1984 PBA Invitational Championship Finals

1984 PBA Invitational Championship Finals
TeamCoachWins
Great Taste Coffee Makers Baby Dalupan 3
Crispa Redmanizers Narciso Bernardo 2
Dates December 9–18, 1984
Television Vintage Sports (MBS)
Radio network DWXL
Referees
Game 1: R. Bartolome, R. Victorino, W. Mateo
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The 1984 PBA Invitational Championship Finals was the best-of-5 basketball championship series of the 1984 PBA Invitational Conference. The Great Taste Coffee Makers and Crispa Redmanizers played for the 29th championship contested by the league.[1]

Great Taste Coffee Makers won its second consecutive title, defeating Crispa Redmanizers, 3 games to 2, as 30,000 fans at the Big Dome witnessed Crispa's last official PBA game.

Games summary

Game 1

December 9
Great Taste Coffee Makers 138, Crispa Redmanizers 115
Scoring by quarter: 34-22, 27-34, 28-26, 49-33
Pts: Collins 40 Brown 36 Pts: Willis 31 Guidaben 29
Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
Referees: R. Bartolome, R. Victorino, W. Mateo

The Coffee Makers were ahead by only seven, 89-82, going into the final period, Ricardo Brown hit nine points in an 11-2 blast as their lead ballooned to 14 points, 100-86, import Jeff Collins took over the scoring chores and came up with an eight-point run for Great Taste to decide the issue, 114-92.[2]

Game 2

December 11
Great Taste Coffee Makers 117, Crispa Redmanizers 118
Scoring by quarter: 35-30, 25-25, 30-32, 27-31
Pts: Ricardo Brown 39 Pts: Carlton Willis 33

The Redmanizers took a 75-71 lead in the third quarter, after trailing the Coffee Makers throughout the game. In the fourth period, after a three-point play by Freddie Hubalde to tie the count at 90-all, a 9-2 run by Great Taste, resulted to a seven-point spread with nine minutes left in the ballgame, going into the last two minutes of play, Jeff Collins' reverse dunk gave the Coffee Makers a five-point lead, but Freddie Hubalde's two unanswered baskets bring the Great Taste' lead to only one with 1:05 to go. Ricardo Brown scored two-for-two from the stripe after being hacked by Carlton Willis, 117-114 for Great Taste, Willis then scored on a short drive with 35 seconds left. The Coffee Makers became a little too lax and Ricardo Brown snapped off a jumper that was too strong, it bounced off the ring right into the hands of Abet Guidaben, a lead pass to Arturo Cristobal, who spotted Freddie Hubalde waiting in the frontcourt, and scored with 4.4 seconds on the clock. Great Taste calls two timeouts, and in the inbound play, Jeff Collins broke free and went for a three-pointer that was short. The Redmanizers evened up the series at one game each.

Game 3

December 13
Great Taste Coffee Makers 103, Crispa Redmanizers 116
Scoring by quarter: 21-23, 28-28, 24-31, 30-34
Pts: Ricardo Brown 29

From a 51-49 halftime edge in favor of Crispa, the Coffee Makers started the third period on a 8-0 run for a 57-51 lead as the Redmanizers were held scoreless in the first 1:36 of the second half. Philip Cezar scored on a lay-up that set off Crispa's own 11-2 blast that pushed them ahead, 62-59. With 1:26 left in the third quarter, Crispa got their first double-digit lead at 79-69. The Redmanizers went up by 14 points in the fourth quarter, 90-76, but Great Taste rallied to within 94-98 with still 5:28 remaining. A three-point play by Abet Guidaben off Alejo Alolor's fourth foul seal the Coffee Makers' fate, and Philip Cezar followed that up with a lay-up on a 4 on 1 fastbreak, 103-94 for Crispa.

Game 4

December 16
Great Taste Coffee Makers 117, Crispa Redmanizers 105
Scoring by quarter: 32-25, 22-32, 32-21, 31-27
Pts: Collins 39 Brown 33 Pts: Carlton Willis 32

The Coffee Makers took a 47-36 advantage in the second quarter but the Redmanizers came back and even lead at halftime, 57-54. In the fourth quarter, from a precarious 103-97 six-point edge for Great Taste, Jeff Collins did the scoring for the Coffee Makers in a three-minute span to settle the issue, 112-99.

Game 5

December 18
Great Taste Coffee Makers 127, Crispa Redmanizers 106
Scoring by quarter: 34-24, 29-24, 30-24, 34-34
Pts: Jeff Collins 33 Pts: Carlton Willis 20
Great Taste wins series, 3-2

Jeff Collins sparked three devastating spurts that opened a commanding 56-40 lead for the Coffee Makers late in the second quarter, a finishing 15-6 third quarter run by Great Taste put the game's outcome beyond doubt, Abet Guidaben of Crispa fouled out with 1:58 left in the third quarter to hasten the Redmanizers' downfall. Great Taste raced to a 28-point margin, 108-80 with 4:54 left in the final period.[3]

1984 PBA Invitational Conference Champions

Great Taste Coffee Makers
Second title

Broadcast notes

Game Play-by-play Analyst
Game 1 Joe Cantada Norman Black
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4 Pinggoy Pengson Andy Jao and Freddie Webb
Game 5

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