The 2016–17 Triobet Baltic Basketball League was the 13th season of the Baltic Basketball League and the second under the title sponsorship of Triobet. The season began on 11 October 2016 and concluded on 6 April 2017. Vytautas defeated Pieno žvaigždės in the finals to win their first Baltic Basketball League title.
Overview This season’s competition includes 7 teams from Estonia, 6 teams from Latvia, 3 teams from Lithuania and one team from Kazakhstan and Belarus, which will play all their games away. For the regular season the teams were divided into two groups of seven teams and competed in a round-robin competition system, with team facing each of their opponents twice. The teams qualified for the eighth-finals based on their ranking after the regular season. Twelve clubs from the regular season advanced to play-offs and will be joined by three Estonian and one Lithuanian club, all of whom have been knocked out of other European competitions. The four clubs joining directly in the play-offs will be University of Tartu, Vytautas, Kalev/Cramo and TLÜ/Kalev, all seeded respectively 1-through-4, based on their accomplishments and combined results of the past three seasons in domestic leagues and Triobet BBL. All play-off games are played in home-and-away series.
Teams + Key to colors Champion Runner-up Third place Fourth place Quarterfinalist Top 16 Regular season
Country (League) Teams Teams (ranking in 2015–16 national championship) Estonia (KML) 7 Kalev/Cramo (1) University of Tartu (2) AVIS Rapla (3) TLÜ/Kalev (4) Rakvere Tarvas/Palmse Metall (5) Port of Pärnu (6) TTÜ (7) Latvia (LBL) 6 Valmiera/ORDO (1) Liepāja/Triobet (4) Jūrmala/Fēnikss (5) Jēkabpils (7) Barons kvartāls (8) Ogre/Kumho Tyre (10) Lithuania (LKL) 3 Vytautas (5) Pieno žvaigždės (8) Nevėžis (9) Kazakhstan (KBC) 1 Barsy Atyrau (1) Belarus (BPL) 1 Borisfen Mogilev (3)
Team information Group Team City, Country Arena Head coach Group A AVIS Rapla Rapla, Estonia Sadolin Sports Hall Aivar Kuusmaa Port of Pärnu Pärnu, Estonia Pärnu Sports Hall Heiko Rannula Liepāja/Triobet Liepāja, Latvia Liepāja Olympic Center Agris Galvanovskis Jūrmala/Fēnikss Jūrmala, Latvia Taurenītis Arnis Vecvagars Barons kvartāls Riga, Latvia Daugavas Sporta nams Mārtiņš Gulbis Nevėžis Kėdainiai, Lithuania Kėdainiai Arena Paulius Juodis Barsy Atyrau Atyrau, Kazakhstan The team will play away Boyan Salatyc Group B Rakvere Tarvas/Palmse Metall Rakvere, Estonia Rakvere Sports Hall Andres Sõber TTÜ Tallinn, Estonia TTÜ Sports Hall Rait Käbin Valmiera/ORDO Valmiera, Latvia Vidzeme Olympic Center Uvis Helmanis Jēkabpils Jēkabpils, Latvia Jēkabpils Sporta nams Rūdolfs Rozītis Ogre/Kumho Tyre Ogre, Latvia Ogre 1st Secondary School Arturs Visockis-Rubenis Pieno žvaigždės Pasvalys, Lithuania Pieno žvaigždės Arena Ramūnas Cvirka Borisfen Mogilev Mogilev, Belarus The team will play away Aliaksandr Huliayeu Playoffs Kalev/Cramo Tallinn, Estonia Saku Suurhall Alar Varrak University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia University of Tartu Sports Hall Gert Kullamäe TLÜ/Kalev Tallinn, Estonia Kalev Sports Hall Raido Roos Vytautas Prienai/Birštonas, Lithuania Prienai Arena Virginijus Šeškus
Regular season
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The six first qualified teams advanced to the Play-offs, while the last teams were eliminated. The regular season began on 11 October 2016 and concluded on 25 January 2017. Rakvere Tarvas/Palmse Metall were disqualified from the Playoffs after forfeiting the regular season away match against Jēkabpils on 25 January 2017 with Barsy Atyrau advancing instead.
Group A
Group B
Playoffs Bracket
Awards MVP of the Week MVP of the Week award is given to the best individual performance on a winning team based on their efficiency rating. Regular season WeekPlayerTeam EFF 1 Thomas van der Mars AVIS Rapla 34 2 Dāvis Rozītis Liepāja/Triobet 27 3 Karlis Apsitis Ogre/Kumho Tyre 28 4 Thomas van der Mars (2) AVIS Rapla 25 5 Rinalds Sirsniņš Jēkabpils 24 6 Justin Baker Tarvas/Palmse Metall 29 7 Thomas van der Mars (3) AVIS Rapla 28 8 Andriy Agafonov Pieno žvaigždės 33 9 Ignas Fiodorovas Pieno žvaigždės 33 10 Edgars Jeromanovs Jūrmala/Fēnikss 51 11 Karolis Petrukonis Nevėžis 32 12 Sten Olmre TTÜ 32 13 Mihkel Kirves Port of Pärnu 34 14 Nikola Vujović TTÜ 35 15 Viktors Iļjins Jūrmala/Fēnikss 29
Playoffs WeekPlayerTeam EFF 16 Dāvis Rozītis (2) Barons kvartāls 33 17 Jurijs Aleksejevs Jēkabpils 31 18 Vitali Liutych Kalev/Cramo 49 19 Dominykas Milka University of Tartu 29 20 Andriy Agafonov (2) Pieno žvaigždės 29 21 Regimantas Miniotas Vytautas 23 22 Janari Jõesaar University of Tartu 25
MVP of the Month {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" ! align="center"|Month ! align="center" width=200|Player ! align="center" width=200|Team ! align="center" width=|Ref. |- |October 2016||align="left"| Mārtiņš Laksa ||align="left"| Valmiera/ORDO || |- |November 2016||align="left"| Thomas van der Mars ||align="left"| AVIS Rapla || |- |December 2016||align="left"| Edgars Jeromanovs ||align="left"| Jūrmala/Fēnikss || |- |January 2017||align="left"| Denis Krestinin ||align="left"| Barons kvartāls ||
Finals MVP Tomas Delininkaitis ( Vytautas)
Player statistics Players qualify to this category by having at least 50% games played.
Points RankNameTeamGamesPointsPPG1 Trevin Parks Barsy Atyrau1430221.572 Vitali Liutych Kalev/Cramo714520.713 Justin Baker Rakvere Tarvas/Palmse Metall612220.33
Assists RankNameTeamGamesAssistsAPG1 Toni Prostran Nevėžis151409.332 Malcolm Griffin Liepāja/Triobet10656.503 Kristo Saage TLÜ/Kalev2126.00
Rebounds RankNameTeamGamesReboundsRPG1 Thomas van der Mars AVIS Rapla1416011.432 Denis Krestinin Barons kvartāls1515110.073 Đorđe Dželetović TLÜ/Kalev22010.00
Efficiency RankName TeamGamesEfficiencyPIR1 Justin Baker Rakvere Tarvas/Palmse Metall613722.832 Thomas van der Mars AVIS Rapla1431822.713 Denis Krestinin Barons kvartāls1531721.13
References
External links Official website