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Former NT player Mike Plowden died yesterday at 49 while coaching a team from lower divisons. USA-born, Plowden played 61 times for the Portuguese NT and was one of the symbols of Benfica in the late 80s, early 90s, winning 8 championships in 9 years. He was for many years one of the symbols of basketball in Portugal, his popularity was large in a country where basketball is not popular. Those where the golden days of basketball in Portugal and Plowden contributed a great deal. The cause of the sudden death is still not known.

RIP









Meanwhile, João "Betinho" Gomes left Cantabria and signed for Breogán, both from Spanish LEB. The signing was urged by Zach Morley's injury who is expected to be out for 6 to 8 weeks. Nice move, Breogán are one of the contenders to move up to ACB.

[url="http://http"]CAB 66 Vagos 71[/url]

[url="http://http"]Belenenses 67 Lusitânia 87[/url]

[url="http://http"]Ovarense 68 Porto 71[/url]

[url="http://http"]Ginásio 87 Barreirense 78[/url]

[url="http://http"]Jamar McKnight[/url] (Lusitânia):



30 pts (10/17 FG, 3/8 3pt, 1/2 FT)

12 rebs

6 steals

1 assist

1 block

(40 minutes on court)

[url="http://http"]Ginásio 82 CAB 89[/url]

[url="http://http"]Vagos 85 Belenenses 94[/url]

[url="http://http"]Lusitânia 76 Ovarense 77[/url]

[url="http://http"]Barreirense 82 Porto 83[/url]

[url="http://http"]Nate Daniels[/url] (Ginásio):



42 pts (7/10 FG, 6/12 3pt, 10/10 FT)

4 rebs

3 steals

1 assist

(38 minutes on court)

[url="http://http"]Porto 74 CAB 56[/url]

[url="http://http"]Ovarense 77 Belenenses 83[/url]

[url="http://http"]Lusitânia 63 Ginásio 65[/url]

[url="http://http"]Barreirense 80 Vagos 82[/url]





Luís Silveira had his last game as Belenenses' coach, retiring at 67 due to health issues. Belenenses will now be looking for a new headcoach.

[url="http://http"]Darrell Harris[/url] (Barreirense):



25 pts (10-14 FG, 5-6 FT)

19 rebs

3 blocks

(40 minutes on court)

[quote name='"rikhardur":2uadggzl']Luís Silveira had his last game as Belenenses' coach, retiring at 67 due to health issues. Belenenses will now be looking for a new headcoach.[/quote]

He won't resign yet after all, will stay until the end of the month by club request.

Quote:New Portugal coach Moncho Lopez has called for major changes in the country's basketball league.



Lopez, who will attempt to lead the country into EuroBasket 2009 in Poland with qualifying games against Latvia, FYROM and Estonia later this year, believes that the Portuguese should limit the number of foreigners at clubs to just three "in order to give a chance to young players."



"The Portuguese league needs to adopt a more realistic approach and consider that four foreigners per club is too much," he said.



Lopez, meanwhile, has again spoken of the big challenge he faces as the replacement for Valentyn Melnychuk, who did so well last year as Portugal advanced to the quarter-final qualifying round.



He will not be short of confidence, however, after doing so well in his tenure as Spain coach.



Under Lopez, Spain reached the final of EuroBasket 2003 in Sweden where they lost to Lithuania.



"This is a very complicated challenge, a tremendous task to replace Valentyn Melnychuk because he achieved notable success," Lopez said. "But I am motivated."

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portugalia needs play soccer not basketball <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/basketball.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Quote:portugalia needs play soccer not basketball portugalia needs play soccer not basketball <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/basketball.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

You're wrong, actually more basketball is needed <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> I'm fed up with football, it's totally an unhealthy obsession here believe me <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Quote:You're wrong, actually more basketball is needed <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> I'm fed up with football, it's totally an unhealthy obsession here believe me <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

I couldn't agree more. It's not as if Portugal is that good in football. Portugal basketball NT was a harder opponent for Greece basketball NT than the Portugal football NT was for Greece football NT... <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

The draw for this year's Cup F8 has been set:





3rd April

Q1: Guimarães vs Física Torres Vedras (7:00pm CET)

Q2: Ovarense vs CAB (9:00pm CET)



4th April

Q3: Barreirense vs Porto (8:00pm CET)

Q4: Ginásio vs Benfica (10:00pm CET)



5th April

S1: winner Q1 vs winner Q2 (4:00pm CET)

S2: winner Q3 vs winner Q4 (6:00pm CET)



6th April

winner S1 - winner S2 (4:45pm CET)

[url="http://http"]Vagos 86 vs CAB 97[/url]

[url="http://http"]Lusitânia 63 Belenenses 94[/url]

[url="http://http"]Porto 69 Ovarense 75[/url]

[url="http://http"]Barreirense 82 Ginásio 79[/url]



With one game to end the regular season, Ovarense became the regular season champion.

[url="http://http"]José Costa[/url] (CA:



31 pts (2-2 FG, 4-9 3pt, 15-15 FT)

5 assists

5 steals

(31 minutes on court)

Quarter-finals results:

Guimarães 77 Física de Torres Vedras 75

Ovarense 80 CAB 65

Barreirense 66 vs Porto 84

Ginásio 61 vs Benfica 44



Semi-finals results:

Porto 81 vs Ginásio 57

Guimarães 75 vs Ovarense 74 <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



The final is tomorrow: Porto vs Guimarães

Guimarães took the Cup <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> For those who don't know, Guimarães plays in Proliga (sort of semi-professional 2nd division). A great deed definitely! A free throw by Carlos Flechas with 2.6 seconds to go sealed the victory.



[color="#008000"]Guimarães[/color] 65 [color="#0000BF"]Porto[/color] 64



(Eddie Tommie 27 pts + 11 rebs + 2 blocks, Pedro Azevedo 18 pts, Pedro Tavares 9 pts | Nuno Marçal 18 pts + 7 rebs, Frederick Gentry 16 pts + 7 rebs, Julian Terrell 11 pts + 5 rebs).



MVP: Eddie Tommie



Full stats available [url="http://http"]here[/url].

Usually you can see a team from lower division winning a cup in football. It's certainly something special in basketball. Do the cup winners get a place in FIBA Eurocup?

[quote name='"Vilius":1h26yrf3']Usually you can see a team from lower division winning a cup in football. It's certainly something special in basketball. Do the cup winners get a place in FIBA Eurocup?[/quote]

Good question, I actually don't know <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> You know, Portuguese basketball has been out of European competitions for so long that one starts getting used to it... Ovarense this year revived something long forgotten unfortunately.

[url="http://http"]CAB 69 Barreirense 84[/url]

[url="http://http"]Belenenses 80 Ginásio 94[/url]

[url="http://http"]Ovarense 59 Vagos 61[/url] <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[url="http://http"]Porto 71 Lusitânia 85[/url] <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Looks like the Cup games did some harm to both Ovarense and Porto...





The MVP



[url="http://http"]Darrell Harris[/url] (Barreirense):



31 pts (9-15 FG, 1-1 3pt, 10-14 FT)

10 rebs

3 assists

2 steals

(34 minutes on court)

Since the regular season is over, here are the final stats from the main categories (Darrel Harris was justifiedly the regular season MVP btw):



POINTS





REBOUNDS





ASSISTS





STEALS





BLOCKS