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ABL: Coach Mac Cuan wants struggling Alab Pilipinas to turn up the heat in Saigon

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MANILA — Alab Pilipinas hopes to arrest its recent slide when it faces the Saigon Heat in Friday’s Asean Basketball League (ABL).Tip-off is at 8:30 p.m. at CIS Arena in Ho Chi Minh City.Following his squad&#x27;s bitter 78-74 loss to the Heat last Sunday, Alab head coach Mac Cuan is demanding more consistency from his players.“I’ve been stressing since the start, all I want is consistent effort. I don’t mind losing if we play with full effort. If it’s like that, it only means the opponent is just better. But that isn’t the case,” said Cuan in ABL’s official website.“That’s what’s frustrating. Do we feel we are good enough as a team that we can just relax then decide to turn it on when we want to? It’s not like that.”Sampson Carter was Alab’s lone bright spot against the Heat last Sunday, scoring 20 points on 8 of 14 shooting. Ray Parks, who struggled from the field due to an ankle injury, finished with 14 points. He missed all six of his 3-point attempts.Cuan said that if things do not change for Alab on Friday, his team might fail to gain one of the top two seeds and home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.“If you don’t watch it, we might end up No. 4 or even No. 5 if we continue to play like this. We are 3rd right now, this is our first back-to-back losses. Instead of peaking as the playoffs get nearer and nearer, we’re doing the opposite. That’s alarming,” he said.To stop the skid, Alab will have to watch out for Lenny Daniel, who scored 24 points for the Heat last time.Cuan and co. will also have to check Moses Morgan, who walked away with 20 points. (All home games are aired live on S+A and live-streamed through sports.abs-cbn.com/livestream/abl)For more sports coverage, visit the ABS-CBN <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com" target="_blank">Sports website.</a>

Following his squad's bitter 78-74 loss to the Heat last Sunday, Alab head coach Mac Cuan is demanding more consistency from his players.

Following his squad's bitter 78-74 loss to the Heat last Sunday, Alab head coach Mac Cuan is demanding more consistency from his players.