1 Deane Lukoil6
2 Smith Lukoil 5.1
3 Paskov CSKA 4
4 Smith 3.3
5 Antic Lukoil 3.3
Ranking
1 Antic Lukoil 28.5
2 Smith Lukoil 24
3 Slaveykov Levski 19.4
4 Morton Balkan 19
5 Barac Spartak 18.7
Lukoil beat Varna in a repeat of the cup final Lukoil Academic reached
for the win in their last away game from the regular season, after
beating
111-93Cherno More Eurohold in a
repeat of the final of the bulgarian cup from 10 days ago.
After missing the home win against Yambol, Zeljko Lukajic
could count on three valuable players -
Pero Antic (210-F-82, agency:
Interperformances), Riste Stefanov and
Tencho Banev. Lukajic also was on
the bench again.
The begining was for the home side, as they lead it 10-2 after 3
minutes, but the champions quickly striked back with a 9-0 run and
were ahead 10-11 after 6 minutes of play. In the end of the quarter
American Willie Deane scored 7 points in a row, and
made them 10 after a buzzer-beater from three-point territory -
21-33 for Lukoil, after no defense at all for the
home team.
In the first five minutes of the second quarter the macedonian star
Pero Antic was on fire and the score was 27-44, and
minute and a half later they had a 18-point advantage - 30-48. Here
the home side woke up, and Tencho Banev got a
technical foul and the difference went down to 38-48. It remained
like that until halftime - 45-55.
After a very high-scoring third quarter, in which both teams managed
to score a total of 63 points (32-31 for Varna). Lukoil
Academic didn't managed to get a bigger lead, which was a
sign for a interesting final of the game.
Two consecutive long shots by Larry O'Bannon and
Chavdar Kostov made the score 77-93, and a little
later the champions were leading with 22 (77-99) after 13-0 run
early in the fourth. At this stage the winner was clear and the game
was just being played. Both coaches gave a chance to all of their
players.
Pero Antic showed that he is in shape with 26 points
and 15 rebounds. Willie Deane and Larry
O'Bannon had 17 points each, and Nenad Canak
finished with 14. Lukoil shot good from long range
- 13 out of 28 attempts, which means 46.4%.
For Cherno More Todd Galloway had 24 points and 5
assists.
This was 29th win in a row for the students, and Cherno More
only has 13 wins and 16, which gives them the sixth position. That's
what they should prefer, because they are playing third-seeded
Balkan.
Toyota Wins the HDI All Star Game Toyota team is the
new winner in the HDIAll
StarGame after defeating Ledenika
team with 113-90. This was the opening game for the new modern hall
in the city of Samokov. The event was honoured by the presence of a
lot of famous politicians and celebrities including the president of
the country Mr.Georgi
Parvanov, the new head coach of the Bulgarian national team
PiniGershon and others. Although
suited to accommodate 3000 people, Arena
Samokov was already full 2 hours before the start of the
game and many people couldn't get inside to watch the show live.
Everyone present and the television viewers witnessed an amazing
spectacle. The show was completed by Fiore
ballet, SpaceDunkers and
MCBony.
In honour of the International Women's Day - 8th March, the
game was refereed by the trio StankaKoleva,
TatyanaValcheva and VeselaKokonova, and the delegate was KrasimiraGyurova.
This was the first game in which the players were mixed
instead of being divided in Bulgarians vs foreigners. The coaches
themselves (ZeljkoLukaic and
GeorgiMladenov for
Ledenika and LubomirMinchev
and RosenBarchovski for
Toyota) chose the players for the two teams.
Ledenika's players played as equals only in
the beginning of the game but after the middle of the second quarter
Toyota's players were way better on the court and
managed to control the game to the very end. At the half time they
were ahead by 8 points (61-53) but most players and the coaches were
hardly interested in the result because of the nature of the game
which is meant to be a show. During the second half of the game
Toyota played even better and in the end they won
by 23 points. Everyone who participated in the game enjoyed
themselves and were also aplauded for their attractive performance.
TodorStoykov from
Toyota was chosen for MVP of the game. He
played only one half scoring 18 points, to which he added 5
rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 1 blocked shot. His teammate from
Lukoil Academic PeroAntic scored
17 points for 16 minutes, and CSKA's captain GeorgiDavidov finished with 16. Spartak Pleven's center
SashaTopcov was the most
effective player for Ledenika with 14 points
Eurobasket.com All-Bulgarian League Awards 2006-07
All-League 1st Team 06-07
Stoykov
Jones
Smith
Morton
Bojic
Player of the Year -
Todor Stoykov (198-G/F-77) of Lukoil Academic 6th Man of the Year -
Zlatin Georgiev (195-G-85) of Levski Defensive Player of the Year -
Dwayne Morton (200-F-71) of Balkan Import Player of the Year -
Lamont Jones (189-G-72) of Lukoil Academic Most Improved P
