After surviving tough knockout match, Guiao now dealing with the hard part: Trying to beat peerless Dragons—twice

Yeng Guiao sounded like a coach trying to make sense of showing up for quarterfinal match that he feels Rain or Shine has little hopes of winning.

The best he could muster was “we’ll try to stay in [the game] as long as we can.”

One of his gunners, Rey Nambatac managed to dig up some trite form of optimism.

“Bilog ang bola (the ball is round),” Nambatac said, rehashing that overused basketball soundbite that generally means anything can happen. “That is surely a David and Goliath kind of game. But nothing is impossible [if] we try.”

The feeling of dread came after Rain or Shine survived a tough knockout match against NLEX, 110-100, late Sunday night to lay claim to the No…

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