2013–14 Baltic Basketball League

2013–14 Baltic Basketball League
Champions	Šiauliai (1st title)
Runners-up	TonyBet
Third place	Tartu Ülikool/Rock
Fourth place	Tampereen Pyrintö
Teams	21
Games played	157
Duration	October 6, 2013 – April 13, 2014
Top seed	Pieno žvaigždės
TV	Viasat Sport Baltic
Awards
MVP	Travis Leslie
Finals MVP	Travis Leslie
Statistical leaders
Points	Jānis Kaufmanis 19.50
Rebounds	Joakim Kjellbom 9.69
Assists	Rinalds Sirsniņš 4.83

The 2013–14 Baltic Basketball League was the 10th anniversary season of the Baltic Basketball League.

This time the format featured 21 teams – 6 from Lithuania, 6 from Estonia, 5 from Latvia, 2 from Kazakhstan and 1 from Sweden and Finland. For the regular season the teams were divided into three groups of seven teams and competed in a round-robin competition system, with each team facing their opponent twice. Top five teams of each group and the best sixth placed team qualified for the eight-finals. All play-off games were played in home-and-away series.^[1]

The Finals were a Lithuanian clash as Šiauliai took the 2014 title by beating TonyBet 140–123 on aggregate score. Estonian team Tartu Ülikool/Rock won their second Baltic League bronze by beating Tampereen Pyrintö of Finland with aggregate score of 149–127.

Teams

Key to colors

Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Quarterfinalist	Eightfinalist	Regular season

Country (League)	Teams	Teams (rankings in 2012–13 national championships)
Lithuania (LKL)	6	TonyBet (4)	Pieno žvaigždės (5)	Šiauliai (6)	Juventus (7)	Nevėžis (8)	Lietkabelis (9)
Estonia (KML)	6	TÜ/Rock (2)	Rakvere Tarvas (3)	TYCO Rapla (4)	Pärnu (6)	Valga/Maks & Moorits (7)	Tallinna Kalev (8)
Latvia (LBL)	5	Ventspils (2)	Valmiera (3)	Barons kvartāls (4)	Jēkabpils (5)	Liepāja/Triobet (9)
Kazakhstan (D1)	2	Barsy Atyrau (2)	Caspiy Aktau (3)
Sweden (Ligan)	1	Norrköping Dolphins (4)
Finland (Korisliiga)	1	Tampereen Pyrintö (4)

Regular season

TÜ/Rock

KK Pärnu

Tarvas

Valga

TYCO Rapla

Kalev

Ventspils

Liepāja

Valmiera

Jēkabpils

Barons

TonyBet

Šiauliai

Pieno

Nevėžis

Juventus

Lietkabelis

Dolphins

Pyrintö

Location of teams of the Regular season in 2013–14 Baltic Basketball League.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Blue: Group C;

Barsy Atyrau

Caspiy Aktau

Location of teams of the Regular season in 2013–14 Baltic Basketball League.

If teams are level on record at the end of the Regular season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

1. Points.
2. Points counting the games between tied teams only.
3. Point difference between tied teams.
4. League-wide point difference.

The criteria for determination of the best team placed 6th:
– Total number of points in each group.
– Total point average in each group

Key to colors

	Top five places in each group and the best sixth placed team advance to eightfinals
	Eliminated

Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts	Tie-break
1.	Tampereen Pyrintö	12	10	2	1070	815	+255	22
2.	Norrköping Dolphins	12	9	3	949	798	+151	21
3.	Jēkabpils	12	7	5	956	856	+100	19
4.	Valmiera	12	6	6	862	907	–45	18
5.	Rakvere Tarvas	12	4	8	879	1031	–152	16
6.	TYCO Rapla	12	3	9	779	958	–179	15	1–1 (+4)
7.	Tallinna Kalev	12	3	9	840	970	–130	15	1–1 (–4)

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts	Tie-break
1.	Ventspils	12	10	2	919	748	+171	22
2.	Šiauliai	12	9	3	1002	917	+85	21	1–1 (+3)
3.	Nevėžis	12	9	3	976	851	+125	21	1–1 (–3)
4.	Barsy Atyrau	12	5	7	870	920	–50	17
5.	Lietkabelis	12	4	8	884	906	–22	16	2–0
6.	Liepāja/Triobet	12	4	8	853	923	–70	16	0–2
7.	Pärnu	12	1	11	774	1013	–239	13

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts	Tie-break
1.	Pieno žvaigždės	12	11	1	976	756	+220	23
2.	TonyBet	12	10	2	1024	825	+199	22
3.	TÜ/Rock	12	8	4	959	813	+146	20
4.	Barons kvartāls	12	5	7	885	968	–83	17	2–0
5.	Juventus	12	5	7	910	878	+32	17	0–2
6.	Kaspiy Aktau	12	3	9	744	997	–253	15
7.	Valga/Maks & Moorits	12	0	12	688	949	–261	12

Play-offs

In the knockout phase rounds will be played in a home-and-away format, with the overall cumulative score determining the winner of a round. Thus, the score of one single game can be tied.^[2][3]

All qualified teams for the BBL Eighth-finals will be classified from 1st place to 16th place according to their win-loss records:

