1999 PBA Governors' Cup Finals

1999 PBA Governors Cup Finals

Team Coach Wins San Miguel Beermen Jong Uichico 4 Alaska Milkmen Tim Cone 2
Dates	November 28, 1999- December 12, 1999
Television	VTV (IBC)
Radio network	DZRH

The 1999 PBA Governors Cup Finals was the best-of-7 basketball championship series of the 1999 PBA Governors Cup, and the conclusion of the conference playoffs. The Alaska Milkmen and San Miguel Beermen played for the 74th championship contested by the league as the two successful ballclubs with rich tradition in winning titles battled for the last PBA championship of the 1990s era.

The San Miguel Beermen captured their second straight title of the season with a 4-2 series victory over Alaska Milkmen. The Beermen won their 13th PBA crown and are now the winningest ballclub, tied with the famed Crispa Redmanizers for most titles.^[1]

Qualification

San Miguel		Alaska
Finished 6–2 (.750), 2nd	Eliminations		Finished 5–3 (.625), 3rd
defeated 6th seed Sta. Lucia	Quarterfinals		defeated 5th seed Shell
defeated Tanduay, 3-0	Best-of-5 Semifinals		defeated Purefoods, 3-0

Series scoring summary

Team	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Wins
San Miguel	87	62	82	76	74	72	4
Alaska	80	73	88	65	68	69	2

Games summary

Game 1

VTV

November 28

San Miguel Beermen 87, Alaska Milkmen 80 (2OT)

San Miguel leads series, 1-0

Philsports Arena, Pasig City

Johnny Abarrientos scored a basket with 1.5 seconds remaining forcing overtime at 68-all, in the extension, San Miguel again looked headed for an outright victory after posting a 76-73 lead with 3.3 seconds left. But Danny Ildefonso was slapped with a technical for second motion against Sean Chambers. Abarrientos drilled in the technical free throw, then nailed a jumper over Olsen Racela and the outstretched arms of Lamont Strothers to knot the count at 76-all, and send the game to a second overtime.

Game 2

VTV

December 1

San Miguel Beermen 62, Alaska Milkmen 73

Series tied, 1-1

Centennial Arena, Laoag City

Game 3

VTV

December 3

San Miguel Beermen 82, Alaska Milkmen 88

Alaska leads series, 2-1

Philsports Arena, Pasig City

San Miguel took a 55-37 halftime lead and led 82-71, with less than 6 minutes left in the final quarter. Johnny Abarrientos set the tone for Alaska's comeback with a three-point shot to kick off a 17-0 windup by the Milkmen and held the Beermen scoreless to win the game.^[2]

Game 4

VTV

December 5

San Miguel Beermen 76, Alaska Milkmen 65

Series tied, 2-2

Philsports Arena, Pasig City

Lamont Strothers came through with big baskets down the stretch, Strothers' three-point play off rookie Don Allado with 3:32 remaining in the game cool off Alaska's comeback.^[3]

