Time will tell for injured Romeo

Terrence Romeo continues to sit and wait to be served.

As of today, there is no timetable for the return of the GlobalPort Batang Pier superstar in the ongoing PBA Philippine Cup as he nurses his knee injury, missing two games already.

GlobalPort team manager Bonnie Tan said yesterday that the 5-foot-11 Romeo is still recovering from a knee contusion that sidelined him late in the Governors’ Cup last season.

“Wala pa eh, he’s still recovering,” said Tan. “Siguro day-to-day ang status ni Terrence, so we’ll just wait for his return.”

Everything apparently would depend on how the 25-year-old playmaker feels and how comfortable he is returning to action.

The injury has forced the former Far Eastern University stalwart to drop out of Gilas Pilipinas’ training pool at the start of the FIBA Asia qualifier for the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China, absent in the country’s victories over Japan and Taiwan.

Gilas head coach Chot Reyes resumed practice last Monday for the second window of the qualifiers next month against Australia and Japan, with Romeo not among the players on the list.

Now on his fifth year in the pros Romeo won the PBA’s scoring title during the 2016-17 season after he averaged 23.3 points – the third straight time he led the league in that category after Gary David, the scoring champion from 2010 to 2013.

Without the ball-dribbling impresario calling the shots, GlobalPort has dropped its first two games in the Philippine Cup. The Batang Pier lost to the NLEX Road Warriors on Christmas Day, 115-104, and against reigning Governors’ Cup champion Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, 104-97, last Sunday.

GlobalPort was playing Rain or Shine at presstime at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena in Pasay City.