It has become a business for the big companies that we always see in the finals. While the other teams, don't have the sense of urgency of winning a title because they're making money from the trades that these big companies are doing. That's why great talents from this league are going away abroad because it's no longer a competitive league and it's not healthy for them to stay.

Yeah, that's for sure. It'll be the favorite team from now on of how promising the roster of this guest team is.

Their import is 6 foot 10 inches, and I don't know if he can defend that big alone so I guess Coach Leo will do the strategy that he already did against the TNT in the PH Cup.

I think he will play Robinson, Fajardo and Tautuaa more often. 2 of them will play at the same time if this Liu Chuanxing will play. Just basing on his stats in the first game, this big isn't their starting one and I guess he isn't that athletic but his presence in the paint will surely be a big factor.

June Mar alone can't stop him but with 2 guys and a good rotation, I think they can at least lessen his efficiency. With regards to Liu's defense, June Mar can shoot perimeter shots as well so I guess we will see JMF shooting more on the perimeter than in close range. Overall, it will be hard for SMB, but I think they can defeat the Dragons. Let's see in the future.

I do agree, it will be a big test for JunMar to play against the giant. Not just him to be fair though, every team will be a nightmare match up for this behemoth.

But we will see how good JunMar really is, if he can score at low post or battle him out in the boards. And if will just show how our locals will do because we haven't seen someone as big as Liu in our league.

Not a fan of PBA, but yeah I've heard of the Chinese giant guest team participating in the Philippine basketball league. This will literally give the PBA teams the chance to improve themselves as they have been restricting heights from the imports. No wonder good players were leaving the league and play overseas, because it can give them better career, league opponents, and high salary of course compared to PBA.
It feels like when you're in the PBA and you dominate the league, then that's your limit you don't necessary need to improve yourself. I can see the same teams competing in the finals every year.

The number reason is the high salary, the better competitiveness is only the 2nd because PBA is very competitive as well. Well, this guess team is just very dominant, they beat the Blackwater the other day with a huge margin, they really look good, so let's see if they can do it again.

The good twist would only happen on the big teams like the SMB and Pangilinan teams, others are just farm teams.

I like to see that surprise you are talking, this guess team has not face TNT, SMB, and Ginebra, maybe we can see a real competition as these teams have good imports and local players as well.

I'm wondering what was the moneyline for NLEX? It's probably one of the best upset that happen this commissioner's cup so far, with a good import, even an average team could pull up a surprise, so we are now in an unpredictable conference.

Tomorrow we have two games.

1- Northport vs Bay Area Dragons.
2- Phoenix vs Bossing.

All the locals are contributing that's how the game being played, I was also in the impressions that RoS can easily win the game as they started it strong but coming 2nd half the explosions of Alas, Go and Nieto from the 3 point area gives them a boosting leads, then Clark start to work and create plays that makes them on top.

very low performances by the RoS after the first half. They've been outscored double digits and they are unable to rally back.

First game and there are lots of adjustment coach Yeng needs. Talent wise they are not that very competitive.

It is anticipated by Dragons that the next teams will double team Liu but, there will be one that's going to be free, and that for sure is a shooter. These teams should look at how most of them are shooters and if they're going to focus on Liu, there will be an opening for those players that are ignored.
It's really hard to think of how to beat Dragons and next is with Northport later, let's see on how they're going to at least stop them although many expects that it's a win already for the Dragons.

Yes, they're all well prepared but I don't know about the others. They have some practice games too but it's entirely different from what the Bay Area Dragons have done and planned for.
It's a sure thing that most local teams will learn from this and will start to upgrade their play style, they just can't stay to that PBA style forever. And I'm also sure that the PBA management is starting to learn from this.