{"id":325038,"date":"2026-04-27T00:45:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=325038"},"modified":"2026-04-27T00:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:15:01","slug":"converge-coach-not-surprised-by-donovan-smith-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/converge-coach-not-surprised-by-donovan-smith-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Converge coach not surprised by Donovan Smith performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"FOR_target_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_673741\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-673741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Converge import Donovan Smith shoots a jumper against Phoenix within the PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup.\u2013PBA IMAGES<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014Donovan Smith hasn\u2019t played within the PBA for a couple of yr. Yet, in his return within the Commissioner\u2019s Cup\u2014with a brand new team\u2014it gave the look of he didn\u2019t miss a single beat.<\/p>\n<p>Smith led Converge to a 130-103 rout of his former team, Phoenix on Sunday at Araneta Coliseum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p>His performance didn\u2019t surprise FiberXers coach Delta Pineda.<\/p>\n<h4>READ: PBA: Converge steamrolls import-less Phoenix<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cHe already has his experience with our league so it wasn\u2019t an issue for him to play with us here in Converge,\u201d Pineda said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith replaced Kylor Kelley as Converge\u2019s import. The move was made official just a couple of days before their game against the Fuel Masters.<\/p>\n<p>In his return, Smith gave his former team all varieties of trouble with a double-double of 32 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ztoop\">\n<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i>\t\t  <\/p><\/div>\n<h4>READ: PBA: Converge taps ex-Phoenix import Donovan Smith<\/h4>\n<p>Despite his numbers, though, Smith said he has more work to be done as a way to help the FiberXers reach the Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just my first game with these guys but we\u2019ll do some more work together and get more Ws,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith goals to indicate more of what he\u2019s able to when Converge takes on second seed NLEX on Saturday at Ninoy Aquino Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converge import Donovan Smith shoots a jumper against Phoenix within the PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup.\u2013PBA IMAGES MANILA, Philippines\u2014Donovan Smith hasn\u2019t played within the PBA for a couple of yr. Yet, in his return within the Commissioner\u2019s Cup\u2014with a brand new team\u2014it gave the look of he didn\u2019t miss a single beat. Smith led Converge to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[835,2750,2407,3467,2156,8346],"class_list":["post-325038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-coach","tag-converge","tag-donovan","tag-performance","tag-smith","tag-surprised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325041,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325038\/revisions\/325041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}