The following year in the same conference, Ginebra San Miguel exact revenge, coming back from a 1-3 series deficit and won in Game Seven on Rudy Distrito's difficult drive to the basket in the last five seconds of their epic encounter.
Two year later in the 2001 PBA All-Filipino Cup, Barangay Ginebra this time won over Shell in the best-of-five semifinal series, three games to two, for their first finals stint since 1997.
Likewise Vergel Meneses will be making his first finals trip in five years since his Sunkist Orange Juicers days.
[2] There are a number of players that don the Ginebra and Shell jersey, including Crispa greats Philip Cezar and Freddie Hubalde, and Toyota stars Arnie Tuadles, Terry Saldaña and Ricky Relosa.
Ginebra's top centers during the 1980s, Romulo Mamaril and Ed Ducut, ended their playing careers with Shell.