Hoping to start off better compared to the last conference, Barangay Ginebra opened its PBA Season 50 Commissioner’s Cup dominantly following a 110-93 rout of Macau on Friday night at the SMART Araneta Coliseum.
It could be recalled that the Kings lost three of their first four games of the recent Philippine Cup and the crew simply didn’t want that to happen, thus the conscious effort on their part to ace their very first test of the midseason joust.
They did accomplish as much, taking control of the game early before breaking away wide in the second chapter behind a 39-point explosion, which left the Black Knights searching for answers that, unfortunately for them, never came.
And the crowd darlings were able to do so even after losing key forward Jayson David to a jarring, non-contact knee injury during the second period as well.
Justin Brownlee starred in the win with 31 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, two steals, and two blocks in his first game back in the PBA after quite a while as the league held the Philippine Cup in the last two conferences.
