2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup

Second conference of the 2013–14 PBA season 2014 Commissioner's Cup PBA2014_commscup.png 230px March 5 – May 15, 2014 Sports5 Local: TV5 International : AksyonTV International, Fox Sports Jayson Castro (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters) Richard Howell (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters) James Yap (San Mig Super Coffee Mixers) San Mig Super Coffee Mixers Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 2013 PBA Commissioner's Cup 2013 2015 PBA Commissioner's Cup 2015 2013–14 Philippine 2013–14 PBA Philippine Cup 2014 Governors' 2014 PBA Governors' Cup The 2014 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2014 PLDT Home TVolution-PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the second conference of the 2013–14 PBA season. The tournament started on March 5, 2014, and finished on May 15, 2014. The tournament allows teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6'11" for the bottom two of the last conference, and a limit of 6'9" for other teams.http://pba.inquirer.net/ Philippine Basketball Association Official Website of the Philippine Basketball Association 2013-12-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20131216211558/http://pba.inquirer.net/ 2013-12-16 live Format The following format was observed for the duration of the conference: Single-round robin eliminations; 9 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records. Top eight teams will advance to the quarterfinals. In case of tie, playoffs will be held only for the #2 and #8 seeds. Quarterfinals: QF1: #1 seed vs #8 seed (#1 seed twice-to-beat) QF2: #2 seed vs #7 seed (#2 seed twice-to-beat) QF3: #3 seed vs #6 seed (best-of-3 series) QF4: #4 seed vs #5 seed (best-of-3 series) Semifinals (best-of-5 series): SF1: QF1 vs. QF4 winners SF2: QF2 vs. QF3 winners Finals (best-of-5 series) Winners of the semifinals Elimination round Team standings Schedule table matchup BSK 1 Air21 W/L/W/L/L/W/L/L/L GP/TNT/BBE/ALA/MER/BGSM/SMSC/ROS/SMB 2 Alaska L/W/L/L/W/W/W/W/W TNT/GP/MER/ROS/A21/SMB/BBE/BGSM/SMSC 3 Barako Bull OTL/W/L/L/L/W/L/L/L BGSM/ROS/A21/TNT/SMB/SMSC/ALA/MER/GP 4 Barangay Ginebra OTW/L/L/W/L/L/W/L/OTL BBE/SMB/SMSC/GP/TNT/A21/MER/ALA/ROS 5 GlobalPort L/L/L/L/L/L/L/L/W A21/ALA/SMSC/MER/BGSM/SMB/ROS/TNT/BBE 6 Meralco L/W/W/L/W/L/L/W/W SMB/ALA/GP/TNT/A21/ROS/BGSM/BBE/SMSC 7 Rain or Shine L/W/L/L/W/W/L/W/OTW BBE/ALA/SMB/SMSC/MER/GP/TNT/A21/BGSM 8 San Miguel W/W/L/W/W/W/L/W/W MER/BGSM/TNT/ROS/BBE/GP/ALA/SMSC/A21 9 San Mig Super Coffee W/W/W/L/L/W/L/L/L GP/BGSM/ROS/BBE/TNT/A21/SMB/MER/ALA 10 Talk 'N Text W/W/W/W/W/W/W/W/W ALA/A21/SMB/BBE/MER/BGSM/SMSC/ROS/GP Results main BSR grey Team y 60px 95% A21 ALA BBE BGSM GP MER ROS SMB SMSC TNT Air21 78–88 103–85 97–95 83–78 98–109 82–87 85–93 84–97 91–95 Alaska — 78–71 83–73 93–77 76–85 78–92 89–78 85–66 72–85 Barako Bull — — 104–108* OT 96–98 98–105 110–106 100–106 92–90 96–101 Barangay Ginebra — — — 113–107 88–78 101–105* OT 96–112 80–90 87–94 GlobalPort — — — — 99–104 75–99 92–109 75–91 91–92 Meralco — — — — — 79–96 76–94 88–78 68–91 Rain or Shine — — — — — — 107–112 74–91 82–85 San Miguel — — — — — — — 97–88 99–107 San Mig Super Coffee — — — — — — — — 75–81 Talk 'N Text — — — — — — — — — complete Bracket Quarterfinals (1) Talk 'N Text vs. (8) Barangay Ginebra #eee April 22 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 97 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel 84 Talk 'N Text wins series in one game (2) San Miguel vs. (7) Air21 #eee April 22 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City San Miguel Beermen 79 Air21 Express 92 April 25 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City San Miguel Beermen 95 Air21 Express 101 2OT Air21 wins series in two games (3) Alaska vs. (6) San Mig Super Coffee #eee April 21 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Alaska Aces 86 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 77 April 23 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Alaska Aces 65 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 70 #eee April 26 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Alaska Aces 65 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 79 San Mig Super Coffee wins series, 2–1 (4) Rain or Shine vs. (5) Meralco #eee April 21 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 91 Meralco Bolts 94 April 23 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 102 Meralco Bolts 93 #eee April 26 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City OT Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 97 Meralco Bolts 96 Rain or Shine wins series, 2–1 Semifinals (1) Talk 'N Text vs. (4) Rain or Shine #eee April 28 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 91 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 85 #fff April 30 Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 94 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 87 #eee May 2 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 99 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 91 Talk 'N Text wins series, 