2007 PBA Fiesta Conference

2007 PBA Fiesta Conference
Duration	March 4 – July 20, 2007
TV partner(s)	ABC
Finals
Champions	Alaska Aces
Runners-up	Talk 'N Text Phone Pals
Awards
Best Player	Mark Cardona (Talk 'N Text)
Best Import	Rosell Ellis (Alaska)
Finals MVP	Willie Miller (Alaska)
PBA Fiesta Conference chronology
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The 2007 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Fiesta Conference or known as the 2007 Talk 'N Text PBA Fiesta Conference for sponsorship reasons, is the second conference of the 2006-07 season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Teams are allowed to pick an import with a maximum height-limit of 6-feet, 6-inches tall.

The tournament began on March 4 and finished on July 20. The schedule will be shortened due to the league's commitment to the Philippine national basketball team while 12 players selected by national team head coach Chot Reyes will not play for their mother teams.

Red Bull Barako is the defending champions of the tournament.^[1]

Talk 'N Text, a product of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, was the main sponsor of the tournament. They also sponsored the 2006-07 PBA Philippine Cup that ended a month before the tournament.

List of imports[]

The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.

#	Name	Team	Debuted
1	Alex Compton	Welcoat Dragons	March 4 vs. Coca-Cola
2		Welcoat Dragons	March 4 vs. Coca-Cola
3		Coca-Cola Tigers	March 4 vs. Welcoat
4	Jesse King	Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants	March 4 vs. Red Bull
5		Red Bull Barako	March 4 vs. Purefoods
6	Shawn Daniels	Air21 Express	March 7 vs. Sta. Lucia
7		Air 21 Express	March7 vs. Barangay Ginebra
8	Rosell Ellis	Alaska Aces	March 7 vs. Talk 'N Text
9		Sta. Lucia Realtors	March 7 vs. Air21
10		Talk 'N Text Phone Pals	March 7 vs. Alaska
11		San Miguel Beermen	March 9 vs. Red Bull
12		Barangay Ginebra Kings	March 11 vs. Alaska
13		San Miguel Beermen	March 17 vs. Coca-Cola
14	Marquin Chandler	Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants	March 21 vs. San Miguel
15	Galen Young	San Miguel Beermen	April 11 vs. Alaska
16		Welcoat Dragons	April 15 vs. San Miguel
17	Jeff Varem	Coca-Cola Tigers	April 20 vs. Barangay Ginebra
18		Welcoat Dragons	May 2 vs. Barangay Ginebra
19	Jamaal Williams	Sta. Lucia Realtors	May 2 vs. Air21
20	Rashad Bell	Coca-Cola Tigers	May 30 vs. Red Bull

Welcoat was allowed to have two imports. Compton, is an American citizen was born in the Philippines and was a member of the several local teams playing as a local.

Tournament format[]

• Double round eliminations. Worst team would be eliminated.
• Sixth- to ninth-best teams figure in the one-game wildcard playoffs.
  • Sixth seed vs. Ninth seed
  • Seventh seed vs. Eighth seed
  • Winners will figure in a playoff to advance to the quarterfinals.
• Third- to fifth-best teams, and the winner of the wildcards advance to the best-of-three quarterfinals.
  • Third seed vs. winner of wildcards.
  • Fourth seed vs. fifth seed.
• The two best teams and the winners of the quarterfinals advance to the best-of-seven semifinals.
  • First seed vs. winner of the third seed/wildcard winner quarterfinal series
  • Second seed vs. winner of the fourth seed/fifth seed quarterfinal series
• The winners of the semifinals advance to the best-of-seven Finals; the losers figure in a one-game third-place playoff.

Elimination round[]

Team standings[]

Pos	Team v t	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Red Bull Barako	13	5	.722	—	Advance to semifinals
2	Alaska Aces	12	6	.667[a]	1
3	Barangay Ginebra Kings	12	6	.667[a]	1	Advance to quarterfinals
4	Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters	11	7	.611	2
5	Air21 Express	10	8	.556[b]	3
6	San Miguel Beermen	10	8	.556[b]	3	Advance to wildcard round
7	Coca-Cola Tigers	7	11	.389	6
8	Purefoods Chunkee Giants	6	12	.333	7
9	Sta. Lucia Realtors	5	13	.278	8
10	Welcoat Dragons	4	14	.222	9

Fifth seed playoff[]

Second seed playoff[]

Bracket[]

Wildcard phase (One-game playoffs)										Quarterfinals (Best-of-3)					Semifinals (Best-of-7)					Finals (Best-of-7)
										3	Brgy. Ginebra	1
										6	San Miguel	2
6	San Miguel	102													6	San Miguel	2
9	Sta. Lucia	85													2	Alaska	4
					6	San Miguel	102													2	Alaska	4
					7	Coca-Cola	101													4	Talk 'N Text	3
7	Coca-Cola	100													1	Red Bull	2
8	Purefoods	97													4	Talk 'N Text	4			Third place playoff
										4	Talk 'N Text	2								6	San Miguel	96
										5	Air21	1								1	Red Bull	103

Quarterfinals[]

(3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (6) San Miguel[]

(4) Talk 'N Text vs. (5) Air21[]

Semifinals[]

(1) Red Bull vs. (4) Talk 'N Text[]

(2) Alaska vs. (6) San Miguel[]

Third place playoff[]

Finals[]

Prior to Game 1, Sandwich performed "Laban kung Laban," the TV theme song of the PBA.

Game 1[]

Game 2[]

Game 3[]

Game 4[]

Game 5[]

Game 6[]

Game 7[]

On Game 1, the Phone Pals raced into a twenty-point lead at the first quarter but the Aces chipped in to lead by a point by halftime. The Phone Pals lost steam as the Aces won the first game. The Phone Pals reversed the roles as the Aces themselves lost steam at the ends of Games 2 and 3 for a Phone Pals 2-1 series lead.

With a 1–3 deficit looming, newly crowned MVP Willie Miller stepped up his performance as he tied his conference-high 29 points to lead the Aces into victory on Game 4. Conference Best Player Mark Cardona blew the Phone Pals chances' when he turned the ball over with 4 seconds with a 2-point deficit to lead a Rosell Ellis tip-in from a Sonny Thoss missed lay-up.

On Game 5, Willie Miller turned cold when the Phone Pals started pulling away. The Piltel franchise notched win #3 to assure a twice-to-beat advantage. Miller, who was severely criticized by a lackluster performance by the MVP, answered his critics with a 37-point output (the best in the Finals by a local) to lead the Aces to a Game 6 win and to force a Game 7.

References[]

External links[]

• PBA.ph