2012–13 LEB Plata season

2012–2013 LEB Plata season
2012–2013 LEB Plata season
League	LEB Plata
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	11
Regular Season
Season champions	Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto
Season MVP	Will Hanley
Top scorer	Will Hanley
Play-offs
Play-offs champions	Palma Air Europa
Play-offs runners-up	Clínicas Rincón
Copa LEB Plata
Champions	CEBA Guadalajara
Runners-up	Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto
Finals MVP	Sergio Llorente
LEB Plata seasons
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 LEB Plata season is the 13th season of the LEB Plata, second league of the Liga Española de Baloncesto and third division of Spanish basketball. It is also known as Adecco Plata in its sponsored identity.

Competition format[edit]

Teams will play a regular season with a Round-robin tournament format. The regular season champion will promote directly to LEB Oro and the last qualified will be relegated to Liga EBA. Teams qualified from second to ninth will join the promotion playoffs. The winner will promote also to LEB Oro.^[1]

The two first qualified teams after the first half of the league will play the Copa LEB Plata.

Regular season will start in October 10.

Eligibility of players[edit]

All teams must have in their roster:

A minimum of seven players who played in Spain during three season being between 15 and 20 years old.^[2]
A maximum of two non-EU players. This players can be replaced by players from the EU or ACP countries.
A maximum of two players from the EU or ACP countries.

Teams can not sign any player after February 28, 2012.

Team information[edit]

New teams in the league:

Clínicas Rincón (relegated after the 2011–12 LEB Oro)
Cafés Aitona (promoted after the 2011–12 Liga EBA)
Palma Air Europa (promoted after the 2011–12 Liga EBA)
Amics Castelló (achieved a vacant berth in the league)
Gran Canaria 2014 B (achieved a vacant berth in the league)
CEBA Guadalajara (new creation team, achieved a vacant berth in the league)

Teams that left the league:

River Andorra (promoted to LEB Oro as 2011–12 LEB Plata champion)
Aguas de Sousas Ourense (promoted to LEB Oro as 2011–12 LEB Plata runner-up)
CB Las Rozas (will play in Primera División)
FC Barcelona Regal B (achieved one of the vacant berths in LEB Oro)
Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña (achieved one of the vacant berths in LEB Oro)
Plasencia Extremadura (will play in Liga EBA)
Tenerife Baloncesto (will play in Primera División)
Gandía Bàsquet (relegated to Liga EBA)

Team	City	Arena	Founded	Coach
Amics Castelló	Castellón de la Plana	Pabellón Ciutat de Castelló	1994	Antonio Ten
Aurteneche Maquinaria Euskadi	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Polideportivo Mendizorroza	1994	Iñaki Merino
Cafés Aitona	San Sebastián	Polideportivo Municipal J.A. Gasca	1975	David Blanca
Azpeitia Azkoitia ISB	Azpeitia	Polideportivo Municipal	1975	Iurgi Caminos
CB Prat Joventut	El Prat de Llobregat	Pavelló Joan Busquets	1951	Carles Durán
CEBA Guadalajara	Guadalajara	Polideportivo San José	2011	Ángel Cepeda
Clínicas Rincón	Málaga	Pabellón de Los Guindos	1992	Francis Tomé
Grupo Eulen Carrefour "El Bulevar" de Ávila	Ávila	Multiusos Carlos Sastre	2001	Armando Gómez
Gran Canaria 2014 B	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Centro Insular de Deportes		Pablo Melo
Palma Air Europa	Palma de Mallorca	Pabellón Toni Servera	2006	Maties Cerdà
Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto	Oviedo	Polideportivo de Pumarín	2004	Guillermo Arenas

Regular season[edit]

League table[edit]

