1981 Gilbey's Gin season

1981   Gilbey's Gin season
Head coach	Nemie Villegas
Owner(s)	La Tondeña Incorporada
Open Conference results
Record	7–11 (38.9%)
Place	7th
Playoff finish	N/A
Reinforced Filipino results
Record	1–11 (8.3%)
Place	10th
Playoff finish	N/A
Gilbey's Gin seasons
←  1980 1982  →

The 1981 Gilbey's Gin season was the third season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The team were known as St. George Whisky in the Reinforced Filipino Conference.

Transactions

ADDITIONS
Aurelio Clariño Acquired from Presto during the off-season
Angelito Ladores Acquired from Galleon during the off-season
Eduardo Ducut and Romeo Valenzuela Rookies signed
Alex Clariño Rookie, started playing in the 2nd Conference

Imports

The high-scoring Larry McNeill return for the third straight season with Gilbey's in the Open Conference and along with Dean Tolson, who was also back when he first played together with McNeill as imports for the La Tondeña ballclub in its maiden year in 1979.

In the Reinforced Filipino Conference, the team signed up Kenny Tyler as their import. ^[1] Tyler played for the visiting Nicholas Stoodley squad from United States that won the Invitational championship last season.

Won-loss record vs Opponents

Teams	Win	Loss	1st (Open)	2nd (RAF)
CDCP Road Builders	1	3	1-1	0–2
Crispa Redmanizers	1	2	1-1	0–1
Finance Funders	0	4	0–2	0–2
Presto Fun Drinks	1	2	1-1	0–1
San Miguel Beermen	1	3	0–2	1-1
Tefilin Polyesters	2	1	2-0	0–1
Toyota Super Diesels	0	3	0–2	0–1
U-Tex Wranglers	0	3	0–2	0–1
YCO-Tanduay	2	1	2-0	0–1
Total	8	22	7–11	1–11

Roster

Gilbey's Gin roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. F 3 Rivera, Norberto 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) San Sebastian F 6 Valenzuela, Romeo 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Letran G 7 Torres, Armando 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) FEATI F 8 Jacutin, Marlowe 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Visayas C 10 Ducut, Eduardo 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Letran F/C 15 Clariño, Alex 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Lyceum F/C 18 Del Rosario, Eusebio 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) UE G 19 Tanduyan, Wilfredo 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Southwestern-U C 23 Clariño, Aurelio 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Adamson G 24 Generalao, Wilfredo 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Visayas G 30 Garcia, Javier 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Adamson G/F 44 Ladores, Angelito 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) José Rizal C 31 McNeill, Larry  (I) 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) Marquette F/C 32 Tolson, Dean  (I) 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Arkansas G 22 Tyler, Kenny  (I) 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Gonzaga	Head coach Nemie Villegas Assistant coach(es) Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import Injured

References

1. "Statistics of the Imports".