1980 Gilbey's Gin season

1980 Gilbey's Gin season
Head coach	Filomeno Pumaren Nemie Villegas
Open Conference results
Record	7–11 (38.9%)
Place	7th
Playoff finish	N/A
Place	4th
Playoff finish	Semifinals
Gilbey's Gin seasons

The 1980 Gilbey's Gin season was the second season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Transactions

TRANSACTIONS
Wilfredo Generalao Rookie signed
Orlando Delos Santos Acquired from defunct Filmanbank
Wilfredo Tanduyan Acquired from Crispa
Armando Torres Acquired from Crispa
Marlowe Jacutin Acquired from Royal

Imports

The second-year ballclub bring back Larry McNeill as their import in the Open Conference, this time teaming up with James Bradley.

Semifinal stint

Coach Pilo Pumaren was replaced by Nemie Villegas as the team's head coach in the season-ending All-Filipino Conference. Gilbey's posted a 5-4 and 3-2 won-loss cards in the elimination and quarterfinal phase and they made it to the four-team semifinals for the first time in five conferences. The Gins didn't win any match in the single round-robin and they placed fourth by losing to Tanduay in four games of their best-of-five series for third place.

Award

Willie Generalao was named the season's Rookie of the year

Roster

Gilbey's Gin roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. G Delos Santos, Orlando 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) State U F 3 Rivera, Norberto 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) San Sebastian College G 5 Dela Cruz, Bienvenido 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) University of Mindanao G 7 Torres, Armando 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) FEATI University F 8 Jacutin, Marlowe 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) University of Visayas F/C 10 Martin, Jesusito 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Jose Rizal College F 16 Rodriguez, Porfirio 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) F/C 18 Del Rosario, Eusebio 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) UE G 19 Tanduyan, Wilfredo 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) SWU G 21 Dator, Lucrecio 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) SWU G 24 Generalao, Wilfredo 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) University of Visayas G 30 Garcia, Javier 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Adamson University C 31 McNeill, Larry (I) 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) Marquette University F/C 34 Bradley, Jim (I) 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Northern Illinois University	Head coach Filomeno Pumaren Nemie Villegas Assistant coach(es) Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import Injured