2014–15 PBA Philippine Cup finals

Philippine sporting competition 200px 2014–15 Philippine Cup (1) San Miguel Beermen Leo Austria 4 (3) Alaska Aces Alex Compton 3 January 7–21, 2015 Arwind Santos (San Miguel Beermen) Local: Sports5 TV5 AksyonTV Cignal PPV (HD) Fox Sports International: AksyonTV International See broadcast notes DWFM (Radyo5) J. Mariano, E. Aquino, N. Guevarra A. Herrera, P. Balao, R. Gruta N. Quilingen, E. Aquino, E. Tangkion A. Herrera, N. Quillingen, N. Guevarra A. Herrera, P. Balao, E. Tankion A. Herrera, N. Quilingen, E. Tangkion N. Quilingen, P. Balao, E. Tankion 2013–14 2015–16 2014 Governors' 2015 Commissioner's The 2014–15 PBA Philippine Cup finals was the best-of-7 championship series of the 2014–15 PBA Philippine Cup, and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The San Miguel Beermen and the Alaska Aces competed for the 37th All-Filipino championship and the 113th overall championship contested by the league. Background Road to the finals 2014–15 PBA Philippine Cup San Miguel Alaska Finished 9–2 (0.818): Tied with Rain or Shine at 1st place Elimination round Finished 8–3 (0.727): Tied with Talk 'N Text at 3rd place 1.101 (1st place) Tiebreaker* 1.020 (3rd place) bye Quarterfinals First phase: Def. NLEX in one game Second phase: Def. Meralco, 87–69 Def. Talk 'N Text, 4–0 (best-of-seven) Semifinals Def. Rain or Shine, 4–2 (best-of-seven) Head-to-head matchup #eee November 4, 2014 recap San Miguel Beermen 63 Alaska Aces |score2=66 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Series summary TeamGame 1*Game 2Game 3Game 4Game 5Game 6Game 7Wins San Miguel 82 100 70 88 93 76 80 4 Alaska 88 86 78 70 88 87 78 3Venue Araneta Araneta Araneta Araneta Araneta Araneta Araneta *overtime Game 1 #eee January 7 7:00pm Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City TV5 J. Mariano, E. Aquino, N. Guevarra OT San Miguel Beermen 82 Alaska Aces |score2= 88 boxscore 27–5 18–26 9–18 20–25 8–14 Lutz 24 Abueva 22 Fajardo 17 Abueva 10 Ross 7 Banchero, Thoss 3 Alaska leads series, 1–0 In the first quarter of Game One the San Miguel manage to have a double digit 27–5, but then on the second half of the game Alaska's Abueva and Hontiveros makes a scoring run to make a comeback. Then in overtime Alaska outscored the Beermen to steal Game One 88–82. Game 2 January 9 7:00pm Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City TV5 A. Herrera, P. Balao, R. Gruta San Miguel Beermen |score1= 100 Alaska Aces 86 boxscore 32–28 19–20 21–22 28–16 Santos 22 Thoss 16 Fajardo 12 Abueva 9 Lutz, Ross 5 Casio 3 Series tied, 1–1 This is the physical game of the series featuring two Kapampangan superstars Arwind santos and Calvin Abueva. In the game Abueva elbowed Santos on the rebound, due to Santos blood he was forced to rest before coming back late in the third quarter to lead the Beermen to a scoring run and avoid Alaska's possible comeback. Game 3 #eee January 11 5:00pm Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City TV5 N. Quillingen, E. Aquino, E. Tangkion 13,785 San Miguel Beermen 70 Alaska Aces |score2= 78 boxscore 8–13 27–14 29–19 6–32 Santos 20 Abueva 16 Santos 11 Abueva 15 Cabagnot 4 Abueva 5 Alaska leads series, 2–1 On Game Three SMB manage once again to manage big 20 or more points on three quarters, but the Aces prove again their resiliency to comeback outscoring the Beermen in fourth quarter 32–6. Game 4 January 14 7:00pm Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City TV5 A. Herrera, N. Quillingen, N. Guevarra