2014 PBA Governors' Cup

2014 PBA Governors' Cup
2014 PBA Governors' Cup
Duration	May 18 – July 9, 2014
TV partner(s)	Sports5 ; Local: TV5/AksyonTV ; International : AksyonTV International, Fox Sports PBA HD on Cignal (high-definition)
Finals
Champions	San Mig Super Coffee Mixers
Runners-up	Rain or Shine Elasto Painters
Awards
Best Player	Ranidel de Ocampo ; (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters)
Best Import	Arizona Reid ; (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters)
Finals MVP	James Yap ; (San Mig Super Coffee Mixers)
PBA Governors' Cup chronology
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PBA conference chronology
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The 2014 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2014 PLDT Home TelPad-PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2013–14 PBA season. The conference began on May 18 and ended on July 9, 2014.

The tournament is an import-laden format, which requires an import or a pure-foreign player for each team, The recruited imports must be not taller than 6 feet and 5 inches for every team.^{[citation needed]}

Games in the tournament are televised by TV5 and AksyonTV; games are also being simulcast in high definition through a special channel exclusive to Cignal Digital TV subscribers.^[1]^[2]

Format

The tournament format for this conference is as follows:^[3]

Single-round robin eliminations; 9 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records.
Top eight teams will advance to the quarterfinals. Ties are broken among head-to-head records of the tied teams.
Quarterfinals (higher seed with the twice to beat advantage):
- QF1: #1 seed vs #8 seed
- QF2: #2 seed vs #7 seed
- QF3: #3 seed vs #6 seed
- QF4: #4 seed vs #5 seed
Semifinals (best-of-5 series):
- SF1: QF1 vs. QF4 winners
- SF2: QF2 vs. QF3 winners
Finals (best-of-5 series)
- Winners of the semifinals

Due to the need to finish the season and the tournament by June in order for the Gilas Pilipinas team to train for the upcoming FIBA Asia Cup in July, the FIBA World Cup in August and the Asian Games in September, the league had six playing dates per week and the quotient system was implemented for tiebreakers, instead of playoff games for the #4 and #8 seeds.^[3]

Elimination round

Team standings

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters	7	2	.778	—	Twice-to-beat in the quarterfinals
2	Rain or Shine Elasto Painters	6	3	.667	1
3	Alaska Aces	5	4	.556^[a]	2
4	San Mig Super Coffee Mixers	5	4	.556^[a]	2
5	Petron Blaze Boosters	5	4	.556^[a]	2	Twice-to-win in the quarterfinals
6	Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	5	4	.556^[a]	2
7	Air21 Express	5	4	.556^[a]	2
8	Barako Bull Energy	3	6	.333^[b]	4
9	Meralco Bolts	3	6	.333^[b]	4
10	GlobalPort Batang Pier	1	8	.111	6

Source: PBA.ph
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Head-to-head quotient: Alaska 1.08, San Mig 1.02, San Miguel 0.99, Barangay Ginebra 0.97, Air21 0.94
^ ^a ^b Head-to-head record: Barako Bull 95–94 Meralco

Schedule

Team ╲ Game	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Air21 Express	ROS	BBE	BGSM	ALA	TNT	MER	SMSC	GP	SMB
Alaska Aces	SMB	GP	TNT	A21	MER	ROS	SMSC	BGSM	BBE
Barako Bull Energy	MER	SMSC	A21	SMB	ROS	BGSM	GP	TNT	ALA
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	GP	MER	A21	SMSC	BBE	ROS	SMB	ALA	TNT
GlobalPort Batang Pier	BGSM	ALA	ROS	SMSC	SMB	TNT	BBE	A21	MER
Meralco Bolts	BBE	TNT	BGSM	SMSC	ALA	A21	SMB	ROS	GP
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters	A21	SMB	GP	TNT	BBE	ALA	BGSM	MER	SMSC
San Mig Super Coffee Mixers	BBE	SMB	MER	GP	BGSM	ALA	A21	TNT	ROS
San Miguel Beermen	ALA	ROS	SMSC	BBE	TNT	GP	MER	BGSM	A21
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters	MER	ALA	ROS	SMB	A21	GP	BBE	SMSC	BGSM

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
= Win; = OT win; = Loss; = OT loss

Results

Team	A21	ALA	BBE	BGSM	GP	MER	ROS	SMSC	SMB	TNT
Air21 Express		91–88	101–86	76–84	106–102	80–67	103–96	109–113*	88–101	91–102
Alaska Aces	–		90–87	79–66	91–95	87–88	72–123	93–84	94–87	103–91
Barako Bull Energy	–	–		70–98	122–98	95–94	93–96	66–76	112–115*	88–74
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	–	–	–		89–71	95–82	108–117	90–102	105–98	92–96
GlobalPort Batang Pier	–	–	–	–		95–123	97–119	82–92	99–102	82–97
Meralco Bolts	–	–	–	–	–		85–104	90–108	90–74	99–105
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters	–	–	–	–	–	–		95–94	92–97	81–83
San Mig Super Coffee Mixers	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		90–92	88–92
San Miguel Beermen	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		97–103
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = left column team win; Red = top row team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Bracket


Quarterfinals			Semifinals (best-of-5)			Finals (best-of-5)

(#1 twice to beat)

1	Talk 'N Text	99

8	Barako Bull	84
			1	Talk 'N Text	2
(#4 twice to beat)
			4	San Mig Coffee	3
4	San Mig Coffee	97

5	San Miguel	90
						4	San Mig Coffee	3
(#2 twice to beat)
						2	Rain or Shine	2
2	Rain or Shine	111

7	Air21	90
			2	Rain or Shine	3
(#3 twice to beat)
			3	Alaska	2
3	Alaska	92

6	Barangay Ginebra	81

Quarterfinals

(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (8) Barako Bull

June 17

Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 99, Barako Bull Energy 84
Talk 'N Text wins series in one game

Format

Elimination round

Team standings

Schedule

Results

Bracket

Quarterfinals

(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (8) Barako Bull

(2) Rain or Shine vs. (7) Air21

(3) Alaska vs. (6) Barangay Ginebra

(4) San Mig Super Coffee vs. (5) San Miguel

Semifinals

(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (4) San Mig Super Coffee

(2) Rain or Shine vs. (3) Alaska

Finals

Awards

Conference

Players of the Week

Imports

References