I could not think of a better title than the one above to describe these two teams. It basically comes from a song “Maginoo Pero Medyo Bastos”. But on this case, I am separating it in order to make it a distinct characteristic of each team.

Allow me to explain.

Team Pogi are the Maginoo team. When they play, you do not see much emotion. They are generally the nice guys on the league. They do not talk trash. They do not run over opponents and stand over them when they are down. They are pretty quiet too except Joseph Brimon and Michael Humphrey who led the bench talk.

GJ Eva, Conrad Wolfe, Nilo Concepcion, CJ Pineda, Lego, Cupid Musa, Mark Lim, and Gerald Areja are a silent ones.

But, what do they say about the silent ones though?

The Astig Boys are the Bastos team. Not literally the R-18 or MA bastos, but rather on how they disrespect the other teams when they play. They got the best 1-2 punch down low with Rommel Calaguas and Aldrin Acuna. They got the 3 best guards in the league on Cris Dapon, Noel Bagalso, and Aldrich Acuna running the break plus leave him open long enough, Ads Acuna will shoot the dagger 3 on you. This is not to downplay the other members on the team.

Blink and you will trip with Jesse Lee Roque. Anyone who knows him long enough will understand what I mean. He protects the ball pretty well but if you are not watching him with the ball, you will be in a surprise. Then, you got Chris B. The enigmatic player from Oklahoma. You never know when he will go off offensively. Then you got the other supporting cast – Phoenix and Tito Galing and Mitchell Salas who made leaps and bounds on their game.

It will be an interesting matchup, nonetheless. And it will come with full of surprises.

But, two more days we will find out if the premise is true.