FOR the teams in the upper rungs, the goal in Leg 6 is to firm up their standings in the Top 4 en route to the PBA 3x3 Season 3 Third Conference Grand Finals.
For those at the bottom, especially Barangay Ginebra and NorthPort, it's all about making the cutoff of the 10-team conference championship.
With these as the driving force, the 11 squads go all-out for top honors and precious tour points in the culminating sixth leg of the season-ending conference beginning Monday at Market! Market! in Taguig.
Meralco, winners of Legs 1, 3 and 4 who settled for second last week, holds sway after five legs with 430 total points and is poised to stay at No. 1 heading to the finale on Feb. 19.
Giving chase are Leg 2 ruler MCFASolver (370 points), Leg 5 victor TNT (340) and fourth-running Cavitex (300), which with a strong showing can lock up the Top 4 berths and outright quarterfinal tickets to the conference championship.
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Fifth-running San Miguel Beer (251) may make a run for Magic 4 as Blackwater (216), Purefoods (176), Terrafirma (163) and Pioneer (159) look to secure their places inside the cutline.
Leg 6 is very crucial for the 10th-running Gin Kings (136) and the No. 11 Batang Pier (129), who are in a side race for the last seat to the conference finals.
Ginebra and NorthPort are expected to move heaven and earth to survive the early clashes in Pool B against the Bolts and the Dyip and make a deep run in Tuesday's KO rounds to boost their drives.
Meanwhile, the Triple Giga, the Beermen and the Katibay tangle in Pool A while the Braves, Tech Centrale, Smooth Razor, and Titans go at it in Pool C.
Pool action starts at 2:30 p.m. with the competitors aiming for the Top 2 in Pool A and Top 3 in Pools B and C to crack the Leg 6 quarterfinals. (OL)
