Jerrick Ahanmisi hopes to carry All-Star weekend success to Comm's Cup
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- Jerrick Ahanmisi put on the show for the Candon fans during the All-Star Weekend and he hopes to carry over the impressive performance when he rejoins Terrafirma for the PBA Season 50 Commissioner's Cup.
Jerrick Ahanmisi put on the show for the Candon fans during the All-Star Weekend and he hopes to carry over the impressive performance when he rejoins Terrafirma for the PBA Season 50 Commissioner’s Cup.
The 6-foot-1 sharpshooter not only ruled one but two All-Star side events, reigning supreme in the obstacle challenge for guards and the three-point shootout.
“I think it's gonna help me out a lot but the only way I'm gonna be able to play as good as I did here is if I keep working hard every day,” said Ahanmisi, who will be tasked to lead the Dyip in the midseason conference.
“If I don't do that, if I lose consistency, if I lose discipline in my work then this conference is not gonna be the same as the other ones,” he added.
Ahanmisi has emerged as Dyip's main man alongside brother Maverick, and Paolo Hernandez. It also doesn’t help that Mark Nonoy and Louie Sangalang were not named to the team’s official lineup.
Help is on the way though with top overall pick Geo Chiu also finally making his debut and towering import Ali Mabushar reinforcing Terrafirma in the mid-season conference
But the hope for Ahanmisi is to see the fruit of labor by simply being consistent in honing his craft — the same way he won the three-point shootout against the league’s most consistent gunners in Marcio Lassiter and Juan Gomez de Liano.
“These are just the product of hard work every single day. The things that the people don't see, the things that the people see on camera, the things that the people don't see when they're watching practices or watching games, “ explained Ahanmisi
“This is what it is for and also building my family with my wife and this all just the hard work from coming to fruition,” he added.