While in the second game, it was a entertaining game with these two sister teams, reliving the Manila Classico and for sure fans enjoy that exchanges of attacks and counter defenses, some dramas while playing but Gin kings really performs with the heart, Japeth and Malonzo came out in the last stretch providing offense that's gave them the rally to have a comforting distance and take the game away from Magnolia!
It was an enjoyable game because it ended as a low scoring game. When it's a low scoring game, you know both teams are playing hard, just lucky the Ginebra won that game which I think was also a public favorite, I'd say the public won money on that game as Ginebra being the underdog gives a huge moneyline odds.
That's all you can expect from a team that are focus on defense, good thing Ginebra won, otherwise it will not look good for them since they are the favorite team in the league. Thompson is out and they are winning games, that's a good sign, I would say they have a chance to win a championship this conference.
Now SMB owned the solo spot at top 1 with 3-0 record, followed by NLEX with 4-1 and Northport sits at 3rd with 3-1 record, tied with Ginebra.
SME is still the team to team, with a healthy JMF, SMB will dominate the paint and most likely they'll win the champion.
However, Ginebra vs SMB seemed to be a good match up, crash that Magnolia as sometimes they are boring to watch due to their offense not really that good especially the outside shooting, and Ginebra has more fans so the finals will be more fun.