The 2014 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2014 PLDT Home TelPad-PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2013–14 PBA season. The conference began on May 18 and ended on July 9, 2014.
The tournament is an import-laden format, which requires an import or a pure-foreign player for each team, The recruited imports must be not taller than 6 feet and 5 inches for every team.[citation needed]
Games in the tournament are televised by TV5 and AksyonTV; games are also being simulcast in high definition through a special channel exclusive to Cignal Digital TV subscribers.[1][2]
Format
The tournament format for this conference is as follows:[3]
- Single-round robin eliminations; 9 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records.
- Top eight teams will advance to the quarterfinals. Ties are broken among head-to-head records of the tied teams.
- Quarterfinals (higher seed with the twice to beat advantage):
- QF1: #1 seed vs #8 seed
- QF2: #2 seed vs #7 seed
- QF3: #3 seed vs #6 seed
- QF4: #4 seed vs #5 seed
- Semifinals (best-of-5 series):
- SF1: QF1 vs. QF4 winners
- SF2: QF2 vs. QF3 winners
- Finals (best-of-5 series)
- Winners of the semifinals
Due to the need to finish the season and the tournament by June in order for the Gilas Pilipinas team to train for the upcoming FIBA Asia Cup in July, the FIBA World Cup in August and the Asian Games in September, the league had six playing dates per week and the quotient system was implemented for tiebreakers, instead of playoff games for the #4 and #8 seeds.[3]
Elimination round
Team standings
Source: PBA.ph
Notes:
- ^ a b c d e Head-to-head quotient: Alaska 1.08, San Mig 1.02, San Miguel 0.99, Barangay Ginebra 0.97, Air21 0.94
- ^ a b Head-to-head record: Barako Bull 95–94 Meralco
Schedule
Results
Source:
[citation needed]Legend: Blue = left column team win; Red = top row team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.
Bracket
Quarterfinals
(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (8) Barako Bull
(2) Rain or Shine vs. (7) Air21
(3) Alaska vs. (6) Barangay Ginebra
(4) San Mig Super Coffee vs. (5) San Miguel
Semifinals
(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (4) San Mig Super Coffee
(2) Rain or Shine vs. (3) Alaska
Finals
Awards
Conference
Players of the Week
Imports
The following is the list of imports which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.
References
- ^ "Here's TV5's broadcast schedule for PBA Governors Cup's six-playdates-a-week matches". Spin.ph. 19 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-07-19. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ^ "PBA Commissioner's Cup finals to simulcast live in high-definition over Cignal". InterAksyon. MediaQuest Holdings. 9 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-06-12. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ^ a b SPRINT GOVERNORS’ CUP OPENS SUNDAY Archived 2014-05-17 at the Wayback Machine, Snow Badua, PBA.ph, May 16, 2014
- ^ IMMOVABLE ROCK Archived 2014-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, May 26, 2014
- ^ WIPING OUT FATIGUE Archived 2014-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, June 2, 2014.
- ^ ON FIRE Archived 2014-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, June 10, 2014.
- ^ JUST DOING HIS PART Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, June 23, 2014.
- ^ TIME TO SHINE Archived 2014-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, July 1, 2014.
