Harold Alarcon scores profession excessive to propel UP Combating Maroons to a win over UE of their last UAAP Season 87 males’s basketball eliminatio spherical sport. –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 Ultimate 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 can be moving into the semifinals with an 11-3 (win-loss) report.
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“It simply justifies that anytime we get two straight losses, maganda ang kapalit dalawang sunod na panalo and clearly there aren’t any implications by way of the seeding for us however identical to what coach Goldwin [Monteverde] at all times say each observe, each sport 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 exceptional 70.6 p.c capturing, 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 p.c capturing apart from 12 rebounds whereas the remainder of the same old contributors for UP have 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 staff. That’s the main target of each sport,” Millora-Brown stated as UP now units its sights on its semifinal conflict in opposition to College of Santo Tomas.
The Crimson Warriors slumped to a fifth straight loss even with the 14 factors of Jack Cruz-Dumont. After serving a one sport suspension, Valuable Momowei is again in his common type, 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 Ultimate 4 hopes are now 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 can have a playoff for the final obtainable Ultimate 4 slot.