2015 PBA Governors' Cup

2015 PBA Governors' Cup
Duration May 5 – July 17, 2015
TV partner(s) Local:
Sports5
TV5
AksyonTV
Fox Sports
International:
AksyonTV International
Finals
Champions San Miguel Beermen
Runners-up Alaska Aces
Awards
Best Player June Mar Fajardo
(San Miguel Beermen)
Best Import Romeo Travis
(Alaska Aces)
Finals MVP June Mar Fajardo
(San Miguel Beermen)
PBA Governors' Cup chronology
PBA conference chronology

The 2015 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2015 PLDT Home TVolution-PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2014–15 PBA season. The tournament began on May 5, 2015 and ended on July 17, 2015. The tournament allows teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) for the top eight teams of combined results of the Philippine Cup and Commissioner's Cup, while the bottom four teams will be allowed to hire imports with no height limit.[1] The teams were allowed to hire an additional Asian import with a height limit of 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m).[2]

Format

The tournament format for this conference is as follows:[3]

Elimination round

Team standings

 y  – clinched twice to beat in the quarterfinals,  w  – clinched twice to win in the quarterfinals,  e  – eliminated

# Team W L PCT GB Tie
1 y- Alaska Aces 8 3 .727 — 1.065
2 y- San Miguel Beermen 8 3 .727 — 0.939
3 y- Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 7 4 .636 1 1.063
4 y- GlobalPort Batang Pier 7 4 .636 1 0.941
5 w- Star Hotshots 6 5 .545 2 1.315
6 w- Barako Bull Energy 6 5 .545 2 0.761
7 w- Meralco Bolts 5 6 .455 3 1.125
8 w- Barangay Ginebra San Miguel 5 6 .455 3 1.000
9 e- Kia Carnival 5 6 .455 3 0.954
10 e- Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 5 6 .455 3 0.929
11 e- NLEX Road Warriors 3 8 .273 5
12 e- Blackwater Elite 1 10 .091 7

Schedule

Teams1234567891011
Alaska BW BGSM ROS TNT SH NLEX KIA MER BBE SMB GP
Barako Bull NLEX BW TNT MER SMB ROS GP KIA ALA BGSM SH
Barangay Ginebra ALA TNT KIA BW ROS SMB GP SH MER BBE NLEX
Blackwater ALA GP BBE BGSM KIA MER ROS TNT SMB NLEX SH
GlobalPort MER BW SH SMB ROS TNT BGSM BBE NLEX KIA ALA
Kia SMB BGSM NLEX BW SH ALA BBE GP ROS TNT MER
Meralco GP SMB NLEX SH BBE BW TNT ALA BGSM ROS KIA
NLEX BBE SH MER KIA TNT ALA SMB ROS GP BW BGSM
Rain or Shine SMB ALA GP BGSM BBE BW TNT NLEX SH KIA MER
San Miguel KIA MER ROS GP SH BBE BGSM NLEX TNT BW ALA
Star NLEX GP MER SMB ALA KIA BGSM ROS TNT BBE BW
Talk 'N Text BGSM BBE ALA NLEX GP MER ROS SMB BW SH KIA

  Win
  Loss

Results

Team ALA BBE BGSMBWGPKiaMERNLEXROSSMBSHTNT
Alaska 101–95 108–99 106–80 104–117* 101–63 89–75 102–113 94–93 82–77 92–86 103–104
Barako Bull 98–120 105–90 123–114 68–71 105–99 101–96 112–103 113–116 89–117 100–87
Brgy. Ginebra 77–83 111–108* 105–98 99–102 110–107 93–81 85–100 82–89 91–95
Blackwater 76–100 76–83** 72–87 89–102* 85–123 83–115 82–87 91–98
GlobalPort 102–94 92–73 108–80 112–119 102–124 91–89 123–120
Kia 88–85 85–82 90–94 83–78 80–89 85–94
Meralco 84–91 89–96 106–95* 83–81 119–85
NLEX 102–106 92–96 85–89 89–108
Rain or Shine 91–104 103–88 88–73
San Miguel 100–89 101–96
Star 105–93
Talk 'N Text

  Win
  OT Win
  Loss
  OT Loss

Bracket

  Quarterfinals     Semifinals
(Best-of-5)		     Finals
(Best-of-7)
    (#1 twice to beat)                        
  1  Alaska 114    
  8  Ginebra 108    
            1  Alaska 3    
    (#4 twice to beat)       5  Star 0  
  4  GlobalPort 73 94
  5  Star 126 101  
    1  Alaska 0
    (#2 twice to beat)     2  San Miguel 4
  2  San Miguel 99 102  
  7  Meralco 106 86  
            2  San Miguel 3
    (#3 twice to beat)     3  Rain or Shine 1    
  3  Rain or Shine 134**  
  6  Barako Bull 132    

*Game went into overtime[a]


a The number of asterisks denotes the number of overtime(s) occurred.

