2013–14 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers season

2013-14 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers season
Head coach	Tim Cone
Owner(s)	San Miguel-Pure Foods Co., Inc. (a San Miguel Corporation subsidiary)
Philippine Cup results Record 7–7 (.500) Place 5th Playoff finish Champions (def. Rain or Shine, 4-2) Commissioner's Cup results Record 4–5 (.444) Place 6th Playoff finish Champions (def. Talk 'N Text, 3-1) Governors' Cup results Record 5–4 (.556) Place 3rd Playoff finish Grandslam Champions (def. Rain or Shine, 3-2) San Mig Super Coffee Mixers seasons 2012–13 2014–15

The 2013–14 San Mig Coffee Mixers season is the 26th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Key dates

• November 3: The 2013 PBA Draft took place in Midtown Atrium, Robinson Place Manila.
• January 5: The Mixers defeated Barangay Ginebra San Miguel on a matchup that broke the record of the most people in the Mall of Asia Arena on a 79-83 victory, and an attendance of 20,600 people.
• February 12: The Mixers defeated Barangay Ginebra San Miguel in game seven of the best-of-seven series in the Semifinals of the Philippine Cup, a matchup that broke the record of the most crowd attendance in a game itself on a 110-87 victory, with an attendance of 25,000 people.^[1]
• February 26:The Mixers won their 11th Championship on the 2013-14 PBA Philippine Cup defeating Rain or Shine, 4 wins to 2.
• March 16: The Mixers again defeated Barangay Ginebra San Miguel on a 90-80 showdown, the matchup tallied the highest crowd attendance on the 2014 Commissioner's Cup.
• May 7: The Mixers won against the Air21 Express on a do-or-die matchup on the Game 5 of the 2014 Commissioner's Semifinals, and booking their third straight final appearance and fifth on the last seven conferences, it also tallies the sixth do or die game which the team survived since the 2013 Governors' Cup.
• May 15: Coach Tim Cone won his 17th PBA Championship in a 100-91 showdown against the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters, on the first three quarters, the Texter dominated the game, but the Mixers rallied back even the lead was even blown up to 17, they eventually won the game, and the rest of the Mixers also won the franchise's 12th championship, it also tallies three straight championship of the team, and four championship in the last eight conferences, James Yap won his third Finals MVP award.
• June 1: The Mixers defeated Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, 100-88, it also tallied the most attendance in this season's Governors' Cup.
• June 3: Yancy de Ocampo and Val Acuña was traded to GlobalPort Batang Pier in exchange of Yousef Taha and Ronnie Matias.
• June 17: The Mixers won against the San Miguel Beermen, tallying the eight-straight semi-final appearance of the franchise since the 2012 PBA Commissioner's Cup.
• June 18: TV analyst and former PBA player Jason Webb is hired as assistant coach.
• June 27: The Mixers won against the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters on their semi-final series, to tally their fourth straight final appearance and sixth in the last eight conferences, and surviving eight-straight on do-or-die games.
• July 9: The Mixers became the fourth team in PBA history to win the coveted Grand Slam after they won the deciding Game 5 of Governors Cup Finals, 92-89 against Rain or Shine Elasto Painters. James Yap was named the Finals MVP as he scored 29 points on 12 of 18 shooting from the field. This was the Mixers' 9th straight win in do or die games they played. Tim Cone became the only coach in PBA history to win 2 Grand Slams on two different teams. With this Grand Slam, the Mixers also had four-peat run, their 13th PBA title overall, tying them with the fabled Crispa Redmanizers for 3rd place in all-time list.^[2]

Draft picks

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	PBA D-League team	College
1	2	Ian Sangalang	PF/C	Philippines	NLEX Road Warriors	San Sebastian
1	10	Justin Chua	C	Philippines	Black Water Sports	Ateneo
2	3	Justin Melton	PG	United States	None	Mount Olive
3	10	JR Cawaling		Philippines		FEU

Roster

San Mig Super Coffee Mixers roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # POB Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY–MM–DD) From C 00 Taha, Yousef 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 220 lb (100 kg) 1988-07-08 North Lake College PG 2 Melton, Justin 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) 163 lb (74 kg) 1987-4-27 Mount Olive F/C 4 Reavis, Rafi 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 1977-7-27 Coppin State F/C 5 Holstein, Isaac  6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 206 lb (93 kg) 1987-9-7 West Virginia State C/G 6 Cawaling, JR 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 1987-8-15 FEU C/G 8 Simon, Peter June 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 180 lb (82 kg) 1980-6-1 U of Mindanao PG 9 Alvarez, Lester 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) 154 lb (70 kg) 1988-9-18 Adamson F/C 10 Sangalang, Ian 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 212 lb (96 kg) 1991-12-20 SSC–R PG 11 Mallari, Alex 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 167 lb (76 kg) 1987-3-26 Lewis–Clark PG 14 Barroca, Mark 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) 170 lb (77 kg) 1986-4-25 FEU PF 15 Pingris, Marc (C) 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 210 lb (95 kg) 1981-10-16 PSBA SG 18 Yap, James 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 1982-2-15 UE SF 19 Gaco, Jerwin 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 180 lb (82 kg) 1981-1-17 De La Salle SG 22 Maliksi, Allein 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 180 lb (82 kg) 1987-9-18 UST SF 33 Matias, Ronnie 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 184 lb (83 kg) 1983-11-29 UM SF 38 Devance, Joe 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 215 lb (98 kg) 1982-2-19 UTEP	Head coach Tim Cone (George Washington) Assistant coach(es) Richard del Rosario (De La Salle) Johnny Abarrientos (FEU) Jason Webb (De La Salle) Mon Jose Team manager Alvin Patrimonio (Mapúa) Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (IN) Inactive (S) Suspended (R) Rookie Injured Roster

