MANILA, Philippines—Hong Kong Japanese’s Cameron Clark confirmed his familiarity with the league within the squad’s slender victory over Converge within the PBA Commissioner’s Cup at Ninoy Aquino Stadium on Friday night time.
Going through a loaded FiberXers squad, Clark performed like a person amongst boys in Japanese’s 117-106 win over Converge.
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Going up in opposition to a squad who additionally gained their first project within the import-laden convention, Clark needed to “lead by instance” and he did simply that to energy the Hong Kong squad to an undefeated begin after two outings.
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“I’m simply making an attempt to guide by instance. I’ve been right here a pair occasions and my guys are new to this however they’ll play laborious. I really feel like, so long as I lead by instance, everyone’s going to fall in line,” stated Clark.
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“I really feel like we’re an excellent group, we’ll hold preventing and we’ll hold constructing our chemistry.”
Clark muscled his option to a dominant double-double of 39 factors and 15 rebounds constructed on an environment friendly 62.5 p.c discipline aim clip.
Clark’s counterpart within the Converge camp Cheick Diallo outscored him with 43 factors and 9 rebounds however it was the previous San Miguel Beer import who had the final snort on the buzzer.
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Nonetheless, it wasn’t simply Clark who pushed Japanese to the win as former Bay Space Dragons Hayden Blankley, Glen Yang and Kobey Lam scored 21, 19 and 14, respectively.
“We have now a whole lot of guys who can shoot the ball and create and I believe coach (Mensur Bajramovic) places us in the fitting positions to make performs and I really feel like we did a great job at this time in sharing the ball, penetrating, passing and flattening pictures,” Clark stated.
Bajramovic, alternatively, emphasised the significance of Clark alongside Blankley, Lam and Yang, who’ve all had their style of PBA motion up to now.
“[They’re] crucial. They create us quite a bit. What’s additionally necessary is they’re good individuals, good guys and nice gamers. I’m making an attempt to look into the longer term and so they’re there,” stated Bajramovic.
“What is essential is they’re doing properly collectively [with Clark] and so they’re making an attempt to work collectively and that’s crucial factor. Errors are allowed, after all,” he added.