1980 Gilbey's Gin season

Gilbey's Gin
1980 Gilbey's Gin season
Head coach	Filomeno Pumaren ; Nemie Villegas
Open Conference results
Record	7–11 ; (.389)
Place	7th
Playoff finish	N/A
Invitational Championship results
Record	0–0
Place	N/A
Playoff finish	N/A
All Filipino Conference results
Record	9–12 ; (.429)
Place	4th
Playoff finish	Semifinals
Gilbey's Gin seasons

The 1980 Gilbey's Gin season was the second season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Transactions

TRANSACTIONS
Wilfredo Generalao ^{Rookie signed}
Orlando Delos Santos ^{Acquired from defunct Filmanbank}
Wilfredo Tanduyan ^{Acquired from Crispa}
Armando Torres ^{Acquired from Crispa}
Marlowe Jacutin ^{Acquired from Royal}

Elimination round

Open (1st) Conference

Team	W	L	GB
Toyota Tamaraws	15	3	-
Great Taste Discoverers	13	5	2
Walk Tall Jeans	12	6	3
U-Tex Wranglers	11	7	4
Galleon Shippers	10	8	5
Tefilin Polyesters	9	9	6
Gilbey's Gin	7	11	8
Honda Hagibis	5	13	10
Tanduay Esquires	4	14	11
Royal Tru-Orange	4	14	11

All-Filipino (3rd) Conference

Team	W	L	GB
Crispa Redmanizers	9	0	-
Toyota Tamaraws	7	2	2
Gilbey’s Gin	5	4	4
Tanduay Esquires	5	4	4
San Miguel Beermen	5	4	4
U-Tex Wranglers	4	5	5
Honda Motorbike	4	5	5
Tefilin Polyesters	3	6	6
Galleon Shippers	3	6	6
Presto Fun Drinks	0	9	9

Semifinalist Qualified in Round of Six

Semifinal stint

Coach Pilo Pumaren was replaced by Nemie Villegas as the team's head coach in the season-ending All-Filipino Conference. Gilbey's posted a 5-4 and 3-2 won-loss cards in the elimination and quarterfinal phase and they made it to the four-team semifinals for the first time in five conferences. The Gins didn't win any match in the single round-robin and they placed fourth by losing to Tanduay in four games of their best-of-five series for third place. [1]

Awards

Willie Generalao was named the season's Rookie of the year

Roster

Gilbey's Gin roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.
G		Delos Santos, Orlando	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	State U
F	3	Rivera, Norberto	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)	San Sebastian College
G	5	Dela Cruz, Bienvenido	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)	University of Mindanao
G	7	Torres, Armando	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)	FEATI University
F	8	Jacutin, Marlowe	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)	University of Visayas
F/C	10	Martin, Jesusito	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)	Jose Rizal College
F	16	Rodriguez, Porfirio	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
F/C	18	Del Rosario, Eusebio	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	UE
G	19	Tanduyan, Wilfredo	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	SWU
G	21	Dator, Lucrecio	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)	SWU
G	24	Generalao, Wilfredo	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	University of Visayas
G	30	Garcia, Javier	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Adamson University
C	31	McNeill, Larry (I)	6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)	Marquette University
F/C	34	Bradley, Jim (I)	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)	Northern Illinois University

Head coach

Filomeno Pumaren
Nemie Villegas

Assistant coach(es)

Legend

(C) Team captain
(I) Import
Injured

References

"Gins have come a long way, baby".

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[1] "Gins have come a long way, baby".