1984 PBA Invitational championship

{{Infobox PBA conference | year = 1984 | conference_name = Invitational championship | logo = | pixels = | caption = | duration = November 18 – December 18, 1984 | attendance = | TV = [[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage Sports]] ([[People's Television Network|MBS]]) | best_player = | best_import = Jeff Collins<br/> {{small|([[Great Taste Coffee Makers]])}} | finals_mvp = | champion = [[Great Taste Coffee Makers]] | runner-up = [[Crispa Redmanizers]] | prevconf_link = 1982 PBA Invitational championship | prevconf_year = 1982 | nextconf_link = 2003 PBA Invitational championship | nextconf_year = 2003 | prev_conf = 1984 Second All-Filipino | prev_conf_link = 1984 PBA Second All-Filipino Conference | next_conf = 1985 Open | next_conf_link = 1985 PBA Open Conference }}

The '''[[1984 PBA season|1984]] PBA Invitational championship''' was the third conference of the [[1984 PBA season]]. It started on November 18 and ended on December 18, 1984. Imports return to action after two All-Filipino conferences.

==Format== The following format will be observed for the duration of the tournament: * Five teams qualified in the Invitational championship. Gold Eagle Beer gained the 5th entry over Tanduay Rhum Makers based on their won-loss records in the elimination round of the first two conferences. <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.interbasket.net/forums/album.php?albumid=144&attachmentid=9850|title=GTC in finals|work=Interbasket.net}}</ref> The Beermen had nine wins and 16 losses compared to Tanduay's seven wins and 18 losses combined slates despite the Rhum Makers making it to the semifinals of the second All-Filipino Conference. * The top two teams at the end of the double-round eliminations advance to the best-of-five finals. The third and fourth-place finishers play in the best-of-five series for third place.

==Qualification== These are win–loss records from the two All-Filipino conferences' elimination rounds this season: {{#invoke:Sports table|main |style=WL |source= |ranking_style=percentage |show_GB=no |hide_played=yes |for_against_style=none |update=complete

|res_col_header=Q |status_pos=after |col_Q=green1 |text_Q=Qualified to tournament }}

==Elimination round== <section begin="elimsstandings"/>{{#invoke:Sports table|main |style=WL |source= |ranking_style=percentage |show_GB=yes |hide_played=yes |for_against_style=none |update=complete

|result1=F |result2=F |result3=3rd |result4=3rd

|res_col_header=Q |status_pos=after |col_F=green1 |text_F=Advance to the finals |col_3rd=yellow1 |text_3rd=Proceed to third place playoff }}<section end="elimsstandings"/>

==Third place playoffs== {{basketballbox|bg=#eee|date= December 9 |place=[[Araneta Coliseum]], [[Quezon City]] |TV=[[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage]] |team1='''[[Manila Beer Brewmasters|Beer Hausen Brewmasters]]''' |score1=133 |team2= [[Barangay Ginebra San Miguel|Gilbey's Gin Tonics]] |score2=125 |points1=[[Butch Hays]] 40 |points2=[[Tony Washam|Washam]] 52 [[Steve Watson (basketball)|Watson]] 35 }} {{basketballbox|date= December 11 |place=[[Araneta Coliseum]], [[Quezon City]] |TV=[[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage]] |team1=[[Manila Beer Brewmasters|Beer Hausen Brewmasters]] |score1=100 |team2= '''[[Barangay Ginebra San Miguel|Gilbey's Gin Tonics]]''' |score2=106 |points1=[[Butch Hays]] 38 |points2=[[Tony Washam]] 49 }} {{basketballbox|bg=#eee|date= December 13 |place=[[Araneta Coliseum]], [[Quezon City]] |TV=[[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage]] |team1='''[[Manila Beer Brewmasters|Beer Hausen Brewmasters]]''' |score1=110 |team2= [[Barangay Ginebra San Miguel|Gilbey's Gin Tonics]] |score2=105 |points1=[[Butch Hays]] 37 |points2=[[Tony Washam]] 40 }} {{basketballbox|date= December 16 |place=[[Araneta Coliseum]], [[Quezon City]] |TV=[[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage]] |team1='''[[Manila Beer Brewmasters|Beer Hausen Brewmasters]]''' |score1=124 |team2= [[Barangay Ginebra San Miguel|Gilbey's Gin Tonics]] |score2=110 |points1=[[Butch Hays]] 41 |points2=[[Tony Washam]] 40 |series= Beer Hausen wins series, 3–1 }}

