No more Vitalyur - Jun 12, 2009 (by Eurobasket News)
Vitalyur Minsk, being the four times champion of the country will no more exist in the League. Due to the financial problems the team broke up forever.
Last time Vitalyur Minsk was the champion of 2007-2008 season. This year the team reached the Finals, but lost to Minsk-2006. The latter became the Champion of Belarus as the team needed only three games in the Final series over Vitalyur Minsk. The winner of the Regular Season produced 68:61 to clinch the Gold medals of the Play-offs [read more]
Vitalyur Minsk, being the four times champion of the country will no more exist in the League. Due to the financial problems the team broke up forever. Last time Vitalyur Minsk was the champion of 2007-2008 season. This year the team reached the Finals, but lost to Minsk-2006. The latter became the Champion of Belarus as the team needed only three games in the Final series over Vitalyur Minsk. The winner of the Regular Season produced 68:61 to clinch the Gold medals of the Play-offs. In 2007 Vitalyur Minsk won the most important game of the season, defeating in the 5th game of the final Grodno-93 91:67.Vitalyur Minsk was clear favorite of the play-offs as they won the regular season without any difficulties. However Grodno-93 was surprisingly equal partner in the finals and they barely avoided the biggest upset of the season as they stole 2 games in best of 5 final series. In 2008 Vitalyur Minsk won the Belarusian championship for the 4th straight time. They overcame OZAA Osipovichi in the third game of the Final series to complete a sweep. But the win was far from an easy journey for renowned Vitalyur Minsk. OZAA already proved it was not an accident they got into the title series and challenged their titled opponents.
Eurobasket.com All-Belarusian League Awards 2008-09 - May 30, 2009 (by Eurobasket)
The best player of the league this year goes to American guard Dante Stiggers. It was not unanimous vote as another American guard from Minsk-2006 (Hurt) and even competing Vitalyur best player Shustau were very close. Hurt was even more impressive in the play-offs. But we believe that Stiggers' overall performance assured his place as the best player in Belarusian league 2008-09. This year awards were dominated by guards [read more]
The best player of the league this year goes to American guard Dante Stiggers. It was not unanimous vote as another American guard from Minsk-2006 (Hurt) and even competing Vitalyur best player Shustau were very close. Hurt was even more impressive in the play-offs. But we believe that Stiggers' overall performance assured his place as the best player in Belarusian league 2008-09. This year awards were dominated by guards. As it was not easy to select who were top one, it even harder to not-include other good guards in the top teams. American Hurt was one of the candidates to the best player in the league and eventually he landed in all-league 2nd team since his place was taken by Shustau. So even No.3 player in the league could not make it to 1st team. Another example is Edgars Cunda, who was selected the best Bosman player in the league and to all-league 2nd team did not even make it to All-Imports team. Here two guard positions were taken by American duo (Stiggers-Hurt) from championship Minsk-2006. Another sample is very impressive guard Pacevich, who despite great performance being selected to all-domestic team, was not included to 1st or 2nd league team. The problem was also with Korshuk. He used to play on both power forward and center positions. Previously he was selected as best forward in the country, while this time we gave him best center award. The most problematic choice in the 1st team was including Maksimov among top 5 players. It does necessarily mean he was one of best 5 players in the country. There weer for sure many better guards in the league. Also we could find better power forwads. Additionally OZAA where Maksimov played did not really challenge too much Minsk-2006 or Vitaluyr. But his strongest point was that ...there were no better small forwards in the league after all.
All-League 1st Team 2008-09
Stiggers
Korshuk
Shustau
Yafremau
Player of the Year:Dante Stiggers (188-G-82) of BK Minsk-2006 Guard of the Year:Dante Stiggers (188-G-82) of BK Minsk-2006 Forward of the Year:Andrei Maksimov (200-F-83) of OZAA Osipovichi Center of the Year:Dzianis Korshuk (202-C/F-78) of BK Minsk-2006 * played also at power forward position Domestic Player of the Year:Maksim Shustau (184-G-86) of Vitalyur Minsk Import of the Year:Dante Stiggers (188-G-82) of BK Minsk-2006 Bosman Player of the Year:Edgars Cunda (196-G-84) of SBK Grodno-93 Coach of the Year:Andrei Krivonos of Minsk-2006
Minsk-2006 became the Champion of Belarus! - May 29, 2009 (by Eurobasket News)
Minsk-2006 became the Champion of Belarus as the team needed only three games in the Final series over Vitalyur. The winner of the Regular Season produced 68:61 to clinch the Gold medals of the Play-offs.
As it became clear after the first two games Carlos Hurt (188-G-83, college: Robert Morris) scored 18 points in the opener and had 11 points and 8 assists in Game 2 [read more]
Minsk-2006 became the Champion of Belarus as the team needed only three games in the Final series over Vitalyur. The winner of the Regular Season produced 68:61 to clinch the Gold medals of the Play-offs. As it became clear after the first two games Carlos Hurt (188-G-83, college: Robert Morris) scored 18 points in the opener and had 11 points and 8 assists in Game 2. Dzianis Korshuk (202-C/F-78, agency: Agency No 10) top-scored in the second game for the winners with 16 points, while Dante Stiggers (188-G-82, college: S.Mississippi) nailed 15. Shustov produced 14 and 10 points respectively for Vitalyur in the first two games. Aliaksei Patsevich (195-G-88) and Efremov ended up with 10 points in the second game in the losing effort.
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