PBA GovCup Finals: Rain or Shine wins without Paul Lee

No Lee means more
ball time for Chan

Save for a few tense moments, the Rain or Shine Elastopainters hacked off a morale-boosting win over the BMeg Llamados in tonight's sleeper of a Game 3.

With star rookie point guard Paul Lee out due to a dislocated shoulder, the "other guys" took the ball and literally ran away with it. Jireh Ibanes, a defensive specialist by trade, buried most of his shots from all over the court in the first quarter. Then came Ryan Arana, Ronjay Buenafe and Beau Belga. TY Tang had his dumb moments but not enough to lose the game as well.

Credit has to go to Coach Yeng Guiao for trusting his boys when they were down early going into the second quarter. The Llamados were even able to stretch the lead a bit, but the fiery mentor didn't bat an eyelash or flinch even-- opting to ride it out when it looked like all the Llamados needed to do was keep trapping Tang midcourt and wait for him to dribble off his foot or pass it to his own bench.