2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup

[Golftech]

There seems to be no major movement on the line, so I'm expecting this as a close game.

In my sportsbook now, TNT is -2.5 against the Meralco and my team here is the underdog, however, it doesn't matter as it's the correct line.
Locals should work hard in this game and give their best to achieve a wonderful gift this Christmas and my wish is for the Meralco to win.

If you bet for meralco then congrats. They sure are a handful for TNT and they made sure to make it to the finals. I think parks is not matured enough to carry his team and choke on the championship minutes of the game. Anyways we are not going to the finals with meralco vs Ginebra. What's would be your thoughts about this match-up?

Asking most Filipino crowds, surely it will favored GSM knowing how fans love them to see playing at the finals. Regarding to stats both have good and well determine imports so for sure the game will depend with locals productions and great game-play from both veterans and well known coaches. Since this two teams came from rival companies so expect to see much longer series.

[Finestream]

There seems to be no major movement on the line, so I'm expecting this as a close game.

In my sportsbook now, TNT is -2.5 against the Meralco and my team here is the underdog, however, it doesn't matter as it's the correct line.
Locals should work hard in this game and give their best to achieve a wonderful gift this Christmas and my wish is for the Meralco to win.

If you bet for meralco then congrats. They sure are a handful for TNT and they made sure to make it to the finals. I think parks is not matured enough to carry his team and choke on the championship minutes of the game. Anyways we are not going to the finals with meralco vs Ginebra. What's would be your thoughts about this match-up?

Asking most Filipino crowds, surely it will favored GSM knowing how fans love them to see playing at the finals. Regarding to stats both have good and well determine imports so for sure the game will depend with locals productions and great game-play from both veterans and well known coaches. Since this two teams came from rival companies so expect to see much longer series.

The ranking of the PH team does not change a lot, the top teams are coming from the SMB corporation, TOP 1 is SMB, Top 2 is Ginebra SMB.
If both SMB face each other, maybe Ginebra will not be the favorites but since they face the Meralco Bolts, they sure are the favorites to win this game.
Ginebra have bigs that can defend the paint, it will be hard for Meralco to make it a slow pace game as they don't have the advantage.
Therefore, IMO, they should make it a fast pace game so Ginebra will not be able to use Greg Slaughter against them.

[Ranly123]

There seems to be no major movement on the line, so I'm expecting this as a close game.

In my sportsbook now, TNT is -2.5 against the Meralco and my team here is the underdog, however, it doesn't matter as it's the correct line.
Locals should work hard in this game and give their best to achieve a wonderful gift this Christmas and my wish is for the Meralco to win.

If you bet for meralco then congrats. They sure are a handful for TNT and they made sure to make it to the finals. I think parks is not matured enough to carry his team and choke on the championship minutes of the game. Anyways we are not going to the finals with meralco vs Ginebra. What's would be your thoughts about this match-up?

Asking most Filipino crowds, surely it will favored GSM knowing how fans love them to see playing at the finals. Regarding to stats both have good and well determine imports so for sure the game will depend with locals productions and great game-play from both veterans and well known coaches. Since this two teams came from rival companies so expect to see much longer series.

The commissioner said that game six will be held on Philippine arena. That statement alone can be considered a hint into how long will the series will be. Right now, I am still betting for the PBA but I am also not a fan for this league due to bias commissioning.

[bisdak40]

The commissioner said that game six will be held on Philippine arena. That statement alone can be considered a hint into how long will the series will be. Right now, I am still betting for the PBA but I am also not a fan for this league due to bias commissioning.

Lol, do you have incidents in the PBA in your mind that you think the commissioner's office didn't handle well?

That's only the schedule, of course they will have to put that in advance whether the game will reach game7 or not but going to history of these teams facing in the finals, both series reached game6 so there is a high probability that this series could also take this long. Wipe out in your mind that PBA is a bias league, just watch the games to show support to our local cagers my friend.

[Finestream]

The commissioner said that game six will be held on Philippine arena. That statement alone can be considered a hint into how long will the series will be. Right now, I am still betting for the PBA but I am also not a fan for this league due to bias commissioning.

Lol, do you have incidents in the PBA in your mind that you think the commissioner's office didn't handle well?

