2008–09 LEB Oro season

2008-09 LEB season
League Liga Española de Baloncesto
Sport Basketball
Duration September 18, 2008-May 15, 2009
Regular season
Season champions Valladolid
Season MVP United States Jakim Donaldson (Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias)
Top scorer Spain Ricardo Guillén (Villa de Los Barrios)
Play-offs
Final Four champions Lucentum Alicante
  Final Four runners-up Melilla Baloncesto

The 2008–09 LEB season is the 13th season of the Liga Española de Baloncesto. The 612-game regular season (34 games for each of the 18 teams) began on Thursday, September 18, 2008, and will end on Friday, May 15, 2009. The champion of the regular season will be promoted to ACB. The teams between 2nd and 9th position will play a best of 3 games play off to see who plays the Final Four. Two bottom teams will be relegated to LEB Plata.

LEB Oro Regular season

Pos. Teams Pld W L PF PA Avg Qualification or relegation
1 CB Valladolid 34 25 9 2700 2476 +224 Promotion to Liga ACB
2 Lucentum Alicante 34 25 9 2742 2441 +301 Promotion playoffs
3 Melilla Baloncesto 34 23 11 2714 2554 +160
4 Leche Río Breogán 34 23 11 2661 2584 +77
5 Tenerife Rural 34 21 13 2879 2760 +119
6 Clínicas Rincón Axarquía 34 19 15 2659 2593 +66
7 CB Villa de Los Barrios 1 34 18 16 2594 2550 +44
8 Grupo Begar León 34 18 16 2558 2507 +51
9 Ford Burgos 34 18 16 2762 2708 +54
10 Plus Pujol Lleida 2 34 18 16 2715 2698 +17
11 Cáceres 2016 34 15 19 2542 2592 -50
12 CB Vic 3 34 15 19 2578 2664 -86
13 Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias 34 15 19 2614 2713 -99
14 UB La Palma 34 14 20 2528 2619 -91
15 Mallorca 34 12 22 2751 2913 -162
16 Gandía Bàsquet 4 34 11 23 2507 2677 -170
17 Illescas Urban CLM 34 8 26 2386 2623 -237 Relegation to LEB Plata
18 Beirasar Rosalía 34 8 26 2488 2706 -218

1 CB Villa de Los Barrios relegated due economic problems.
2 Plus Pujol Lleida relegated to Liga EBA due economic problems.
3 CB Vic relegated due economic problems and sold its berth to CB Sant Josep Girona.
4 Gandía Bàsquet relegated to Liga EBA due economic problems.

LEB Oro playoffs

Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three (if third serie necessary) series between teams in the 2-9 positions, with the best-place team receiving home advantage. All opening games were played on May 19, 2009, and all second games were played on May 22. The deciding third games were played on May 24.

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg*
Lucentum Alicante 2 - 1 Ford Burgos 89-69 71-75 84-57
Melilla Baloncesto 2 - 0 Grupo Begar Léon 79-56 76-75
Leche Río Breogán 0 - 2 Villa de Los Barrios 81-89 58-76
Tenerife Rural 2 - 0 Clínicas Rincón Axarquía 83-77 67-66

* if necessary

Final Four

The Final Four is the last phase of the LEB Oro season, and is held over a weekend in Fuenlabrada. The semifinal games are played on May 30. The championship final is played on May 31.

Semifinals Finals
      
2 Lucentum Alicante 84
7 Villa de Los Barrios 81
2 Lucentum Alicante 72
3 Melilla Baloncesto 66
3 Melilla Baloncesto 91
5 Tenerife Rural 87

Stats Leaders

Points

Rank Name Team Games Points PPG
1.United States Kammron TaylorBeirasar Rosalía2036118.05
2.Spain Ricardo GuillénVilla de Los Barrios3460517.79
3.United States Jason DetrickCiudad de La Laguna Canarias 3460117.68
4.United States Thomas TerrellLa Palma3153117.13
5.Argentina Diego GarcíaFord Burgos3356517.12

Rebounds

Rank Name Team Games Rebounds RPG
1.United States Jakim DonaldsonCiudad de La Laguna Canarias343239.50
2.Brazil Paulo PrestesClínicas Rincón Axarquía333099.36
3.United States Robert BattleValladolid 332898.76
4.Spain Ricardo GuillénVilla de Los Barrios 342657.79
5.United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán282057.32

Assists

Rank Name Team Games Assists APG
1.Argentina Diego CiorciariMelilla Baloncesto332016.09
2.Spain Javier MendiburuPlus Pujol Lleida331544.67
3.Spain Pedro SalaLa Palma 341414.15
4.Spain Juanjo JiménezIllescas Urban CLM341293.79
5.Spain Daniel LópezLeche Río Breogán301133.77

MVP Week by Week

Date Player Team Efficiency
1Dominican Republic Eulis Báez
United States Pat Carroll
Grupo Begar León
Beirasar Rosalia
30
2United States Anthony Stacey
Bosnia and Herzegovina Nedžad Sinanović
Grupo Begar León
Ford Burgos
30
3United States Jakim DonaldsonCiudad de La Laguna Canarias32
4Lebanon Antwain BarbourTenerife Rural33
5Spain Ricardo GuillénVilla de Los Barrios28
6Dominican Republic Eulis Báez
Spain Juan Riera
Grupo Begar León
Mallorca
31
7Spain Ricardo GuillénVilla de Los Barrios51
8United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán31
9United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán41
10Lebanon Antwain BarbourTenerife Rural54
11United States Jason BlairMallorca30
12United States Robert BattleValladolid41
13United States Robert BattleValladolid30
14Brazil Vítor FaveraniClínicas Rincón Axarquía42
15United States Jakim DonaldsonCiudad de La Laguna Canarias39
16Spain Ricardo GuillénVilla de Los Barrios42
17United States Wayne SimienCáceres 201631
18Brazil Paulo PrestesClínicas Rincón Axarquía43
19Dominican Republic Eulis BáezGrupo Begar León36
20United States Jason Blair
Austria Martin Kohlmaier
Mallorca
La Palma
26
21United States Jakim DonaldsonCiudad de La Laguna Canarias35
22United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán35
23United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán31
24Spain Juan Riera
Poland Michal Chylinski
Mallorca
Clínicas Rincón Axarquía
29
25United States Jakim DonaldsonCiudad de La Laguna Canarias37
26Argentina Adrián BocciaTenerife Rural28
27United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán30
28Argentina Diego GuaitaCáceres 201637
29United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán32
30United States Zach MorleyGandía29
31United States Matt KieferVic37
32Brazil Paulo PrestesClínicas Rincón Axarquía40
33United States Charles Ramsdell
United States Jakim Donaldson
Beirasar Rosalía
Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias
34
34Spain Daniel LópezLeche Río Breogán38

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