1992 Swift Mighty Meaty Hotdogs season

1992 Swift Mighty Meaty Hotdogs Yeng Guiao Elmer Yanga First Conference 12 13 4th Semifinals All-Filipino Conference 13 8 3rd Semifinals Third Conference 18 5 1st Champions RFM Corporation 1991 1993 The 1992 Swift Mighty Meaty Hotdogs season was the 3rd season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Draft picks Round Pick Player College 1 6 Eric Reyes Ateneo 2 11 Bonel Balingit Visayas 3 16 Delfin Rizane SWU Notable dates March 19: Facing elimination, Swift escaped with a 115–114 win over corporate rival Purefoods on import David Henderson's off-balance shot from 15-feet with four seconds remaining. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DaJOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PQsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3293%2C3363537 Shell, Swift zap foes Manila Standard March 24: The Mighty Meaties clinch a playoff and a knockout game with Purefoods for the last seat in the semifinals by beating the already eliminated Ginebra San Miguel, 136–122. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EKJOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PQsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3044%2C4219020 Swift forces playoff Manila Standard March 26: Swift enters the semifinal round by defeating Purefoods, 123–117, in their playoff game. Al Solis waxed hot all night with six triples in a 30-point performance. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EKJOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PQsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3148%2C4544624 Swift books ticket to semis, applies broom on Purefoods Manila Standard Tony Harris' scoring records September 20: Dubbed as the "Hurricane", Swift import Tony Harris quickly made an impressive debut and exploded for 87 points in his first game, leading the Meaties to a 134–106 rout off All-Filipino Conference champion San Miguel Beermen. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oapOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4goEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4881%2C3949642 Harris fires 87 for Swift Manila Standard Days before the start of the Third Conference, Swift coach Yeng Guiao was quote as describing Harris as "Black Superman 2" in reference to Billy Ray Bates, the legendary import who led the famed Crispa Redmanizers to a grandslam and crowd-favorite Ginebra San Miguel to their first championship. October 9: The menacing hurricane sizzled with 82 points in Swift's 166–144 rout over Purefoods in Davao City as the Meaties remained unbeaten with their fifth straight win. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RZMmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MAsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4677%2C1642379 Swift races to win No.5 Manila Standard Harris put in big numbers of 69, 57 and 54 points in their three previous games. October 10: Tony Harris' record-breaking 105 points in leading Swift to a 151–147 win over Ginebra in Iloilo City broke the previous record of 103 points set by Michael Hackett on November 21, 1985. The Hurricane already had 58 points at the half and a total of 86 points going into the final period. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RpMmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MAsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2842%2C1781876 Harris fires 105 as Swift posts no.6 Manila Standard October 18: Tony Harris knocked in quarter outputs of 26, 22, 23 and 27 to finish with 98 points as he scored the league's new third all-time highest individual output in Swift Mighty Meaties' 179–161 win over Presto Ice Cream. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S5MmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MAsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2404%2C3320506 Harris' show resumes (Page 31) Manila Standard First title The Mighty Meaties top the eliminations with nine wins and two losses and booked the first finals seat on November 26 with their 14th win in 18 games, winning for the third time in four meetings with Ginebra San Miguel in a 145–139 victory as Tony Harris scored 68 points. Swift easily won their first championship in three years as their opponent 7-Up Bottlers, playing for the first time in the finals, offered a very least challenge and got swept in four games. Swift coach Yeng Guiao won his PBA title as a coach and the Mighty Meaties became the second team to score a 4–0 sweep in the best-of-seven title series. 1992 PBA Third Conference finals Awards Tony Harris was the runaway choice for the Best Import Award in the Third Conference. Nelson Asaytono and Al Solis were named in the Mythical first team selection. Roster Swift Mighty Meaty Hotdogs 1992 8 Al Solis G 5 11 Visayas PHI 10 Eric Reyes basketball F 6 4 Ateneo PHI 11 Nelson Asaytono F 6 3 Manila PHI 12 Bonel Balingit C 6 9 Visayas PHI 13 Elpidio Villamin FC 6 2 PHI 14 Rudy Distrito G 5 11 UE PHI 15 Juancho Estrada G 5 11 Adamson PHI 17 Terry Saldaña F 6 3 Letran PHI 20 Delfin Rizane G 6 0 Southwestern University (Philippines) PHI 23 Ric-Ric Marata G 5 8 Southwestern University (Philippines) PHI 24 Richard Bognot F 6 4 PHI 26 Andy De Guzman F 6 2 FEU PHI 41 Jack Tanuan C 6 5 FEU PHI PHI Yeng Guiao PHI Roehl Nadurata PHI Arturo Valenzona Transactions Trades Off-seasonTo Ginebra Pido JarencioTo Swift Rudy Distrito Off seasonTo Shell Rey CuencoTo Swift Richard Bognot Additions NameDeal InformationFormer team Nelson Asaytono Acquired from Purefoods in exchange for future picks in 1994 and 1995 Purefoods Juancho Estrada Rookie Free Agent N/A Recruited imports NameConferenceNo.Pos.Ht.CollegeDuration David Henderson First Conference 7 Center-Forward 6"5' Duke University February 9 to May 5 Tony Harris Third Conference 22 Guard-Forward 6"2' University of New Orleans September 22 to December 13 References Category:Pop Cola Panthers seasons Swift