Hold the celebration, Rain or Shine is still in it.

Executing well for the first time in the last four games, the Elasto Painters on Sunday night pipped San Mig Coffee, 81-74, to take their PBA Philippine Cup championship playoff to a Game 6 at the Araneta Coliseum in Cubao.

Jeff Chan was the sniper that the Painters missed the last two outings, shooting 23 second half points highlighted by a hot 10-point string that bridged the final two quarters as he powered Rain or Shine to the rousing win.

“I just don’t want to give the series to them,” Chan told reporters in Filipino after finishing with 24 points in his most explosive performance of the series.

San Mig, which took a 3-1 lead on Friday after an 83-80 win, still has two chances left to wrap this series up with another coming on Wednesday at 8 p.m. also at the Big Dome in Cubao.

“We just grinded out a win and we're still certainly behind in this series,” Rain or Shine coach said later. “But one thing we can promise the fans is we will fight it out to the end.

“I told the boys that we can’t lose that sense of destiny. Even if we’re behind, it’s not over,” continued Guiao, who is still seeking the first all-Filipino crown of a highly-successful career. “We have to believe in ourselves and stay positive.

“A win like this can turn around the complexion of the series. We could have won Games 3 and 4.”

Guiao also said that the reason for the win was that Chan and Lee both had explosive games, unlike in the previous two losses when it seemed that it was only Lee who performed.

The Mixers came within 69-72 after trailing by nine when Lee nailed a difficult looping shot that stymied the San Mig comeback.

Chan then did the mop-up job, scoring on a showtime turnaround jumper off Peter June Simon as Rain or Shine erected a 79-72 bubble going into the final 48.3 seconds.

It was actually a fourth quarter shootout between Chan and the former two-time MVP James Yap, who shared scoring honors with Marc Pingris for San Mig with 18 points each.

Yap, who has rediscovered his shooting touch in these playoffs despite a right elbow injury, nailed two triples and pruned down the San Mig deficit to just five points inside the final two minutes.

Norwood then dropped a triple of his own from deep right corner in the next sequence and Chan closed out the shooting spree with that spectacular turnaround over the stunned Simon.

The win was just the second in an all-Filipino title series for the Painters, who were in the Finals here last year but were swept by Talk 'N Text.

“We know in our hearts that we can come back (in this series),” Chan said. “That's our way of staying positive in the series.''

Pingris played his heart out despite a bruised right eye sustained after an accidental poke by JR Quinahan in the fourth quarter of Game 4.

“We gave a valiant effort of trying to beat this team four games in a row, but it's a difficult task,'' San Mig coach Tim Cone said.

Incidentally, Cone is one of three coaches that have blown a 3-1 lead in a best-of-seven series. He lost to, ironically, Yap, Pingris, Simon and the rest of the Purefoods Hotdogs in the 2006 semifinals of this tournament.