2015–16 Baltic Basketball League

The 2015–16 Triobet Baltic Basketball League was the 12th season of the Baltic Basketball League and the first under the title sponsorship of Triobet.^[2]

2015–16 Baltic Basketball League
Season	2015–16
Duration	October 13, 2015 – April 6, 2016
Games played	116
Teams	17
TV partner(s)	Viasat Sport Baltic, Delfi TV
Regular season
Top seed	Šiauliai
Finals
Champions	Šiauliai (3rd title)
Runners-up	Tartu Ülikool/Rock
Third place	Lietkabelis
Fourth place	Valmiera/ORDO
Finals MVP	Rokas Giedraitis[1]
Statistical leaders
Points Andrew Warren 25.6 Rebounds Stephen Zack 11.0 Assists Rait-Riivo Laane 6.6
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Overview

This season’s competition included 6 teams from Estonia, 5 teams from Latvia and Lithuania and one team from Kazakhstan, which played all its 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. Out of the five teams who participated in FIBA Europe Cup competition – Ventspils, Juventus, Šiauliai, TÜ/Rock and Pieno žvaigždės – the latter three didn't qualify for the FIBA Europe Cup playoffs and thus begin their journey at the start of the BBL play-offs, seeded respectively first, second and third based on last season’s results.^[4] All play-off games were played in home-and-away series.

Tartu Ülikool/Rock became the first Estonian team to reach the Baltic League finals. In the Finals they lost with an aggregate score of 157–176 to Lithuanian team Šiauliai who won their third title in a row. Third place belonged to Lithuanian side Lietkabelis who beat Latvian team Valmiera/ORDO with aggregate score of 160–154.

Teams

Key to colors

Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Quarterfinalist	Top 16	Regular season

Country (League)	Teams	Teams (ranking in 2014–15 national championship)
Estonia (KML)	6	TÜ/Rock (1)	AVIS Rapla (3)	Rakvere Tarvas (4)	Pärnu Sadam (5)	TTÜ (7)	TLÜ/Kalev (8)
Latvia (LBL)	5	Jēkabpils (3)	Liepāja/Triobet (4)	Jūrmala/Fēnikss (5)	Barons/LDz (6)	Valmiera/ORDO (7)
Lithuania (LKL)	5	Pieno žvaigždės (4)	Šiauliai (7)	Lietkabelis (8)	Vytautas (9)	Nevėžis (10)
Kazakhstan (KBC)	1	Barsy Atyrau (-)

Team information

Group	Team	City, Country	Arena	Head coach
Group A	AVIS Rapla	Rapla, Estonia	Sadolin Sports Hall	Aivar Kuusmaa
	Barons/LDz	Riga, Latvia	Mārupe Arena	Agris Galvanovskis
	Lietkabelis	Panevėžys, Lithuania	Cido Arena	Gintaras Kadžiulis
	Nevėžis	Kėdainiai, Lithuania	Kėdainiai Arena	Ramūnas Cvirka
	Pärnu Sadam	Pärnu, Estonia	Pärnu Sports Hall	Mait Käbin
	TLÜ/Kalev	Tallinn, Estonia	Kalev Sports Hall	Kalle Klandorf
	Valmiera/ORDO	Valmiera, Latvia	Vidzeme Olympic Center	Ainars Zvirgzdiņš
Group B	Barsy Atyrau	Atyrau, Kazakhstan	The team will play away	Oleg Kiselev
	Jēkabpils	Jēkabpils, Latvia	Jēkabpils Sporta nams	Igors Miglinieks
	Jūrmala/Fēnikss	Jūrmala, Latvia	Taurenītis	Arnis Vecvagars
	Liepāja/Triobet	Liepāja, Latvia	Liepāja Olympic Center	Uvis Helmanis
	Rakvere Tarvas	Rakvere, Estonia	Rakvere Sports Hall	Andres Sõber
	TTÜ	Tallinn, Estonia	TTÜ Sports Hall	Rait Käbin
	Vytautas	Prienai/Birštonas, Lithuania	Prienai Arena	Virginijus Šeškus
Playoffs	Pieno žvaigždės	Pasvalys, Lithuania	Pieno žvaigždės Arena	Mantas Šernius
	Šiauliai	Šiauliai, Lithuania	Šiauliai Arena	Gediminas Petrauskas
	TÜ/Rock	Tartu, Estonia	University of Tartu Sports Hall	Gert Kullamäe

