1978 Crispa Redmanizers season

1978 Crispa Redmanizers season
Head coach	Baby Dalupan
All-Filipino Conference results Record 17–7 (.708) Place 4th Playoff finish Semifinals Open Conference results Record 14–9 (.609) Place 2nd Playoff finish Finals Invitational Conference results Record 4–3 (.571) Place 3rd Playoff finish N/A 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 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 advanced to the semifinals without much difficulty and placed first and second 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 title series, matched against the Wranglers' triumvirate of Glenn McDonald, Byron "Snake" Jones and Lim Eng Beng, the Redmanizers were swept in three games by U-Tex.

Third Conference: Cyrus Mann, last year's Crispa import, was recalled by Danny Floro to replace Paul Mills. Five teams qualified for the Invitational championship. Crispa lost three of its four games in the round-robin and had to settle for third place honors.

Roster

Crispa Redmanizers roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY–MM–DD) From C 5 Guidaben, Abet 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) San Jose-Recoletos G 6 Co, Jr, Fortunato 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Mapua F 7 Soriano, Rodolfo 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) UE F 8 Pages, Rey 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) De La Salle G 9 Dionisio, Gregorio 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Adamson G/F 10 Hubalde, Freddie 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Mapua G/F 11 Adornado, Bogs 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) UST G/F 12 Dela Cruz, Virgilio 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Mapua G 14 Varela, Luis 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) UE G 15 Fabiosa, Bernie 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) UE C 16 Javier, Jaime 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Jose Rizal College G 17 Torres, Armando 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) FEATI University F 18 Cezar, Philip 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Jose Rizal College G 19 Franco, Rey 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) UE G 22 Tanduyan, Wilfredo 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) SWU C 25 Mann, Cyrus (I) 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) Illinois State C 32 Mills, Paul (I) 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) F/C 43 Truitt, Ansley (I) 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) California-Berkeley	Head coach Baby Dalupan Assistant coach(es) Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (IN) Inactive (S) Suspended (R) Rookie Injured

References

1. "Crispa". 1978 PBA Annual.

External links

• www.pba-online.net