Next game, they should slow down POGOY.
That's another problem for SMB as the TNT now has a lot of scorers, if the defense is focused on Pogoy, Mikey Williams might explode or Castro. These 3 guards are really great and good thing TNT gambled with Williams as he really is an A+ player like the stars in the PBA.
I guess what's lacking with the SMB in game one is not defense, it's the points or contribution from the usual names like Romeo and Cabagnot.
Everyone lacks contribution on the side of SMB, except for Perez.
Check the boxscore -
https://pba.ph/recap?match=1955885, popular names like Romeo, Cabagnot, and Ross do not even make a double digit score.
While CJ Perez which is new to the team has always played very well with 23 points in this game.
Don't expect much from Terrence Romeo. The guy just came from hurting his hurting Achilles just last month. It's an injury that will not heal just within a month. Even with that, he was still able to play to around 20 minutes on that game. About Cabagnot and Ross, they are off-night. That means the Ka-tropa is doing a good job to contain some of SMB's key players.
But honestly, TNT is not in a good shooting percentage too compare to their usual. I consider them having an off-night too. It's just that they got the last laugh sealing that Game 1 on their series.