2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup

2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup
Duration March 5, 2014 - May 15, 2014
TV partner(s) Sports5
Local: TV5
International : AksyonTV International, Fox Sports
Finals
Champions San Mig Super Coffee Mixers
Runners-up Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters
Awards
Best Player Jayson Castro
(Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters)
Best Import Richard Howell
(Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters)
Finals MVP James Yap
(San Mig Super Coffee Mixers)
PBA Commissioner's Cup chronology
PBA conference chronology

The 2014 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2014 PLDT Home TVolution-PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the second conference of the 2013–14 PBA season. The tournament started on March 5, 2014 and finished on May 15, 2014. The tournament allows teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6'11" for the bottom two of the last conference, and a limit of 6'9" for other teams.[1]

Format

The following format was observed for the duration of the conference:

Elimination round

Team standings

 y  – clinched twice to beat in the quarterfinals,  x  – clinched best-of-3 quarterfinals,  w  – clinched twice to win in the quarterfinals,  e  – eliminated

2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup
# Team W L PCT GB Tie
1 yTalk 'N Text Tropang Texters 9 0 1.000
2 ySan Miguel Beermen 7 2 .778 2
3 xAlaska Aces 6 3 .667 3
4 xRain or Shine Elasto Painters 5 4 .556 4 1.22
5 xMeralco Bolts 5 4 .556 4 0.82
6 xSan Mig Super Coffee Mixers 4 5 .444 5
7 wAir21 Express 3 6 .333 6 1.02
8 wBarangay Ginebra San Miguel 3 6 .333 6 0.98
9 eBarako Bull Energy 2 7 .222 7
10 eGlobalPort Batang Pier 1 8 .111 8

Schedule

Teams123456789
Air21 GP TNT BBE ALA MER BGSM SMSC ROS SMB
Alaska TNT GP MER ROS A21 SMB BBE BGSM SMSC
Barako Bull BGSM ROS A21 TNT SMB SMSC ALA MER GP
Brgy. Ginebra BBE SMB SMSC GP TNT A21 MER ALA ROS
GlobalPort A21 ALA SMSC MER BGSM SMB ROS TNT BBE
Meralco SMB ALA GP TNT A21 ROS BGSM BBE SMSC
Rain or Shine BBE ALA SMB SMSC MER GP TNT A21 BGSM
San Miguel MER BGSM TNT ROS BBE GP ALA SMSC A21
San Mig Super Coffee GP BGSM ROS BBE TNT A21 SMB MER ALA
Talk 'N Text ALA A21 SMB BBE MER BGSM SMSC ROS GP

      Win
      Loss

Results

Team A21 ALA BBEBGSMGPMERROSSMBSMSCTNT
Air21 78–88 103–85 97–95 83–78 98–109 82–87 85–93 84–97 91–95
Alaska 78–71 83–73 93–77 76–85 78–92 89–78 85–66 72–85
Barako Bull 104–108* 96–98 98–105 110–106 100–106 92–90 96–101
Brgy. Ginebra 113–107 88–78 101–105* 96–112 80–90 87–94
GlobalPort 99–104 75–99 92–109 75–91 91–92
Meralco 79–96 76–94 88–78 68–91
Rain or Shine 107–112 74–91 82–85
San Miguel 97–88 99–107
San Mig Super Coffee 75–81
Talk 'N Text

      Win
      OT Win
      Loss
      OT Loss

Bracket

  Quarterfinals     Semifinals
(Best-of-5)
    Finals
(Best-of-5)
    (#1 twice to beat)                        
  1  Talk 'N Text 97    
  8  Barangay Ginebra 84    
            1  Talk 'N Text 3    
    (Best-of-3)       4  Rain or Shine 0  
  4  Rain or Shine 2  
  5  Meralco 1    
    1  Talk 'N Text 1
    (#2 twice-to-beat)     6  San Mig Coffee 3
  2  San Miguel 79 95  
  7  Air21 92 101**  
            7  Air21 2
    (Best-of-3)     6  San Mig Coffee 3    
  3  Alaska 1  
  6  San Mig Coffee 2    

