Seems like I somehow found the answer to my recent post The Yips. The Cool Cat, Mike Salonga Cortez is not missing — he’s in the Big Dome!
The Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings are now on a tear with 5-game killing spree and guess who’s the starrer of its last three victories?
Cool as an ice, quick as a cat as what Mico Halili describes him, Cortez lives up to his name as he leads the surging Ginebra to a 9-5 record to end the elims. Averaging 16.0 points, 6.7 rebounds 3.7 assists and 55.5% from the arc (14.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 53.5% from the arc during the 5-game winning stretch), the Cool Cat was named Best Player of the Game in the last three victories by the Gin Kings; and for that, I’ll shave my head if Mike doesn’t win the Player of the Week award.
Donning his jersey number 11 once again, Cortez played the past week like it’s still 2001. He’s scoring, rebounding, assisting, blocking, stealing, name it and he has the stat sheet to prove it. What’s more amazing is he doesn’t need to score 25-40 points to grab a BPG honor. I just hope Jay-jay Helterbrand pursue his plan to retire after this season to fully hand Mike his well-deserved playing time.
Cortez and the Kings will face blue chip rookie Paul Lee and the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters in a Best-of-Three quarterfinals.
So the Cool Cat is found, while the Rainman is still lost. But I don’t need any rain right now, this is more than enough to keep my cool.
JEFFY 101 