Showing no signs of fatigue despite having the busiest schedule in the first 18 days of the PBA Commissioner’s Cup, Talk ‘N Text can go into a week-long break knowing it did nothing wrong.

The Tropang Texters stayed perfect after carving out a 94-87 victory over Barangay Ginebra on Sunday night and they can resume gunning for the No. 1 playoff spot next weekend as one fully rested lot.

No other team has played six games since the tournament opened last March 5 and no team has yet to defeat the Texters, who are playing with so much fluidity that Ranidel de Ocampo led five others in twin digits in the impressive win at the Araneta Coliseum.

“We have seven days off, and I am happy to take that,” said coach Norman Black, who also acknowledged a huge endgame break that went their way with 2:16 left that stopped Ginebra’s comeback cold.

Ginebra trailed by as large as 16 points early in the fourth quarter before coming to within 81-87 only for a bum call from the referees awarded possession to Talk ‘N Text which led to a De Ocampo layup going into the final 1:32.

“That was one (good) call (for us) the entire game,” Black, who got thrown out for the first time in his long PBA career last week for contesting a bum call against San Miguel Beer, said.

“Breaks happen like that. We’ve been on the other end (of bum calls) so many times,” he added.

Import Richard Howell scored 19 points and had 23 rebounds for the Texters, who also drew twin digit outputs from Jason Castro, Ryan Reyes and Larry Fonacier.

Fonacier hit a cold-blooded triple from right quarter court with 29.4 seconds remaining that made it 92-85 that all but snuffed the fight out of the Gin Kings, who dropped to 2-3 overall.

“Besides that (the endgame break), I think we played good defense, executed what we wanted to do defensively and that is to take the ball out of the hands of LA (Tenorio) and (Mark) Caguioa,” Black, a Grand Slam winner with San Miguel, said.

Leon Rodgers, the Ginebra import, scored 32 points but local support – or the lack of it – clearly spelled the difference for the Gin Kings.

Mark Caguioa did score 14 points but was scoreless in the final 12 minutes and Ginebra’s twin tower combination of 7-foot rookie Greg Slaughter and the 6-foot-9 Japeth Aguilar could only combine for 13 points and 12 boards.

Tenorio found the going rough all game long as the Talk ‘N Text defense met him up high each time that delayed the set up of the Ginebra offense.

Aguilar played 20 minutes and had just five points and two boards, his performance continuing to take a dip that started in the playoffs of the Philippine Cup won by the San Mig Coffee Mixers.

In the first game, Brian Butch — who was told before the start of the game that he was on the way out — made the entire Meralco coaching staff have second thoughts after shooting 40 points and grabbing 31 rebounds in a 109-98 win over Air21.

The Bolts, with Butch scoring 21 points in the fourth period, rallied from deficits of as large as 20 points in the third quarter and were 18 behind at the start of the fourth.

Meralco got back into the upper half of the standings after rising to 3-2.

Darnell Jackson is already in town ready to take the job of Butch, until the explosion against the Express had coaching staff led by Ryan Gregorio, and management thinking things over again.

Wesley Witherspoon debuted with 44 points for the Express, who blew an 81-61 third quarter lead to now be at 2-3 like the Kings.