Portuguese LPB 2013-2014

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CAB and Guimarães are looking like the best to face against Benfica, but even them have to work really hard to make a dent. Benfica I like that they let some players go, if you are not in the European Competitions you don't need that many players. For instance on the last two years there were stretches were Diogo Carreira wasn't getting minutes, than it was Miguel Minhava. These are top level players, waste of talent and money.

Like to see José Barbosa getting props as well as Cristovão Cordeiro. Also Diogo Correia i know he played more SG growing up, but he should be adapted as a scoring PG (maybe this is happening not sure).

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Also Diogo Correia i know he played more SG growing up, but he should be adapted as a scoring PG (maybe this is happening not sure).

A couple of seasons ago, Moncho López tried to use Diogo Correia as a sort of combo-guard when he found out that Reggie Jackson wasn’t that good and José Costa (too old) and Miguel Cardoso (too young) were F.C. Porto’s other PGs. Correia’s playmaking skills are still underdeveloped and Algés already as too many PGs (António Pires, Diogo Ventura, Francisco Amiel); although, with Pires’ injury, Correia may find himself a few minutes at the helm.

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A modest guide to the VI LPB (2013-14) – Part VII (final)

Note: A.P.T. stands for António Prata’s Trophy (a preseason tournament with all the LPB teams)


GALITOS F.C.

My Starting Line-up:

PG Miguel Minhava (1.97, 1983)
SG António Tavares (1.83, 1975)
SF Danilson Vieira (1.92, 1985, Guinea-Bissau-Portugal)
PF José Pedro Ferreira (1.98, 1978)
C Andrew Bachanov (2.06, 1986, USA)

6th man: Dénis Neves (PF, 1.97, 1978, Cape Verde)

Relevant Bench Players:
João Fernandes (PG, 1.80, 1992), Eugénio Silva (SG, 1.90, 1990), Daniel Machado (SG/SF, 1.95, 1990) and André Clérigo (PF, 2.03, 1990).

Biggest sneakers to fill: Pedro Pinto (PG, 1.88, 1988 – Vitória de Guimarães)


MIGUEL “Sleepy” MINHAVA, a Portuguese NT member not so long ago, should have been signed by a title contender and not by a relegation candidate. He’ll find a familiar face on Galitos’ roster: ANTÓNIO TAVARES and he were teammates while playing for S.L. Benfica. Newcomers ANDREW BACHANOV (15.0 pts, 7.0 reb and 2.50 blk – APT) and DANILSON VIEIRA (ex-Sport Algés e Dafundo) were immediately promoted to the starting-five: Guinea-Bissau NT member Danilson Vieira has a very limited shooting range while Bachanov is Galitos’s only true center. There is an abundance of PGs: JOÃO FERNANDES (6.5 pts, 2.0 ast –APT) will back Minhava and sometimes play alongside him and even ALEXANDRE COELHO (another Barreirense product) could enter the rotation. The only hope for Galitos to avoid relegation is that youngsters EUGÉNIO SILVA (ex-Illiabum Ílhavo) and ANDRÉ CLÉRIGO (ex-C.F. Belenenses) become significant contributors off the bench.


Miguel Minhava
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ACADÉMICA DE COIMBRA

My Starting Line-up:

SG Rui Mota (1.90, 1978)
SG/SF Fernando Sousa (1.92, 1981)
SF Bruno Costa (1.95, 1983)
David Martins?
David Figueiras?

6th man: No one

Relevant Bench Players: None

Biggest sneakers to fill: Mário Fernandes (PG, 1.74, 1982)


Académica presented a borderline-pathetic roster for the António Pratas’ trophy. Front-office wars and financial troubles led Académica to play with 3 (three!) pros – Rui Mota, Fernando Sousa and Bruno Costa – and 9 toddlers from the youth teams. FERNANDO SOUSA – LPB’s all-time steals leader – will be joined by RUI MOTA, a crafty guard that at his prime was a NT member. BRUNO COSTA will probably be moved to the PF spot. Académica was forced to postpone its trip to the Azores where it should have faced S.C. Lusitânia on the opening LPB game and the specter of withdrawal haunts the reigning vice-champion.

