2012 PBA Governors' Cup

2012 PBA Governors' Cup
Duration May 20 – August 5, 2012
TV partner(s) Sports5 - AKTV on IBC (Local)
Aksyon TV International (International)
Finals
Champions Rain or Shine Elasto Painters
Runners-up B-Meg Llamados
Awards
Best Player Mark Caguioa
(Barangay Ginebra Kings)
Best Import Jamelle Cornley
(Rain or Shine Elasto Painters)
Finals MVP Jeffrei Chan
(Rain or Shine Elasto Painters)
PBA Governors' Cup chronology
PBA conference chronology

The 2012 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, was the third and last conference of the 2011–12 PBA season. The tournament started on May 20 and culminated on August 5 with the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters team defeating the B-Meg Llamados team by 4 games to 3.

The tournament was an import-laden format, which allowed an import or a pure-foreign player for each team and with a height limit of 6-foot-5.

Format

The following format was observed for the duration of the conference:[1]

Elimination round

Team standings

 y  – clinched semifinals,  e  – eliminated

2012 PBA Governors' Cup
# Team W L PCT GB Tie PO
1 y – Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 8 1 .889 —
2 y – B-Meg Llamados 6 3 .667 2
3 y – Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 5 4 .555 3 +18
4 y – Barangay Ginebra Kings 5 4 .555 3 0
5 y – Petron Blaze Boosters 5 4 .555 3 −18
6 y – Meralco Bolts 4 5 .444 4 +11
7 e – Powerade Tigers 4 5 .444 4 −18
8 e – Barako Bull Energy 4 5 .444 4 +8
9 e – Alaska Aces 2 7 .222 6 +30
10 e – Air21 Express 2 7 .222 6 −30

Schedule

Teams123456789
Air21 BGK TNT ROS BMEG BBE MER POW ALA PBB
Alaska ROS BBE POW PBB MER BMEG TNT BGK A21
B-Meg ROS BGK BBE MER A21 ALA PBB TNT POW
Barako Bull POW ALA BMEG PBB A21 ROS TNT BGK MER
Brgy. Ginebra A21 BMEG MER ROS PBB POW ALA TNT BBE
Meralco TNT PBB BGK BMEG ALA ROS A21 POW BBE
Petron Blaze POW MER TNT ALA BBE BGK BMEG ROS A21
Powerade PBB BBE ALA TNT ROS BGK A21 MER BMEG
Rain or Shine ALA BMEG A21 BGK POW MER BBE PBB TNT
Talk 'N Text MER A21 PBB POW ALA BBE BGK BMEG ROS

      Win
      Loss

Results

Team A21 ALA BMEGBBEBGKMERPBBPOWROSTNT
Air21 80–110 78–91 100–109 85–103 77–106 97–98 128–121 92–106 97–86
Alaska — 61–77 104–84 81–90 95–100 94–107 97–114 100–107 72–80
B-Meg — — 95–90 96–88 88–83 80–92 110–98* 94–100* 72–89
Barako Bull — — — 91–102 81-79 111–107 106–101 90–100 89–109
Brgy. Ginebra — — — — 100–73 83–80 83–86 90–93 111–113
Meralco — — — — — 88–101 91–78 77–81 105–99
Petron Blaze — — — — — — 97–83 82–103 87–102
Powerade — — — — — — — 104–98 110–105
Rain or Shine — — — — — — — — 92–90
Talk 'N Text — — — — — — — — —

      Win
      OT Win
      Loss
      OT Loss

6th-seed playoffs

  First round
July 3, Araneta		     Second round
July 4, Araneta
                 
     Meralco Bolts 94
   Barako Bull Energy 95      Powerade Tigers 86
   Powerade Tigers 99  

Semifinals

Team standings

 z  – clinched outright finals,  y  – clinched finals berth playoff,  x  – clinched 4-of-5 win playoff incentive,  e  – eliminated

2012 PBA Governors Cup semifinals
# Team Cumulative SF Tie* PO
W L PCT GB W L
1 z – Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 10 4 .692 — 2 3
2 y – B-Meg Llamados 9 5 .643 1 3 2 +20
3 x – Barangay Ginebra Kings 9 5 .643 1 4 1 −20
4 e – Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 8 6 .571 2 3 2
5 e – Petron Blaze Boosters 6 8 .429 4 1 4 +12
6 e – Meralco Bolts 6 8 .429 4 2 3 −12

*Point differential on games among tied teams, and if still tied, overall point differential.

