1978 Crispa Redmanizers season

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1978   Crispa Redmanizers season
Head coach Baby Dalupan
All-Filipino Conference results
Record177
(70.8%)
Place4th
Playoff finishSemifinals
Open Conference results
Record149
(60.9%)
Place2nd
Playoff finishFinals
Invitational Conference results
Record43
(57.1%)
Place3rd
Playoff finishN/A
Crispa Redmanizers seasons
  1977
1979  

The 1978 Crispa Redmanizers season was the 4th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Known as Crispa 400s starting the 2nd conference.

Contents

Colors

Crispa Redmanizers (All-Filipino Conference)
    (dark)
    (light)
Crispa 400 (Open and Invitational Conferences)
    (dark)
    (light)

Finals stint

Crispa stood firm to defend its last crown in the Open Conference with the All-Filipino unsuccessfully defended when they surprisingly faltered in the second round of the semifinals and were ousted by arch rival Toyota.

Coach Baby Dalupan personally choose 6-9 Ansley Truitt and 6-8 Paul Mills for their two imports. U-Tex and Crispa advanced to the semifinals without much difficulty and placed first and second after the semifinal round to enter into the championship. Unlike their last year's confrontation, the 400s were underdog for the first time in the title series and matched against the Wranglers' triumvirate of Glenn McDonald, Byron "Snake" Jones and Lim Eng Beng. Crispa were swept in three games by U-Tex. [1]

Roster

Crispa Redmanizers roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Wt.
C 5 Flag of the Philippines.svg Abet Guidaben 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) USJ–R
G 6 Flag of the Philippines.svg Fortunato Co, Jr 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Mapúa
F 7 Flag of the Philippines.svg Rodolfo Soriano 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) UE
F 8 Flag of the Philippines.svg Rey Pages 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) De La Salle
G 9 Flag of the Philippines.svg Gregorio Dionisio 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Adamson
G/F 10 Flag of the Philippines.svg Freddie Hubalde 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Mapúa
G/F 11 Flag of the Philippines.svg Bogs Adornado 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) UST
G/F 12 Flag of the Philippines.svg Virgilio Dela Cruz 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Mapúa
G 14 Flag of the Philippines.svg Luis Varela 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) UE
G 15 Flag of the Philippines.svg Bernie Fabiosa 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) UE
C 16 Flag of the Philippines.svg Jaime Javier 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) José Rizal
G 17 Flag of the Philippines.svg Armando Torres 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) FEATI
F 18 Flag of the Philippines.svg Philip Cezar 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) José Rizal
G 19 Flag of the Philippines.svg Rey Franco 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) UE
G 22 Flag of the Philippines.svg Wilfredo Tanduyan 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Southwestern-U
C 25 Flag of the United States.svg Cyrus Mann  (I)6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) Illinois State
F 32 Flag of the United States.svg Paul Mills  (I)6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
F/C 43 Flag of the United States.svg Ansley Truitt  (I)6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) California
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)

    Legend
    • (C) Team captain
    • (I) Import
    • Cruz Roja.svg Injured

References

  1. "Crispa's kingdom collapses". The Manila Times Online.