3 Guards Combo, Game Plan or Incidental?

In the last 2:02 minutes of the fourth quarter against Rain or Shine last Saturday at the Mall of Asia Arena, a crazy combination was used by Coach Al Francis Chua. He used three (3) guards all at the same time in the game. They were LA Tenoria, Jayjay Helterbrand and Josh Urbiztondo. The question is that a part of the game plan or completely just incidental situation.

Jayjay Helterbrand entered later part of the 2nd Half of the game. His 1st half is not good at but he was able to redeem himself gathering 13 points at the last quarter of the game. LA Tenorio was on the bench while Jayjay Helterbrand was in a Time Machine with Kerby Raymundo and Rudy Hatfield. It is understandable if

The Fast is on the court to give LA Tenorio a small breather. But what supposed to be a small breather for LA was a long time for him sitting on the bench. With Helterbrand playing tremendous and the newly acquired point guard of Barangay Ginebra Josh Urbiztondo's game is clicking for the lineup, the question is when is the right time to put LA Tenorio to get back on the playing court? Who will he substitute if he will come back in the game? Is it Jayjay Helterbrand or Josh Urbiztondo? 

In the last 4 minutes of the game, then "The Dean" Quinito Henson said that "It is time to bring back LA, it is about time". But Coach Al sticks with his lineup until the last 2:02 minutes of the game. Finally, LA is on the scorers table but who will sit down for him. Amazingly it was Chris Ellis who will sat down for the team where they will have a very small lineup with three (3) guards all at the same time on the floor. 

These three guards we're not known to be combo guards or not even one of them played as a small forward  position ever in their career  but they look so effective together. With their RUN and GUN play and with their small lineup they were able to make the life of ROS miserable. Then was the time ROS commit lots of turnovers to give the momentum to the BGSM. Run, Steal, Assist, 3 point shots = WIN. That is the result of that 3 guard combo that they used. 

It might be incidental that those three great point guards played together because they are all playing good that game or who can say, it might be part of the game plan to rattle ROS with the COMBO unit. Are we going to see it again today? We'll see.