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2014–15 PBA Philippine Cup finals

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2014–15 PBA Philippine Cup finals
TeamCoachWins
(1) San Miguel Beermen Leo Austria 4
(3) Alaska Aces Alex Compton 3
DatesJanuary 7–21, 2015
MVPArwind Santos
(San Miguel Beermen)
TelevisionLocal:
Sports5
TV5
AksyonTV
Cignal PPV (HD)
Fox Sports
International:
AksyonTV International
AnnouncersSee broadcast notes
Radio networkDWFM (Radyo5)
Referees
Game 1:J. Mariano, E. Aquino, N. Guevarra
Game 2:A. Herrera, P. Balao, R. Gruta
Game 3:N. Quilingen, E. Aquino, E. Tangkion
Game 4:A. Herrera, N. Quillingen, N. Guevarra
Game 5:A. Herrera, P. Balao, E. Tankion
Game 6:A. Herrera, N. Quilingen, E. Tangkion
Game 7:N. Quilingen, P. Balao, E. Tankion
PBA Philippine Cup finals chronology
PBA finals chronology

The 2014–15 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup finals was the best-of-7 championship series of the 2014–15 PBA Philippine Cup, and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The San Miguel Beermen and the Alaska Aces competed for the 37th All-Filipino championship and the 113th overall championship contested by the league.

Background

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Road to the finals

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San Miguel Alaska
Finished 9–2 (0.818): Tied with Rain or Shine at 1st place Elimination round Finished 8–3 (0.727): Tied with Talk 'N Text at 3rd place
1.101 (1st place) Tiebreaker* 1.020 (3rd place)
bye Quarterfinals First phase: Def. NLEX in one game
Second phase: Def. Meralco, 87–69
Def. Talk 'N Text, 4–0 (best-of-seven) Semifinals Def. Rain or Shine, 4–2 (best-of-seven)

Head-to-head matchup

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Series summary

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Team Game 1* Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5 Game 6 Game 7 Wins
San Miguel 82 100 70 88 93 76 80 4
Alaska 88 86 78 70 88 87 78 3
Venue Araneta Araneta Araneta Araneta Araneta Araneta Araneta

*overtime

Game 1

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January 7
7:00pm
San Miguel Beermen 82, Alaska Aces 88 (OT)
Scoring by quarter: 27–5, 18–26, 9–18, 20–25Overtime: 8–14
Pts: Lutz 24
Rebs: Fajardo 17
Asts: Ross 7
Pts: Abueva 22
Rebs: Abueva 10
Asts: Banchero, Thoss 3
Alaska leads series, 1–0
Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
Referees: J. Mariano, E. Aquino, N. Guevarra

In the first quarter of Game One the San Miguel manage to have a double digit 27–5, but then on the second half of the game Alaska's Abueva and Hontiveros makes a scoring run to make a comeback. Then in overtime Alaska outscored the Beermen to steal Game One 88–82.

Game 2

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January 9
7:00pm
San Miguel Beermen 100, Alaska Aces 86
Scoring by quarter: 32–28, 19–20, 21–22, 28–16
Pts: Santos 22
Rebs: Fajardo 12
Asts: Lutz, Ross 5
Pts: Thoss 16
Rebs: Abueva 9
Asts: Casio 3
Series tied, 1–1
Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
Referees: A. Herrera, P. Balao, R. Gruta

This is the physical game of the series featuring two Kapampangan superstars Arwind santos and Calvin Abueva. In the game Abueva elbowed Santos on the rebound, due to Santos blood he was forced to rest before coming back late in the third quarter to lead the Beermen to a scoring run and avoid Alaska's possible comeback.

Game 3

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January 11
5:00pm
San Miguel Beermen 70, Alaska Aces 78
Scoring by quarter: 8–13, 27–14, 29–19, 6–32
Pts: Santos 20
Rebs: Santos 11
Asts: Cabagnot 4
Pts: Abueva 16
Rebs: Abueva 15
Asts: Abueva 5
Alaska leads series, 2–1
Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
Attendance: 13,785
Referees: N. Quillingen, E. Aquino, E. Tangkion

On Game Three SMB manage once again to manage big 20 or more points on three quarters, but the Aces prove again their resiliency to comeback outscoring the Beermen in fourth quarter 32–6.

Game 4

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January 14
7:00pm
San Miguel Beermen 88, Alaska Aces 70
Scoring by quarter: 33–16, 16–10, 24–23, 15–21
Pts: Cabagnot 22
Rebs: Santos 14
Asts: Lutz 7
Pts: Abueva 22
Rebs: Abueva 7
Asts: Exciminiano, Casio 3
Series tied, 2–2
Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
Referees: A. Herrera, N. Quillingen, N. Guevarra

Prior to the start of Game Four June Mar Fajardo received his second straight Best Player of the Conference in Philippine Cup. Alex Cabagnot finally break his silence in the series tallying team high 22 points and gave the Beermen a dominant game once again.

