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San Miguel's bounce back win vs TNT 'all about playing together,' says Mo

PBA Philippine Cup. July 16, 2025. Mo Tautuaa of the San Miguel Beermen against the TNT Tropang 5G in Game 2 of the Finals. (Photo: PBA Media) Mo Tautuaa and the San Miguel Beermen easily moved forward after their frustrating loss in the PBA Philippine Cup finals opener against TNT last Sunday. In Game 2 on Wednesday, the Beermen took down the Tropang 5G, 98-92, and for Tautuaa, who in Game 1 made the dunk that was deemed as an offensive interference violation afterwards, it was all about playing together. "I think that's the first time anyone has lost a game like that where points get taken away. That's definitely something that I've never seen that ever in my life. It's cool in that sense, I guess, such that we had to lose that way," Tautuaa said about the Game 1 loss. "But I mean, today it was all about us playing together. I feel like we played together well today and we weren't down in the hole early. We weren't down in the hole early and we just caught and started to throw it to the end." Mo Tautuaa talks about bouncing back after what happened in Game 1 of the Finals @gmasportsph — JK Carandang (@jk_carandang) July 16, 2025 Tautuaa said the team just put aside what happened in Game 1 and just made sure to bounce back to even the series. "We kind of tried to put that to the side because there's nothing we can do about that anymore at this point. All we're doing now is just making sure we go out and play our game. When we play our brand of basketball, we do well. It feels good," said Tautuaa. San Miguel head coach Leo Austria also said this about the frustrating loss. "We'd been in this adversity (Game 1 loss) and we know what to do," Austria said. "Plus the support of management, especially Coach Al [Chua], he was there during practice to motivate us and it's a good support from the management. Alam nila na kaya pa namin manalo and pinatunayan namin ngayon." —JKC, GMA Integrated News