NLEX Highway Warriors’ Kevin Alas. –PBA IMAGES
Kevin Alas, who has recognized newly put in NLEX coach Frankie Lim for greater than twenty years, sees sufficient causes to count on a clean transition beneath a brand new mentor.
And after serving to his group win its first two video games within the PBA Commissioner’s Cup, Alas hopes that the Highway Warriors can produce extra victories with Lim formally manning the sidelines.
“It’s good to be on the identical aspect with Coach Frankie,” Alas stated after serving to NLEX full a 105-102 comeback victory over Blackwater on Friday at Sensible Araneta Coliseum.
Alas was a part of the Letran squad coached by his father, Louie Alas, that misplaced all seven conferences to Lim and the mighty San Beda Purple Lions. from 2009 to 2011.
They are going to be on the identical aspect now, after Lim was appointed head coach by NLEX administration, a transfer precipitated by the departure of coach Yeng Guiao, who ultimately returned to Rain or Shine.
“And hopefully, God-willing, we are able to produce extra wins,” added Alas, the NLEX star whose father and Lim have been a part of coach Eric Altamirano’s workers at Purefoods through the franchise’s run to the 1997 All-Filipino crown.
Lim has been working the Highway Warriors’ practices already nevertheless it was Adonis Tierra who known as the photographs throughout their first two wins, and who mapped a turnaround late in Friday’s fourth quarter. NLEX held the Bossing scoreless in that stretch till the ultimate seconds and scored 14 straight factors to climb out of a 90-97 deficit.
Tierra is now passing the baton to Lim, glad to have steered NLEX to a share of the early lead with the visiting Bay Space Dragons.
“The group is worked up,” Tierra stated in Filipino. “The extent of depth the previous three days beneath Coach Frankie has been nice. I’m pleased with the gamers as a result of they have been capable of execute his performs.”
Scorching Bolick
“To date, issues are going effectively for the group, nevertheless it stays to be seen when he lastly joins us in our subsequent video games,” stated Kevin Alas as a troublesome October schedule awaits NLEX.
After Lim’s official debut towards struggling Phoenix on October 8, NLEX must undergo perennial heavyweights Magnolia, TNT and San Miguel Beer.
Import Earl Clark has to date confirmed he has what it takes to guide NLEX previous that backbreaking schedule.
Clark completed with 38 factors and grabbed 25 rebounds as he saved NLEX within the thick of issues even when Blackwater led by as many as 16, and was in command for many of the method.
Robert Bolick led NorthPort to its personal model of a comeback within the second sport with a career-high 44 factors that helped the Batang Pier overcome Johnny O’Bryant and the Meralco Bolts, 101-95, in extra time.
Bolick scored 22 in a row in a single stretch, serving to NorthPort bounce again from a latest stinging 105-104 loss to the Bay Space Dragons on a three-pointer by Myles Powell on the buzzer. “At the least, it went our method this time,” Bolick stated in Filipino. He added six rebounds and 7 assists because the Batang Pier laid to waste O’Bryant’s 30 factors, 22 rebounds and 5 assists. O’Bryant pale within the stretch because the Bolts failed to guard their 20-point lead. INQ
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