San Miguel Beer head coach Leo Austria couldn’t be prouder of the Beermen’s fine game in a clinical walloping of guest team Macau on Saturday to bolster their playoffs bid in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Season 50 Governors’ Cup.

Save for a little delay due to a leaking roof inside the Ynares Center-Montalban, San Miguel Beer flexed its mastery over the depleted Giant Pandas in a game that at one point got a 62-point separation.

The Beermen were up in the rebounding department, in assists, steals, fastbreak points, second chance points, turnover points and perimeter points while setting a record for the biggest advantage at the half.

But what impressed Austria the most in San Miguel’s 131-79 blowout for its sixth win in eight games and second victory in a row was the contribution of his bench mob.

The Beermen’s relievers accounted for 84 of the team’s scoring output as 13 of the 14 players fielded by Austria scored.

“One thing I discovered again, like in the last game, is the balanced scoring from the bench. Actually, our bench scored more than our starters. And that is what we are projecting,” said Austria, whose team’s cakewalk was delayed by 20 minutes from the original tipoff time and again late in the opening period because of rainwater dripping from the roof.

“The other players played well according to our game plan,” added Austria.

Don Trollano led the San Miguel bench mob with 17 points and six assists while Jericho Cruz and Jeron Teng added 14 and 13 markers, respectively.

“Everybody is trying to do their best according to the system,” Austria said.

The Beermen set the all-time biggest halftime lead at 80-37, erasing the 40-point advantage, 58-18, taken by Sta. Lucia on its way to a 97-63 win over Coca-Cola in the 2007-2008 Philippine Cup back in 17 November 2007, according to PBA statistician and DAILY TRIBUNE Sports columnist Fidel Mangonon.

San Miguel outrebounded Macau, who played sans import De’Vondre Perry and Jenning Leung (personal reasons), 62-44; ahead in assists, 36-13; 12-3 in steals; had more second chance points 19-4; got a 44-12 advantage in fastbreak points and dominated both the points in the paint (64-30) and perimeter points (62-33).

The Beermen also forced Macau to commit 16 turnovers that they converted into 21 turnover points while limiting their miscues to just nine.

“I think our assists here were really high and that’s a good sign because we have 36 assists. The good thing also is that we only had 9 turnovers, unlike before,” Austria said.

For a stretch in the fourth, San Miguel was even flirting with the league’s all-time winning margin to reset Rain or Shine’s 56-point win over Blackwater, 151-95, last 3 March.

But Macau strung together a few late baskets.

Although scoring a rout, Austria reminded his wards that the job is far from over.

“But of course, this is just one game. We have to be consistent next time because we still have four games left (in the elimination),” he said.