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The 10-8 record of San Beda in Season 100 is their worst since 2005 when they finished Season 81 with a 4-10 record. Poor point guard plays, lack of chemistry, no real leader and alpha player. The Red Lions need to play a near perfect basketball in the Final 4 if they want to beat CSB. It sucks that the road to a back to back is for San Beda to beat CSB twice. Beating them even once is so much hard to do. Unlike Mapua who have a thin frontline, CSB have a good combination of bigs, wings and small. Their pg rotation alone is so much better than the REd Lions and their wings and frontline are as good or even better than the REd Lions. Let's just pray that its going to be a close game 1 and the REd Lions will make it a little bit more exciting. But i highly doubt they can beat the Blazers twice.
San Beda is still dangerous, and i hope charles tiu and coaching staff etch that into the players mind. 2-0 in the elimination round means nothing now. They still need to win one more game to advance.
Imo Lina will be the key, he was the best bedan in the court the last game and im expecting him to get lots of touches, wether attacking the interior defense or attracting multiple defenders that would close on him and that should leave some guys open. His matchup with allen liwag is good to watch, but i think lina will have the upper hand since i dont think liwag will see much rest in the games. This what beda did in round 2 and it was somehow effective. People tend to see the final score, but it was only the last few minutes that benilde was able to secure the W. It was close all throughout the game.
For benilde, key will be limiting the to's. They had a solid game in taking care of the ball committing only 6 or 7 against the last san beda game. If they are able to take care of it, i think they should have no problem going toe to toe with whoever san beda has on the floor. Im hoping ynot and cometa will be more efficient since no doubt jhomel ancheta will be a marked man now.