1985 Shell Azodrin Bugbusters season

1985 Shell Azodrin Bugbusters Freddie Webb Open Conference 4 11 6th Quarterfinals All-Filipino Conference 10 11 2nd Finals (lost to Great Taste) Reinforced Conference 2 10 7th Eliminated Pilipinas Shell, Inc. Ernie Inocencio 1986 The 1985 Shell Azodrin Bugbusters season was the 1st season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). New team Pilipinas Shell Corporation bought out the lock, stock and barrel of the famed Crispa Redmanizers, the winningest ballclub which disbanded as the league enters its 11th season. The newest member to be known as Shell Chemicals or Shell Azodrin retained only four Redmanizers namely Philip Cezar, Bernie Fabiosa, Arturo Cristobal and Willie Pearson. They were able to acquire three-time MVP William Adornado from Great Taste when they traded the 1984 Rookie of the year Willie Pearson in exchange. Shell got six rookies who were amateur standouts, three of them were former PABL MVPs, 6-5 center Sonny Cabatu, the two-time PABL MVP and the pro league's number one overall pick in the first-ever rookie draft, 1983 PABL Founders Cup MVP Manuel Luis Marquez, a 1984 youth campaigner, and 1984 PABL Ambassador's Cup MVP Leo Austria, a 1982 RP Youth stalwart. Their other three top-rated rookies were Romeo Ang, Aldo Perez and Menardo Jubinal. Former Yco amateur team coach Freddie Webb, who last coached the Tanduay team in 1983 and who wound up as Vintage panelist in the previous year was Shell's choice to call the shots for the Bugbusters, which got their monicker through the megahit film Ghostbusters.http://rpbasketballphotos.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-new-pba-team-shell-bugbusters-in.html Enter, The Bugbusters! Shell opened their first conference campaign with Kevin Graham as its import, they lost their first two games and Graham was replaced by the returning, former N-Rich and SMB import Rich Adams. Finals stint The Shell Bugbusters played in the PBA finals in only their second participated tournament during the All-Filipino Conference. They lost to defending champion Great Taste Coffee Makers in four games of the best-of-five title playoffs. 1985 PBA All-Filipino Conference finals Awards Bogs Adornado made it to the Mythical five selection as he finish second to eventual MVP winner Ricardo Brown of Great Taste in the race for the Most Valuable Player trophy. Leo Austria won the season's Rookie of the year honors. Won-loss records vs Opponents Team Win Loss 1st (Open) 2nd (All-Filipino) 3rd (Reinforced) Ginebra 4 5 2-0 2-3 0-2 Great Taste 4 8 1-1 3-5 0-2 Magnolia 4 3 1-2 2-0 1-1 Manila Beer 1 6 0-3 1-1 0-2 Northern (NCC) 1 4 0-3 N/A 1-1 Tanduay 2 6 0-2 2-2 0-2Total 16 32 4-11 10-11 2-10 Roster Shell Azodrin Bugbusters 1985 5 Sonny Cabatu C 6 5 PSBA PHI 7 Arturo Cristobal G 6 1 FEU PHI 10 Romeo Ang G 6 1 Letran PHI 11 Menardo Jubinal C 6 4 Mapua PHI 12 Rey Lazaro F 6 2 FEU PHI 13 Leo Austria G 5 10 Lyceum PHI 17 Manuel Marquez F 6 2 San Beda PHI 26 Aldo Perez F 6 3 De La Salle PHI 33 Bogs Adornado GF 6 1 UST PHI 42 Dennis Abbatuan F 6 2 JRU PHI 51 Bernie Fabiosa G 5 9 UE PHI 52 Jaime Javier C 6 5 JRU PHI 81 Philip Cezar F 6 3 JRU PHI PHI Freddie Webb PHI Frederick Gonzales Subtraction PlayerNumberPositionHeightNew TeamAlberto Gutierrez3Forward6 2Tanduay Rhum Imports NameConferenceNo.Pos.Ht.College Kevin Graham Open Conference 32 Center-Forward 6"8' GWU Rich Adams 40 Center-Forward 6"9' UIUCHoward CarterReinforced Conference 32 Forward 6"5' LSULester Rowe 24 Forward 6"5' WVU References Category:Shell Turbo Chargers seasons Shell