San Miguel Beermen |score1= 88 Alaska Aces 70 boxscore 33–16 16–10 24–23 15–21 Cabagnot 22 Abueva 22 Santos 14 Abueva 7 Lutz 7 Exciminiano, Casio 3 Series tied, 2–2 Prior to the start of Game Four June Mar Fajardo received his second straight Best Player of the Conference in Philippine Cup. Alex Cabagnot finally break his silence in the series tallying team high 22 points and gave the Beermen a dominant game once again. Game 5 #eee January 16 7:00pm Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City TV5 A. Herrera, P. Balao, E. Tankion San Miguel Beermen |score1= 93 Alaska Aces 88 boxscore 21–23 20–18 30–30 22–17 Fajardo, Santos 19 Abueva 24 Fajardo 13 Abueva 12 Cabagnot 8 Banchero, Abueva 3 San Miguel leads series, 3–2 This game of this series was proved to be the closest scoring since the last four games, it was a see-saw battle the score was being tied after all three quarters. But on the fourth quarter the Beermen relied on their bench to make an opening scoring run on fourth quarter and win the game after great performances of Arwind Santos and June Mar Fajardo combining for 38 points and 10 blocks(19 points each and 5 blocks each). This also served as the first time the Beermen leads the series for pivotal 3–2 lead. Game 6 January 18 7:30pm Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City TV5 A. Herrera, N. Quilingquen, E. Tangkion 14,259 San Miguel Beermen 76 Alaska Aces |score2= 87 boxscore 23–17 13–25 20–21 20–24 Santos 22 Hontiveros 18 Fajardo 13 Thoss 9 Cabagnot 5 Thoss, Manuel, Jazul 3 Series tied, 3–3 The San Miguel once again manage to have double digit lead in the first quarter but then on the second to the fourth quarter the Alaska have controlled the whole behind a great performance from the former Beermen Dondon Hontiveros. Game 7 #eee January 21 7:00pm Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City TV5 N. Quilingen, P. Balao, E. Tankion 22,511 San Miguel Beermen |score1= 80 Alaska Aces 78 boxscore 21–12 27–15 14–32 18–19 Santos 22 Abueva 23 Fajardo 25 Abueva 15 Cabagnot 6 Abueva, Exciminiano, Jazul 2 San Miguel wins series, 4–3 The San Miguel and Alaska battled for their third Game Seven of their other previous PBA finals meeting which Alaska winning twice of the two games seven meeting. This game was started in the first quarter by Fajardo's amazing euro step Sonny Thoss before the Beeremen lead the Aces a double digit point lead after great shooting from Arwind Santos. The San Miguel lead Alaska dominantly 48–27 at the half. But the Aces again proved their great comeback led by Calvin Abueva came close after third quarter 62–59, but on fourth quarter the Alaska steal the lead and lead as many as 6 points under 4 minutes remaining in the game 74–68. The Beeremen then make their own rally having 12–6 run then with one minute remaining in the game and the clock is winding down Arwind Santos makes a crucial three pointer with 43 seconds remaining in the game to push San Miguel lead back to one 79–78 then he grabbed also a crucial defensive rebound after Sonny Thoss missed a shot over Fajardo. In the one possession after Abueva missed a floater Ronald Tubid grabs a defensive rebound but call a time out that SMB doesn't have any more. Dondon Hontiveros then missed a crucial technical free throw, on the last play were San Miguel has the ball Chris Lutz inbound the ball to June Mar Fajardo who had been forced to a jumpball by Abueva. On the jumpball Abueva won the tip over Fajardo and