Petron Blaze Blog Posts

The 2013 PBA Commish Cup Semifinals cast is nearly complete with three teams already advancing after the first whirlwind weekend of the Playoffs went underway. Alaska wasted no time in disposing of Air21 to be the first team to advance, the Texters s...

The elimination round is (finally) done. Two teams have bitten the dust – GlobalPort and Barako Bull – and the brackets are all set! Meralco won a close one against Rain or Shine in OT while Petron throttled past TNT to finalize the quarterfinal...

Quarterfinal positioning is getting nasty as the Elims wind up in the 2013 PBA Commish Cup. Allein Maliksi stepped up as the Energy Colasupended the Batang Pier. In Saturday’s curtain-raiser, Air21 beat Petron, 95-91, in overtime. In this...

The Batang Pier became the first team officially eliminated from Playoff contention, while the Kings and Boosters remain tied at third spot. The Texters also gained some ground this past weekend, while the Aces continued to lead the entire league at...

The Aces and Mixers made roaring comebacks, the Gin Kings won their fifth straight, and Eric Dawson dumped 57 big ones this past week in the 2013 PBA Commish Cup. Wednesday saw Meralco beat Petron, 102-92. As a team, the Bolts shot better than 50%...

Alaska and Rain or Shine remained firmly entrenched on top of the heap with wins this past Holy Week. Meanwhile, Meralco remained in the middle of the pack even as Barako Bull put themselves in a prime spot to contend for one of the bottom Playoff sp...

The race for the six Commish Cup Playoff spots heated up this past week with big wins from middling teams. An ROS win and a Petron loss put both teams right behind league-leading Alaska, while Ws by TNT, Air21, and Ginebra put them in prime spots to...

The top two teams remained firmly entrenched ahead of everyone else, while a cellar-dweller got a big lift because of the reigning MVP. Reigning MVP Mark Caguioa sparked the GinKings over the Texters. In the lone Saturday out-of-town game t...

We are pretty much at the midpoint of the 2012-2013 PBA season, and  I thought it would be interesting to look at which players have been doing really well – well enough to be in the running for the conference and end-of-season awards as well as s...

The SMC Mixers, Meralco Bolts, ROS Elasto-Painters, and Alaska Aces were the big winners of this week, while the Petron Blaze Boosters and the GlobalPort Batang Pier hit different snags in the battle for playoff position in the current PBA Commish Cu...

The teams of the San Miguel Inc. went 2-1 this past weekend. Both the Mixers and the Boosters came through with great performances, while the Gin Kings were stymied by the streaking Painters. In Naga City this past Saturday, Tim Cone's locals...

Alaska continued to dominate even against, arguably, the most talented team in the PBA, while the Air21 Express remain mired at the bottom of the standings. The Gin Kings also had a breakthrough performance this past Wednesday, finally nailing win #1...

All the four winning teams this past week got closer to undefeated league leader Alaska. Barako Bull and Petron both climbed just half a game behind the Aces, while ROS and TNT are both tied at fourth place with 2-1 slates. Keith Benson continued...

The Bgy. Ginebra Gin Kings have the Commish Cup’s best local player, at least in terms of PBA-Online’s player efficiency rating, in Mark Caguioa, but they also have the league’s worst record at 0-3. It’s easy to blame import Herbert Hill for...

The Bgy. Ginebra Gin Kings have the Commish Cup’s best local player, at least in terms of PBA-Online’s player efficiency rating, in Mark Caguioa, but they also have the league’s worst record at 0-3. It’s easy to blame import Herbert Hill for...

If one looks at the current PBA Commish’s Cup standings, he/she will be forgiven for feeling a little surprised. The Alaska Aces and the Barako Bull Energy Cola are the only unbeaten teams so far, with Global Port at solo third place. A bunch of te...

The 2013 PBA Commissioner’s Cup opening weekend was quite eventful, to say the least. All the favored teams were beaten by lower-seeded squads, former San Miguel Corp players reminded their former teams what made them so valuable in the past, an im...

A pair of surprising things happened this past Wednesday – Rain or Shine had an all too easy time disposing of the Gin Kings, while two highly-touted rookies seemed to sputter in their first taste of the PBA Playoffs. I picked the Gin Kings to t...

Niño Cañaleta has all the tools to dominate in the PBA. At 6’6”, he has the size to be the perfect “stretch forward” (i.e. a combo forward) in the PBA. With his handles, shooting, and leaping ability, Cañaleta is a more versatile scorer th...

Calvin Abueva got the better of Cliff Hodge in a match-up between the league’s top two rookies last night. Abueva logged 20 points, 18 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, and 1 block for a whopping 51.00 EFF (as calculated by PBA-Online.net). Hodge,...