1. Place in the group.
2. Points.
3. Points average.

Bracket

	Eightfinals February 20, 2014 – March 3, 2014							Quarterfinals March 7, 2014 – March 21, 2014							Semifinals March 24, 2014 – April 8, 2014							Finals April 10, 2014 – April 12, 2014
	1	Pieno žvaigždės	92	93	185
	16	Liepāja/Triobet	79	67	146
								1	Pieno žvaigždės	64	50	114
								8	TÜ/Rock	77	52	129
	8	TÜ/Rock	84	84	168
	9	Jēkabpils	53	63	116
															8	TÜ/Rock	66	71	137
														4	TonyBet	68	82	150
	4	TonyBet	67	84	151
	13	Juventus	70	76	146
								4	TonyBet	83	69	152
								5	Norrköping Dolphins	69	59	128
	5	Norrköping Dolphins	87	84	171
	12	Barons kvartāls	75	71	146
																						4	TonyBet	57	66	123
																						6	Šiauliai	62	78	140
	3	Ventspils	66	84	150
	14	Lietkabelis	67	55	122
								3	Ventspils	60	71	131
								6	Šiauliai	66	68	134
	6	Šiauliai	107	91	198
	11	Barsy Atyrau	79	78	157
															6	Šiauliai	82	85	167
														2	Tampereen Pyrintö	81	75	156
	2	Tampereen Pyrintö	99	102	201
	15	Rakvere Tarvas	80	94	174
								2	Tampereen Pyrintö	91	97	188
								7	Nevėžis	61	95	156
	7	Nevėžis	70	96	166
	10	Valmiera	89	70	159

Bronze medal playoff

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tartu Ülikool/Rock	149–127	Tampereen Pyrintö	75–62	74–65

Finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Šiauliai	140–123	TonyBet	62–57	78–66

Game 1

10 April 2014 18:00

Boxscore

Šiauliai	62–57	TonyBet
Scoring by quarter: 19–12, 11–11, 14–17, 18–17
Pts: Leslie 16 Rebs: Leslie 7 Asts: Leslie 3		Pts: Lukauskis 18 Rebs: Šikšnius 7 Asts: Lukauskis 4

Šiauliai Arena, Šiauliai Attendance: 1,490 Referees: Oskars Lucis (LAT), Arnis Ozols (LAT), Juris Kokainis (LAT)

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Game 2

12 April 2014 17:00

Boxscore

TonyBet	66–78	Šiauliai
Scoring by quarter: 17–18, 19–21, 16–20, 14–19
Pts: Lukauskis 15 Rebs: Linkevičius 8 Asts: Janavičius 4		Pts: Giedraitis 17 Rebs: Leslie 10 Asts: Needham 6

Prienai Arena, Prienai Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Olegs Latisevs (LAT), Arnis Ozols (LAT), Juris Kokainis (LAT)

Baltic Basketball League 2014 Champions
Šiauliai 1st title

Individual statistics

Players qualify to this category by having at least 50% games played. Statistics include only Regular Season games.
Source: Baltic Basketball League player statistics

Efficiency

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Efficiency	EFF
1.	Joakim Kjellbom	Norrköping Dolphins	16	377	23.56
2.	Travis Leslie	Šiauliai	12	241	20.08
3.	Rait Keerles	Rakvere Tarvas	11	208	18.91
4.	Troy Barnies	Jēkabpils	14	247	17.64
5.	William Walker	Norrköping Dolphins	13	227	17.46

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Jānis Kaufmanis	Valmiera	14	273	19.50
2.	Troy Barnies	Jēkabpils	14	244	17.43
3.	Rait Keerles	Rakvere Tarvas	11	190	17.27
4.	Paul Hill	Liepāja/Triobet	7	113	16.14
5.	Gintaras Leonavičius	Nevėžis	15	240	16.00

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1.	Joakim Kjellbom	Norrköping Dolphins	16	155	9.69
2.	Rait Keerles	Rakvere Tarvas	11	98	8.91
3.	Dinma Odiakosa	Lietkabelis	7	59	8.43
4.	Travis Leslie	Šiauliai	12	90	7.50
5.	Damon Williams	Tampereen Pyrintö	20	148	7.40

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1.	Rinalds Sirsniņš	Jēkabpils	12	58	4.83
2.	Edi Sinadinović	Valga/Maks & Moorits	6	27	4.50
3.	Raimonds Gabrāns	Valmiera	12	53	4.42
4.	Rolandas Alijevas	Pieno žvaigždės	15	66	4.40
5.	Lorenzo Williams	Ventspils	16	70	4.38

Awards

BBL 2013–14 Season MVP

• Travis Leslie (Šiauliai)^[4]

BBL 2014 Finals MVP

• Travis Leslie (Šiauliai)^[5]

Top scorer

• Jānis Kaufmanis (Valmiera)^[6]

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team	Ref.
October 2013	Gintaras Leonavičius	Nevėžis
November 2013	Jānis Timma	Ventspils
December 2013	Joakim Kjellbom	Norrköping Dolphins
January 2014	Troy Barnies	Jēkabpils
February 2014	Tauras Jogėla	Nevėžis

Last updated: September 16, 2014.
Source: BBL Homepage

References

1. "The field is set for 2013/14 BBL season". BBL Homepage (2013-09-04). Retrieved on 2013-09-05
2. "Competition system". BBL Homepage. Retrieved on 2014-02-17
3. "Regular season concludes, playoff pairs clear". BBL Homepage (2014-02-16). Retrieved on 2014-02-17
4. "BBL Season 2013-2014. Eurobasket.com. Retrieved on 2014-09-19
5. "Leslie: "My dream is to be back in the NBA"". BBL Homepage (2014-04-24). Retrieved on 2014-09-16
6. "BBL hands out individual awards"". BBL Homepage (2014-02-20). Retrieved on 2014-02-20

External links

• Official website