the ball goes to Thoss who finds Jvee Casio for game winning three pointer but his shot missed before the buzzer sounded. Rosters San Miguel Beermen 1 Rico Maierhofer F 6 5 175 1985-11-04 De La Salle PHI 3 Chris Lutz basketball SG 6 3 200 1985-02-11 Marshall USA 5 Alex Cabagnot PG 6 0 175 1982-12-08 Hawaii-Hilo PHI 6 Chris Ross basketball PG 6 1 180 1985-03-08 Marshall USA 13 Marcio Lassiter SG 6 3 185 1987-05-16 Cal State Fullerton USA 15 June Mar Fajardo C 6 11 270 1989-11-17 Cebu PHI 18 Doug Kramer C 6 5 235 1983-07-10 Ateneo PHI 21 Nelbert Omolon SF 6 4 185 1980-06-30 Philippine Christian University PHI 23 Ronald Pascual G 6 3 185 1988-06-23 San Sebastian PHI R 25 Jeric Fortuna PG 5 7 170 1991-11-25 UST PHI 29 Arwind Santos G/F 6 4 170 1981-06-10 FEU PHI C 33 David Semerad F/C 6 5 230 1991-04-25 San Beda AUS R 41 Justin Chua F/C 6 6 232 1989-07-13 Ateneo PHI 71 Ronald Tubid SG 6 0 185 1981-10-15 University of the East PHI PHI Leo Austria (Lyceum) PHI Biboy Ravanes (Cebu) USA John Todd Purves (consultant) PHI Jorge Gallent PHI Dayong Mendoza PHI Riel Banaria PHI Boyzie Zamar PHI Peter Martin PHI Gee Abanilla (De La Salle) Alaska Aces 1 Samigue Eman C 6 10 260 1982-03-12 Mindanao PHI 2 Chris Banchero G 6 1 185 1989-01-24 Seattle Pacific USA R 3 Cyrus Baguio G/F 6 2 180 1980-08-19 UST PHI 7 Sonny Thoss C 6 8 205 1981-12-07 James Cook PNG 8 Calvin Abueva F 6 2 190 1988-02-04 San Sebastian PHI 11 Rome dela Rosa G/F 6 3 180 1990-12-11 San Beda PHI R 15 Josh Vanlandingham F 6 4 205 1984-01-22 Pacific Lutheran GER IN 17 Chris Exciminiano G 5 11 185 1988-11-17 FEU PHI 21 Paolo Bugia Bugia, Paolo PF 6 6 215 1981-01-19 Ateneo PHI IN 24 Vic Manuel Manuel, Vic PF 6 4 200 1987-06-18 PSBA PHI 25 Dondon Hontiveros G 6 2 170 1977-06-01 Cebu PHI 27 Gabby Espinas F 6 4 194 1982-01-03 Philippine Christian University PHI yes 30 Eric Menk F/C 6 7 220 1974-08-24 Lake Superior State USA 31 RJ Jazul G 5 10 170 1986-04-11 Letran PHI 35 Tony dela Cruz F 6 5 178 1978-08-24 UC Irvine USA C 42 JVee Casio G 5 9 170 1986-09-01 De La Salle PHI USA Alex Compton (Cornell) PHI Louie Alas (Adamson) PHI Topex Robinson (San Sebastian) PHI Monch Gavieres PHI Dickie BachmannNote1 a a (De La Salle) http://www.pba.ph/teams/rosters/4 Note1 a a also serves as Alaska's board governor. Broadcast notes All of the games were aired live on TV5, AksyonTV and Fox Sports, except for Game 5 that was delayed at TV5 and AksyonTV due to the News5 coverage of Pope Francis's visit to the Philippines. Game Sports5 Fox SportsPlay-by-play Analyst(s) Courtside reporters Play-by-play Analyst(s)Game 1 Magoo Marjon Eric Reyes and Ali Peek Rizza Diaz Patricia Bermudez-Hizon Charles TiuGame 2 Mico Halili Quinito Henson and Richard del Rosario Apple David Nikko Ramos Ronnie MagsanocGame 3 Charlie Cuna Ryan Gregorio and Luigi Trillo Erika Padilla Mico Halili Charles Tiu Game 4 James Velazquez Dominic Uy and Ronnie Magsanoc Sel Guevara Patricia Bermudez-Hizon Vince HizonGame 5 Magoo Marjon Andy Jao and Luigi Trillo Rizza Diaz Mico Halili Kirk LongGame 6 Mico Halili Eric Reyes and Richard del Rosario Sel Guevara Nikko Ramos Charles TiuGame 7 Magoo Marjon Quinito Henson and Ronnie Magsanoc Erika Padilla Patricia Bermudez-Hizon Vince Hizon Additional Game 7 crew: Trophy presentation: Nikko Ramos Dugout celebration interviewer: Sel Guevara References External links PBA official website 2015 Category:2014–15 PBA season Category:San Miguel Beermen games Category:Alaska Aces (PBA) games PBA Philippine Cup Finals