CHAN EARLY SCORING LEADER; MAIERHOFER CURRENT BOARDS CHAIRMAN

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Published on October 15, 2012

Two weeks into the 2012-13 Philippine Cup and the league’s 38th season, guess who are the top
individual performers so far?

Bouyed up by his career-high 35 points in Rain or Shine’s 99-98 win over Air21 last Friday, it’s
not surprising why Jeff Chan is on top of the scoring list with his 26.7 points per game average
through three games.

Globalport’s Willie Miller and Talk ‘N Text’s Jayson Castro are right behind Chan with their
23.3 and 23.0 points per game averages, respectively.

These three are the only players averaging at least twenty points per game this early in the
conference and season. 

Curiously, Gary David, the scoring leader in the last three seasons and in six of the last seven
conferences, isn’t even in the Top 10 in scoring. David, now with Globalport, is on a slow start
averaging just 13.0 points in his first two games on a very cold 20% shooting from the field (6 of
30).

Like Chan, also helped by a career-high performance in his recent game is Barangay Ginebra San
Miguel’s Rico Maierhofer who is the early leader in rebounding. Maierhofer, who had a career-best
17 rebounds in the Kings’ 95-88 loss to Meralco last Saturday in Digos City, is the current
chairman of the boards with his 12.0 rebounds per outing.

Barako Bull’s Rico Villanueva, Maierhofer’s former teammate at Barangay Ginebra, ranks second in
rebounding with his 11.7 a game while Petron Blaze rookie June Mar Fajardo, the No. 1 overall pick
in the recent PBA Draft, follows next with his 10.7 boards per night. San Mig Coffee’s Yancy de
Ocampo ranks fourth with his 10.0 rpg.

Maierhofer, Villanueva and the elder de Ocampo are the only players averaging a double-double so far
in the conference.

Petron Blaze’s Arwind Santos, the rebounding leader last season (10.7) and in last season’s
Philippine Cup (11.8), is only at No. 6 currently with his 9.3 per game, behind another Barangay
Ginebra San Miguel player in Billy Mamaril who is norming a fifth-best 9.7 rpg.

In other statistical categories, Meralco’s Sol Mercado is lording it over everybody in assists
with his 8.0 per game, two assists per game ahead of the second-running Jonas Villanueva of San Mig
Coffee (6.0 apg).

Showing a different facet to his game this time around, Talk ‘N Text’s Larry Fonacier is the
surprise early leader in steals with his 3.0 per night while Meralco rookie Cliff Hodge, recently
adjudged Accel Player of the Week for the period October 4 to 11, is co-leading the shotblocks
category with his 2.0 a game, the same average of the Mixers’ de Ocampo.

Here are the conference leaders so far through October 14, 2012: http://bit.ly/RLQjPX (or copy/paste
link to your browser's address bar to access)

source: 

http://www.pba.ph/blogs/entry/301