San Miguel Beer forward Arwind Santos couldn’t help but put into humor his verbal exchange with TNT KaTropa import Terrence Jones during Game 4 of the PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals.
Jones figured in another heated exchange Sunday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum when he shouted at Santos after being fouled with 6:47 remaining in the fourth quarter of the contest won by the Beermen, 106-101.
The Best Import winner shouted at Santos so loud that it was heard during the television broadcast.
“Pinaamoy lang niya hininga niya sa akin,” said Santos. “Amoy Amerika; amoy burger.”
(“He just let me smell his breath. His breath smells like America; his breath smells like burger.”)
“Ganun talaga pagka-minsan nagkakainitan. Gulatan lang naman kung sino. Anu lang part lang ng game yun. Kaya lang mas malakas siyang bumuga kesa sa akin,” added Santos.
Santos was the latest SMB player to play mind games with Jones after Chris Ross and Christian Standhardinger have spent most of the series trying to get into his skin.
The former Most Valuable Player echoed what Ross said earlier in the Finals of trying to see if Jones finally throws a fit.
But Santos concedes that Jones is just too good at keeping his composure.
“Ano rin siya umiiwas din sa mga taunting. At saka yung mga tinginan ng mata sa mata, ayaw niya e. Marunong din,” he said. “Anu lang pag may mga ganung scenario, sinasamantala namin. Tinitignan namin kung sino mapipikon.”
(“He’s good at trying to avoid getting into taunting incidents. But we keep trying to take advantage of those kind of scenarios to see which player loses his cool.”)
-JONAS TERRADO
