1978 Crispa Redmanizers season

1978 Crispa Redmanizers season
Head coach Baby Dalupan
All-Filipino Conference results
Record 17–7
(.708)
Place 4th
Playoff finish 4
Open Conference results
Record 14–9
(.609)
Place 2nd
Playoff finish 2
Invitational Conference results
Record 4–3
(.571)
Place 3rd
Playoff finish 3
Crispa Redmanizers seasons
1977 1979

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

Colors

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

Summary

First Conference: With its bid for an unprecedented two consecutive grandslams stopped by arch rival Toyota, Crispa still had its power-packed line-up intact with newcomers from the amateur ranks, and the comebacking Bogs Adornado. In the eliminations, the Redmanizers matched Toyota's 12-win, 2-loss record, as everybody was expecting another classic Toyota-Crispa confrontation, but in the semifinals, the Redmanizers surprisingly faltered, winning and losing three games, thereby placing third to Toyota and Filmanbank. Crispa lost to Tanduay for third place via the quotient system with their series tied at 2 games apiece. [1]

Second Conference: Crispa stood firm to defend its last crown, with the All-Filipino unsuccessfully defended, coach Baby Dalupan personally choose 6-11's Ansley Truitt and Paul Mills. U-Tex and Crispa entered the semifinals without much difficulty, and placed 1st and 2nd after the semifinal round to enter into the championship, unlike their last year's confrontation, the 400s were for the first time, an underdog in the finals series, matched against Glenn McDonald, Snake Jones and Lim Eng Beng, U-Tex easily swept Crispa in three games.

Third Conference: Cyrus Mann, last year's Crispa import, was recalled by Danny Floro to replace Paul Mills. With Mann back, Crispa became co-favorites with Toyota, with five teams qualified for the Invitational championship, Crispa lost three of its four games and ended the third conference with a 4-3 slate, sort of avenged its loss to U/tex in the second conference with a 3-0 sweep in their battle for third place.

Roster

ROSTER # POS HT
Bogs Adornado 11 Forward 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Philip Cezar 18 Center-Forward 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Fortunato Co, Jr 6 Guard 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Virgilio Dela Cruz 12 Guard 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Gregorio Dionisio 9 Guard 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Bernie Fabiosa 15 Guard 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Reynaldo Franco 19 Guard 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Abet Guidaben 5 Center 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Freddie Hubalde 10 Forward 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Jaime Javier 16 Center-Forward 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Reynaldo Pages 8 Forward 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Rodolfo Soriano 7 Forward 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Wilfredo Tanduyan 22 Guard 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Armando Torres 17 Guard 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Luis Varela 14 Guard 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Cyrus Mann Import 25 Forward-Center 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Paul Mills Import 32 Center 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)
Ansley Truitt Import 43 Forward-Center 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)

References

  1. ↑ Crispa@1978 PBA Annual

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