P.S.: sorry for the lack of information about Académica de Coimbra.

Rui Mota
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Benfica wins by 50 and they have two players with 0 minutes...brilliant! Glad to see Doliboa back anyway!

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Sampaense Basket replaced Chris Ware by the once regarded Serbian prospect LUKA BASTA (PF/C, 2.06, 1990). The team also added JOÃO COSTA (PF/C, 1.95, 1991) to their roster.

Galitos F.C. added QUINTON DOGGETT (PF, 2.03, 1990, USA, ex-Naestved – Denmark) to their roster.


LPB Week 1:

Sampaense Basket 72 – Ekjersey Viana (16 pts, 7 reb, 2 blk).
B. C. Barcelos 79 – Eduardo Coelho (29 pts, 9/11 3-pointers).

A.D. Ovarense 89 – Sergi Coll (27 pts, 8 reb, 3 st).
Sport Algés e Dafundo 85 – Diogo Ventura (15 pts, 7 ast, 4 st).

Vitória de Guimarães 86 – Paulo Cunha (17 pts, 12 reb).
C.A.B. Madeira 81 – Aaron Anderson (17 pts, 16 reb).

Maia Basket 59 – Nuno Marçal (19 pts, 15 reb).
U.D. Oliveirense 54 – Aaron Fuller (24 pts, 19 reb).

Galitos F.C. 48 – Miguel Minhava (9 pts, 8 reb, 4 ast).
S.L. Benfica 96 – Carlos Andrade (20 pts, 8 reb, 3 st).

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Académica de Coimbra signed the Latvian forward KRISTIANS KRINKELS (1.98, 1992). Is he a student-athlete? His Twitter messages seem to indicate that he’s in Portugal under the ERASMUS program. The team will now rely on PEDRO REBELO (PG, 1.79, 1986) to run the show; Rebelo was Académica’s third PG last season, behind Mário Fernandes and Diogo Simões.


LPB Week 2:

S.L. Benfica 109 – Jobey Thomas (27 pts).
S.C. Lusitânia 75 – Augusto Sobrinho (25 pts).

Sport Algés e Dafundo 67 – Henrique Piedade (11 pts, 8 reb).
Galitos F.C. 73 – Miguel Minhava (14 pts, 7 reb, 9 ast).

U.D. Oliveirense 72 – João Soares (22 pts, 10 reb).
A.D. Ovarense 70 – José Barbosa (10 pts, 5 reb, 6 ast, 4 st).

B.C. Barcelos 75 – Marko Loncovic (18 pts, 11 reb).
Maia Basket 70 – Nuno Marçal (28 pts, 10 reb).

Académica de Coimbra 70 – Fernando Sousa (30 pts, 4 st).
Vitória de Guimarães 98 – José Silva (29 pts, 6/9 3-pointers, 9/9 FT).

C.A.B. Madeira 81 – Ricky Franklin (25 pts, 8 ast).
Sampaense Basket 88 – Chris Dowe (28 pts, 4 st).


Chris Dowe (20.0 pts, 2.50 st)
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B.C. Barcelos signed the Serbian PF/C NIKOLA TADIC (2.06, 1988, ex-OKK Sabac – Serbian 2nd division).

Aaron Anderson rules


LPB Week 3:

Sampaense Basket 70 – Chris Dowe (15 pts, 6 reb, 5 st).
Académica de Coimbra 57 – Rui Mota (20 pts, 4 ast).

A.D. Ovarense 65 – Miguel Miranda (21 pts, 8 reb, 5 ast, 4 st).
Galitos F.C. 68 – Miguel Minhava (8 pts, 13 reb, 10 ast).

