Dear Master Cone and to your Ngiting 3-Peat

I wanna say thank you for putting me, first, into a “daydreaming-like state of mind” then, waking me up into reality.

It took me an hour to recover after that final buzzer. :D 

When you return James Yap just in the fourth I was like saying “why only now?” Barroca got his 5^th foul, you activated Mallari, and I said again “naaah… why him?where’s PJ?”

A little doubt crossed my mind and I really felt ashamed because of that.

I was the one who’s fond of saying “InTimItRust” then for that (even) just a short moment, I doubt on you. #Kainis #Kahiya

The lead went back to 9 points, haaays.

PJ was still sitting on the bech.

Instead you put Mallari in to cover Castro. Mallari was off offensively, but after seeing his defense, I realized why he’s there over PJ.  

TNT’s missing their shots, Barroca started to sizzle then ..

“James Yap for threeee…. BAAAAANG!” His 10^th point of the game all in 4^th.

I hit my papa not that hard on his lap.

Barroca drives, shoot from everywhere, and that made me punched my papa’s shoulder countless times and I couldn’t even say a thing.

I saw Mays carrying Barroca; Cap Alvin hugging Barroca, like the hug he gave Bowles 2 years ago; Pingris celebrating swishing his towel; PJ though benched, smiling big, cheering; crowd’s roaring; whites and blues flood the Arena's floor, and you… you… you are starting to smile… (Ngiting 3-peat)

Photo taken from Sir Dean Quinito's Instagram

And me… still not moving on that moment, felt tears flowing down from my eyes.

It’s like an unbelievable thing for me to win on that kind of situation.

It’s a high-scoring ball game.

I thought I saw Gary David’s hands transferred into KG’s.

I was like “Oy SanMig, alam ng tumitira ng tres ayaw pang dikitan”

But then again, your brilliant mind let TNT fell in love with their threes and forget that they dominated the elimination through ball movement, balanced scoring, Jimmy or Castro will drive strong and will kick it out to anyone free out there.

Your genius thinking let TNT mistrust their inside presence, the best import.

And most of all, your seems-to-be undesirable move (benching your stars and even import to think of not winning a game but a series) let this team, my team, our team grabbed this very sweet 3-peat and one more to go for the “Grandslam” dream.

The wonders you have done in this team wake us (fans) up in reality that fatigue is a non-factor over heart, chemistry, determination and trust.

God bless you more Coach Tim!