Coach Chot Reyes through the through the pre-finals press convention between TNT Tropang Giga and Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings. –PBA IMAGES
MANILA, Philippines—TNT coach Chot Reyes was a person of few phrases through the PBA Governors’ Cup Finals’ press convention on Thursday.
Nevertheless, Reyes nonetheless acquired his message throughout loud and clear: to heck with the earlier stats, the highest mentor is targeted on what’s forward.
Article continues after this commercial
PBA Finals schedule: Ginebra Gin Kings vs TNT Tropang Giga
“I don’t have a look at the traits or the previous. For me, it’s about what’s in entrance of me proper now, the current,” mentioned Reyes in Filipino at The Atrium in Enderun.
“In the long run, what it would all boil all the way down to are the gamers who execute and the crew who desires it extra.”
Article continues after this commercial
Reyes’ remarks got here when he and Ginebra coach Tim Cone’s PBA Finals monitor report have been talked about.
Within the six occasions that Reyes and Cone butted heads within the championship spherical, each mentors have three wins underneath their belt.
READ: PBA Finals: TNT carries additional weapons into duel vs Ginebra
The final time the 2 tacticians confronted off within the grandest stage was in 2012 when Cone, who was with BMEG on the time, defeated Reyes’ Tropang Texters in seven video games.
However loads has modified in 12 years and now, it’s a model new slate for each coaches.
Whereas Reyes seems like he needs to be targeted on what’s on their plate, somebody on the TNT facet doesn’t have the identical mentality.
“I’m nonetheless not over that loss in Jordan,” mentioned TNT import Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, pertaining to his silver-medal end within the 2023 Asian Video games.
READ: PBA Finals: Kobe vs Jordan? Brownlee, RHJ face off for title once more
Hollis-Jefferson was dominating in final 12 months’s Asian Video games till he confronted Gilas Pilipinas which had the providers of longtime import Justin Brownlee.
It was there the place RHJ’s gold medal end hopes for Jordan got here to a screeching halt and now he’s in prime place to get his comeuppance.
“I’m aggressive so I look ahead to each time we match up with one another,” Hollis-Jefferson, the reigning Finest Import of the Governors’ Cup, mentioned.
“We all the time give our all. We simply give it our all.”
Your subscription couldn’t be saved. Please strive once more.
Your subscription has been profitable.
Final 12 months, the Tropang Giga defeated the Gin Kings in six video games to win the franchise’s first ever Governors’ Cup title.