Quarterfinals

Alaska vs. Barangay Ginebra

June 26
Alaska Aces 114, Barangay Ginebra San Miguel 108
Alaska wins series in one game

San Miguel vs. Meralco

June 29
San Miguel Beermen 102, Meralco Bolts 86
San Miguel wins series in two games

Rain or Shine vs. Barako Bull

June 27
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 134, Barako Bull Energy 132 (2OT)
Rain or Shine wins series in one game

GlobalPort vs. Star

June 28
GlobalPort Batang Pier 94, Star Hotshots 101
Star wins series in two games

Semifinals

Alaska-Star series

July 5
Alaska Aces 82, Star Hotshots 77
Alaska wins series, 3–0

San Miguel-Rain or Shine series

Finals

July 17
Alaska Aces 81, San Miguel Beermen 91
San Miguel wins series, 4–0

Awards

Conference

Players of the Week

Week Player Ref.
May 5–10 J.C. Intal (Barako Bull Energy) [4]
May 11–17 Dylan Ababou (Barako Bull Energy) [5]
May 18–24 Joseph Yeo (Barako Bull Energy) [6]
May 25–31 RR Garcia (Barako Bull Energy) [7]
June 1–7 Jeffrei Chan (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) [8]
June 8–14 Terrence Romeo (GlobalPort Batang Pier) [9]
June 15–21 Paul Lee (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) [10]
June 22–28 Peter June Simon (Star Hotshots) [11]
June 29–July 5 Vic Manuel (Alaska Aces) [12]

Imports

The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted in gold are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference. Players with an asterisk indicates the Asian imports.

Team Name Debuted Last game Record
Alaska Aces United States Romeo Travis May 5 (vs. Blackwater) July 17 (vs. San Miguel) 12–7
Barako Bull Energy Canada Liam McMorrow May 6 (vs. NLEX) June 27 (vs. Rain or Shine) 6–6
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel United States Orlando Johnson May 8 (vs. Alaska) June 26 (vs. Alaska) 5–7
Mongolia Sanchir Tungalag* May 8 (vs. Alaska) May 31 (vs. San Miguel) 2–4
South Korea Kim Jiwan* June 3 (vs. GlobalPort) June 26 (vs. Alaska) 3–3
Blackwater Elite United States Marcus Douthit May 5 (vs. Alaska) June 3 (vs. Rain or Shine) 1–6
United States Marcus Cousin June 12 (vs. Talk 'N Text) June 23 (vs. Star) 0–4
GlobalPort Batang Pier United States Patrick O'Bryant May 5 (vs. Meralco) May 8 (vs. Blackwater) 2–0
United States Steven Thomas May 12 (vs. Star) May 17 (vs. San Miguel) 1–1
United States Jarrid Famous May 22 (vs. Rain or Shine) June 28 (vs. Star) 4–5
State of Palestine Omar Krayem* May 5 (vs. Meralco) June 28 (vs. Star) 7–6
Kia Carnival Senegal Hamady N'Diaye May 6 (vs. San Miguel) June 24 (vs. Meralco) 5–6
Chinese Taipei Chang Tsung-hsien* May 6 (vs. San Miguel) June 24 (vs. Meralco) 5–6
Meralco Bolts United States Andre Emmett May 5 (vs. GlobalPort) June 29 (vs. San Miguel) 6–7
Japan Seiya Ando* May 13 (vs. NLEX) June 29 (vs. San Miguel) 5–6
NLEX Road Warriors United States Kwame Alexander May 6 (vs. Barako Bull) June 24 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) 3–8
Syria Michael Madanly* May 6 (vs. Barako Bull) June 24 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) 3–8
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters United States Wendell McKines May 12 (vs. San Miguel) July 8 (vs. San Miguel) 9–7
San Miguel Beermen United States Arizona Reid May 6 (vs. Kia) July 17 (vs. Alaska) 16–5
Star Hotshots United States Marqus Blakely May 9 (vs. NLEX) July 5 (vs. Alaska) 9–8
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters United States Steffphon Pettigrew May 10 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) June 19 (vs. Kia) 5–6
Jordan Sam Daghles* May 10 (vs. Barangay Ginerba) June 19 (vs. Kia) 5–6

Import handicapping

# Team Philippine Cup Commissioner's Cup Total Import height limit
1 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 1.8 0.4 2.2 6'5"
2 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 2.4 0.8 3.2
3 Alaska Aces 1.2 2.4 3.6
4 San Miguel Beermen 0.6 3.6 4.2
5 Purefoods Star Hotshots 4.2 1.2 5.4
6 Meralco Bolts 3.6 2.0 5.6
7 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel 3.0 3.2 6.2
8 NLEX Road Warriors 6.0 1.6 7.6
9 Barako Bull Energy 5.4 2.8 8.2 Unlimited height
10 GlobalPort Batang Pier 4.8 4.0 8.8
11 Kia Sorento/Carnival 6.6 4.4 11.0
12 Blackwater Elite 7.2 4.8 12.0

References

  1. ↑ PBA SEASON 40 CALENDAR BARED, PBA.ph, September 30, 2014
  2. ↑ PBA to feature Asian imports for Governors' Cup conference, Rappler, October 1, 2014
  3. ↑ STRONG ACTION-PACKED SEASON FORMAT GETS GREEN LIGHT, Snow Badua, PBA.ph, October 2, 2014
  4. ↑ A DIFFERENT, MORE COMMITTED JC, PBA.inquirer.net, May 11, 2015
  5. ↑ STARTING TO SHOW TRUE WORTH, PBA.inquirer.net, May 20, 2015
  6. ↑ THE NINJA MAKES IT 3 STRAIGHT FOR BARAKO BULL COGS, PBA.inquirer.net, May 25, 2015
  7. ↑ GARCIA WEEK’S BEST, 4 IN A ROW FOR ENERGY, PBA.inquirer.net, June 1, 2015
  8. ↑ BACK TO RIPPING THE CORDS, PBA.inquirer.net, June 8, 2015
  9. ↑ BATANG PIER GUNNER ON FIRE, PBA.inquirer.net, June 15, 2015
  10. ↑ NO BACKING DOWN, PBA.inquirer.net, June 22, 2015
  11. ↑ STILL OUR TIME – PJ SIMON, PBA.inquirer.net, June 29, 2015
  12. ↑ SHOW THE STRENGTH FOR MUSCLE MAN, PBA.inquirer.net, July 6, 2015
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