Saturday, August 31, 2013

Not a good start for the Kings, whom to blame?

It was a slow start for the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel as they fall at the bottom of the standing 2nd to Air 21 Express and tied with San Mig Coffee Mixers and Talk n Text Tropang Texters. With the kind of tournament format the PBA has for this year’s Governors Cup, no one can afford to a sluggish run in their campaign.

Dior Lowhorn is now center of attention, for critics and even some of the fans are not satisfied with his performance. Even before the start of the current conference there are rumors that Dior Lowhorn will be replaced by the Ginebra Management but still the franchise chose to stay with him. Is Lowhorn the real person to blame with our slow start?

POINTS PER GAME AVERAGE

Dior is averaging 25.3 points per game with 13.6 rebounds having a double double on his three games in the PBA. He has a good perimeter shooting and not to mention his good touch on the free throw line. In the game against Petron and Barako, the kings let them score over a 100 points, against Meralco they only let them score 85 points.  Ginebra is only averaging 94.6 PPG and they cannot afford to let their opponent to score more than their average points per game.

LOCAL SUPPORT

When we won a game against Meralco Bolts the contribution from the local players is bizarre, they contributed 81 points while the team only averages 63.5 points against Petron and Barako Bull with 66 and 61 points respectively. The rotation of the ball is tremendous when we play against the Bolts and we are able to feed the ball properly in a way that we are able to find open shots.
DEFENSE

For a team to be able to do well on offense they must do well as well on defense. The Kings defense in their two losses is not something to be brag about. Easy baskets where given to our opponents were it limits our chances of doing our fast breaks where we get more of our points. The injury of Japeth Aguilar is really a big factor we are not able to defend well. He is out from the latter part of the first quarter where he is our last line of defense.

Again to sum it all, it will still be a difficult situation for Dior Lowhorn. Being a Ginebra import is so much fun but you must perform. Perform well not only on points but to execute well to entertain the fans, perform well to dominate the game and perform well to keep the crowd alive. Dior is the one we need if you are doing to think of his game play. He can rebound and score inside the paint something that we need a lot without HBOMB and the Kid. But still Dior some one that is easy to defend in the  PBA. He is no doubt a scorer and an awesome player but his kind of game is an OLD SCHOOL power forward.

It will now be within the management if they will stick on him or not. But let us face the fact that basketball is not a one man game. Any import may score 50 plus points a game but without his teammates backing him up it would be useless.


We might be seeing a new reinforcement come Wednesday if Ginebra fails to win against Alaska Aces on Sunday. 

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