3–0 (6) San Mig Super Coffee vs. (7) Air21 #eee April 29 Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 100 Air21 Express 103 #fff May 1 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 82 Air21 Express 75 #eee May 3 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 84 Air21 Express 73 #fff May 5 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 91 Air21 Express 94 #eee May 7 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 99 Air21 Express 83 San Mig Super Coffee wins series, 3–2 Finals 2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup finals #eee May 9 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 80 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 95 #fff May 11 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 86 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 76 #eee May 13 Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 75 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 77 #fff May 15 PhilSports Arena, Pasig Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 91 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 100 San Mig Super Coffee wins series, 3–1 Awards Conference Best Player of the Conference: Jayson Castro (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters) Best Import of the Conference: Richard Howell (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters) Finals MVP: James Yap (San Mig Super Coffee Mixers) Players of the Week WeekPlayerRef. March 5–9Jayson Castro (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters)SOLID START https://web.archive.org/web/20140311152235/http://pba.inquirer.net/42650/solid-start 2014-03-11 , PBA.inquirer.net, March 11, 2014 March 10–16Ian Sangalang (San Mig Super Coffee Mixers)FEARLESS ROOKIE https://web.archive.org/web/20140317093724/http://pba.inquirer.net/42919/fearless-rookie 2014-03-17 , PBA.inquirer.net, March 17, 2014 March 17–23Ranidel de Ocampo (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters)TNT’S ROCK https://web.archive.org/web/20140329071213/http://pba.inquirer.net/43303/tnts-rock 2014-03-29 , PBA.inquirer.net, March 25, 2014 April 14–20Paul Lee (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters)“LEE-THAL” PERFORMANCE https://web.archive.org/web/20140424072527/http://pba.inquirer.net/44291/lee-thal-performance 2014-04-24 , PBA.inquirer.net, April 21, 2014 April 21–27Asi Taulava (Air21 Express) Sean Anthony (Air21 Express)AWESOME TWOSOME https://web.archive.org/web/20140429050034/http://pba.inquirer.net/44588 2014-04-29 , PBA.inquirer.net, April 28, 2014 April 28 – May 4Ryan Reyes (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters)‘ENERGIZER’ SHOOTS LIGHTS OUT IN SEMIS https://web.archive.org/web/20140512222831/http://pba.inquirer.net/44841 2014-05-12 , PBA.inquirer.net, May 5, 2014 Imports The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference. Team Name Debuted Last game Record Air21 Express Hervé Lamizana March 5 (vs. GlobalPort) March 17 (vs. Alaska) 2–2 Wesley Witherspoon March 23 (vs. Meralco) May 7 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) 5–7 Alaska Aces Robert Dozier March 5 (vs. Talk 'N Text) April 26 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) 7–5 Barako Bull Energy Josh Dollard March 7 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) April 13 (vs. GlobalPort) 2–7 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Leon Rodgers March 7 (vs. Barako Bull) March 26 (vs. Air21) 2–4 Josh Powell April 2 (vs. Meralco) April 13 (vs. Alaska) 1–1 Gabe Freeman Badua Snow Ginebra bringing in Gabe Freeman in bid to salvage campaign after Josh Powell exit http://www.spin.ph/sports/basketball/news/ginebra-bringing-in-gabe-freeman-in-bid-to-salvage-campaign-after-josh-powell-exit SPIN.ph 14 April 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140415143427/http://www.spin.ph/sports/basketball/news/ginebra-bringing-in-gabe-freeman-in-bid-to-salvage-campaign-after-josh-powell-exit 2014-04-15 live April 20 (vs. Rain or Shine) April 22 (vs. Talk 'N Text) 0–2 GlobalPort Batang Pier Evan Brock March 5 (vs. Air21) April 13 (vs. Barako Bull) 1–8 Meralco Bolts Brian Butch March 7 (vs. San Miguel) March 26 (vs. Rain or Shine) 3–3 Darnell Jackson April 2 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) April 26 (vs. Rain or Shine) 3–3 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters Alexander McLean March 9 (vs. Barako Bull) March 26 (vs. Meralco) 2–3 Wayne Chism March 31 (vs. GlobalPort) May 2 (vs. Talk 'N Text) 5–5 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers James Mays March 12 (vs. GlobalPort) May 15 (vs. Talk 'N Text) 12–7 No Import April 14 (vs. Meralco) 0–2 San Miguel Beermen Josh Boone March 7 (vs. Meralco) March 9 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) 2–0 Kevin Jones March 14 (vs. Talk 'N Text) April 25 (vs. Air21) 5–4 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters Richard Howell March 5 (vs. Alaska) May 15 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) 13–3 No Import April 11 (vs. GlobalPort) 1–0 References External links PBA.ph Category:PBA Commissioner's Cup Commissioner's Cup