Game 5

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January 16
7:00pm
San Miguel Beermen 93, Alaska Aces 88
Scoring by quarter: 21–23, 20–18, 30–30, 22–17
Pts: Fajardo, Santos 19
Rebs: Fajardo 13
Asts: Cabagnot 8
Pts: Abueva 24
Rebs: Abueva 12
Asts: Banchero, Abueva 3
San Miguel leads series, 3–2
Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
Attendance: A. Herrera, P. Balao, E. Tankion

This game of this series was proved to be the closest scoring since the last four games, it was a see-saw battle the score was being tied after all three quarters. But on the fourth quarter the Beermen relied on their bench to make an opening scoring run on fourth quarter and win the game after great performances of Arwind Santos and June Mar Fajardo combining for 38 points and 10 blocks(19 points each and 5 blocks each). This also served as the first time the Beermen leads the series for pivotal 3–2 lead.

Game 6

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January 18
7:30pm
San Miguel Beermen 76, Alaska Aces 87
Scoring by quarter: 23–17, 13–25, 20–21, 20–24
Pts: Santos 22
Rebs: Fajardo 13
Asts: Cabagnot 5
Pts: Hontiveros 18
Rebs: Thoss 9
Asts: Thoss, Manuel, Jazul 3
Series tied, 3–3
Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
Attendance: 14,259
Referees: A. Herrera, N. Quilingquen, E. Tangkion

The San Miguel once again manage to have double digit lead in the first quarter but then on the second to the fourth quarter the Alaska have controlled the whole behind a great performance from the former Beermen Dondon Hontiveros.

Game 7

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January 21
7:00pm
San Miguel Beermen 80, Alaska Aces 78
Scoring by quarter: 21–12, 27–15, 14–32, 18–19
Pts: Santos 22
Rebs: Fajardo 25
Asts: Cabagnot 6
Pts: Abueva 23
Rebs: Abueva 15
Asts: Abueva, Exciminiano, Jazul 2
San Miguel wins series, 4–3
Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
Attendance: 22,511
Referees: N. Quilingen, P. Balao, E. Tankion

The San Miguel and Alaska battled for their third Game Seven of their other previous PBA finals meeting which Alaska winning twice of the two games seven meeting. This game was started in the first quarter by Fajardo's amazing euro step Sonny Thoss before the Beeremen lead the Aces a double digit point lead after great shooting from Arwind Santos. The San Miguel lead Alaska dominantly 48–27 at the half. But the Aces again proved their great comeback led by Calvin Abueva came close after third quarter 62–59, but on fourth quarter the Alaska steal the lead and lead as many as 6 points under 4 minutes remaining in the game 74–68. The Beeremen then make their own rally having 12–6 run then with one minute remaining in the game and the clock is winding down Arwind Santos makes a crucial three pointer with 43 seconds remaining in the game to push San Miguel lead back to one 79–78 then he grabbed also a crucial defensive rebound after Sonny Thoss missed a shot over Fajardo. In the one possession after Abueva missed a floater Ronald Tubid grabs a defensive rebound but call a time out that SMB doesn't have any more. Dondon Hontiveros then missed a crucial technical free throw, on the last play were San Miguel has the ball Chris Lutz inbound the ball to June Mar Fajardo who had been forced to a jumpball by Abueva. On the jumpball Abueva won the tip over Fajardo and the ball goes to Thoss who finds Jvee Casio for game winning three pointer but his shot missed before the buzzer sounded.

Rosters

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Players Coaches
Pos. # POB Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY–MM–DD) From
F 1 Philippines Maierhofer, Rico 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 175 lb (79 kg) 1985-11-04 De La Salle
SG 3 United States Lutz, Chris 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 200 lb (91 kg) 1985-02-11 Marshall
PG 5 Philippines Cabagnot, Alex 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 175 lb (79 kg) 1982-12-08 Hawaiʻi–Hilo
PG 6 United States Ross, Chris 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 180 lb (82 kg) 1985-03-08 Marshall
SG 13 United States Lassiter, Marcio 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 185 lb (84 kg) 1987-05-16 Cal State Fullerton
C 15 Philippines Fajardo, June Mar 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 270 lb (122 kg) 1989-11-17 Cebu
C 18 Philippines Kramer, Doug 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 235 lb (107 kg) 1983-07-10 Ateneo
SF 21 Philippines Omolon, Nelbert 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 185 lb (84 kg) 1980-06-30 Philippine Christian
G 23 Philippines Pascual, Ronald (R) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 185 lb (84 kg) 1988-06-23 San Sebastian
PG 25 Philippines Fortuna, Jeric 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) 170 lb (77 kg) 1991-11-25 UST
G/F 29 Philippines Santos, Arwind (C) 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 170 lb (77 kg) 1981-06-10 Far Eastern
F/C 33 Australia Semerad, David (R) 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 230 lb (104 kg) 1991-04-25 San Beda
F/C 41 Philippines Chua, Justin 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 232 lb (105 kg) 1989-07-13 Ateneo
SG 71 Philippines Tubid, Ronald 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 185 lb (84 kg) 1981-10-15 UE
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Team manager



Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (CI) Commissioner's Cup Import
  • (GI) Governors' Cup Import
  • (EI) EASL Import
  • (DP) Unsigned draft pick
  • (FA) Free agent
  • (IN) Inactive
  • (S) Suspended
  • (R) Rookie
  • Injured Injured

Players Coaches
Pos. # POB Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY–MM–DD) From
C 1 Philippines Eman, Samigue 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 260 lb (118 kg) 1982-03-12 Mindanao
G 2 United States Banchero, Chris (R) 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 185 lb (84 kg) 1989-01-24 Seattle Pacific
G/F 3 Philippines Baguio, Cyrus 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 180 lb (82 kg) 1980-08-19 UST
C 7 Papua New Guinea Thoss, Sonny 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 1981-12-07 James Cook
F 8 Philippines Abueva, Calvin 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 1988-02-04 San Sebastian
G/F 11 Philippines dela Rosa, Rome (R) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 180 lb (82 kg) 1990-12-11 San Beda
F 15 Germany Vanlandingham, Josh (IN) 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 1984-01-22 Pacific Lutheran
G 17 Philippines Exciminiano, Chris 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) 185 lb (84 kg) 1988-11-17 Far Eastern
PF 21 Philippines Bugia, Paolo (IN) 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 215 lb (98 kg) 1981-01-19 Ateneo
PF 24 Philippines Manuel, Vic 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 200 lb (91 kg) 1987-06-18 PSBA
G 25 Philippines Hontiveros, Dondon 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 170 lb (77 kg) 1977-06-01 Cebu
F 27 Philippines Espinas, Gabby Injured 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 194 lb (88 kg) 1982-01-03 Philippine Christian
F/C 30 United States Menk, Eric 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 220 lb (100 kg) 1974-08-24 Lake Superior State
G 31 Philippines Jazul, RJ 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 170 lb (77 kg) 1986-04-11 Letran
F 35 United States dela Cruz, Tony (C) 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 178 lb (81 kg) 1978-08-24 UC Irvine
G 42 Philippines Casio, JVee 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) 170 lb (77 kg) 1986-09-01 De La Salle
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Team manager
  • Philippines Dickie Bachmann[a] (De La Salle)



Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (CI) Commissioner's Cup Import
  • (GI) Governors' Cup Import
  • (EI) EASL Import
  • (DP) Unsigned draft pick
  • (FA) Free agent
  • (IN) Inactive
  • (S) Suspended
  • (R) Rookie
  • Injured Injured

Roster


  • a also serves as Alaska's board governor.

Broadcast notes

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All of the games were aired live on TV5, AksyonTV and Fox Sports, except for Game 5 that was delayed at TV5 and AksyonTV due to the News5 coverage of Pope Francis's visit to the Philippines.

Game Sports5 Fox Sports
Play-by-play Analyst(s) Courtside reporters Play-by-play Analyst(s)
Game 1 Magoo Marjon Eric Reyes and Ali Peek Rizza Diaz Patricia Bermudez-Hizon Charles Tiu
Game 2 Mico Halili Quinito Henson and Richard del Rosario Apple David Nikko Ramos Ronnie Magsanoc
Game 3 Charlie Cuna Ryan Gregorio and Luigi Trillo Erika Padilla Mico Halili Charles Tiu
Game 4 James Velazquez Dominic Uy and Ronnie Magsanoc Sel Guevara Patricia Bermudez-Hizon Vince Hizon
Game 5 Magoo Marjon Andy Jao and Luigi Trillo Rizza Diaz Mico Halili Kirk Long
Game 6 Mico Halili Eric Reyes and Richard del Rosario Sel Guevara Nikko Ramos Charles Tiu
Game 7 Magoo Marjon Quinito Henson and Ronnie Magsanoc Erika Padilla Patricia Bermudez-Hizon Vince Hizon

References

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