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Andrew Nicholson-less Bay Area Dragons uses strong second half to beat the crowd favorite Barangay Ginebra, 94-86 and to tie the series at 2-2 in Game 4 of their best-of-7 finals series in the 2022-23 PBA Commissioner's Cup on Friday, January 6 in front of 17,236 crowd at the SM Mall of Asia Arena.
Kobey Lam led the Dragons with game-high 30 points including 8-of-14 shooting from behind the arc along with 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and a block in 37 minutes. Glen Yang with another solid game of 18 points (6/12fg, 2/5 3pts, 4/5ft), to go with 4 rebounds, 4 assists, and 2 steals while Songwei Zhu with near double-double of 18 points (6/18fg, 2/8 3pts, 4/6ft), 9 rebounds, 4 assists and a steal.
Bay Area coach Brian Goorjian said import Andrew Nicholson out indefinitely with ankle injury while Myles Powell is still not fully recovered. "Our situation is day-by-day with Andrew. He rolled it and it's pretty swollen. I'm just listening to the doctors. Myles is a done deal, it's not happening."
The Scores:
BAY AREA 94 - Lam 30, Yang 18, Zhu 18, Reid 8, Liu 8, Blankley 7, Song 3, Zheng 2, Ewing 0, Ju 0.
GINEBRA 86 – Brownlee 23, Thompson 18, J Aguilar 12, Tenorio 11, Pringle 9, Standhardinger 8, Malonzo 5, Mariano 0, Gray 0, Pinto 0.
Quarters: 19-19, 38-46, 60-61, 94-86. [GAME STATS] | [GAME HIGHLIGHTS] | [Buy PBA Jersey]
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