BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Impact Player

From the 7-minute mark of the third quarter of the FEU-Adamson game, Tamaraw Benedict Fernandez touched the ball an amazing 12 times of their 13 possessions.

He missed a lay-up.
Stole the ball and then was fouled where he made two free throws.
He drove into the lane and lost the ball to a tap out.
He missed a trey.
On the return trip, he nailed it this time around (a three).
He handed assisted Marlon Adolfo for a jumper. 44-36 for FEU.
He brought down the ball and passed the ball to Edgar Tanuan who traveled.
He then handed off to Reil Cervantes who missed but FEU got the ball back and Fernandez passed to Adolfo for another twinner. 49-36.
Fernandez dished to Cervantes again who made good 51-36.
Adamson sued for time with 2:56 left in the third.

Fernandez off the time out hit back-to-back threes to hike the lead and end the game effectively 57-43.

On the next play, Alisbo decided he wanted to crash the party and he didn't pass the ball to Fernandez. He missed. And with 56 seconds FEU Coach Glenn Capacio pulled out Fernandez for Jens Knuttel.

On defense, he guarded Adamson's shooting guard and double-teamed Michael Galinato. When the ball was kicked out to the Falcon guards, Fernandez was quick to recover and prevent any outside shot.

Talk about dynamos and impact players!

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