**double overtime

Quarterfinals

Talk 'N Text vs. Barangay Ginebra

April 22
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 97, Barangay Ginebra San Miguel 84
Talk 'N Text wins series in one game

San Miguel vs. Air21

April 25
San Miguel Beermen 95, Air21 Express 101 (2OT)
Air21 wins series in two games

Alaska-San Mig Super Coffee series

April 26
Alaska Aces 65, San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 79
San Mig Super Coffee wins series, 2–1

Rain or Shine-Meralco series

April 26
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 97, Meralco Bolts 96 (OT)
Rain or Shine wins series, 2–1

Semifinals

Talk 'N Text-Rain or Shine series

San Mig Super Coffee-Air21 series

May 7
San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 99, Air21 Express 83
San Mig Super Coffee wins series, 3–2

Finals

May 15
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 91, San Mig Super Coffee Mixers 100
San Mig Super Coffee wins series, 3–1

Awards

Conference

Players of the Week

Week Player Ref.
March 5–9 Jayson Castro (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters) [2]
March 10–16 Ian Sangalang (San Mig Super Coffee Mixers) [3]
March 17–23 Ranidel de Ocampo (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters) [4]
April 14–20 Paul Lee (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) [5]
April 21–27 Asi Taulava (Air21 Express)
Sean Anthony (Air21 Express)
[6]
April 28 – May 4 Ryan Reyes (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters) [7]

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 whole conference.

Team Name Debuted Last game Record
Air21 Express Hervé Lamizana March 5 (vs. GlobalPort) March 17 (vs. Alaska) 2–2
Wesley Witherspoon March 23 (vs. Meralco) May 7 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) 5–7
Alaska Aces Robert Dozier March 5 (vs. Talk 'N Text) April 26 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) 7–5
Barako Bull Energy Joshua Dollard March 7 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) April 13 (vs. GlobalPort) 2–7
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Leon Rodgers March 7 (vs. Barako Bull) March 26 (vs. Air21) 2–4
Josh Powell April 2 (vs. Meralco) April 13 (vs. Alaska) 1–1
Gabe Freeman [8] April 20 (vs. Rain or Shine) April 22 (vs. Talk 'N Text) 0–2
GlobalPort Batang Pier Evan Brock March 5 (vs. Air21) April 13 (vs. Barako Bull) 1–8
Meralco Bolts Brian Butch March 7 (vs. San Miguel) March 26 (vs. Rain or Shine) 3–3
Darnell Jackson April 2 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) April 26 (vs. Rain or Shine) 3–3
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters Alexander McLean March 9 (vs. Barako Bull) March 26 (vs. Meralco) 2–3
Wayne Chism March 31 (vs. GlobalPort) May 2 (vs. Talk 'N Text) 5–5
San Mig Super Coffee Mixers James Mays March 12 (vs. GlobalPort) May 15 (vs. Talk 'N Text) 12–7
No Import April 14 (vs. Meralco) 0–2
San Miguel Beermen Josh Boone March 7 (vs. Meralco) March 9 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) 2–0
Kevin Jones March 14 (vs. Talk 'N Text) April 25 (vs. Air21) 5–4
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters Richard Howell March 5 (vs. Alaska) May 15 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) 13–3
No Import April 11 (vs. GlobalPort) 1–0

References

  1. http://pba.inquirer.net/
  2. SOLID START, PBA.inquirer.net, March 11, 2014
  3. FEARLESS ROOKIE, PBA.inquirer.net, March 17, 2014
  4. TNT’S ROCK, PBA.inquirer.net, March 25, 2014
  5. “LEE-THAL” PERFORMANCE, PBA.inquirer.net, April 21, 2014
  6. AWESOME TWOSOME, PBA.inquirer.net, April 28, 2014
  7. ‘ENERGIZER’ SHOOTS LIGHTS OUT IN SEMIS, PBA.inquirer.net, May 5, 2014
  8. Badua, Snow. "Ginebra bringing in Gabe Freeman in bid to salvage campaign after Josh Powell exit". SPIN.ph. Retrieved 14 April 2014.

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