2009–10 Basketball Bundesliga
The 2009/10 season is the 44th season of the National Basketball League. The regular season began on October 9, 2009 and ended on 1 May 2010. From 8 May to 17 June 2010, the play-off games of the top eight teams from the main round took place.
Mode
The 18 teams playing in a round-trip round two times against each other. The top eight teams of the resulting after 34 matchdays Final Table play in the play- offs in a knock-out system in the best- of-five - mode against each other with the seedings results from a certain schema and in the final table better posted team possibly decisive game has home advantage. The worst two teams in the final table from rising. In case of equality of two or more teams is one of the direct comparison of the two teams involved. New since this season is the scoring: for a win, there are two points for the loser still has a point.
Season notes
- The BBL will continue to serve first time in several years back on free TV: DSF is broadcasting one game per weekend live as well as selected games on the homepage of the transmitter.
- New in the league are Phoenix Hagen and the central German BC from Saxony -Anhalt.
- Internationally, the German basketball is represented in this season of the following teams: For the ULEB Euro League to Champion Oldenburg could qualify for the ULEB Eurocup last year's finalist Telekom Baskets Bonn, the semi-finalists Alba Berlin who fails to qualify for the Euro League at Marousi Athens and Brose Baskets and for the discharged by FIBA euro Challenge of the prior-year quarter finalist BG Göttingen and the Ninth Artland Dragons. While Oldenburg champion eliminated in the first group stage after only one victory, Alba Berlin reached the final of the Eurocup, where one subject Power Electronics Valencia. The BG Göttingen, however, can be used as host of the Final Four tournament, the Euro Challenge Cup the win and thus provides the only third title of a German club team in a European competition.
- In the first round of the play -offs, the quarter-finals, divorce, all four top-ranked teams in the main round, enjoying home advantage in the first game of the series, out. Masters are in the crucial match of the final series, the fifth-placed Brose Baskets, defeating the seventh placed Skyliners Frankfurt 72-70. You can achieve the double, after they had two months earlier defeated the same opponents in the Cup final
Participating teams
1Vorjahresplatzierung based on the Final Table of the Basketball Bundesliga season 2008/ 09 before the playoffs or possibly the playoff placement 2The reason of the withdrawal of Giants Nördlingen and the Cologne 99ers could Bremerhaven and keep pouring through the acquisition of a wildcard class. 3Brose Baskets were victorious in the Eurocup qualifiers and took part in the Eurocup 2009/10. 4Alba was eliminated in the Euro League qualification and participated in the Eurocup 2009/10. 5Bis December 2009 as MEG Göttingen. 6 bis April 2010 as Paderborn Baskets.
End figures
Playoffs 2009/10
Leading Team Stats
- Defensive best team ALBA Berlin ( 2,280 points, ø 67.1 per game)
- Defensive worst team: Paderborn Baskets ( 2,856 points, ø 84.0 per game)
- Offensive best team BG Göttingen ( 2,786 points, ø 81.9 per game)
- Offensive worst team: Paderborn Baskets ( 2,384 points, ø 70.1 per game)
Leading the Player Statistics
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Honors in 2009/10
All-Star Game MVP ( Most Valuable Player of the Allstar Game )
- United States Chris Ensminger ( Telekom Baskets Bonn)
Most Valuable Player ( Most Valuable Player )
- Julius Jenkins ( ALBA Berlin)
Best Defensive Player (best defensive player )
- Immanuel McElroy ( ALBA Berlin)
Rookie of the Year ( Rookie of the Year )
- Tibor Pleiss ( Brose Baskets Bamberg )
Newcomer of the Year ( newcomer of the year)
- Taylor Rochestie (BG Göttingen)
Best Offensive Player ( Best Offensive Player )
- Julius Jenkins ( ALBA Berlin)
Coach of the Year ( coach of the year )
- John Patrick ( BG Göttingen)
Most Likeable Player ( most popular player)
- Pascal Roller ( Skyliners Frankfurt)
Finals Most Valuable Player ( Most valuable player of the finals series )
- Casey Jacobsen ( Brose Baskets Bamberg )
All- BBL teams
- All- BBL First Team:
G Louis Campbell ( polar bears Bremerhaven ) G Julius Jenkins ( ALBA Berlin) F Robin Benzing ( ratiopharm Ulm) F Predrag Suput ( Brose Baskets ) C Chris Ensminger ( Telekom Baskets Bonn)
- All- BBL Second Team:
G Taylor Rochestie (BG Göttingen) G Je'Kel Foster ( EWE Baskets Oldenburg) F Immanuel McElroy ( ALBA Berlin) F Jeff Gibbs ( polar bears Bremerhaven ) C Blagota Sekulic ( ALBA Berlin)