Pogoy shrugs off nerves to get career best in first PBA Finals trip
Roger Pogoy was a bundle of nerves heading into his first finals game in the PBA.
After all, despite his reputation as big-time shotmaker, he’s just a 24-year-old rookie playing in the grandest stage against the most dominant team in the league today.
“Honestly, I was really nervous,” the TNT swingman Pogoy told INQUIRER.net in Filipino after helping the KaTropa take Game 1 of the 2017 Commissioner’s Cup Finals with a 104-102 win over the San Miguel Beermen. “But my coaches and teammates gave me a lot of confidence and once I hit the court, I felt different.”
True enough, there wasn’t a trace of anxiousness the way Pogoy played and it felt as if he had been in the league for quite some time.
It’s rare for a rookie who claims to be nervous to still put up career-high 27 points, 13 in the fourth quarter, built on five 3-pointers, which goes to show Pogoy breathes rarefied air.
Pogoy said he just repaid the coaches’ faith in him and coach Nash Racela response to a reporter’s question regarding his guard’s career performance proves how much the team believes in the former Far Eastern University star’s capabilities.
Source: http://sports.inquirer.net/253108/pba-finals-tnt-pogoy-shrugs-off-nerves-notch-career-best
After all, despite his reputation as big-time shotmaker, he’s just a 24-year-old rookie playing in the grandest stage against the most dominant team in the league today.
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| RR Pogoy. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.net |
True enough, there wasn’t a trace of anxiousness the way Pogoy played and it felt as if he had been in the league for quite some time.
It’s rare for a rookie who claims to be nervous to still put up career-high 27 points, 13 in the fourth quarter, built on five 3-pointers, which goes to show Pogoy breathes rarefied air.
Pogoy said he just repaid the coaches’ faith in him and coach Nash Racela response to a reporter’s question regarding his guard’s career performance proves how much the team believes in the former Far Eastern University star’s capabilities.
Source: http://sports.inquirer.net/253108/pba-finals-tnt-pogoy-shrugs-off-nerves-notch-career-best
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