{"id":334159,"date":"2026-05-13T21:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=334159"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:56:58","slug":"meralco-must-attack-early-vs-magnolia-says-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/meralco-must-attack-early-vs-magnolia-says-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"Meralco must attack early vs Magnolia, says Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meralco Bolts\u2019 Chris Newsome and Javee Mocon during a game against Magnolia Hotshots within the 2026 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup quarterfinals. \u2013MARLO CUETO\/INQUIRER.net<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

MANILA, Philippines\u2014Former Meralco import Allen Durham was in attendance for the Bolts\u2019 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup quarterfinals game against Magnolia.<\/p>\n

His watch party, nonetheless, didn’t have the comfortable ending he had hoped for as fifth seed Magnolia escaped with a 95-89 win at Ninoy Aquino Stadium to force a do-or-die game for a semifinals berth.<\/p>\n

Having been in the identical situation before during his stint with the Bolts, Durham knows what the Bolts must do for his or her rubber match against the Hotshots.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel they only have to return out and play aggressive from the beginning,\u201d he told the Inquirer at Ninoy Aquino Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel them constructing back up took a lot energy, so once it got all the way down to the last three minutes, they’d already spent a lot energy trying to return back into the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meralco trailed by as many as 19 points before storming back and trimming the deficit to at least one late within the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

However the Bolts ran out of steam within the closing minutes, allowing Magnolia to remain alive within the series.<\/p>\n

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One player who struggled for Meralco was import Marvin Jones, who finished with 16 points and 6 rebounds while shooting just 3-of-15 from the sphere.<\/p>\n

Despite the rough shooting night, Durham still believed Jones did his part.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel he played pretty good. He just missed shots that he normally makes. He had a pair bunnies but when those bunnies fall, it\u2019ll be a very different game,\u201d Durham said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Meralco Bolts\u2019 Chris Newsome and Javee Mocon during a game against Magnolia Hotshots within the 2026 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup quarterfinals. \u2013MARLO CUETO\/INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines\u2014Former Meralco import Allen Durham was in attendance for the Bolts\u2019 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup quarterfinals game against Magnolia. His watch party, nonetheless, didn’t have the comfortable ending he had hoped for as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[6727,10646,2591,2439,1589],"class_list":["post-334159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-attack","tag-durham","tag-early","tag-magnolia","tag-meralco"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334159","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=334159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334162,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334159\/revisions\/334162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}