1984 PBA Invitational Championship

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1984 PBA Invitational Championship
DurationNovember 18 – December 18, 1984
TV partner(s) Vintage Sports (MBS)
Finals
Champions Great Taste Coffee Makers
Runners-up Crispa Redmanizers
Awards
Best Import Jeff Collins
(Great Taste Coffee Makers)
PBA Invitational Championship chronology
PBA conference chronology

The 1984 PBA Invitational Championship was the third conference of the 1984 PBA season. It started on November 18 and ended on December 18, 1984. Imports return to action after two All-Filipino conferences.

Contents

Format

The following format will be observed for the duration of the tournament:

Qualification

These are win–loss records from the two All-Filipino conferences' elimination rounds this season:

PosTeamWLPCTQualification
1 Great Taste Coffee Makers 196.760Qualified to tournament
2 Crispa Redmanizers 178.680
3 Gilbey's Gin Tonics 1411.560
4 Beer Hausen Brewmasters 1312.520
5 Gold Eagle Beermen 916.360
6 Tanduay Rhum Makers 718.280
7 Country Fair Hotdogs 223.080
Source: [ citation needed ]

Elimination round

PosTeamWLPCTGBQualification
1 Great Taste Coffee Makers 71.875—Advance to the finals
2 Crispa Redmanizers 62.7501
3 Beer Hausen Brewmasters 44.5003Proceed to third place playoff
4 Gilbey's Gin Tonics 26.2505
5 Gold Eagle Beermen 17.1256
Source: [ citation needed ]

Third place playoffs

December 9
Beer Hausen Brewmasters 133, Gilbey's Gin Tonics 125
Pts: Butch Hays 40Pts: Washam 52 Watson 35

Finals

1984 PBA Invitational Championship finals
TeamCoachWins
Great Taste Coffee Makers Baby Dalupan 3
Crispa Redmanizers Narciso Bernardo 2
DatesDecember 9 to December 18, 1984
Television Vintage (GTV)
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The 1984 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Invitational Championship finals was the best-of-5 basketball championship series of the 1984 PBA Invitational. Great Taste Coffee Makers and Crispa Redmanizers played for the 28th championship contested by the league.

Great Taste Coffee Makers won their finals series against Crispa via 3–2 series.

Series scoring summary

The following scoring summary is written in a line score format, except that the quarter numbers are replaced by game numbers.

TeamGame 1Game 2Game 3Game 4Game 5Wins
Great Taste1381171031171273
Crispa1151181161051062

† denotes the number of overtimes

Scores

December 9
Great Taste Coffee Makers 138, Crispa Redmanizers 115
Scoring by quarter: 34-22, 27-34, 28-26, 49-33
Pts: Collins 40 Brown 36Pts: Willis 31 Guidaben 29
Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
Referees: R. Bartolome, R. Victorino, W. Mateo

The Coffee Makers were ahead by only seven, 89-82, going into the final period, Ricardo Brown hit nine points in an 11-2 blast as their lead ballooned to 14 points, 100-86. Import Jeff Collins took over the scoring chores and came up with an eight-point run for Great Taste to decide the issue, 114-92.

December 11
Great Taste Coffee Makers 117, Crispa Redmanizers 118
Scoring by quarter: 35-30, 25-25, 30-32, 27-31
Pts: Ricardo Brown 39Pts: Carlton Willis 33

The Redmanizers took a 75-71 lead in the third quarter, after trailing the Coffee Makers throughout the game. In the fourth period, after a three-point play by Freddie Hubalde to tie the count at 90-all, a 9-2 run by Great Taste, resulted to a seven-point spread with nine minutes left in the ballgame. Going into the last two minutes of play, Jeff Collins' reverse dunk gave the Coffee Makers a five-point lead but Freddie Hubalde's two unanswered baskets bring the Great Taste' lead to only one with 1:05 to go. Ricardo Brown scored two-for-two from the stripe after being hacked by Carlton Willis, 117-114 for Great Taste. Willis then scored on a short drive with 35 seconds left, the Coffee Makers became a little too lax and Ricardo Brown snapped off a jumper that was too strong it bounced off the ring right into the hands of Abet Guidaben, a lead pass to Arturo Cristobal, who spotted Freddie Hubalde waiting in the frontcourt and scored with 4.4 seconds on the clock. Great Taste calls two timeouts and in the inbound play, Jeff Collins broke free and went for a three-pointer that was short, the Redmanizers evened up the series at one game each.

December 13
Great Taste Coffee Makers 103, Crispa Redmanizers 116
Scoring by quarter: 21-23, 28-28, 24-31, 30-34
Pts: Ricardo Brown 29Pts: Abet Guidaben 25

From a 51-49 halftime edge in favor of Crispa, the Coffee Makers started the third period on an 8-0 run for a 57-51 lead as the Redmanizers were held scoreless in the first 1:36 of the second half. Philip Cezar scored on a lay-up that set off Crispa's own 11-2 blast that pushed them ahead, 62-59. With 1:26 left in the third quarter, Crispa got their first double-digit lead at 79-69. The Redmanizers went up by 14 points in the fourth quarter, 90-76, but Great Taste rallied to within 94-98 with still 5:28 remaining. A three-point play by Abet Guidaben off Alejo Alolor's fourth foul seal the Coffee Makers' fate and Philip Cezar followed that up with a lay-up on a four on one fastbreak, 103-94 for Crispa.

December 16
Great Taste Coffee Makers 117, Crispa Redmanizers 105
Scoring by quarter: 32-25, 22-32, 32-21, 31-27
Pts: Collins 39 Brown 33Pts: Carlton Willis 32

The Coffee Makers took a 47-36 advantage in the second quarter but the Redmanizers came back and even lead at halftime, 57-54. In the fourth quarter from a precarious 103-97 six-point edge for Great Taste, Jeff Collins did the scoring for the Coffee Makers in a three-minute span to settle the issue, 112-99.

December 18
Great Taste Coffee Makers 127, Crispa Redmanizers 106
Scoring by quarter: 34-24, 29-24, 30-24, 34-34
Pts: Jeff Collins 33Pts: Carlton Willis 20
Great Taste wins series, 3–2

Jeff Collins sparked three devastating spurts that opened a commanding 56-40 lead for the Coffee Makers late in the second quarter, a finishing 15-6 third quarter run by Great Taste put the game's outcome beyond doubt. Abet Guidaben of Crispa fouled out with 1:58 left in the third quarter to hasten the Redmanizers' downfall. Great Taste raced to a 28-point margin, 108-80 with 4:54 left in the final period. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "GTC in finals". Interbasket.net.
  2. ↑ "Great Taste bags 2nd title".
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