PBA Finals by numbers

The venue for Game 3 of the PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals shifts to the PhilSports Arena tonight with the best-of-seven series tied at a win apiece. TNT and Barangay Ginebra will battle to take a 2-1 lead, a pivotal advantage in that the duel has been reduced to a race to three. Here are numbers that make this eighth Finals showdown between opposing coaches Chot Reyes and Tim Cone an interesting watch.

6 - PBA championships won by Ginebra with Justin Brownlee compared to two collected by TNT with Rondae Hollis-Jefferson.

25 - PBA championships won by Cone compared to 10 by Reyes.

6 - PBA Coach of the Year honors awarded to Reyes compared to five for Cone.

2 – PBA Grand Slams bagged by Cone compared to none for Reyes who’s shooing for his first this season (a win in the Commissioner’s Cup Finals will leave him one jewel short with the Philippine Cup coming up).

12 – PBA conferences, including this Commissioner’s Cup, where Brownlee has played compared to RHJ’s four.

6 - NBA seasons where RHJ saw action for Brooklyn, Toronto and Portland from 2015-16 to 2020-21, averaging 9.0 points and 5.5 rebounds in 305 regular season games, including 154 starts to earn an estimated $9.6 million. RHJ was Portland’s first round draft pick in 2015. Brownlee was undrafted and played in 14 games over three NBA Summer Leagues with New York and Charlotte.

12,363 -  average paying attendance in the first two games of the Finals at the SM Mall of Asia Arena.

88.9 -  average points allowed by Ginebra in 15 wins this conference compared to 90.1 by TNT in 14 wins. Overall, Ginebra is No. 1 in defense, giving up 92.9 points a game while TNT is No. 2, yielding 93.2.

24.4  – average assists by Ginebra, No. 1 in the league but in the Finals, it has dropped to 13.

12.8 – average turnovers by TNT, least in the league and the Tropa is also No. 1 in turnover points allowed at 12.2.

45  – percent of TNT’s shots taken from three in the Finals, shooting 29.4 percent. TNT knocked down 14 in Game 1 and six in Game 2.

0 - assist by Brownlee in Game 2, indicating a focus to go for his shot. He wound up with 35 points, his fourth highest total this conference.

4- first overall draft picks on both sides. They are Ginebra’s Stephen Holt (2023) and Japeth Aguilar (2009) and TNT’s Kelly Williams (2006) and Brandon Ganuelas-Rosser (2022, now in injured list). Second overall picks were Ginebra’s Troy Rosario (2015) and Jeremiah Gray (2022).

2 – undrafted players in the Finals, Ginebra’s Raymond Aguilar and TNT’s Jielo Razon.

31.3 – average age of TNT, excluding Jayson Castro, Ryan Reyes, Ganuelas-Rosser, Almond Vosotros and Chris Exciminiano compared to Ginebra’s 30.7. TNT’s senior statesman is Williams, 43 while Ginebra’s is LA Tenorio, 40. The youngest are Razon and Ginebra’s RJ Abarrientos, both 25.