That's only the schedule, of course they will have to put that in advance whether the game will reach game7 or not but going to history of these teams facing in the finals, both series reached game6 so there is a high probability that this series could also take this long. Wipe out in your mind that PBA is a bias league, just watch the games to show support to our local cagers my friend.

it's a good hint but it does not mean the game will reach to 6 games because it still defends on how each team will perform in the finals.
However, I agree that fixing games is happening in the PBA, though we can't prove that but we can observe that, so if we are bettors, we should consider that, accept the reality and don't complain.

just be in the right side all the time and you'll win.

[Ranly123]

The commissioner said that game six will be held on Philippine arena. That statement alone can be considered a hint into how long will the series will be. Right now, I am still betting for the PBA but I am also not a fan for this league due to bias commissioning.

Lol, do you have incidents in the PBA in your mind that you think the commissioner's office didn't handle well?

That's only the schedule, of course they will have to put that in advance whether the game will reach game7 or not but going to history of these teams facing in the finals, both series reached game6 so there is a high probability that this series could also take this long. Wipe out in your mind that PBA is a bias league, just watch the games to show support to our local cagers my friend.

Yeah it's only the schedule but why are the first 4-5 games be held on Quezon Convention Center and not on bigger stages? How can the commissioner make sure the games will reach to game 6? If they want to break the previous record of this rivalry, why not held the first four match on a much bigger stages rather than in a smaller venue? All this questions run into my mind to whether or not this finals has already been expected to reach game 6 or 7.

[matchi2011]

The commissioner said that game six will be held on Philippine arena. That statement alone can be considered a hint into how long will the series will be. Right now, I am still betting for the PBA but I am also not a fan for this league due to bias commissioning.

Lol, do you have incidents in the PBA in your mind that you think the commissioner's office didn't handle well?

That's only the schedule, of course they will have to put that in advance whether the game will reach game7 or not but going to history of these teams facing in the finals, both series reached game6 so there is a high probability that this series could also take this long. Wipe out in your mind that PBA is a bias league, just watch the games to show support to our local cagers my friend.

That statement from the commissioners can drive the bettors and fans to think that the series will take that long, though performance based meralco is more than competitive with Durham's dominations. It's interesting since they've defeated TNT from the semis and now facing back the rivalry against the Gin Kings.

[Questat]

That statement from the commissioners can drive the bettors and fans to think that the series will take that long,

Indeed, I hope there's no trap in here.

though performance based meralco is more than competitive with Durham's dominations. It's interesting since they've defeated TNT from the semis and now facing back the rivalry against the Gin Kings.

Meralco has a hard journey compared to the Kings, so expect that people will be betting on the kings to win the series.
I actually like how people undervalued Meralco here, as long as Durham is healthy, they have a chance to win.

[Finestream]

Kings will be the favorites in this game that's for sure, there's no need to debate on who will be the favorite as it's too obvious they will be.
With that, I bet on them in the series by making my participation in the Finals betting in the local section

Here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5212333.msg53434106#msg53434106

I also invite everyone to take a look and let's have some fun, I wasn't able to bet on the semis but I did it in the finals.
Bigger number of participants means bigger pool, that would be exciting.

[bisdak40]

Kings will be the favorites in this game that's for sure, there's no need to debate on who will be the favorite as it's too obvious they will be.
With that, I bet on them in the series by making my participation in the Finals betting in the local section

Kings defeated the Bolts twice already in a championship series so it's a no-brainer that the Kings would be the favorites here once again but we as bettors we should also consider the changes made in the roster of both teams and IMO the Bolts have the advantage of that change. Devance and Ferrer who contributed a lot on those two championships will not play/traded to other team, though Pringle may be a factor but still remain to be seen. Almazan, Maliksi and Quinto are the new faces on the Bolt squad that we should watch out.

[Sanitough]

Almazan, Maliksi and Quinto are the new faces on the Bolt squad that we should watch out.

Exactly, they all contributed to the success of Meralco, and they have hodge who always provide energy in the floor, not a scorer but his defense is something you can count on him. I know this is a tough battle by the Meralco, but as long as they give their best, they might win this series.

@Finestream,, will put our bet after the new year.