Schedule

Teams12345
B-Meg TNT PBB MER BGK ROS
Brgy. Ginebra MER PBB ROS BMEG TNT
Meralco BGK ROS TNT BMEG PBB
Petron Blaze ROS BGK BMEG TNT MER
Rain or Shine PBB MER BGK TNT BMEG
Talk 'N Text BMEG MER PBB ROS BGK

      Win
      Loss

Results

Team BMEG BGK MERPBBROSTNT
B-Meg 82–70 101–104 104–93 82–92 94–91
Brgy. Ginebra 89–76 87–85 95–86 73–71
Meralco 113–112 86–99 84–108
Petron Blaze 90–88 94–103
Rain or Shine 90–98
Talk 'N Text

      Win
      Loss

Finals berth playoff

Finals

Main article: 2012 PBA Governors' Cup Finals
August 5
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 83, B-Meg Llamados 76
Rain or Shine wins series, 4–3

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 are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the entire conference.

Team Name Debuted Last game Record
Air21 Express Zach Graham May 23 (vs. Ginebra) June 29 (vs. Petron Blaze) 2-7
Alaska Aces Jason Forte May 20 (vs. Rain or Shine) June 27 (vs. Air21) 2-7
B-Meg Llamados Marqus Blakely May 25 (vs. Rain or Shine) August 5 (vs. Rain or Shine) 13-9
Barako Bull Energy Jamine Peterson May 25 (vs. Powerade) June 1 (vs. B-Meg) 1-2
LeRoy Hickerson June 8 (vs. Petron Blaze) July 3 (vs. Powerade) 3-3
Barangay Ginebra Kings Cedric Bozeman May 23 (vs. Air21) July 20 (vs. B-Meg) 9-6
Meralco Bolts Champ Oguchi May 23 (vs. Talk 'N Text) June 6 (vs. B-Meg) 2-3
Mario West June 10 (vs. Alaska) July 15 (vs. Petron Blaze) 5-5
Petron Blaze Boosters Eddie Basden May 20 (vs. Powerade) June 29 (vs. Air21) 5-4
Marcus Faison July 6 (vs. Rain or Shine) July 15 (vs. Meralco) 1-4
Powerade Tigers Rashad McCants May 20 (vs. Petron Blaze) May 25 (vs. Barako Bull) 0-2
Omar Sneed June 1 (vs. Alaska) July 4 (vs. Meralco) 5-4
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters Jamelle Cornley May 20 (vs. Alaska) August 5 (vs. B-Meg) 14-7
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters Paul Harris May 23 (vs. Meralco) July 18 (vs. Ginebra) 8-6

Awards

Conference

Players of the Week

Week Player Ref.
May 20–27 Paul Lee (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) [2]
May 28 - June 3 Gary David (Powerade Tigers) [3]
June 4–10 Gary David (Powerade Tigers) [4]
June 11–17 Jay Washington (Petron Blaze Boosters) [5]
June 18–24 Jayson Castro (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters) [6]
June 25 - July 1 Paul Lee (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) [7]
July 2–8 Mark Caguioa (Barangay Ginebra Kings) [8]
July 9–15 Marc Pingris (B-Meg Llamados) [9]
July 16–22 Jeffrei Chan (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) [10]

References

  1. ↑ PBA reverts to old-school format for 2012 Governors’ Cup, InterAKTV, May 19, 2012
  2. ↑ ANOTHER SIZZLING START FOR ROOKIE LEE, PBA.ph, May 28, 2012
  3. ↑ HARD WORK TRULY PAYS OFF, PBA.ph, June 4, 2012
  4. ↑ FIERY PACE, PBA.ph, June 11, 2012
  5. ↑ RECOVERY ROUTE, PBA.ph, June 18, 2012
  6. ↑ 'THE BLUR' DAZZLES TNT FOES, PBA.ph, June 25, 2012
  7. ↑ LEE GUIDING E-PAINTERS TO SCALE NEW HEIGHTS, PBA.ph, July 2, 2012
  8. ↑ THE SPARK SHOWING KINGS THE WAY, PBA.ph, July 9, 2012
  9. ↑ EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE FOR LLAMADOS, PBA.ph, July 16, 2012
  10. ↑ FROM PURE GUNNER TO ALL-AROUND PLAYER, PBA.ph, July 23, 2012

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