LET’S GET IT ON – BG is blockbuster

By Neilwin Joseph L. Bravo
He’s a hardworking fellow who works best from the backstage. But when he’s on centerstage, he lights up the court.
That’s Bong Go. BG for short. Wears jersey no. 18 and averages around 30 points per game. If you need 5 three point shot a game, that’s easily done for him. 10 is possible. 15, 18, he has done that before.
If there’s a local counterpart of “The Triggerman” Alan Caidic, that’s BG. You can throw in the Splash Brothers too. Steph Curry and Klay Thompson would find him a worthy match.
I am not exaggerating. BG is for real.
Last Saturday, BG proved to all and sundry that he is the numero uno pistolero this side of the Wild Wild West.
How is that possible?
BG just fired 35 points in an exhibition match against archnemesis Acer-Everball in the PBA On Tour aperitif when he was asked to join the three-point shooting contest against a bunch of collegiate standouts. No. 18 is not one who backs down from a contest, especially if this is a shooting contest. So off he went jumping off his seat, still huffing and puffing from the gruelling match where he played the entire 40 minutes.
BG shot 13 in the eliminations, not bad for one who was in only his first three-point contest in two years. He started like a house on fire burrying four of the first five balls. The field was no pushover. It had Bryan Cabanilla of Jose Maria College and Paulo Dailisan of Ateneo de Davao University and his shooting partner at CMO squad Glenn Escandor.
In the finals, he needed only three racks and a half to win the crown as he surpassed Cabanilla’s final output after draining the third ball of the fourth rack. There was still 22 seconds when the crowd started to give the new three point king the deserving ovation for his remarkable feat. He put the icing on the cake with f three straight shots in the last rack including the “money ball.”
On the same day, BG threw a big golf event, the Mayor Rody Invitational, at the Apo Golf and Country Club that had 191 players–a veritable who’s who in the business, military and government sectors.
BG had to do some remote control management over the events for the day–including his usual chores as Mayor Rody’s “toolbox.”
For one to be so focused at winning despite the unenvious job, BG is a blockbuster guy.
Notes: Listen to “Let’s Get It On with Neil Bravo” at 105.9 Balita FM every Saturday 8 am to 10 am. You may write the author at bravoneil@rocketmail.com.