MANILA, Philippines—Hong Kong Jap’s Cameron Clark confirmed his familiarity with the league within the squad’s slender victory over Converge within the PBA Commissioner’s Cup at Ninoy Aquino Stadium on Friday evening.
Dealing with a loaded FiberXers squad, Clark performed like a person amongst boys in Jap’s 117-106 win over Converge.
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Going up in opposition to a squad who additionally received their first task within the import-laden convention, Clark needed to “lead by instance” and he did simply that to energy the Hong Kong squad to an undefeated begin after two outings.
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“I’m simply making an attempt to guide by instance. I’ve been right here a pair instances and my guys are new to this however they’ll play arduous. I really feel like, so long as I lead by instance, everyone’s going to fall in line,” mentioned Clark.
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“I really feel like we’re an ideal group, we’ll hold preventing and we’ll hold constructing our chemistry.”
Clark muscled his approach to a dominant double-double of 39 factors and 15 rebounds constructed on an environment friendly 62.5 p.c subject objective clip.
Clark’s counterpart within the Converge camp Cheick Diallo outscored him with 43 factors and 9 rebounds but it surely was the previous San Miguel Beer import who had the final chuckle on the buzzer.
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Nonetheless, it wasn’t simply Clark who pushed Jap to the win as former Bay Space Dragons Hayden Blankley, Glen Yang and Kobey Lam scored 21, 19 and 14, respectively.
“We’ve a number of guys who can shoot the ball and create and I believe coach (Mensur Bajramovic) places us in the fitting positions to make performs and I really feel like we did job right now in sharing the ball, penetrating, passing and pulling down photographs,” Clark mentioned.
Bajramovic, alternatively, emphasised the significance of Clark alongside Blankley, Lam and Yang, who’ve all had their style of PBA motion prior to now.
“[They’re] crucial. They convey us quite a bit. What’s additionally necessary is they’re good individuals, good guys and nice gamers. I’m making an attempt to look into the long run they usually’re there,” mentioned Bajramovic.
“What is essential is they’re doing nicely collectively [with Clark] they usually’re making an attempt to work collectively and that’s a very powerful factor. Errors are allowed, in fact,” he added.