1987_PBA_All-Filipino_Conference_finals
The 1987 PBA All-Filipino Conference finals was the best-of-5 basketball championship series of the 1987 PBA All-Filipino Conference, and the conclusion of the conference playoffs. The Great Taste Coffee Makers and Hills Bros. Coffee Kings played for the 37th championship contested by the league.[1]
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| Dates | September 3–8, 1987 | |||||||||
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| Television | Vintage Sports (PTV) | |||||||||
| Radio network | DZSR | |||||||||
| PBA All-Filipino Conference finals chronology | ||||||||||
Great Taste Coffee Makers won their fifth PBA title and third All-Filipino crown, scoring a 3–0 sweep over Hills Bros. Coffee Kings.
| Great Taste | Hills Bros. | ||
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| Finished 5–3 (.625), tied for 1st | Eliminations | Finished 5–3 (.625), tied for 1st | |
| Finished 6–2 (.750), 2nd | Semifinals | Finished 7–1 (.875), 1st | |
Game 1
September 3 |
| Great Taste Coffee Makers 124, Hills Bros. Coffee Kings 94 | ||
| Scoring by quarter: 28–25, 26–15, 36–17, 34–37 | ||
| Pts: Allan Caidic 23 | Pts: Bogs Adornado 18 | |
Great taste had their largest lead at 109–70, in a surprising lopsided win for the Coffee Makers.
Game 2
September 6 |
| Great Taste Coffee Makers 114, Hills Bros. Coffee Kings 110 | ||
| Scoring by quarter: 32–22, 28–27, 31–31, 23–30 | ||
| Pts: Ricardo Brown 23 | Pts: Alejo Alolor 27 | |
Great Taste leads by as much as 16 points in the final quarter but got a scare from a three-point shooting of Naning Valenciano. The Coffee Makers answered every short-lived uprising in the last two minutes with clutch hits by Ricardo Brown and Allan Caidic.[2]
Game 3
September 8 |
| Great Taste Coffee Makers 109, Hills Bros. Coffee Kings 108 | ||
| Scoring by quarter: 22–24, 32–19, 26–32, 29–33 | ||
| Great Taste wins series, 3–0 |
Going into the last 12 minutes of the game with Great Taste up by five points, 80–75, a 16–4 run by the Coffee Makers open up a 17-point deficit, 96–79, and looks headed for an easy win and a victory celebration until the Coffee Kings, behind the blazing hands of Bogs Adornado and Ludovico "Naning" Valenciano, suddenly trimmed down the lead to a single margin. The score was 107–99 in favor of Great Taste when Naning Valenciano drained in three consecutive triples in a 9–2 burst as the Coffee Kings came within a point, 108–109, the Coffee Makers didn't call a timeout and Abe King was fouled with four seconds remaining, King muffed his two free throws that gave Hills Bros a chance to reverse the outcome of the game, unfortunately, time ran out as Marte Saldaña failed to score as the buzzer sounded.
| 1987 PBA All-Filipino Conference Champions |
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Great Taste Coffee Makers Fifth title |
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| Game | Play-by-play | Analyst |
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| Game 1 | ||
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| Game 3 | Joe Cantada | Andy Jao |
- "Coffee Makers' war on tonight". Manila Standard.
- "Great Taste clips fighting Hills Bros". Manila Standard.