Tabla! Texters fight back

Catch him if you can!

Talk about having the heart of champions-- the Talk 'n' Text Tropang Texters survived a scintillating, throwback James Yap performance behind the exploits of their own MVP-caliber player Jayson "The Blur" Castro.

Of course, there's also the dominant performance by blue collar Texters import Donnel Harvey who more than held his own against the Llamados' young giant Denzel Bowles who made a couple of crucial errors in the closing seconds-- passing the ball to the wrong guy, missing a free throw and deciding to make the 2nd one when they were down 3 and so on. Just the kind of mistakes you'd expect a 22-year-old to make on the biggest stage of them all.

Back to Castro, and how the "Man with a Million Injuries" kept the Texters in the fight in the 4th quarter when the Llamados were up by four-five points. Man-for-man, the Llamados have a good 6-7 man rotation with two legit scorers in Yap and buddy PJ Simon while the Texters have Castro, Ranidel de Ocampo and at times, Jimmy Alapag within a solid 10 man rotation.