Harold Alarcon scores profession excessive to propel UP Combating Maroons to a win over UE of their ultimate UAAP Season 87 males’s basketball eliminatio spherical recreation. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
Harold Alarcon erupted with a career-high 33 factors to permit College of the Philippines to finish its elimination spherical with a bang forward of the Remaining 4 spherical of the UAAP Season 87 males’s basketball event.
The Combating Maroons added to the woes of skidding College of the East with a 77-67 victory on Wednesday at FilOil EcoOil Centre and will likely be getting into the semifinals with an 11-3 (win-loss) document.
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“It simply justifies that anytime we get two straight losses, maganda ang kapalit dalawang sunod na panalo and clearly there are not any implications when it comes to the seeding for us however similar to what coach Goldwin [Monteverde] at all times say each apply, each recreation is sort of a championship for us,” assistant coach Christian Luanzon stated because the Maroons strung up back-to-back wins heading into the playoffs.
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Alarcon shot the lights out with a 12-of-17 clip, a outstanding 70.6 % taking pictures, and made 5 of his eight three-point makes an attempt. He additionally made seven of his 9 tries contained in the arc and missed only one from the free throw line as he picked up 16 of these factors within the fourth quarter alone.
Quentin Millora-Brown poured in a double-double efficiency of 16 factors on a 70 % taking pictures aside from 12 rebounds whereas the remainder of the standard contributors for UP had been held to single digits.
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“Tsamba lang yun,” Alarcon stated of his scorching efficiency. “Yung protection binibigay sakin, pag free kinukuha ko naman tapos pag nakikita kong shumu-shoot tina-try ko pa rin baka ulit ma-shoot yung tira ko.”
“I’m simply discovering something I can do to assist the workforce. That’s the main target of each recreation,” Millora-Brown stated as UP now units its sights on its semifinal conflict in opposition to College of Santo Tomas.
The Purple Warriors slumped to a fifth straight loss even with the 14 factors of Jack Cruz-Dumont. After serving a one recreation suspension, Valuable Momowei is again in his traditional kind, matching his counterparts’ all-around efficiency with 11 factors and 12 rebounds.
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Rainer Maga additionally added 11 factors as UE’s Remaining 4 hopes are not in its management. The Warriors would hope for Ateneo to defeat No. 5 Adamson, which stands with a 5-8 card and might nonetheless snag a playoff seat, on Saturday in the identical San Juan Metropolis venue to earn an outright semifinal berth.
But when the Hovering Falcons win, UE and Adamson could have a playoff for the final out there Remaining 4 slot.
