Murphy says defense will see Beermen through

SAN Miguel Beer import Kevin Murphy said that defense is the key for the Beermen to enter the playoff round of Season 43 Philippine Basketball

“Last week, we had a great week in practice before our last game. We focused so well on our defensive schemes. We played great team defense in our last game and that’s one of the reasons that we won,” Murphy told

in a phone interview. San Miguel Beer is struggling with a 3- 4 win- loss record but Murphy believes that they could still sweep their last four matches in the elimination round against TNT KaTropa, Northport, Rain or Shine and Meralco.

“We just have to keep playing together on the defensive side and the offense is going to come. We have to score but stop the other team from scoring,” added the former Utah Jazz and Orlando Magic shooting guard, who is averaging 36 points, 9.3 rebounds and 4.6 assists in three games since replacing Arizona Reid as import.

San Miguel Beer is coming from 117- 100 win over Phoenix on Friday behind Murphy’s 26 points and seven rebounds. Murphy stressed that San Miguel Beer could become a champion again, - ernors’ Cup in 2015.

chance to go deeper into playoffs and just win it all. Everybody else on the team feels the same way and keeps the energy going forward to get more wins. We’ll come and get it toward the playoffs,” Murphy added.