25/08/2026
CHRISTIAN MIKE AGUA — GreatMinds Leadership Academy Knights Team A
17 PTS | 8-13 FG | 2 AST | 4 STL
Christian Mike Agua set the tone before Sacred Heart could find its footing, powering GreatMinds Leadership Academy Team A to a 78–41 rout on Saturday at the DPWH Court in Dao. The Knights guard poured in 17 points on 8-of-13 shooting, and twelve of them arrived in a first quarter that removed any doubt about where the afternoon was headed.
What made the performance so damaging was not the volume but the self-sufficiency. Five of Agua's eight makes were unassisted — he created his own offense rather than waiting for the Knights' ball movement to find him — and his 62% clip from the field was the best mark of any player in the round who reached double-digit attempts. He attacked the basket relentlessly and never settled, taking all thirteen of his shots inside the arc. On the other end, his four steals disrupted passing lanes and fed straight into transition, with two of them converting into his own baskets seconds later. That loop of stop-to-score is what turned a live game into a rout.
The stretch between 8:49 and 8:10 of the opening quarter told the whole story. Agua opened the scoring, hauled in a defensive rebound off a Sacred Heart miss and finished at the other end, then came up with a steal and converted again. Three consecutive GreatMinds possessions, all three generated by the same player, and the Flaming Warriors trailed 6–0 without having reached the scoreboard. By the end of the period it was 22–4, and by the interval 48–17.
More than the raw total, it was the speed and independence of Agua's opening burst that separated him from the field. He needed no set play and no second creator — he generated the stops, the rebounds and the buckets himself, and by the time Sacred Heart could adjust, the margin was already beyond reach. Efficient, disruptive, and decisive while the game was still in the balance, Agua was the clear choice for Best Player of the Game.
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