout.
Aljamal gave the active players a good start with 15 points, an initial boost sustained by Chan with 19 and concluded by Macapagal with 17. The oldies couldn’t match the youngsters’ hot shooting as Patrimonio and Duremdes could only make 10 each and Gomez nine.
Jonas Villanueva, the Obstacle Challenge winner Friday, had another winning moment, leading his team to victory in the Shooting Stars competition.
Their team clocked 38 seconds through five stages, winning over the teams of Renren Ritualo (52 seconds) and Macapagal (1:14).
Late Saturday, PBA technical chief Ramil Cruz, a former UP Maroon, nailed a charity as the PBA Board/Commissioner’s Office team nipped the PBA Press Corps, 60-59, in another side event of the annual mid-season spectacle.
Ely Capacio, a 6-foot-4 center who played pro ball with Tanduay, starred for the PBA team that included other league governors in Lito Alvarez, Ely Capacio, Robert Non and Rene Pardo.
The All-Star Week had a fitting conclusion with the North team beating the South in a fun, exciting and thrilling contest.
“We used our quickness to the hilt. Knowing they have extreme height advantage, the only way to win is to push the ball and score on fast break. Luckily, the effort was enough,” said North coach Ryan Gregorio.
Also calling the shots for the North team, Gregorio won over Joel Banal in 2005 and lost to Boyet Fernandez in 2008.
Push the ball and score on fast break the North team did as they overcame the South’s domination off the boards.
Asi Taulava and Kelly Washington hauled down 11 rebounds each and the South team totaled 69 as against the North’s 57.
The South team towered in the rebounding battle but couldn’t score at endgame.
Norwood, Macmac Cardona, Willie Miller and Arwind Santos, meanwhile, sizzled for their team at crunch time, enabling the North to take a 5-4 lead over the South in their head-on duels since the All-Star Game was institutionalized in 1989.
Cardona, Santos, Miller, Ranidel de Ocampo and JC Intal also scored in double figures for the North.
Kelly Williams pumped in 17 to pace the South which also drew double-digit outputs from Cyrus Baguio, Sonny Thoss, Jimmy Alapag, James Yap, Asi Taulava and Reynel Hugnatan.
The North put the game beyond reach as Norwood, Cardona and De Ocampo scored six straight points to make it 133-125 with less than a minute left to play.
The two teams played as how the All-Star Game should be in the early goings – show time.
Norwood and Intal sent the crowd rocking early with the former executing three thunderous jams and the latter doing two throw-downs in the opening quarter.
The North started with a 15-6 run then the South answered with nine unanswered points to set the tone of the see-saw duel. (SB)
The scores:
North 133 – Cardona 20, Norwood 17, Santos 17, Mercado 14, Miller 12, De Ocampo 12, Intal 11, Artadi 9, Reyes 7, Pinris 6, Helterbrand 6, Maierhofer 2.
South 130 – Williams 17, Baguio 15, Alapag 14, Thoss 14, Yap, J. 11, Hugnatan 11, Taulava 10, Tubid 9, Devance 9, Yap, R. 7, Menk 4.
Quarterscores: 38-39; 76-69; 104-101; 133-130
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