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Game today

Araneta Coliseum

6:45 p.m.- B-Meg vs. Talk N Text

Making it to the championship round for five straight conferences including three title runs, no one can really blame the Talk N Text Tropang Texters if they look tired in the ongoing 37th PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals.

Do they still have enough gas to keep up with the B-Meg Llamados? Even Talk N Text head coach Chot Reyes is already starting to doubt whether his team still has the legs to prolong the series as the Texters try to force what could be a heart-pounding Game Seven when they play the Llamados in today’s Game Six of their best-of-seven titular showdown at the Araneta Coliseum.

“Sometimes, you’ve got to know when there’s still something left. Baka naman wala na talaga,” Reyes told pba.ph. “The way we’re playing, it’s dubious. We play well one game, then absent the next game. We need to think hard about our desire to win the series,” Reyes added.

B-Meg needs just one more win to end a two-year title drought after grabbing a 3-2 series lead via an, 82-66 rout in last Wednesday’s Game Five.

Talk N Text has showed it can extricate itself from a big trouble by overhauling a 1-3 series deficit in their semifinal series against the Petron Blaze Boosters en route to winning the Philippine Cup title. Talk N Text also had to rally from a 1-2 series deficit against the Barako Bull Energy in the semis of this conference to advance to the Finals.

However, Reyes believes his team is in a different situation now.

“Against Petron, we were fresh because it was only the start of the season, which is why we managed to come back and win the series. Against Barako Bull, we were up against a team not as deep and as talented as this B-Meg squad,” said Reyes.

Fatigue factor maybe an issue now for the Texters but for B-Meg coach Tim Cone, nothing is sure yet.

“It’s still anybody’s game at this point and the pressure is on us to close it out,” said Cone.

Cone said the battle will boil down to who wants it more.

“What’s the difference between two evenly-matched teams battling it out in the finals? It’s about effort. This series has been won basically on effort,” said Cone, who is gunning for his 14th title as a PBA coach.