2016–17 Baltic Basketball League

The 2016–17 Triobet Baltic Basketball League is the 13th season of the Baltic Basketball League and the second under the title sponsorship of Triobet.[1] 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.[2]

2016–17 Baltic Basketball League
Season	2016–17
Teams	18
Games played	116
Dates	11 October 2016 – 6 April 2017
TV	Viasat Sport Baltic, Delfi TV
Final positions
Top seed	University of Tartu
Champions	Vytautas (First title)
Runners-up	Pieno žvaigždės
Third place	University of Tartu
Fourth place	Kalev/Cramo
Awards
Finals MVP	Tomas Delininkaitis
Statistical leaders
Points Trevin Parks 21.57 Rebounds Thomas van der Mars 11.43 Assists Toni Prostran 9.33
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

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.[3] 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.[4] 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	Ogres 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

Nevėžis

Pieno žvaigždės

Vytautas

Barons

Liepāja

Jūrmala

Valmiera

Jēkabpils

Ogre

Tarvas

Pärnu

Rapla

Tartu

Kalev/Cramo
TLÜ/Kalev
TTÜ

Location of teams of the 2016–17 Baltic Basketball League

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.[5]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Barons kvartāls	12	10	2	1036	941	+95	Advance to the Play-offs
2	Nevėžis	12	8	4	1025	880	+145
3	AVIS Rapla	12	8	4	913	868	+45
4	Jūrmala/Fēnikss	12	6	6	871	848	+23
5	Liepāja/Triobet	12	5	7	984	988	−4
6	Port of Pärnu	12	3	9	889	972	−83
7	Barsy Atyrau	12	2	10	863	1084	−221

Source: BBL

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Pieno žvaigždės	12	11	1	1091	860	+231	Advance to the Play-offs
2	Valmiera/ORDO	12	9	3	924	788	+136
3	Jēkabpils	12	8	4	943	830	+113
4	Ogre/Kumho Tyre	12	6	6	907	872	+35
5	TTÜ	12	5	7	972	996	−24
6	Tarvas/Palmse Metall^[A]	12	3	9	740	865	−125
7	Borisfen Mogilev	12	0	12	712	1078	−366

Source: BBL

1. ^
   Tarvas/Palmse Metall were disqualified from the Playoffs after forfeiting the away match against Jēkabpils.

Playoffs

Bracket

	Round of 16 6 February 2017 – 22 February 2017							Quarterfinals 28 February 2017 – 9 March 2017							Semifinals 14 March 2017 – 23 March 2017							Finals 29 March 2017 – 5 April 2017
	1	University of Tartu	83	74	157
	16	Barsy Atyrau	49	45	94
								1	University of Tartu	86	92	178
								8	Nevėžis	88	78	166
	8	Nevėžis	78	77	155
	9	Jēkabpils	74	80	154
															1	University of Tartu	88	75	163
														5	Pieno žvaigždės	88	82	170
	4	TLÜ/Kalev	75	73	148
	13	Liepāja/Triobet	92	86	178
								13	Liepāja/Triobet	80	93	173
								5	Pieno žvaigždės	89	109	198
	5	Pieno žvaigždės	75	97	172
	12	Ogre/Kumho Tyre	83	64	147
																						5	Pieno žvaigždės	88	74	162
																						2	Vytautas	85	89	174
	2	Vytautas	100	89	189
	15	Port of Pärnu	55	54	109
								2	Vytautas	102	64	166
								7	Valmiera/ORDO	71	74	145
	7	Valmiera/ORDO	78	87	165
	10	AVIS Rapla	65	81	146
															2	Vytautas	88	88	176
														3	Kalev/Cramo	94	77	171
	3	Kalev/Cramo	101	92	193
	14	TTÜ	63	72	135
								3	Kalev/Cramo	100	66	166
								6	Barons kvartāls	81	77	158
	6	Barons kvartāls	85	80	165
	11	Jūrmala/Fēnikss	54	82	136

	Third place series 28 March 2017 – 6 April 2017
	1	University of Tartu	72	67	139
	3	Kalev/Cramo	60	68	128

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

Week	Player	Team	EFF	Ref.
1	Thomas van der Mars	AVIS Rapla	34	[6]
2	Dāvis Rozītis	Liepāja/Triobet	27	[7]
3	Karlis Apsitis	Ogre/Kumho Tyre	28	[8]
4	Thomas van der Mars (2)	AVIS Rapla	25	[9]
5	Rinalds Sirsniņš	Jēkabpils	24	[10]
6	Justin Baker	Tarvas/Palmse Metall	29	[11]
7	Thomas van der Mars (3)	AVIS Rapla	28	[12]
8	Andriy Agafonov	Pieno žvaigždės	33	[13]
9	Ignas Fiodorovas	Pieno žvaigždės	33	[14]
10	Edgars Jeromanovs	Jūrmala/Fēnikss	51	[15]
11	Karolis Petrukonis	Nevėžis	32	[16]
12	Sten Olmre	TTÜ	32	[17]
13	Mihkel Kirves	Port of Pärnu	34	[18]
14	Nikola Vujović	TTÜ	35	[19]
15	Viktors Iļjins	Jūrmala/Fēnikss	29	[20]

