1986 Great Taste Coffee Makers season

1986 Great Taste Coffee Makers season
Head coach	Baby Dalupan
Owner(s)	CFC Corporation
Reinforced Conference results
Record	14–10 (58.3%)
Place	2nd
Playoff finish	Finals
All Filipino Conference results
Record	9–7 (56.3%)
Place	4th
Playoff finish	Semifinals
Open Conference results
Record	13–11 (54.2%)
Place	3rd
Playoff finish	Semifinals
Great Taste Coffee Makers seasons

The 1986 Great Taste Coffee Makers season was the 12th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Transactions

Players Added	Signed	Former team
Fritz Gaston	Off-season	Manila Beer
Gerry Samlani		Magnolia
Rafael Sison former player, re-signed		Presto (1982)
Aaron Torres Rookie		N/A
Leopoldo Herrera	July 1986	Manila Beer
Federico Lauchengco		Magnolia
Renato Kabigting Comebacking player signed	August 1986	San Miguel Beer (1982)

Trade

Off-season

To Ginebra Chito Loyzaga

To Great Taste Steve Watson

Finals stint

After failing to win the Grandslam last year, the Great Taste Coffee Makers return to the finals against the Tanduay Rhum Makers in the first conference of the season. Great Taste had the returning Jeff Collins, a former best import awardee who led the CFC ballclub to a title back in 1984, and Michael David Holton (the third import to arrived as Collins' partner after Mike Wilson and Gregory Jones) as their imports going up against the Tanduay pair of Rob Williams and Andre McKoy. The Coffee Makers were the odds-on favorite to win the title due to their championship experience but the Rhum Makers were determined to end a long-drought and gave their franchise its first PBA title. Great Taste lost to Tanduay in six games in the Best-of-seven title series.

Main article: 1986 PBA Reinforced Conference Finals

Occurrences

Great Taste’ first choice for an import in the Open Conference, Anthony Frederick, arrived and was measured slightly over six-foot-six, the limit for one of the two imports. Sources said at least two teams refused to grant the exception, leaving the Coffee Makers with no choice but to send him back home. Frederick only saw action as a guest import for amateur club RFM-Swift’s that beat Alaska Milk in the PBA-PABL exhibition series at the Rizal Coliseum a week before the start of the Third Conference.

The Coffee Makers paraded two new imports namely Lewis Jackson and Alvin Franklin at the start of the second round of eliminations in the Open Conference, replacing the pair of Johnny Brown and Eric Turner.

Roster

Great Taste Coffee roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. C 1 Victorino, Manny 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) José Rizal G/F 5 Watson, Steve 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Ateneo F 6 King, Abe 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) San Beda C 7 Banal, Joel 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Mapúa G 7 Lauchengco, Federico 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Far Eastern C 10 Samlani, Carlson 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) San Sebastian G 11 Manansala, Jaime 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) UE G 12 Sison, Rafael 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Ateneo de Davao F 14 Herrera, Leopoldo 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Wesleyan Philippines G 15 Torres, Aaron 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) UE G 22 Gaston, Matthew 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Ateneo G 23 Brown, Ricardo 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Pepperdine F 29 Carpio, Bernardo 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Ateneo F 33 Pearson, Willie 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Chaminade G 9 & 34 Kabigting, Renato 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Ateneo	Head coach Baby Dalupan Assistant coach(es) Jimmy Mariano Legend (C) Team captain Injured

Imports

Tournament	Name	#	Height	From
1986 PBA Reinforced Conference	Jeff Collins	24	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)	UNLV
	Mike Wilson	2	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)	Marquette University
	Greg Jones		6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	West Virginia University
	Michael Holton	14	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)	University of California
1986 PBA Open Conference	Johnny Brown	3	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)	University of New Mexico
	Eric Turner	12	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)	University of Michigan
	Alvin Franklin	20	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)	University of Houston
	Lewis Jackson	24	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)	Alabama State University