Barangay Ginebra San Miguel

ANTIPOLO CITY — Barangay Ginebra shook off a fourth quarter rally by San Miguel Beer to claim a 121-112 victory in the opener of their best-of-five ...

[showed up and sat on the bench](https://sports.inquirer.net/502309/la-tenorio-on-the-bench-for-ginebra-after-cancer-revelation) to give inputs to coach Tim Cone and the rest of the staff. The Gin Kings aim to take a 2-0 lead and move one win shy of another trip to the Finals with a victory on Sunday at the same venue. Jamie Malonzo and Christian Standhardinger scored a chunk of the baskets made after the Beermen erased a 21-point deficit to tie the count at 95-all in the fourth to help the Gin Kings draw first blood in the series.

Christian Standhardinger scored 33 points to power Barangay Ginebra to an 121-112 win over the San Miguel Beermen in Game 1 of the PBA Governors' Cup ...

I have a routine on how I approach my game and what I do through the day and we're locked into a routine. I just think we need to give him some space to allow him to do his thing, and when he comes back in October, I think he can answer all the questions for us." When the semifinal schedule was released Wednesday night, the one thing that stood out was the time slot of the Ginebra-San Miguel games. "The other day, when the team found out, he had a post where he said 'If you have a problem, you can't think about the problem. If it's an even game and you lose your concentration, you blink your eyes and they could be up by 10 or 15 in a moment's notice. Cone used only seven players, and he had planned on fielding in his second stringers after Ginebra posted a 92-72 lead late in the third quarter. "I don't want to speak too much on LA because he's asked to be private about it and he's been very definite to the team and to the coaching staff and management that he wants to keep things as private as he can," Cone said. We won the game so I guess we played well overall, but we had some bad stretches where we didn't play well. You think about the solution.' So that was a valuable piece of information that he gave us. Tenorio, who announced on Tuesday that he was battling colon cancer, sat on the bench of Barangay Ginebra for the first time in nearly a month, and his presence clearly had an effect on his teammates. I will just say it's a great honor that he is here with us and doing things he wants to do while he's doing things he needs to do. "I just find it really selfless on his part to be here, and I think the whole team feels that.

Tenorio recently revealed that he was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer but made his presence felt for the team as he joined them on the bench, ...

Despite this, Cone knows that it still took a lot on Tenorio's body to continue to show up for his team. Of course, we're doing this for LA. He's been with us, he's been our leader back then.

Barangay Ginebra fended off a late rally to eke out a 121-112 victory against San Miguel and take Game 1 of their best-of-five semifinals series in the 2023 ...

Game Two of the series is on Sunday, March 26, with the defending champions looking to take a commanding 2-0 lead. Ginebra led by as many as 21 points at one point in the third period thanks to momentum they built in the first half, which saw them close out with a strong 23-12 run punctuated by a dunk from Jamie Malonzo. Barangay Ginebra fended off a late rally to eke out a 121-112 victory against San Miguel and take Game 1 of their best-of-five semifinals series in the 2023 PBA Governors' Cup on Friday at the Ynares Center in Antipolo City.