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King of Beermen shames Gin Kings
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009 06:03

The opposing teams know San Miguel Beer’s Dondon Hontiveros is one potent all-around weapon. They also realize that knowing is one thing, doing something about it is an entirely different matter.
Not when Hontiveros is on fire.

And he was undoubtedly in a zone when it mattered most, keeping the Beermen on track for a cherished PBA Philippine Cup goal and in the process earning for himself the KFC/Accel-PBA Press Corps’ Player of the Week honors for the period Jan. 5 to 11.

“He’s the main reason we’re through to the semifinals,” said SMB coach Siot Tanquingcen, referring to the 6-foot-2 guard who led the team past Barangay Ginebra in their best-of-three quarterfinals series that went the full route.

In a dazzling display of firepower, the 31-year-old Cebuano hotshot averaged 28 points, including 34 in a 98-93 win last Sunday that enabled the Beermen to wrap up the series and advance to the semis against early qualifier Talk n Text.

The quarterfinals was as good a time as any for Hontiveros to continue ratcheting up his averages, which started with 13.6 ppg in the 18-game eliminations and went up to 16.5 in the wildcard.

Hontiveros maintains it was just a matter of living up to the trust by his teammates ‘Just be confident, ‘ he said.
 
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