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NAGING emosyonal ang bagitong PBA coach na si Nash Racela sa kanyang post -game interview matapos ang naging panalo ng kanyang koponang Talk N Text kontra Ginebra, 120-109, nitong Sabado series-clincher Game Four sa OPPO-PBA Commissioner’s Cup semifinals.
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“The whole game, I had this with me — my notes,” pahayag ni Racela habang pigil ang pagluha.
“It’s just two things, Number One: ‘Not the numbers that matter, but the Lord’s hand in favor of us.’ I know we’re going into this game facing a Ginebra crowd and lahat nung favor is on them. But it’s the Lord’s favor that matters."
“The other thing that says here, ‘In the Lord’s presence, there’s fullness of joy.’ The whole game, especially when Ginebra was making a run in the third quarter, it’s all that I was thinking. I know that it’s always the Lord who has control over everything. He’s sovereign.”
Ibinibigay ng dating Far Eastern University Tamaraws head coach ang lahat ng kredito sa Lumikha na aniya'y gumabay sa kanya at sa buong koponan para umabot ng Finals.
“Kaya dun sa game, alam ko, as long as we do the right things, we commit to things that we really need to do, good things will happen. And in the end, we survived Ginebra,” aniya.
“I feel today, just us keeping our focus and our composure, that really helped us a lot today.”
