1983 Great Taste Discoverers season

1983 Great Taste Coffee Makers season
Head coach	Jimmy Mariano Baby Dalupan
Owner(s)	CFC Corporation
All Filipino Conference results Record 8–5 (.615) Place 3rd Playoff finish Semifinals Reinforced Conference results Record 17–9 (.654) Place 2nd Playoff finish Finals Open Conference results Record 13–11 (.542) Place 2nd Playoff finish Finals Great Taste Coffee Makers seasons 1982 1984

The 1983 Great Taste Discoverers season was the 9th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Return to Great Taste Coffee Makers beginning the Reinforced Filipino Conference.

Off-season transactions

TRANSACTIONS
Ricardo Brown ^Rookie signed to a 4-year contract, the first Fil-American to play in the PBA
Bogs Adornado ^Acquired from defunct U-Tex Wranglers
Alejo Alolor ^Acquired from Galerie Dominique
Bernardo Carpio ^Acquired from Crispa

Awards

• Ricardo Brown was named the season's Rookie of the Year (ROY).
• William "Bogs" Adornado and Ricardo Brown made it to the Mythical Five selection.
• Great Taste import Norman Black became the league's first recipient of the Award "Mr.100%".

Finals stint

With the acquisition of three-time MVP Bogs Adornado and Fil-Am rookie Ricardo Brown during the off-season and behind last year's best import awardee Norman Black, formerly of San Miguel Beer, the Great Taste Coffee Makers finally made it to the championship round for the first time in their franchise history during the second conference of the season, going up against the Crispa Redmanizers, led by a prolific import named Billy Ray Bates, the Coffee Makers were ahead, two games to one, in their best-of-five title series and a win away from their first ever PBA crown, the Redmanizers however battled back to win the last two games and take home their second championship of the season.

Great Taste and Crispa played again in the finals in the Open Conference, the Redmanizers had Larry Demic as Billy Ray Bates' partner while Norman Black teamed up with Dawan Scott. Crispa had an easier time winning over the Coffee Makers, scoring a 3-0 sweep to captured their second PBA Grandslam.

Occurrences

During the Open Conference, the Coffee Makers were on top of the standings when in their game against Galerie Dominique in the second round of eliminations, coach Jimmy Mariano was quote as saying "We didn't intend to win", which was carried out by the media, by his admission to deliberately lose the game, Mariano was sacked from his job, former Crispa coach Baby Dalupan, who was hired as team consultant during the second conference, has taken over to replace Mariano on the Great Taste bench. ^[1]

Roster

Great Taste Coffee roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY–MM–DD) From F/C 1 Victorino, Manny 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 200 lb (91 kg) 1958-12-30 Jose Rizal College G/F 2 Alolor, Alejo 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 160 lb (73 kg) 1958-03-28 University of Visayas G/F 3 Manansala, Jaime (A) 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) 160 lb (73 kg) 1956-10-31 UE F/C 6 Banal, Joel 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 163 lb (74 kg) 1958-02-06 Mapua Tech G 8 Guzman, Noel 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 165 lb (75 kg) 1957-12-25 San Beda College G 10 Mendoza, Eduardo 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 165 lb (75 kg) 1956-12-24 University of Visayas C 11 Ritualo, Florendo 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 1953-03-29 University of Baguio G 16 Paguntalan, Leonardo 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 182 lb (83 kg) 1956-11-06 Western Institute F 22 Gulfin, Filomeno 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 170 lb (77 kg) 1958-05-02 SWU G 23 Brown, Ricardo 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 175 lb (79 kg) 1957-05-22 Pepperdine University F 29 Carpio, Bernardo 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 188 lb (85 kg) 1958-05-07 Ateneo de Manila G/F 33 Adornado, Bogs 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 175 lb (79 kg) 1951-05-26 UST F 66 Marquez, Joey 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 175 lb (79 kg) 1957-10-07 Angeles University F 24 Black, Norman (I) 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 1957-11-12 Saint Joseph's University F 18 Thompson, Charles (I) 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 235 lb (107 kg) 1957-10-12 C 7 Scott, Dawan (I) 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 230 lb (104 kg) 1956-08-16	Head coach Jimmy Mariano Baby Dalupan [2] Assistant coach(es) Nap Flores (Trainer) Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (IN) Inactive (S) Suspended (R) Rookie (A) Acquired from Tanduay Injured

_{Team Manager: Ignacio Gotao}

References

1. Exit Mariano, enter Dalupan
2. Team Rosters