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| The modern day Meneses-Duremdes? |
So who’s better—the two-time Most Valuable and now de facto (after a series of trades and releases) franchise player James Yap or vastly underrated and once “Super Sub,” “Scoring Apostle” Peter June Simon?
In case you haven’t been paying much attention to the BMeg Llamados of late and have only seen them in their successful PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals Game 1 campaign, Simon has quickly overtaken Yap in terms of doing more for his team—say, putting up the points because defense can only do so much at day’s end.
That’s not to say that Yap has been coasting this season—he’s playing arguably the most complete basketball game we’ve seen of him to date by moving without the ball, rebounding and looking for the open man. Before, Yap would get his assists by simply stopping up top and looking for cutters. These days, he makes solid to good kick-out passes while being on the move himself which creates for a more difficult cover for opponents.
