The league changed its name from LEB to Adecco LEB Gold (LEB Gold) in 2007
Morley's buzzer beater to win the Prince's Cup Leche Rio Breogan won the Prince's Cup, a torunament played in Zaragoza between the four best teams of LEB Gold after the first 17 games of the league. In the first Semifinal Alicante defeated Bruesa GBC with the adding of Keith Waleskowski as main weapon. The team of Quim Costa was able to get a nice gap when they stopeed Bernard Hopkins (199-F-73, college: Va Commonwealth), the leader of Bruesa. The second semifinal was a surprise because CAI, the host of the tournament, was defeated by Breogan in a fast game where the reds came back 14 points to die in the final play. The just arrived player Daniel Clark (210-C-88) was the main reason of Breogan's victory. In the Final game, Roberto Morentin led Breogan against his former team, but Josh Fisher was very hot and scored 18 points in the first hald to give the lead to Alicante. The team of Quim Costa was about 7 points till the end of the game, when Ignacio Ordin (184-G-78) set the equality. With one second remaining everybody tought about the overtime, but in the last second Zach Morley (203-F-83, college: Wisconsin) hit a triple and the title went to Lugo. |
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