Barangay Ginebra San Miguel coach Tim Cone said the potential title-clincher in Game 6 of the PBA Governors’ Cup Finals will pose a mental challenge for his team.

The Gin Kings, holding a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven affair, can finish off the Meralco Bolts with a victory Wednesday, April 20 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum but Cone cautioned against thinking too far.

“The danger is that you’re always start thinking about the result of the game, what’s gonna happen after the game rather than staying in the moment before the game,” he said.

“You start thinking about being a champion and what you gonna do, and it’s hard not to think that way when you get this close. So you really have to battle yourself and think about what’s the process of going up to that game and what you gonna do.

“It’s so easy to look beyond, it really is. So we don’t think about one game to go, we just think about what’s the process we need to get that next win,” he added.

Cone and the Gin Kings, however, have a good batting average going into potential Game 6 clinchers, posting two victories against one defeat.

Ginebra closed out Meralco in the 2016 Governors’ Cup Finals on Justin Brownlee’s buzzer-beating three while also beating San Miguel Beer in the 2018 Commissioner’s Cup.

The Gin Kings’ lone Game 6 defeat under Cone was in the 2017 Governors’ Cup when the Bolts won to force a deciding seventh match.

But Ginebra bounced back to take the rubber in front of over 54,000 fans at the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan.

“We know that trying to beat a good team like this three times in a row is nearly impossible. But we’re gonna try our best to get focused and ready,” said Cone.