One more win. That’s all the San Miguel Beermen need to secure the championship. Up 3-1 in the series, San Miguel can’t be too sure, though, as the TNT Tropang 5G remain a very dangerous opponent. Will the confetti fall for the Beermen in Game 5? Or, will TNT force a Game 6?

Catch this game live on Wednesday,  July 23, 2025 at 7:30 pm, Manila time.

San Miguel Beermen (3-1)

Projected Starting Five:

  • Juami Tiongson
  • Marcio Lassiter
  • CJ Perez
  • Rodney Brondial
  • June Mar Fajardo 

It can feel like the Beermen are playing with house money, as they are just a win away from winning the championship. In San Miguel’s 105-91 win, the team got a big lift from the players considered before the series as X-factors. Jericho Cruz paced the Beermen with 23 points coming off the bench while draining five triples. Don Trollano provided 11 points, also as part of San Miguel’s bench mob. 

Defensively, the Beermen used Jeron Teng to give them a quicker defensive lineup, and he added some bonus as well with six points. San Miguel is the healthier crew in the series, and the Beermen are capitalizing on TNT’s lack of depth. In Game 4, the Beermen outscored TNT in bench production, 53-18. It is all coming together for the Beermen, who may have already broken TNT’s morale. San Miguel’s outside shooting helped doom TNT in the previous game, as the Beermen went 13-for-24 from deep, and that kind of torrid shooting could continue for at least another game – or at least keep TNT’s defense honest enough to give the Tropang 5G more headaches on that end of the floor

TNT Tropang 5G (1-3)

Projected Starting Five:

  • Kim Aurin
  • Jordan Heading
  • Calvin Oftana
  • Kelly Williams
  • Brandon Ganuela-Rosser

The last two games of the series have been blowouts in favor of San Miguel, highlighting the big challenge for the banged-up Tropang 5G. Finding a way to slow down June Mar Fajardo is trouble enough for TNT, but it becomes a bigger problem altogether for the Tropang 5G when the other Beermen gunners are clicking, just like what happened in Game 4. That being said, the Tropang 5G are not without weapons. 

Jordan Heading can explode anytime, and desperation on the part of his team could just be the fire that lights him up. In Game 4, Heading put up 23 points with four made shots on six attempts from deep. Kelly Williams and Brandon Ganuelas-Rosser each had 14 points while RR Pogoy and Calvin Oftana had 11 apiece. With depth a problem that the Tropang 5G may have already fully embraced, it’s up to Heading and the rest of the starters, particularly Pogoy and Oftana, to carry TNT in Game 5.

Picks

Spread: San Miguel (-4.0)

Over/Under: Over (194.5)