Vitória de Guimarães 80 – Pedro Pinto (26 pts, 5 reb, 6 ast).
S.L. Benfica 70 – Mário Fernandes (20 pts, 9 ast, 4 st).

U.D. Oliveirense 61 – Aaron Fuller (22 pts, 8 reb).
B.C. Barcelos 58 – Marko Loncovic (23 pts, 13 reb).

Maia Basket 57 – Nuno Marçal (23 pts, 13 reb).
C.A.B. Madeira 60 – Aaron Anderson (21 pts, 16 reb).

S.C. Lusitânia 53 – Carlos Dias (6 pts, 8 reb).
Sport Algés e Dafundo 63 – João Santos (21 pts, 10 reb, 5/5 3-pointers).


Pedro Pinto (16.0 pts, 6.3 ast)
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LPB Week 4:

Sport Algés e Dafundo 78 – Rui Quintino (15 pts, 9 reb, 3 st).
Vitória de Guimarães 77 – José Silva (18 pts).

C.A.B. Madeira 100 – Aaron Anderson (22 pts, 15 reb).
U.D. Oliveirense 74 – Aaron Fuller (23 pts, 12 reb).

S.L. Benfica 97 – João Gomes (26 pts, 7 reb, 6 st).
Sampaense Basket 73 – Ekjersey Viana (10 pts, 6 ast, 8 st).

B.C. Barcelos 62 – Nikola Tadic (17 pts, 15 reb).
A.D. Ovarense 67 – André Pinto (15 pts, 9 reb, 3 st).

Académica de Coimbra 47 – Bruno Costa (12 pts, 10 reb).
Maia Basket 67 – Michel Diouf (11 pts, 8 reb).

Galitos F.C. 81 – Miguel Minhava (17 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast).
S.C. Lusitânia 53 – Marcel Momplasir (10 pts, 11 reb, 3 blk).

João Gomes (16.0 pts, 7.0 reb, 2.50 st)
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«Feel-good» news of the week:
FRANCISCO JORDÃO (PF/C, 2.03, 1979) one of the more influential Portuguese basketball players of the last couple of decade is back in business. Unexpectedly, Jordão decided to postpone his retirement and he will now be a part of Algés’ roster until the end of the season.

WTF news of the week:
Here we go again… Académica de Coimbra couldn’t be bothered to travel to Oliveira de Azeméis and face U.D. Oliveirense. Money is scarce and disaster is expected.


LPB Week 5:

Sampaense Basket 89 – Joel Almeida (20 pts, 14 reb, 4 st).
Sport Algés e Dafundo 67 – Rui Quintino (14 pts, 6 reb, 4 st).

Vitória de Guimarães 81 – José Silva (20 pts, 4/5 3-pointers).
Galitos F.C. 61 – Andrew Bachanov (15 pts, 7 reb).

B.C. Barcelos 70 – Marko Loncovic (17 pts, 15 reb).
C.A.B. Madeira 85 – Fábio Lima (24 pts, 16 reb).

A.D. Ovarense 66 – Sergi Coll (22 pts, 10 reb, 3 st).
S.C. Lusitânia 69 – Jaime Smith (23 pts, 8 ast).

Maia Basket 55 – Paulo Diamantino (14 pts, 6 reb).
S.L. Benfica 82 – Jobey Thomas (24 pts, 6/7 3-pointers)

U.D. Oliveirense 20
Académica de Coimbra 0

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DÁRIO FURTADO (C, 2.06, 1984) was signed by Sampaense Basket. He will replace the disappointing Luka Basta (2.5 pts).

Académica de Coimbra dropped-out of the league (no money). All I have to say is £@##&?!##.



LPB Week 6:

S.C. Lusitânia 77 – Jaime Smith (30 pts, 5 ast, 4 st).
Vitória de Guimarães 92 – Tony Meier (22 pts, 12 reb).

Sport Algés e Dafundo 81 – Josimar Cardoso (14 pts, 10 reb).
Maia Basket 58 – Paulo Diamantino (14 pts).

