1985 PBA All-Filipino Conference Finals
The 1985 PBA All-Filipino Conference Finals was the best-of-5 basketball championship series of the 1985 PBA All-Filipino Conference, and the conclusion of the conference playoffs. The Great Taste Coffee Makers and Shell Azodrin Bugbusters played for the 31st championship contested by the league.
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Dates | August 13–20, 1985 | |||||||||
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Television | Vintage Sports (MBS) | |||||||||
Radio network | DZRP/DZFM |
The Great Taste Coffee Makers won their finals series against Shell Azodrin Bugbusters, three games to one, for their fourth straight PBA title.
Qualification
Great Taste | Shell | ||
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Finished 8–2 (.800), 1st | Eliminations | Finished 5–5 (.500), tied for 2nd | |
Finished 12–4 (.750), 1st | Semifinals | Finished 8–8 (.500), tied for 2nd | |
Tiebreaker | Won against Ginebra, 89–76 |
Series scoring summary
Team | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Wins |
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Great Taste | 103 | 113 | 102 | 110 | 3 |
Shell Azodrin | 98 | 106 | 103 | 91 | 1 |
Venue | ULTRA | ULTRA | ULTRA | ULTRA |
Games summary
Game 1
August 13 |
Great Taste Coffee Makers 103, Shell Azodrin 98 | ||
Scoring by quarter: 26–16, 27–29, 20–22, 30–31 | ||
Pts: Pongkee Alolor 23 | Pts: Bogs Adornado 28 |
Ricardo Brown was taken out at 7:36 in the second period after he sustained a bad fall while going for a layup. The Coffee Makers dominated the first half despite the loss of Brown and took the fight out of the rallying Bugbusters midway in the final period with a 9–2 spurt to open a 91–80 lead, time down to five minutes.
Game 2
August 15 |
Great Taste Coffee Makers 113, Shell Azodrin 106 | ||
Scoring by quarter: 29–28, 29–26, 25–26, 30–26 | ||
Pts: Manny Victorino 35 | Pts: Bogs Adornado 46 |
Manny Victorino shot a team-high 35 points but it was the presence of Ricardo Brown that led to the Coffee Makers' surge in the final period, Brown sparked an 11–2 blast to turn an 87–90 deficit to a 98–92 lead with 5:23 left. The bugbusters lapsed into series of errors as Great Taste went to pad its lead to 12 points at 111–99 with 42 seconds remaining. Bogs Adornado shot a conference-high 46 points for Shell but the Coffee Makers' defense held other bugbusters in check.
Game 3
August 18 |
Great Taste Coffee Makers 102, Shell Azodrin 103 | ||
Scoring by quarter: 20–32, 24–22, 26–17, 32–32 | ||
Pts: Willie Pearson 22 | Pts: Bogs Adornado 32 |
Ricardo Brown missed what could have been a winning shot at the buzzer. In the last five seconds, Brown moved out of a double team by Bernie Fabiosa and Romy Ang and jumped at the left side of the key hole but the ball rimmed out as the buzzer sounded. The bugbusters almost let a won game slipped away, the Coffee Makers were behind by 10 points at halftime but came back with Brown hitting four three-point shots in the last nine minutes. Great Taste moved to within 102–103 on the last of Brown's triple and Willie Pearson intercepted a pass by Philip Cezar with 27 seconds to go.
Game 4
August 20 |
Great Taste Coffee Makers 110, Shell Azodrin 91 | ||
Scoring by quarter: 19–24, 35–14, 29–19, 27–34 | ||
Pts: Ricardo Brown 23 | Pts: Bogs Adornado 32 | |
Great Taste wins series, 3–1 |
An explosive second quarter blitz by Great Taste opened up a 54–38 halftime advantage. Ricardo Brown, who shot 15 points in the second quarter alone, including three triples, spearheaded a decisive 23–5 splurge as the Coffee Makers took a 16-point lead at the break. The bugbusters never recovered from there as the lead of Great Taste balloon to as many as 30 points in the second half, the last at 110–80 and with the championship wrapped up, the Coffee Makers relaxed allowing the Bugbusters to score eleven straight points for the final count. [1]
1985 PBA All-Filipino Conference Champions |
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Great Taste Coffee Makers Fourth title |
Rosters
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Broadcast notes
Game | Play-by-play | Analyst |
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