Game 5

VTV

December 10

San Miguel Beermen 74, Alaska Milkmen 68

San Miguel leads series, 3-2

Philsports Arena, Pasig City

Game 6

VTV

December 12

San Miguel Beermen 72, Alaska Milkmen 69

San Miguel wins series, 4–2

Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City

Alaska led 54-53 going into the final quarter, a four straight points by Freddie Abuda, first on a follow up shot on Strothers' miss and then on a backdoor play gave San Miguel a 59-56 edge, both teams had a scoring drought for three and a half minutes until Danny Seigle converted on a three-point play to give the Beermen a six-point cushion, 62-56, back-to-back baskets by Jojo Lastimosa and Kenneth Duremdes trim down the Beermen lead to two, 62-60, time down to 4:51, Danny Seigle has taken over the Beermen' scoring as the game went down to the final two minutes, with the score at 68-66 for San Miguel, Seigle losses the ball resulting to Duremdes converting a basket plus a foul with 1:25 left, Duremdes missed his bonus free throw and the game was tied at 68-all, Seigle was fouled by Duremdes with 1:14 to go and hit his two free throws to give San Miguel a 70-68 lead, a series of errors first with Alaska's Chambers losing the ball and Duremdes called for traveling violation and then Seigle on the next play was called for an advantage foul on Chambers after the ball was strip in his hands, Chambers split his free throw with 38.3 seconds remaining and Alaska got the ball possession after Chambers missed his second free throw, on an inbound play with 26.9 seconds left, Duremdes forces his shot and missed, Seigle was fouled with 7.7 seconds remaining by Duremdes, who was called for his sixth personal foul, Seigle converted on his two free throws to give San Miguel a 72-69 lead, on the final play in the last 5.6 seconds, Johnny Abarrientos eluded his defenders and had an open look from the three-point line but missed as the buzzer sounded, giving San Miguel the victory.

1999 PBA Governors Cup Champions
San Miguel Beermen 13th title

Rosters

San Miguel Beermen roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # POB Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY–MM–DD) From G 1 Victoria, Boybits 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) 172 lb (78 kg) San Beda College F 3 Belasco, Nic 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 210 lb (95 kg) Notre Dame College C 5 Padilla, Ronilo 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 215 lb (98 kg) University of Cebu G/F 6 Strothers, Lamont (I) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 190 lb (86 kg) Christopher Newport G 7 Mustre, Michael 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 180 lb (82 kg) Letran College C 10 Ildefonso, Danny 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 210 lb (95 kg) National University G/F 15 Lago, Dwight 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 190 lb (86 kg) De La Salle G 17 Racela, Olsen 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 165 lb (75 kg) Ateneo de Manila G 18 Dela Cruz, Art 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 210 lb (95 kg) San Sebastian C 24 Bolado, Cris 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 260 lb (118 kg) National University F 25 Abuda, Freddie 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 200 lb (91 kg) University of Cebu G 32 Duat, Rob 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 200 lb (91 kg) Menlo College F 42 Seigle, Danny 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 205 lb (93 kg) Wagner College	Head coach Jong Uichico Assistant coach(es) Jojo Villa Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (S) Suspended (I) Import Injured

Alaska Milkmen roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # POB Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY–MM–DD) From F 4 Lim, Braulio 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 210 lb (95 kg) East G 5 Reyes, Gilbert 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) 160 lb (73 kg) Ateneo de Manila G/F 6 Lastimosa, Jojo 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 180 lb (82 kg) San Jose-Recoletos G 7 Gomez, Roehl 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 180 lb (82 kg) University of Cebu F/C 8 Allado, Don 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 220 lb (100 kg) De La Salle G/F 9 Santos, Rodney 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 175 lb (79 kg) San Sebastian F/C 12 Bachmann, Dickie 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 200 lb (91 kg) De La Salle G 14 Abarrientos, Johnny 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) 150 lb (68 kg) Far Eastern F 16 Hawkins, Bong 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 220 lb (100 kg) PHCR C 17 Ramas, Kevin 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 240 lb (109 kg) Mapua Tech F 19 Duremdes, Kenneth 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 192 lb (87 kg) Adamson F 20 Chambers, Sean (I) 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 195 lb (88 kg) California State C 22 Walkvist, James 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 255 lb (116 kg) C 32 Juinio, Poch 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 215 lb (98 kg) State U	Head coach Tim Cone Assistant coach(es) Gilbert Reyes Richard Bachmann Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (S) Suspended (I) Import Injured

Broadcast notes

Game	Play-by-play	Analyst	Courtside reporter
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5
Game 6	Ed Picson	Andy Jao	Ronnie Nathanielsz, Jannelle So and Chiqui Roa-Puno

References

1. San Miguel's big bang
2. Milkmen steal Game 3
3. Beermen score equalizer

External links

• PBA official website