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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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Monday, July 3, 2017
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San Miguel Beermen’s Alex Cabagnot drives past TNT Katropa’s Roger Pogoy during Game 6 of the 2017 Oppo PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals last night. Cabagnot was awarded his first Finals MVP honor for averaging 20.3 points, 5.8 assists, 8 rebounds, and 1.3 steals in the series. PBA
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MANILA – San Miguel captured the 2017 Oppo PBA Commissioner’s Cup crown after beating TNT 115-91 in Game 6 of the Finals last night at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum.
Import Charles Rhodes led the way with double-double 30 points and 11 rebounds for Beermen, which got their 23rd PBA championship overall in 38 Finals appearances. Marcio Lassiter added 24 markers, on five 3-point conversions, while Alex Cabagnot poured triple-double 19 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists.
Katropa managed to keep in step with Beermen early as they trailed 23-21 when the latter went on a huge run behind Chris Ross, Arwind Santos and Cabagnot for a 37-26 lead at the end of the period.
Beermen continued scoring early in the second canto behind Cabagnot to widen the lead 48-30. TNT managed to trim it down to 13 points but San Miguel stretched the lead 62-42 at the half on a triple by Santos.
Beermen raised the lead to 24 points early in the third. TNT countered with a run to come to within 68-55 but SMB executed another run from Ross and Lassiter to build their largest lead 94-66 on a basket by Gabby Espinas.
TNT had their last push in the final frame to come to within 19 points but Beermen quickly diffused that run with consecutive points from Cabagnot and Ross to seal the victory.
Jeth Troy Rosario finished with 21 points, while Roger Pogoy and import Joshua Smith added 16 and 15 points, respectively, for Katropa.
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SCORES
SAN MIGUEL 115 – Rhodes 30, Lassiter 24, Cabagnot 19, Santos 17, Ross 14, Espinas 5, Semerad 4, Fajardo 2, Heruela 0, De Ocampo 0, McCarthy 0, Agovida 0, Van Opstal 0
TNT 91 – Rosario 21, Pogoy 16, Smith 15, Castro 13, De Ocampo 7, Garcia 7, Williams 4, Tautuaa 4, Semerad 2, Rosales 2, Reyes 0
QUARTERS – 37-26, 62-42, 94-69, 115-91
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