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Cone eyes more PBA titles with Barangay Ginebra

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Camille B. Naredo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/sports/10/20/pba-102116.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Barangay Ginebra celebrates after winning the 2016 PBA Governors&#x27; Cup. Photo courtesy of the PBA Media Bureau </div></figcaption></figure></div>MANILA, Philippines – Barely an hour after coaching Barangay Ginebra to its first PBA crown in eight years, Tim Cone – now a 19-time champion – was already thinking of the next one.Cone had watched, admittedly with some trepidation, as import <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/10/19/16/brownlee-makes-childhood-dreams-come-true-with-game-winner">Justin Brownlee</a> fired a triple with just seconds to go, and breathed a sigh of relief and elation as it hit nothing but net as the buzzer sounded.The three-pointer gave Ginebra a 91-88 win in Game 6 against the Meralco Bolts, allowing them to clinch the best-of-seven series four games to two. For the Gin Kings, the highly anticipated championship was a reward for their hard work and a form of <a href="http://http://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/10/20/16/caguioa-asks-sinong-kangkong-ngayon">redemption for a franchise</a> that had fallen in some difficult time in the years past; for their legions of fans, it was a reward as well, for their faith in the team that had broken their hearts so many times.For Cone, the championship – Ginebra&#x27;s ninth as a team – is just the beginning.&quot;This is not [just] a championship,&quot; Cone said Wednesday night inside the press room of the Araneta Coliseum, as his players continued to celebrate on the court. &quot;In our minds, this is our first championship.&quot;&quot;This is not the only championship that we&#x27;re gonna get. We&#x27;re gonna go out and get another one,&quot; he stressed.<ul class="op-related-articles" title="Read">	<li>Read: <a href=" http://sports.abs-cbn.com/basketball/news/2016/10/20/ginebra-title-win-puts-end-kangkong-jokes-16798">Ginebra title win puts an end to all &#x27;Kangkong&#x27; jokes</a></li></ul>Now that they had broken an eight-year drought, the goal for Ginebra is to elevate themselves to the level of some of the PBA&#x27;s elite franchises, says Cone. &quot;We want to try to get to that elite level like some of the other teams have gotten to – San Miguel recently, Talk &#x27;N Text, Purefoods,&quot; he explained. &quot;We would like to get to that level, and that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re gonna work for.&quot;&quot;We&#x27;re not into winning just a championship,&quot; Cone said. &quot;We want to win many. That&#x27;s our challenge.&quot;To hurdle those challenges, the team will have to continue to improve and grow as a team, something that they did over the course of the conference.&quot;Our goal is to win many championships, and we have to continue to have growth – grow from this one into the next one, into the next conference,&quot; Cone said. &quot;Take what we&#x27;ve learned here, and the guys have learned a lot, I think.&quot;Cone&#x27;s competitive spirit and thirst for even more championships was something his players clearly welcomed.&quot;Sana, hindi ito &#x27;yung last championship namin,&quot; said Mark Caguioa. &quot;And parang sanay na si Coach Tim eh. Kanina sa loob, parang balewala sa kanya. Parang sanay na sanay na siya eh.&quot;&quot;He wants us to focus on the next conference already,&quot; he added. &quot;Nakita mo, hindi pa tapos &#x27;yung celebration. With Coach Tim, &#x27;yung pag-iisip niya, iba talaga.&quot;&quot;He wants you to focus already for the next conference. You just got to love that guy.&quot;LA Tenorio, who was the Finals MVP when Cone coached Alaska to the 2010 Fiesta Conference crown, said for his part that the Gin Kings will truly need to win at least one more title, if only to shut up their critics who will inevitably say that their run to the 2016 PBA Governors&#x27; Cup crown was a fluke.&quot;May mga tao [who] will pull you down,&quot; he said. &quot;Now that we&#x27;re here, baka sabihin nila, tsamba lang. &#x27;Di matatapos &#x27;yan – &#x27;yan na trabaho nila.&quot;&quot;Now that we got one championship with Ginebra, naramdaman na namin ang feeling na pumunta ng championship,&quot; Tenorio added. &quot;Hopefully, this will be the first sa dynasty na bubuuin namin sa Ginebra.&quot;<div>For more sports coverage, visit the ABS-CBN <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com" target="_blank">Sports website.</a></div>

Barely an hour after coaching Barangay Ginebra to its first PBA crown in eight years, Tim Cone – now a 19-time champion – was already thinking of the next one.

Barely an hour after coaching Barangay Ginebra to its first PBA crown in eight years, Tim Cone – now a 19-time champion – was already thinking of the next one.

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Cone eyes more PBA titles with Barangay Ginebra

Camille B. Naredo,

ABS-CBN News

Published October 21, 2016 10:13 AM PHT

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