1995 Alaska Milkmen season

The 1995 Alaska Milkmen season on their 10th season in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Draft picks

Summary

All-Filipino Cup: The Milkmen started their season losing their first four games and were the last team to enter the semifinal round by winning their last four remaining matches in the eliminations for an even 5-win, 5-loss card. In the semifinals, Alaska earn a playoff for a second finals berth via win-5 of 8 games, following a 102-92 win over Purefoods on the last day of the semifinal round on May 2, three nights later on May 5, Alaska finally ended Purefoods' run of seven consecutive finals appearance in an All-Filipino tournament, with a 115-89 rout, ^[1] The Milkmen played the Sunkist Orange Juicers (formerly Swift last season) for the second straight time in a championship series, this time for the All-Filipino Cup crown, their title series went all the way to a Game 7 and Alaska was so close of repeating as champions if not for Vergel Meneses' heroics in the regulation period, the deciding game went into overtime and the Milkmen lost to the Juicers, 78-87.

Commissioner's Cup: Alaska brought in Derrick Hamilton, who last played for the Pepsi Hotshots back in 1990, as their import, after scoring just 21 points in his debut where the Milkmen lost to Sta.Lucia, 97-101 in overtime, Hamilton bounce back to score 40 points in his next game as Alaska scored its first win against his former team Pepsi Mega, 113-106 on June 13, the Milkmen raced to a 4-win, 2-loss start, handed the San Miguel Beermen their first loss in five games in a 102-101 win on June 27, ^[2] at the end of the eliminations, the Milkmen were third behind Sunkist and Sta.Lucia, after the one-round quarterfinals, Alaska and Sta.Lucia were tied with 10 wins and 5 losses, In the best-of-five semifinals with the Realtors, who had beaten the Milkmen in three meetings in the conference prior to their series, Alaska surprisingly had an easier time scoring a 3-0 sweep and march into their fourth straight finals appearance, and went on to play the Sunkist Orange Juicers for the third consecutive time in a championship series. The Milkmen ended up bridesmaid for the second straight conference, losing to Sunkist in six games.

Governor's Cup: With Sean Chambers back and the Alaska Milkmen ready to defend the title they won last season, the Grandslam-seeking Sunkist and Alaska were on top of the standings after the eliminations and looks headed for a fourth encounter in the championship round. On November 14, the Milkmen gave the Orange Juicers their worst defeat in the semifinals, a 115-91 win, ^[3] two weeks later on November 28, with the first finals berth at stake, Alaska repeated over Sunkist, 111-105 for their 13th victory in 17 games and advances into their fifth straight finals stint dating back to last season's Commissioner's Cup, ^[4] the Milkmen watch the Juicers stumbled and lost their last three semifinal outings while giving the San Miguel Beermen a free ride to the championship series, Alaska retains the Governor's Cup title with a 4-3 series win over San Miguel, winning the final two games.

Roster

Pos. No. Player School G 4 Merwin Castelo style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| San Beda G 5 Gilbert Reyes style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| Ateneo de Manila G 6 Jojo Lastimosa style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| San Jose-Recoletos G 7 Rosedendo Gomez style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| Cebu Central Colleges C 12 Richard Bachmann style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| De La Salle G 14 Johnny Abarrientos style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| FEU F 16 Rene Hawkins style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| Perpetual Help College F 22 Jeffrey Cariaso style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| Sonoma State College C 24 Cris Bolado style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| National University C 31 Giovanni Pineda style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| Adamson University C 32 Edward Juinio style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| UP-Diliman C 50 Alejandro Araneta style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| Ateneo de Manila F 54 Dondon Ampalayo style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| San Jose-Recoletos F 3 Derrek Hamilton (C) style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| University of Southern Mississippi G 20 Sean Chambers (G) style="font-size: 95%; text-align: left; width=25%""| California Polytechnic State University Position Name/s Head coach:  Tim Cone Assistants: Joel Banal / Aric Del Rosario Commissioner's Cup import - (C), Governor's Cup import - (G) '

_{Team Manager: Joaqui Trillo}

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