Cone: Ginebra needs to play a lot whole better to be at par with San Miguel

AWe need two more wins to defend the title," said San Miguel coach Leo Austria.

But Austria said they could indeed draw tremendous boost and energy from their 134-109 rout in Game Two followed by a 132-94 demolition job in Game Three.

"It's just one game (lead) but we have an advantage going to the next game. In this condition, it's hard to be nasa ilalim. We're on top and I hope these blowouts could serve us a morale-booster or confidence," said Austria.

"What I want to impress to my players is this is just one game, so yung overconfidence hindi kailangan mag-set in," Austria added.

Ginebra coach Tim Cone, meanwhile, is trying to rebuild his team's confidence.

"SMB tore our hearts and demoralized us. A truly great performance by them on both sides of the ball. We were simply embarrassed. I was embarrassed. The bottom line, though, we still have to remember that it's a seven-game series, and the score is only 2-1," said Cone.

"Needless to say, however, we need to find a way to play a whole lot better to reach their level. That's our challenge," Cone added.

The Beermen were simply overpowering in the last two games.

Brownlee and Balkman were engaged in a good showdown, but the San Miguel locals were far superior against their GSM counterparts.

Fajardo was dominant in the shaded lane, Alex Cabagnot, Chris Ross, Marcio Lassiter and Arwind Santos were delivering tremendous firepower from the outside while even Balkman and Christian Standhardinger could run with the team in their crisp passing and dizzying fastbreak attacks.

The Kings had no answer on all those SMB offensives.

In fact, outside Brownlee, only Mark Caguioa produced a doubledigit output with 12.

Thus, Cone could only give a short statement after the game. "They're too good for us," said Cone.(SB) -