Wikipedia - Mindoro Tamaraws
The Mindoro Tamaraws are a Filipino professional basketball team based in Mindoro island. The team primarily competes in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) as a member of the league's South Division. They are the lone team based in the Mimaropa region and play their home games at Sentrong Pangkabataan in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro.
The team began play during the 2019–20 season. The franchise also competed in NBL–Pilipinas as the Mindoro Tamaraws Disiplinados (stylized as Disipl-Ina-dos) during the 2021 Chairman's Cup.
They also have a junior counterpart in the Mindoro Junior Disiplinados, which compete in the Junior MPBL.
History
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League
The Mindoro Tamaraws joined the MPBL as an expansion team for the 2019–20 season, backed by 7A Sports and with Justin Tan as the team owner In the Tamaraws' inaugural season, the team finished 12th in the South with a 9-21 record. In April 2020, actress and Pola mayor Jennifer "Ina Alegre" Cruz became co-owner of the team.
In the 2021 MPBL Invitational, Mindoro was able to make the playoff tournament by placing second in Group D. The team would go on to lose to the eventual Invitational champion Basilan Jumbo Plastic in the quarterfinals. Despite the great performance, in the 2022 season, the Tams finished with the worst record in the league, only getting one win in 21 games.
Heading into the 2023 season, the team was renamed the Oriental Mindoro Disiplinados; it would be changed partially to Mindoro Disiplinados in June 2023. On July 4, 2023, the Disiplinados played its first-ever home game in the Sentrong Pangkabataan. Later in the month, the team joined the Junior MPBL with the Mindoro Junior Disiplinados, the team was previously the junior team of the Caloocan Batang Kankaloo.
National Basketball League
In 2021, a second team dubbed as the Mindoro Tamaraws Disiplinados was formed for the NBL–Pilipinas which is meant to a more homegrown-oriented team as opposed to the MPBL team which is intended to be the "showcase team".
Scheduled Pilipinas Super League participation
In October 2023, the Disiplinados were announced as one of the new teams for the Pilipinas Super League's 2023–24 President's Cup, where team would supposedly participate under the name RCP Pola Disiplinados–Shawarma Shack.
During the opening ceremonies, however, there was no mention of the Disiplinados. The team would move forward as the RCP–Shawarma Shack Demigods.
Maskotom Disiplinados je "Rocky", lev symbolizujúci odvahu, silu a odolnosť. Tím sa vyznačuje svojim silným obranným poňatím a rýchlym protiútokom. Medzi bývalých hráčov tímu patrba aj Kenneth Ighalo, bývalý hráč asociácie NBA, ktorý získal ocenenie MVP finále MPBL v roku 2021.
Oriental Mindoro Disiplinados sa zúčastnili niekoľkých vydaní MPBL a zaznamenali niekoľko úspechov. Tím získal titul v sezóne 2020 a umiestnil sa ako druhý v sezóne 2019. Hráči tímu taktiež pravidelne získavajú individuálne ocenenia, ako napríklad ocenenie MVP pre Joshuu Munzon v sezóne 2019.
Disiplinados majú silnú fanúšikovskú základňu v provincii Oriental Mindoro a sú považovaní za jeden z najpopulárnejších tímov v ligy MPBL. Sú známi svojou húževnatosťou a odhodlaním a sú považovaní za jedného z najsľubnejších tímov v filipínskom basketbale.