#	Teams	P	W	L	PF	PA	PT	Qualification or relegation
1	Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto	20	15	5	1557	1381	35	Promotion to LEB Oro
2	CB Prat Joventut	20	13	7	1399	1350	33	Promotion playoffs
3	CEBA Guadalajara (C)	20	12	8	1490	1484	32
4	Clínicas Rincón	20	12	8	1376	1348	32
5	Palma Air Europa	20	11	9	1492	1463	31
6	Aurteneche Maquinaria Euskadi	20	10	10	1507	1487	30
7	Azpeitia Azkoitia ISB	20	10	10	1531	1478	30
8	Amics Castelló	20	9	11	1519	1595	29
9	Grupo Eulen Carrefour "El Bulevar" de Ávila	20	7	13	1403	1350	27
10	Cafés Aitona	20	6	14	1263	1429	26
11	Gran Canaria 2014 B	20	5	15	1290	1462	25	Relegation to Liga EBA

(C) = Copa LEB Plata champion

Results[edit]

	AMICS	AURT	ISB	AIT	PRAT	CEBA	CLI	ÁVILA	GCA	PALM	OVIE
Amics Castelló		97–93	71–70	72–59	64–80	93–94	72–77	57–80	85–70	84–85	85–80
Aurteneche Maquinaria Euskadi	85–59		92–87	67–50	72–84	89–68	83–75	76–75	90–70	77–87	70–74
Azpeitia Azkoitia ISB	102–83	61–64		56–66	79–71	80–62	77–81	84–73	66–71	97–86	84–80
Cafés Aitona	90–73	73–64	74–63		47–59	71–78	56–88	55–80	60–45	70–76	51–57
CB Prat Joventut	67–59	73–66	74–67	52–59		68–75	70–66	69–61	87–79	64–81	63–69
CEBA Guadalajara	69–71	85–71	74–86	71–59	69–75		83–62	80–69	72–65	75–66	91–98
Clínicas Rincón	82–67	78–68	57–77	57–62	62–59	66–67		71–60	68–56	66–61	54–67
Grupo Eulen Carrefour "El Bulevar" de Ávila	63–65	65–73	72–83^[3]	112–71	66–75	63–47	70–75		73–44	72–54	79–66
Gran Canaria 2014 B	76–77	63–70	75–72	76–71	56–68	65–72	50–57	62–45		75–74	59–89
Palma Air Europa	72–86	86–79	75–71	73–56	74–77	86–72	69–75	68–64	74–52		71–68
Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto	81–79	77–58	79–57	88–55	79–64	81–86	74–59	75–61	92–81	83–74

Promotion playoffs[edit]

Teams 2nd to 9th qualify for the promotion playoffs to LEB Oro. The quarterfinals will be played in a two-legged tie, where the seeded team will play the second game at home. Semifinals and final winners, will be decided in a best-of-five series, played with 2-2-1 format.

Quarterfinals April 6, 13					Semifinals April 19, 21, 24, 26, 28							Finals May 3, 5, 8, 10, 12

C	CEBA Guadalajara	69	59	118

9	Grupo Eulen Carrefour "El Bulevar" de Ávila	70	56	126
					C	CEBA Guadalajara	73	80	88	X	X

					5	Palma Air Europa	79	84	94	X	X
5	Palma Air Europa	64	86	150

6	Aurteneche Maquinaria Euskadi	65	72	137
												5	Palma Air Europa	74	51	70	87	72

												4	Clínicas Rincón	59	61	74	83	65
2	CB Prat Joventut	54	86	140

8	Amics Castelló	79	63	142
					8	Amics Castelló	60	77	66	69	X

					4	Clínicas Rincón	80	69	76	79	X
4	Clínicas Rincón	73	59	132

7	Azpeitia Azkoitia ISB	78	52	130

Copa LEB Plata[edit]

At the half of the league, the two first teams in the table play the Copa LEB Plata at home of the winner of the first half season (11th round). If this team doesn't want to host the Copa LEB Plata, the second qualified can do it. If nobody wants to host it, the Federation will propose a neutral venue.

The Champion of this Cup will play the play-offs as first qualified if it finishes the league between the 2nd and the 5th qualified. The Copa LEB Plata will be played on February 2, 2012.

