1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season

1983 Toyota Super Corollas season
Head coach	Edgardo Ocampo
Owner(s)	Delta Motor Corporation
All-Filipino Conference results
Record	5–8 (38.5%)
Place	4th
Playoff finish	4
Reinforced Conference results
Record	7–10 (41.2%)
Place	N/A
Playoff finish	N/A
Open Conference results
Record	6–9 (40%)
Place	N/A
Playoff finish	N/A
Toyota Super Corollas seasons

The 1983 Toyota Silver Coronas season was the ninth and final season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

The team played as the Toyota Silver Coronas for the first two conferences of the season and reverted back to the Toyota Super Corollas during the Open Conference.

The team would disband on February 1984 and the PBA franchise was sold to Manila Beer Brewmasters of the Lucio Tan group of companies.

Colors

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Notable dates

March 6: Opening of the season's First Conference, the All-Filipino, which was shelved for two years, 30,000 fans came on hand to watch Toyota beat Crispa, 86-84. Abe King pulled down an all-time high of 17 defensive rebounds as the Silver Coronas spoiled Tommy Manotoc's debut as coach of the Redmanizers.

August 30: With the return of former best import Andrew Fields, the Super Corollas defeated the Billy Ray Bates led-Crispa Redmanizers, 102-93.

October 30: Toyota played its last official game in the PBA, losing to Tanduay, 110-111, in a do-or-die playoff for the last seat in the quarterfinal round, three nights before, Tanduay defeated Toyota, 131-119, to force a winner-take-all match.

Occurrences

After being booted out for the second straight conference and suffered their worst finish, seventh in the Open Conference, the Toyota Super Corollas were nearly resurrected as a team with a possible stint in the quarterfinal round when an internal problem surfaced over at the Galerie Dominique camp, the surprise team who made it to the quarterfinals, it was suggested the Super Corollas instead take the place of Galerie Dominique, the Toyota management seemed to be receptive, especially after coming off from a sorry playoff loss to Tanduay, but the jubilation for Toyota fans was short-lived as the PBA board voted in favor of giving financial assistance to the Artists. On that same day the PBA had a board meeting, the Toyota management called for a top-level meeting, not to discuss about the team's failure to act on the said last-minute offer, rather it was a meeting set to discuss the possible disbandment of the ballclub in the coming season due to the recession the country was feeling at that time.

Season record

CONFERENCE	ELIMINATION	QUARTERFINAL	SEMIFINAL
ALL-FILIPINO	(4-win, 3-loss)		(0-win, 3-loss)
REINFORCED	(7-win, 7-loss)	(0-win, 3-loss)
OPEN	(6-win, 8-loss)	Eliminated

Roster

Toyota Silver Coronas roster

Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Height Weight DOB From F 4 Loyzaga, Chito 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 210 lb (95 kg) San Beda College F/C 6 King, Abe 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 187 lb (85 kg) San Beda College G 7 Jaworski, Robert 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 180 lb (82 kg) UE G 8 Arnaiz, Francis 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 160 lb (73 kg) Ateneo de Manila F/C 10 Fernandez, Ramon 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 162 lb (73 kg) University of San Carlos G/F 11 Tuadles, Arnie 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 170 lb (77 kg) University of Visayas G/F 13 Coloso, Timoteo 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 175 lb (79 kg) Letran College F 14 Herrera, Leopoldo 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 170 lb (77 kg) Wesleyan University F/C 15 Relosa, Ricardo 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 192 lb (87 kg) Mapua F 18 Legaspi, Emerito 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) 150 lb (68 kg) UE F 20 Bulaong, Nicanor 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 164 lb (74 kg) Far Eastern F/C 88 Cordero, Edgardo 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 175 lb (79 kg) UST G 2 Porter, Kevin (I) 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 150 lb (68 kg) Saint Francis College G/F 3 Wayne, Julius (I) 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 176 lb (80 kg) University of Texas C 1 Fields, Andrew (I) 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 200 lb (91 kg) Cheyney State College C 34 Brewster, Ralph (I) 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 215 lb (98 kg)	Head coach Edgardo Ocampo Assistant coach(es) Rino Salazar Legend (C) Team captain (CI) Commissioner's Cup Import (GI) Governors' Cup Import (EI) EASL Import (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (IN) Inactive (S) Suspended (R) Rookie Injured

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