Talk about a second half turnaround and San Mig Coffee just had one.

Trailing by 20 at one point in the second quarter and entering the third 17 points behind, the Mixers on Friday night destroyed Globalport in the final two periods for a 92-82 victory in the PBA Governors’ Cup eliminations at the Araneta Coliseum.

San Mig held the Batang Pier to a paltry 31 points in the last two quarters to post the win pulling away, tying idle San Miguel Beer at 3-1, the same record now being held by Air21, which nipped Alaska, 91-88, in the first game.

“To tell you the truth, about an hour ago, I didn’t think that I’d be in this chair talking to you guys,” San Mig coach Tim Cone said during the traditional winning coach’s interview. “We came out really sluggish in the first half.

“We got some things going for us coming out of halftime,” continued the multi-titled American. “(The great offense that we played) got our activity going in the defensive end.”

Peter June Simon scored 11 points, Marqus Blakely and James Yap had eight apiece as the Mixers dropped 33 third quarter points to make what was a 51-34 deficit at halftime to just 68-67 going into the fourth period.

Simon and Blakely continued to turn on the heat in the fourth, combining for all but eight of the Mixers’ 25 points, and with the San Mig defense allowing baskets in trickles, they completed a 30-point turnaround.

“It was a real tough beginning for us. Our depth and our talent just won this game in the second half,” Cone said, ready to pin the blame on himself had the Mixers not awoken in the final half.

“I was angry at myself, because going into this game, we didn’t go hard at practice,” he said. “The guys did a good job of bailing me out.”

Globalport unveiled a new import in Dior Lowhorn, who tossed in 12 points in the first period and anchored the Batang Pier’s hot start that had them leading, 44-24, late in the second quarter.

But it was only Lowhorn and Jay Washington who scored in the third period for the Batang Pier, who eventually slumped to their second straight loss and third in four games overall to stay out of the upper half of the standings.

Lowhorn finished with 33 points and 16 rebounds in a 44-minute stint, with Washington contributing 16 and Alex Cabagnot 12.

Blakely, who won the Best Import award here last year, paced the Mixers with 25 points and 13 rebounds, with Simon shooting 24 in just 31 minutes.

James Yap and Marc Pingris also finished with twin digits and combined for 23 more.

The Express, meanwhile, got almost everything from Mac Cardona in a wild endgame against the Aces, shooting five of Air21’s final seven points and assisting Aldrech Ramos for the other basket to pip Alaska.

“I guess this win is most fulfilling because we were playing terrible both in offense and defense,” said Air21 coach Franz Pumaren. “We were able to survive it after we clawed back, this game being so important for us.”

Cardona shot all of his 14 points in the second half, and Pumaren was the first to say that Cardona took some really ridiculous shots out there.

“He made some ridiculous shots that gave us enough cushion,” Pumaren said, referring primarily to the double-pumping running jumper Cardona had in scoring between Cyrus Baguio and Sonny Thoss for 89-86 going into the final 52.8.

Before that, the former La Salle ace drained a triple that gave the Express the lead for good, 87-86.