Teams qualified[edit]

#	Teams	P	W	L	PF	PA	PT
1	CEBA Guadalajara	10	8	2	746	718	18
2	Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto	10	7	3	759	685	17

The game[edit]

3 February 2013
12:00

Report
Stats

CEBA Guadalajara	78–71	Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo B.
Scoring by quarter: 20–14, 16–14, 21–26, 20–17
Pts: Llorente 22 Rebs: Balmón 11 Asts: Llorente 7 PIR: Llorente 38		Pts: Pérez 24 Rebs: Hanley 8 Asts: Pérez 4 PIR: Pérez 19
CEBA Guadalajara, champion of the Copa LEB Plata

Polideportivo San José, Guadalajara
Attendance: 900
Referees: Palenzuela Pastrana, Mas Cagide, Aliaga Solé

Awards[edit]

MVP Week by Week[edit]

Regular season[edit]

Date	Player	Team	PIR
1	Mick Hedgepeth	Aurteneche Maquinaria Euskadi	34
2	Alberto Ausina	Amics Castelló	25
3	Alberto Díaz	Clínicas Rincón	29
4	Antonio Pantín	Azpeitia Azkoitia ISB	35
5	Moussa Diagné	Grupo Eulen Carrefour "El Bulevar" de Ávila	27
6	Will Hanley	Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto	36
7	Will Hanley (2)	Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto (2)	30
7	David Ortega	Amics Castelló (2)	30
8	Gerbert Martí	CB Prat Joventut	31
9	José María Balmón	CEBA Guadalajara	38
10	Carlos Martínez	Cafés Aitona	29
10	Víctor Hidalgo	Amics Castelló (3)	29
11	Will Hanley (3)	Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto (3)	29
12	Víctor Hidalgo (2)	Amics Castelló (4)	44
13	Will Hanley (4)	Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto (4)	31
14	Riley Luettgerodt	Grupo Eulen Carrefour "El Bulevar" de Ávila (2)	31
15	Toni Vicens	Grupo Eulen Carrefour "El Bulevar" de Ávila (3)	35
16	Lance Kearse	Azpeitia Azkoitia ISB (2)	34
17	Will Hanley (5)	Unión Financiera Asturiana Oviedo Baloncesto (5)	32
18	Víctor Arteaga	CEBA Guadalajara (2)	37
18	Víctor Hidalgo (3)	Amics Castelló (5)	37
19	Guillem Vives	CB Prat Joventut (2)	34
20	Walter Tavares	Gran Canaria 2014 B	39
21	Robert Joseph	Palma Air Europa	29
22	Antonio Pantín (2)	Azpeitia Azkoitia ISB (3)	33

Playoffs[edit]

Date	Player	Team	PIR
QF1	Álex Ros	CB Prat Joventut (3)	26
QF2	Sergio Llorente (2)	CEBA Guadalajara (3)	31
SF1	Sergio Llorente (3)	CEBA Guadalajara (4)	28
SF2	Víctor Hidalgo (4)	Amics Castelló (6)	31
SF3	Sergio Llorente (4)	CEBA Guadalajara (5)	28
SF4	Maodo Nguirane	Clínicas Rincón (2)	24
F1	Robert Joseph (2)	Palma Air Europa (2)	24
F2	Pepe Pozas	Clínicas Rincón (3)	22

References[edit]

^ ADECCO PLATA: Nuevo calendario y representantes FEB.es September 28, 2011
^ Training players, the proposal of the Federation to the Adecco Oro clubs Solobasket.com April 27, 2011
^ Last 13:51 of the game were replayed due to an error in the annotation of the game, with the score of 53–54. The first game finished 73–74. La FEB da la razón al Óbila y se repetirán 13,5 minutos ante el ISB^{[permanent dead link]} El Digital Deportivo. November 7, 2012

External links[edit]

Official website (in Spanish)
LEB Plata website in FEB.es

[1] ADECCO PLATA: Nuevo calendario y representantes FEB.es September 28, 2011

[2] Training players, the proposal of the Federation to the Adecco Oro clubs Solobasket.com April 27, 2011

[3] Last 13:51 of the game were replayed due to an error in the annotation of the game, with the score of 53–54. The first game finished 73–74. La FEB da la razón al Óbila y se repetirán 13,5 minutos ante el ISB^{[permanent dead link]} El Digital Deportivo. November 7, 2012

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