Regular season

Nevėžis

Pieno žvaigždės

Vytautas

Šiauliai

Lietkabelis

Barons/LDz

Liepāja/Triobet

Jūrmala/Fēnikss

Valmiera

Jēkabpils

Tarvas

Pärnu

Rapla

TÜ/Rock

TTÜ
TLÜ/Kalev

Location of teams of the 2015–16 Baltic Basketball League

The Regular season ran from October 13, 2015 to January 27, 2016.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1.	Lietkabelis	12	10	2	1026	888	+138	22	Playoffs
2.	Valmiera/ORDO	12	9	3	941	865	+76	21
3.	AVIS Rapla	12	7	5	838	897	−59	19
4.	TLÜ/Kalev	12	6	6	895	916	−21	18
5.	Nevėžis	12	4	8	889	909	−20	16
6.	Barons/LDz	12	4	8	910	941	−31	16
7.	Pärnu Sadam	12	2	10	899	982	−83	14

Last updated: February 4, 2016.
Source: BBL Homepage

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1.	Vytautas	12	11	1	1005	894	+111	23	Playoffs
2.	Liepāja/Triobet	12	8	4	939	909	+30	20
3.	Jēkabpils	12	7	5	921	914	+7	19
4.	Rakvere Tarvas	12	6	6	914	891	+23	18
5.	Jūrmala/Fēnikss	12	5	7	884	870	+14	17
6.	Barsy Atyrau	12	3	9	900	970	−70	15
7.	TTÜ	12	2	10	845	960	−115	14	Eliminated

Last updated: February 4, 2016.
Source: BBL Homepage

Playoffs

Bracket

	Eightfinals February 8–25							Quarterfinals March 1–10							Semifinals March 15–23							Finals March 29–April 6
	1	Šiauliai	101	85	186
	16	Pärnu Sadam	61	80	141
								1	Šiauliai	73	91	164
								8	Jēkabpils	64	93	157
	8	Jēkabpils	65	93	158
	9	AVIS Rapla	79	65	144
															1	Šiauliai	77	91	168
															5	Lietkabelis	67	79	146
	4	Vytautas	83	83	166
	13	Nevėžis	78	107	185
								13	Nevėžis	61	59	120
								5	Lietkabelis	84	64	148
	5	Lietkabelis	88	92	180
	12	Jūrmala/Fēnikss	88	78	166
																						1	Šiauliai	74	102	176
																						2	TÜ/Rock	81	76	157
	2	TÜ/Rock	105	99	204
	15	Barsy Atyrau	77	74	151
								2	TÜ/Rock	93	80	173
								7	Liepāja/Triobet	66	76	142
	7	Liepāja/Triobet	74	93	167
	10	Rakvere Tarvas	50	87	137
															2	TÜ/Rock	68	75	143
															6	Valmiera/ORDO	64	68	132
	3	Pieno žvaigždės	110	93	203
	14	Barons/LDz	84	93	177
								3	Pieno žvaigždės	71	78	149
								6	Valmiera/ORDO	81	80	161
	6	Valmiera/ORDO	84	87	171
	11	TLÜ/Kalev	66	68	134

	Third place series March 30–April 5
	5	Lietkabelis	74	86	160
	6	Valmiera/ORDO	90	64	154

Player statistics

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

Points

Rank	Player	Team	Games	Points	Average
1	Andrew Warren	Pärnu Sadam	7	179	25.57
2	Johnny Berhanemeskel	TLÜ/Kalev	14	264	18.86
3	Reinis Strupovičs	Rakvere Tarvas	10	175	17.50
4	Michael Burwell	Barsy Atyrau	13	219	16.85
5	Kris Richard	Liepāja/Triobet	15	252	16.80

Assists

Rank	Player	Team	Games	Assists	Average
1	Rait-Riivo Laane	TTÜ	12	79	6.58
2	Rinalds Sirsniņš	Jēkabpils	13	75	5.77
3	Miljan Pavković	Lietkabelis	13	75	5.62
4	Edgars Jeromanovs	Jūrmala/Fēnikss	14	74	5.29
5	Derrick Low	Pieno žvaigždės	4	21	5.25

Rebounds

Rank	Player	Team	Games	Rebounds	Average
1	Stephen Zack	Liepāja/Triobet	12	132	11.00
2	Ronaldas Rutkauskas	Jēkabpils	13	121	9.31
3	Carl Hipp	Barons/LDz	11	98	8.91
4	William Artino	AVIS Rapla	12	106	8.83
5	David Haughton	Rakvere Tarvas	14	122	8.71

Efficiency

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Efficiency	Average
1	Giedrius Staniulis	Pieno žvaigždės	3	65	21.67
2	Andrew Warren	Pärnu Sadam	7	147	21.00
3	Paulius Petrilevičius	Pärnu Sadam	12	231	19.25
4	Vytautas Šulskis	Vytautas	13	250	19.23
5	Ronaldas Rutkauskas	Jēkabpils	13	248	19.08

Awards

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team	Ref.
October 2015	Andrew Warren	Pärnu Sadam
November 2015	Paulius Petrilevicius	Pärnu Sadam
December 2015	Laimonas Kisielius	Vytautas
January 2016	Ronaldas Rutkauskas	Jēkabpils

Last updated: February 3, 2016.
Source: BBL Homepage