S.L. Benfica 112 – João Gomes (25 pts, 15 reb).
U.D. Oliveirense 75 – João Reveles (13 pts, 4/5 FG).

C.A.B. Madeira 88 – Jobi Wall (26 pts).
A.D. Ovarense 75 – André Pinto (17 pts, 5/6 3-pointers).

Galitos F.C. 101 – Miguel Minhava (38 pts, 11 reb, 6 ast, 4 st).
Sampaense Basket 96 – Joel Almeida (32 pts, 9/9 FT).


First Impressions

These first games confirm that my prediction skills are slim to non-existent: Galitos F.C. is doing great, Ovarense and Maia Basket not so much… Vitória de Guimarães is having an outstanding season and if their rotation wasn’t so short they would probably be better than Benfica (some would say they already are). Nuno Freitas is doing a very nice job coaching a C.A.B. Madeira team that has nowhere near as much money as it used to. Henrique Piedade (Algés) is a strong candidate for the «rookie» of the year award.


The All-Portuguese First Team looks something like this:

G Miguel Minhava (Galitos F.C.): 16.8 pts, 8.3 reb, 6.3 ast – MVP.
G João Balseiro (Vitória de Guimarães): 17.0 pts, 4.8 reb.
F João Gomes (S.L. Benfica): 16.0 pts, 8.5 reb.
F Nuno Marçal (Maia Basket): 21.5 pts, 12.0 reb.
C Ekjersey Viana (Sampaense Basket): 13.8 pts, 8.8 reb, 1.40 blk.

6th men: Fábio Lima (C.A.B. Madeira) – 17.8 pts, 7.2 reb.


The All-Foreign Team could be this one:

G Ricky Franklin (C.A.B. Madeira): 19.5 pts, 10.0 ast.
G Jobey Thomas (S.L. Benfica): 23.5 pts, 2.83 st – MVP.
F Aaron Fuller (U.D. Oliveirense): 21.2 pts, 12.0 reb.
F Marko Loncovic (B.C. Barcelos): 17.6 pts, 10.6 reb.
C Aaron Anderson (C.A.B. Madeira): 15.8 pts, 13.3 reb.

6th men: Joel Almeida (Sampaense Basket): 18.2 pts, 6.0 reb.


Miguel Minhava (look at me now)
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ADRICK McKINNEY (PF, 2.03, 1990, TCU ‘13) was signed by U.D. Oliveirense. A much needed help for a depleted frontcourt and the second player with a NCAA – Division 1 background on Oliveirense’s roster.


LPB Week 7:

B.C. Barcelos 64 – Eduardo Coelho (20 pts).
S.L. Benfica 77 – Seth Doliboa (15 pts, 12 reb).

A.D. Ovarense 81 – Cristovão Cordeiro (13 pts, 10 reb).
Vitória de Guimarães 74 – Paulo Cunha (24 pts, 7 reb).

Maia Basket 70 – Nuno Marçal (18 pts, 11 reb).
Galitos F.C. 57 – Miguel Minhava (20 pts, 6 reb).

Sampaense Basket 89 – Joel Almeida (31 pts, 9 reb, 4 st).
S.C. Lusitânia 81 – Zane Campbell (20 pts, 2 blk).

Sport Algés e Dafundo 72 – João Santos (14 pts, 7 reb).
U.D. Oliveirense 64 – Aaron Fuller (18 pts, 8 reb).


Joel Almeida (20.3 pts, 6.5 reb, 2.17 st)
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FÁBIO BEM (SG/SF, 1.88, 1985) is now on Guimarães’ roster.
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CARLOS DIAS (PF, 1.97, 1979) joined Sampaense Basket.
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NUNO OLIVEIRA (G, 1.86, 1989) recovered from his injury and is back in action for B.C. Barcelos.