Philippine Cup

Eliminations

Standings

{{2013–14 PBA Philippine Cup standings|team=SMC}}

Playoffs

Bracket

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals (Best-of-7)					Finals (Best-of-7)
		(#1 twice to beat)
	1	Barangay Ginebra	97	108
	8	Alaska	104	95
							1	Barangay Ginebra	3
		(Best-of-3)					5	San Mig Coffee	4
	4	Talk 'N Text	1
	5	San Mig Coffee	2
												5	San Mig Coffee	4
		(#2 twice-to-beat)										2	Rain or Shine	2
	2	Rain or Shine	106
	7	GlobalPort	96
							2	Rain or Shine	4
		(Best-of-3)					3	Petron Blaze	1
	3	Petron Blaze	2
	6	Barako Bull	0

Commissioner's Cup

Eliminations

Standings

 y  – clinched twice to beat in the quarterfinals,  x  – clinched best-of-3 quarterfinals,  w  – clinched twice to win in the quarterfinals,  e  – eliminated

2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup
#	Team	W	L	PCT	GB	Tie
1	y–Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters	9	0	1.000	–
2	y–San Miguel Beermen	7	2	.778	2
3	x–Alaska Aces	6	3	.667	3
4	x–Rain or Shine Elasto Painters	5	4	.556	4	1.22
5	x–Meralco Bolts	5	4	.556	4	0.82
6	x–San Mig Super Coffee Mixers	4	5	.444	5
7	w–Air21 Express	3	6	.333	6	1.02
8	w–Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	3	6	.333	6	0.98
9	e–Barako Bull Energy	2	7	.222	7
10	e–GlobalPort Batang Pier	1	8	.111	8

Playoffs

Bracket

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals (Best-of-5)					Finals (Best-of-5)
		(#1 twice to beat)
	1	Talk 'N Text	97
	8	Barangay Ginebra	84
							1	Talk 'N Text	3
		(Best-of-3)					4	Rain or Shine	0
	4	Rain or Shine	2
	5	Meralco	1
												1	Talk 'N Text	1
		(#2 twice-to-beat)										6	San Mig Coffee	3
	2	San Miguel	79	95
	7	Air21	92	101**
							7	Air21	2
		(Best-of-3)					6	San Mig Coffee	3
	3	Alaska	1
	6	San Mig Coffee	2

**double overtime

Governors' Cup

Eliminations

Standings

 y  – clinched twice to beat in the quarterfinals,  x  – clinched twice to win in the quarterfinals,  e  – eliminated

2014 PBA Governors' Cup
#	Team	W	L	PCT	GB	Tie
1	y- Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters	7	2	.778	–
2	y- Rain or Shine Elasto Painters	6	3	.667	1
3	y- Alaska Aces	5	4	.556	2	1.08
4	y- San Mig Super Coffee Mixers	5	4	.556	2	1.02
5	x- San Miguel Beermen	5	4	.556	2	0.99
6	x- Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	5	4	.556	2	0.97
7	x- Air21 Express	5	4	.556	2	0.94
8	x- Barako Bull Energy	3	6	.333	4	1.01
9	e- Meralco Bolts	3	6	.333	4	0.99
10	e- GlobalPort Batang Pier	1	8	.125	6

Bracket

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals (Best-of-5)					Finals (Best-of-5)
		(#1 twice to beat)
	1	Talk 'N Text	99
	8	Barako Bull	84
							1	Talk 'N Text	2
		(#4 twice to beat)					4	San Mig Coffee	3
	4	San Mig Coffee	97
	5	San Miguel	90
												4	San Mig Coffee	3
		(#2 twice to beat)										2	Rain or Shine	2
	2	Rain or Shine	111
	7	Air21	90
							2	Rain or Shine	3
		(#3 twice to beat)					3	Alaska	2
	3	Alaska	92
	6	Barangay Ginebra	81

Transactions

Overview

Players Added Via draft Ian Sangalang Justin Chua JR Cawaling Justin Melton Via trade Isaac Holstein Ronnie Matias Yousef Taha

Players Lost Via trade Justin Chua Yancy de Ocampo Val Acuña Jewel Ponferada Leo Najorda Waived Ken Bono

Recruited imports

Tournament	Name	Debuted	Last game	Record
Commissioner's Cup	James Mays	March 12 (vs. GlobalPort)	May 15 (vs. Talk 'N Text)	12–9
Governors' Cup	Marqus Blakely	May 21 (vs. Barako Bull)	July 9 (vs. Rain or Shine)	12–8

References

1. "San Mig Coffee dominates Ginebra, set up Finals series against Rain or Shine". GMA News Online.
2. "San Mig Super Coffee nails Govs' Cup, Coveted Grand Slam". pba.inquirer.net.