2003 Coca-Cola Tigers season

2003 Coca-Cola Tigers Chot Reyes All-Filipino Cup 19 12 2nd Runner-up Invitational Cup 5 3 2nd Runner-up Reinforced Conference 11 2 2nd (Group B) Champions(def. San Miguel 4–3) Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. Hector Calma 2002 2004–05 The 2003 Coca-Cola Tigers season was the 2nd season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Draft picks 2003 PBA draft Championship (finals stint) The Coca-Cola Tigers played in the finals in all three conferences of the league's 29th season. In the All-Filipino Cup, the defending champions blew a 2–0 series lead in the best-of-seven championship against Talk 'N Text Phone Pals and lost in six games. Coca-Cola placed runner-up for the second straight conference when they lost to Alaska in the best-of-three finals series of the short Invitational championship. Coca-Cola didn't end up bridesmaid for the third time in the season by winning over San Miguel Beermen in the season-ending Reinforced Conference. The Tigers defeated the Beermen in the deciding seventh game as coach Chot Reyes won his second title for Coca-Cola and fourth overall in his coaching career.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0ERaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZSUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1083%2C29592177 Tigers triumph Philippine Daily Inquirer 2003 PBA Reinforced Conference finals Award Artemus McClary was voted the Reinforced Conference Best Import. Roster Coca-Cola Tigers 2003 4 Rafi Reavis F 6 6 Coppin State USA 5 Rob Wainwright basketball G 6 5 Solano CC USA 8 Gec Chia G 6 2 Ateneo PHI 9 Gilbert Lao C 6 7 UST PHI 10 Ato Morano G 6 0 San Beda PHI 14 Johnny Abarrientos G 5 8 FEU PHI 16 Bong Hawkins F 6 4 UPHSD PHI 18 Leo Avenido G 6 2 FEU PHI 20 Artemus McClary G 6 3 Jacksonville USA I 21 Reynel Hugnatan F 6 3 Manila PHI 22 Jeffrey Cariaso G 6 2 Sonoma State USA 24 Cris Bolado C 6 7 National-U PHI 25 Freddie Abuda F 6 4 Cebu PHI 31 William Antonio G 6 3 Chaminade USA 32 Poch Juinio C 6 5 UP PHI 99 Rudy Hatfield F 6 3 UM–Dearborn USA PHI Chot Reyes PHI Nash Racela PHI Biboy Ravanes PHI Binky Favis PHI Aboy Castro PHI Mike Reyes (I) Import Game results All-Filipino Cup Date Opponent Score Top scorer Venue Location February 28 San Miguel 72–67 Makati Coliseum Makati City March 5 Shell 103–92 Cariaso (18 pts) Philsports Arena Pasig March 8 Purefoods 93–88 2OT Iloilo City March 16 Brgy.Ginebra 83–79 Cariaso (14 pts) Araneta Coliseum Quezon City March 21 Red Bull 79–80 Araneta Coliseum Quezon City March 23 FedEx 72–85 Araneta Coliseum Quezon City March 30 Alaska 77–86 Araneta Coliseum Quezon City April 6 Sta.Lucia 82–84 Cariaso (19 pts) Philsports Arena Pasig April 12 Talk 'N Text 79–78 San Fernando, Pampanga April 20 Red Bull 94–102 Reavis (18 pts) Araneta Coliseum Quezon City April 26 Brgy.Ginebra 83–54 Ynares Center Antipolo City April 30 Shell 95–81 Makati Coliseum Makati City May 4 Talk 'N Text 87–91 Araneta Coliseum Quezon City May 9 Purefoods 97–87 Hatfield (21 pts) Philsports Arena Pasig May 14 San Miguel 77–82 Philsports Arena Pasig May 18 Alaska 90–87 Araneta Coliseum Quezon City May 23 Sta.Lucia 98–76 Makati Coliseum Makati City May 28 FedEx 89–87 Philsports Arena Pasig #FFFF99 Win #ccffcc Win via OT #FFFFCC loss #ccccff loss via OT References Category:Powerade Tigers seasons Coca-Cola Tigers