Playoffs

Week	Player	Team	EFF	Ref.
16	Dāvis Rozītis (2)	Barons kvartāls	33	[21]
17	Jurijs Aleksejevs	Jēkabpils	31	[22]
18	Vitali Liutych	Kalev/Cramo	49	[23]
19	Dominykas Milka	University of Tartu	29	[24]
20	Andriy Agafonov (2)	Pieno žvaigždės	29	[25]
21	Regimantas Miniotas	Vytautas	23	[26]
22	Janari Jõesaar	University of Tartu	25	[27]

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team	Ref.
October 2016	Mārtiņš Laksa	Valmiera/ORDO	[28]
November 2016	Thomas van der Mars	AVIS Rapla	[29]
December 2016	Edgars Jeromanovs	Jūrmala/Fēnikss	[30]
January 2017	Denis Krestinin	Barons kvartāls	[31]

Source: BBL Homepage

Finals MVP

• Tomas Delininkaitis ( Vytautas)

Player statistics

Players qualify to this category by having at least 50% games played.

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1	Trevin Parks	Barsy Atyrau	14	302	21.57
2	Vitali Liutych	Kalev/Cramo	7	145	20.71
3	Justin Baker	Rakvere Tarvas/Palmse Metall	6	122	20.33

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1	Toni Prostran	Nevėžis	15	140	9.33
2	Malcolm Griffin	Liepāja/Triobet	10	65	6.50
3	Kristo Saage	TLÜ/Kalev	2	12	6.00

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1	Thomas van der Mars	AVIS Rapla	14	160	11.43
2	Denis Krestinin	Barons kvartāls	15	151	10.07
3	Đorđe Dželetović	TLÜ/Kalev	2	20	10.00

Efficiency

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Efficiency	PIR
1	Justin Baker	Rakvere Tarvas/Palmse Metall	6	137	22.83
2	Thomas van der Mars	AVIS Rapla	14	318	22.71
3	Denis Krestinin	Barons kvartāls	15	317	21.13

References

1. "BBL signs three-year partnership with Triobet". Baltic Basketball League. 13 October 2015.
2. "Vytautas crowned as Triobet BBL Champions". Baltic Basketball League. 5 April 2017.
3. "Triobet BBL confirms competition format for 2016-17 season". Baltic Basketball League. 8 September 2016.
4. "Triobet BBL Eight-Finals pairs announced". Baltic Basketball League. 25 January 2017.
5. "Jekabpils - Tarvas/Palmse Metall game cancelled". Baltic Basketball League. January 25, 2017.
6. "Triobet BBL player of the week – Thomas van der Mars". Baltic Basketball League. October 13, 2016.
7. "Triobet BBL player of the week – Davis Rozitis". Baltic Basketball League. October 20, 2016.
8. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week – Karlis Apsitis". Baltic Basketball League. October 31, 2016.
9. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week: Thomas van der Mars". Baltic Basketball League. November 6, 2016.
10. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week: Rinalds Sirsnins". Baltic Basketball League. November 12, 2016.
11. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week: Justin Baker". Baltic Basketball League. November 20, 2016.
12. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week: Thomas van der Mars". Baltic Basketball League. November 26, 2016.
13. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week: Andriy Agafonov". Baltic Basketball League. December 1, 2016.
14. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week: Ignas Fiodorovas". Baltic Basketball League. December 11, 2016.
15. "All-time best Jeromanovs rakes in Weekly MVP honors". Baltic Basketball League. 16 December 2016.
16. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week – Karolis Petrukonis". Baltic Basketball League. December 23, 2016.
17. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week – Sten Olmre". Baltic Basketball League. January 6, 2017.
18. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week – Mihkel Kirves". Baltic Basketball League. January 14, 2017.
19. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week – Nikola Vujovic". Baltic Basketball League. January 22, 2017.
20. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week – Viktors Iljins". Baltic Basketball League. January 26, 2017.
21. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week - Davis Rozitis". Baltic Basketball League. February 11, 2017.
22. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week - Jurijs Aleksejevs". Baltic Basketball League. February 25, 2017.
23. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week: Vitali Liutych". Baltic Basketball League. March 4, 2017.
24. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week - Dominykas Milka". Baltic Basketball League. March 11, 2017.
25. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week - Andriy Agafonov". Baltic Basketball League. March 18, 2017.
26. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week – Regimantas Miniotas". Baltic Basketball League. March 25, 2017.
27. "Triobet BBL Player of the Week - Janari Joesaar". Baltic Basketball League. 1 April 2017.
28. "Valmiera's Laksa takes October MVP honors". Baltic Basketball League. November 1, 2016.
29. "Thomas van der Mars rules Baltic basketball, takes November MVP honors". Baltic Basketball League. December 2, 2016.
30. "Jeromanovs' historic night secures December MVP honors". Baltic Basketball League. December 25, 2016.
31. "Denis Krestinin takes well-deserved January MVP honors". Baltic Basketball League. January 28, 2017.

External links

• Official website