Billy Ray Bates dropped 51 points in his Crispa-Toyota debut, leading the Redmanizers past the Silver Coronas in the first round of the 1983 PBA Reinforced Conference.
Crispa rips Toyota
Tempo
Published Monday May 30, 1983
Billy Ray Bates hit the deck as often as he scored as Crispa hammered out a 122-110 victory over arch rival Toyota in the PBA Reinforced Conference at the Araneta Coliseum.
Some 20,000 fans watched the Silver Coronas employ every means in the book — including illegal ones — to stop the 6-3 power-playing import of the Redmanizers but the strategy backfired.
Not only did Bates frustrate them, the Coronas found themselves in deep foul trouble with Pol Herrera, Kevin Porter and Robert Jaworski getting their sixth foul.
It was Crispa’s fourth straight victory in the conference and its 16th this year, only three games shy of duplicating its 19-game winning streak in 1980.
The Coronas suffered their second loss after two straight triumphs. They dropped their opening day assignment to Yco-Tanduay.
Bates put on another dazzling performance — limiting his showboat antics to the minimum — as he mocked all the guards thrown at him, including the bulky Abe King, who is the best remembered for checking Norman Black in last year’s Reinforced Conference won by Toyota.
But Jaworski capped a 13-4 Toyota retaliation with a three-point shot as the Coronas got their first taste of the lead, 13-11.
But Bates and Guidaben presided over another 10-0 blast that shoved the Redmanizers back to the driver’s seat which they held till the end of the first quarter, 33-23.
Arnie Tuadles scored back-to-back baskets at the start of the second quarter and Fernandez scored a jumper that capped a mighty 16-2 opening blast as the Coronas sprinted to a four-point spread.
The score was tied once at 41-all before Bates triggered another 8-0 bomb with his first three-pointer to wrest back the lead for the Redmanizers, 54-49.
After the first two quarters, the Redmanizers led, 60-53, their last six points scored from the charity lane.
San Miguel Beer finally barged into the win column by blasting Yco-Tanduay, 110-103.
An 11-6 windup by the Beermen frustrated a searing rally by the Esquires who came back from the final quarter after trailing by 14, 70-84, in the third period.
The individual scores:
Crispa (122) — Bates 51, Guidaben 23, Fabiosa 18, Cristobal 11, Cruz 8, Israel 7, Villamin 2, Cezar 1, Hubalde 1
Toyota (110) — Fernandez 24, Porter 22, Tuadles 22, Relosa 8, Jaworski 7, Legaspi 7, Loyzaga 6, King 6, Cordero 5, Herrera 3, Arnaiz 0, Coloso 0
Quarterscores: 33-23, 60-53, 89-81, 122-110
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