LPB Week 8:

Vitória de Guimarães 80 – João Balseiro (19 pts, 3 st).
U.D. Oliveirense 57 – Aaron Fuller (16 pts, 7 reb, 3 blk).

Galitos F.C. 68 – Andrew Bachanov (18 pts, 9 reb, 4 blk).
U.D. Oliveirense 91 – Adrick McKinney (23 pts, 15 reb, 3 blk).

Vitória de Guimarães 98 – Pedro Pinto (17 pts, 14 ast).
Sampaense Basket 92 – Chris Dowe (28 pts, 7 reb, 10/11 FG, 7/7 FT).

S.C. Lusitânia 67 – Marcel Momplasir (14 pts, 14 reb, 7/7 FG).
Maia Basket 53 – Paulo Diamantino (11 pts, 5 reb).

Sport Algés e Dafundo 75 – Francisco Amiel (11 pts, 3 st).
B.C. Barcelos 76 – Nuno Oliveira (16 pts, 8 reb).

S.L. Benfica 90 – Frederick Gentry (16 pts, 7/8 FG).
C.A.B. Madeira 58 – Aaron Anderson (16 pts, 9 reb).

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DUARTE VERRÍSIMO (SG/SF) was added to S.C. Lusitânia’s roster.


LPB Week 9:

UD. Oliveirense 67 – João Abreu (17 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast).
S.C. Lusitânia 87 – Zane Campbell (20 pts, 8 reb, 2 blk).

B.C. Barcelos 82 – Marko Loncovic (32 pts, 16 reb).
Galitos F.C. 56 – Miguel Minhava (16 pts, 7 reb).

A.D. Ovarense 70 – Sergi Coll (25 pts, 4 st, 10/12 FG).
Sampaense Basket 77 – Jovonni Shuler (26 pts, 8 st, 9/10 FG).

C.A.B. Madeira 88 – Ricky Franklin (31 pts, 6 ast).
Sport Algés e Dafundo 86 – António Pires (17 pts, 4 ast).

Maia Basket 75 – Michel Diouf (21 pts, 15 reb, 4 blk).
Vitória de Guimarães 77 – Pedro Pinto (18 pts, 6 reb, 8 ast).


Marko Loncovic (16.9 pts, 9.8 reb)
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LPB Week 10:

S.C. Lusitânia 70 – Marcel Momplasir (16 pts, 12 reb, 2 blk).
B.C. Barcelos 73 – Matthew Adekponya (18 pts, 6/6 FG).

Sampaense Basket 79 – Chris Dowe (29 pts, 8 reb).
Maia Basket 68 – Paulo Diamantino (17 pts, 8 reb).

A.D. Ovarense 75 – José Barbosa (8 pts, 14 ast, 4 st).
S.L. Benfica 85 – Seth Doliboa (27 pts, 10 reb. 2 blk).

Galitos F.C. 68 – Miguel Minhava (20 pts, 7 reb, 7 ast).
C.A.B. Madeira 75 – Ricky Franklin (28 pts, 5 reb, 6 ast).


Seth Doliboa (15.1 pts, 7.9 reb, 1.11 blk)
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[Portuguese League 2014-15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014–15_LPB_season

SL Benfica became Portuguese Champions for the FOURTH time in a row, defeating Vitória de Guimarães 3-0 in the final.

However, Benfica faced huge difficulties in the semi-finals against Ovarense, defeating them 3-2. Ovarense had a fantastic season without any american player, instead using spanish and african players as foreigners. Great job by spanish coach Felix Garcia.

Benfica's best player this season was SG Jobey Thomas. Unbelievable season once again, with over 18 ppgs in the entire season. Jobey retired from basketball in the end of the season.
Other important players were PF Ron Slay, SF Carlos Andrade, SF João Soares and PF Seth Doliboa. Ron Slay and Seth Doliboa have left Benfica and are now free agents. Benfica will sign three new americans.

FC Porto will be back to the first division of portuguese basketball next season.