==Finals== {{Infobox PBA conference finals | image= | year = 1984 | conference = Invitational championship | champion = [[1984 Great Taste Coffee Makers season|Great Taste Coffee Makers]] | champion_coach = [[Baby Dalupan]] | champion_games = 3 | runnerup = [[1984 Crispa Redmanizers season|Crispa Redmanizers]] | runnerup_coach = [[Narciso Bernardo]] | runnerup_games = 2 | date= December 9 to December 18, 1984 | MVP = | television = [[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage]] ([[People's Television Network|GTV]]) | announcers = | radio_network = | radio_announcers = | referees_1 = | referees_2 = | referees_3 = | referees_4 = | referees_5 = | referees_6 = | prev_year = [[1982 PBA Invitational championship finals|1982]] | next_year = [[2003 PBA Invitational championship finals|2003]] | next_conf = [[1985 PBA All-Filipino Conference finals|1985 All-Filipino]] | prev_conf = [[1984 PBA Second All-Filipino Conference finals|1984 Second All-Filipino]] }} The '''1984 [[Philippine Basketball Association]] (PBA) Invitational championship finals''' was the [[Playoff format#Best-of-five playoff|best-of-5]] [[basketball]] championship series of the 1984 PBA Invitational. Great Taste Coffee Makers and Crispa Redmanizers played for the 28th championship contested by the league.

Great Taste Coffee Makers won their finals series against Crispa via 3–2 series.

===Series scoring summary=== The following scoring summary is written in a [[line score]] format, except that the quarter numbers are replaced by game numbers. {| border=1 cellspacing=0 width=425 style="margin-left:3em;" |- style="text-align:center; background-color:#e6e6e6;" !align=left width=28%|Team !width=6%|Game 1 !width=6%|Game 2 !width=6%|Game 3 !width=6%|Game 4 !width=6%|Game 5 !width=6%|Wins |- style="text-align:center;" |align=left|'''Great Taste''' | '''138''' || 117 || 103 ||'''117''' ||'''127''' || '''3''' |- style="text-align:center;" |align=left|Crispa | 115 || '''118''' || '''116''' ||105 ||106 || 2 |- style="text-align:center;" |} † denotes the number of overtimes

===Scores=== {{basketballbox|bg=#eee |date=December 9 |time= |place=[[Araneta Coliseum]], [[Quezon City]] |TV=[[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage]] |report=[http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w638/MonPba/201762_177902135592800_2721864_o_zpse3eeac2b.jpg recap] |referee=R. Bartolome, R. Victorino, W. Mateo |team1='''[[Great Taste Coffee Makers]]''' |score1=138 |team2=[[Crispa Redmanizers]] |score2=115 |Q1=34-22|Q2=27-34 |Q3=28-26 |Q4= 49-33 |points1=[[Jeff Collins (basketball)|Collins]] 40 [[Ricardo Brown (basketball)|Brown]] 36 |points2=[[Carlton Willis|Willis]] 31 [[Abet Guidaben|Guidaben]] 29 }} 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. {{basketballbox|bg=#eee |date=December 11 |time= |place=[[Araneta Coliseum]], [[Quezon City]] |TV=[[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage]] |report=[http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w638/MonPba/gm2_zpse56061da.jpg recap] |team1=[[Great Taste Coffee Makers]] |score1=117 |team2='''[[Crispa Redmanizers]]''' |score2=118 |Q1=35-30 |Q2=25-25 |Q3=30-32 |Q4=27-31 |points1=[[Ricardo Brown (basketball)|Ricardo Brown]] 39 |points2=[[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. {{basketballbox|bg=#eee |date=December 13 |time= |place=[[Araneta Coliseum]], [[Quezon City]] |TV=[[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage]] |report= [http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w638/MonPba/1888888_606860249396083_1687533385_o_zps4ce0fea2.jpg recap] |team1=[[Great Taste Coffee Makers]] |score1=103 |team2='''[[Crispa Redmanizers]]''' |score2=116 |Q1=21-23 |Q2=28-28 |Q3=24-31 |Q4=30-34 |points1=[[Ricardo Brown (basketball)|Ricardo Brown]] 29 |points2=[[Abet Guidaben]] 25 }} From a 51-49 halftime edge in favor of Crispa, the Coffee Makers started the third period on an 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 four on one fastbreak, 103-94 for Crispa. {{basketballbox|bg=#eee |date=December 16 |time= |place=[[Araneta Coliseum]], [[Quezon City]] |TV=[[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage]] |team1='''[[Great Taste Coffee Makers]]''' |score1=117 |team2=[[Crispa Redmanizers]] |score2=105 |Q1=32-25 |Q2=22-32 |Q3=32-21 |Q4=31-27 |points1=[[Jeff Collins (basketball)|Collins]] 39 [[Ricardo Brown (basketball)|Brown]] 33 |points2=[[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. {{basketballbox|bg=#eee |date=December 18 |time= |place=[[Araneta Coliseum]], [[Quezon City]] |TV=[[PBA on Vintage Sports|Vintage]] |team1='''[[Great Taste Coffee Makers]]''' |score1=127 |team2=[[Crispa Redmanizers]] |score2=106 |Q1=34-24 |Q2=29-24 |Q3=30-24 |Q4=34-34 |points1=[[Jeff Collins (basketball)|Jeff Collins]] 33 |points2=[[Carlton Willis]] 20 |series= 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rpbasketballphotos.blogspot.com/2014/03/great-taste-four-straight-championships.html|title=Great Taste bags 2nd title}}</ref>

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