[Ranly123]

Kings will be the favorites in this game that's for sure, there's no need to debate on who will be the favorite as it's too obvious they will be.
With that, I bet on them in the series by making my participation in the Finals betting in the local section

Kings defeated the Bolts twice already in a championship series so it's a no-brainer that the Kings would be the favorites here once again but we as bettors we should also consider the changes made in the roster of both teams and IMO the Bolts have the advantage of that change. Devance and Ferrer who contributed a lot on those two championships will not play/traded to other team, though Pringle may be a factor but still remain to be seen. Almazan, Maliksi and Quinto are the new faces on the Bolt squad that we should watch out.

Almazan and Maliksi really contributed to the success of the bolts in this conference. Though I have no trust with Quinto still he is a stellar back up guard. Now the bolts are well balanced team with veterans and young players, I think their chance of winning this championship is higher compared to the previous match up they have against Ginebra.

[Kasabus]

Almazan and Maliksi really contributed to the success of the bolts in this conference.

They should contribute more as they are playing in the finals against a big team, if they wan to win, they need to help Durham.

Though I have no trust with Quinto still he is a stellar back up guard. Now the bolts are well balanced team with veterans and young players, I think their chance of winning this championship is higher compared to the previous match up they have against Ginebra.

Bong Quinto's contribution to the success of the Bolts is big, I will not be surprise if he will get more minutes compared to veterans in the team.
He is young and hungry to win, so he could help a lot to the team.

[Golftech]

Almazan, Maliksi and Quinto are the new faces on the Bolt squad that we should watch out.

Exactly, they all contributed to the success of Meralco, and they have hodge who always provide energy in the floor, not a scorer but his defense is something you can count on him. I know this is a tough battle by the Meralco, but as long as they give their best, they might win this series.

@Finestream,, will put our bet after the new year.

The chance is there to each teams and whoever played dedicatedly might get the trophy.  This matchup is no longer the same since both teams
have new players that have impacts to the entire game plays. They are going to adjust and make new plays to keep the opponents unaware
of the tactics that they will be using to win the game.

[Finestream]

Almazan, Pringle boost interest in Ginebra-Meralco title series

These 2 would certainly add some boost to the Finals, it will be more exciting and I just hope that Almazan will be more careful here not to commit some silly technical fouls or flagrant that would cost the team in the series.

We know how the gins play, they have been in this kind of situation many times and they are more matured that the Meralco.

They'll have another shot for the Championship, so they need to give their very best to stand a chance against the Gins.

Game starts in 1 day and 12 hours from now.

[GreatArkansas]

Does anyone saw already a sportsbook that the game 1 of Meralco vs Ginebra available?
As I checked recently and yesterday, game 1 still not available on Sportsbet.io and Stake.com, don't know why, maybe they will start adding it when it's less than 24hours left to the match?

[Finestream]

Does anyone saw already a sportsbook that the game 1 of Meralco vs Ginebra available?
As I checked recently and yesterday, game 1 still not available on Sportsbet.io and Stake.com, don't know why, maybe they will start adding it when it's less than 24hours left to the match?

Usually for PBA games, they will be available in sportsbook 24 hours or less before the game, so by tomorrow, we can expect that this line is already available. However, to get an idea, we can check on this site.

https://msw.ph/sports/bask/p397303

Somebody has shared that site and I think that's a fiat gambling site in the Philippines, probably a license one.
Based on the site, Ginebra is the favorite to win in the series with 1.56 while bolts is 2.15 now.

[Vaculin]

I thought the line would be up now but unfortunately there's still no line for now.
I save money for PBA gambling but it seems like I'll be able to bet on the NBA since NBA always has an updated early lines.

PBA should try to consider giving lines early so they can get big number of bets, no wonder game fixing in NBA happens a lot because of the whales or sharks that can put big bet to change the line.


MERALCO For game 1 I guess.

[Finestream]

What we are waiting for is finally here, the line is up 

Game 1 line : Meralco +3.5 vs Ginebra.

https://sportsbet.io/sports/event/basketball/philippines/pba-governors-cup/meralco-bolts-barangay-ginebra-5e0583a73c5122e3c42445bd

https://nitrogensports.eu/sport/basketball/philippines-pba-governors-cup

[GreatArkansas]

The game 1 is now available with this odds on Stake sports.
I am not expecting this odss, with that huge favor on Baranggay Ginebra, I was expecting that they will have almost the same odds, well, it's doesn't matter.
Meralco Bolts already proven it against Talkntxt last time before they reach championship.