San Miguel is looking to pick up where it left off as it guns for a sixth straight win against TNT in the PBA Season 50 Philippine Cup.
San Miguel looks to sustain its blazing form when it locks horns with rival TNT in the PBA Season 50 Philippine Cup Friday, Dec. 5.
Tipoff is at 7:30 p.m. at the Ynares Sports Center in Antipolo.
Both are tangled in a four-way logjam at third with Converge and Magnolia with their identical 5-2 slates.
It will be the Beermen and the Tropang 5G's first meeting since the former dethroned the latter in the finals of the same conference last season.
But momentum heavily favors SMB, which stormed into the break with five straight wins, capped by a massive 158–117 rout of Titan Ultra.
In that victory, CJay Perez set the tone early, dropping 24 of his 26 points in the first half, while his fellow Gilas Pilipinas mainstay June Mar Fajardo recorded the first triple-double of his PBA career with 12 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists.
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Jericho Cruz, who fired 24 points against Titan, recently battled Perez and Fajardo in the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers, but will team up with the duo anew as they aim to tame the Tropang 5G.
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TNT is coming off a setback against Rain or Shine, and the Beermen will go all out to keep their foe in the losing column.
(With reports from Jan Ballesteros)
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