1982 Toyota Super Corollas season

The 1982 Toyota Super Corollas season was the eighth season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Rookies

• Terry Saldana
• Ricky Relosa
• Tim Coloso
• Ed Cordero

Notable Achievements

• Center Ramon Fernandez was voted the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the 1982 PBA Season, his first MVP Trophy after narrowly lost the same award in a close balloting three years ago in 1979.
• Donnie Ray Koonce was voted Best Import of the Open Conference.

Season Recap

• Toyota Super Corollas won two championships in the 1982 Season, In the Reinforced Filipino Conference which features the first Best-of-Seven championship series, the Super Corollas came from behind a 0-2 deficit to win the title over San Miguel Beer in seven games, down 2-3, the Super Corollas took Games 6 and the deciding Game 7, 101-95. the Big J, Sonny Jaworski sat down in Games 4, 5 and 6 because of an injury and was used sparingly in Game 7 but his mere presence on the court made the difference and caught the beermen offguard.
• In the Short Invitational Conference, Toyota missed out a chance to play in the championship and wind-up fourth place in the five-team field, losing to the visiting South Korea in a battle-for-third place by a rout, 142-107, In that game, Toyota rookie Terry Saldana figured in a brawl with South Korean guard Lee Minhyun.
• Bannered by Last year's Best Import Andrew Fields, teaming up with the Conference' Best Import Donnie Ray Koonce, Toyota won their second title of the season and ninth championship, defeating first time-finalists Gilbey's Gin, powered by Lew Massey and Larry McNeil, 122-109 in Game 3 for a 3-0 finals sweep.

Roster

• I - Import

External links

• MYPBA.com Forums