2004–05 ABA Goodyear League explained

2004–05 ABA Goodyear League season
League:ABA Goodyear League
Sport:Basketball
Pixels:132px
Duration:6 October 2004 — 9 April 2005
28 April — 1 May 2005
No Of Teams: (5 teams)
(5 teams)
(4 teams)
Season:Regular season
Season Champs: Hemofarm
Top Scorer: Dejan Milojević (21.77 ppg)
Finals:Final 8
Finals Link:NLB League#Champions
Finals Champ: Hemofarm
Seasonslist:NLB League#Champions
Seasonslistnames:ABA Goodyear League
Prevseason Link:2003–04 ABA Goodyear League
Prevseason Year:2003–04
Nextseason Link:2005–06 ABA Goodyear League
Nextseason Year:2005–06

Adriatic League expanded from 14 to 16 teams before the 2004–05 season. It was the second time since the inaugural 2001-02 that the competition expanded its number of teams.

16 teams from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro participated in Goodyear League in its fourth season: Union Olimpija, Helios, Pivovarna Laško, Geoplin Slovan, Cibona VIP, Zadar, Zagreb, Split Croatia Osiguranje, Šibenka Dalmare, Široki Hercegtisak, Bosna ASA BH TELECOM, Crvena zvezda, Partizan Pivara MB, Hemofarm, Reflex, Budućnost.

In this season the league also decided to change the play-off system. The Final Tournament was expanded and renamed into the Final Eight Tournament. There were 30 rounds played in the regular part of the season, best eight teams qualified for the Final Eight Tournament which was played in Belgrade from April 28 until May 1, 2005.

Hemofarm became the 2005 Goodyear League Champion.

Throughout the season, the issue of Partizan's forward Milan Gurović not being allowed to enter Croatia due to having a tattoo of Draža Mihailović on his left shoulder received much attention in the media.[1]

Regular season

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1. Hemofarm30 22 8 2591 2426 +165 52
2. Partizan Pivara MB30 20 10 2539 2386 +153 50
3. Crvena zvezda30 20 10 2489 2260 +229 50
4. Union Olimpija30 20 10 2480 2348 +132 50
5. Reflex30 20 10 2422 2302 +120 50
6. Cibona VIP30 19 11 2560 2334 +226 49
7. Zadar30 19 11 2491 2320 +171 49
8. Bosna ASA BHT30 18 12 2425 2395 +30 48
9. Pivovarna Laško30 16 14 2224 2108 +116 46
10. Geoplin Slovan30 15 15 2352 2356 -4 45
11. Šibenka Dalmare30 11 19 2310 2516 -206 41
12. Zagreb30 11 19 2404 2547 -143 41
13. Široki Hercegtisak30 9 21 2208 2459 -251 39
14. Budućnost30 9 21 2323 2540 -217 39
15. Split CO30 6 24 2284 2476 -192 36
16. Helios30 5 25 2171 2500 -329 35
Qualified for Final eight
Relegated

Stats Leaders

Points

RankNameTeamPointsGamesPPG
1. Dejan Milojević5662621,77
2. Marko Tomas5883019,60
3. Roko UkićSplit4812618,50
4. Damir Miljković5062917,45
5. Marko BanićZadar5353117,26

Rebounds

RankNameTeamReboundsGamesRPG
1. Dejan MilojevićPartizan219268,42
2. Frano ČolakŠibenka175257,00
3. Todor GečevskiZadar198296,83
4. Milenko TopićHemofarm196296,76
5. Marko BanićZadar200316,45

Assists

RankNameTeamAssistsGamesAPG
1. Roko Ukić113264,35
2. Kyle HillZadar99253,96
3. Andrés RodríguezOlimpija114303,80
4. Marko AntonijevičLaško111303,70
5. Marko PopovićZadar86253,44

Ranking MVP

RankNameTeamEfficiencyGamesAverage
1. Dejan MilojevićPartizan7892630,35
2. Marko TomasZagreb6343021,13
3. Roko UkićSplit5162619,85
4. Marko BanićZadar6073119,58
5. Frano ČolakŠibenka4852519,40

Final eight

Matches played at Pionir Hall, Belgrade



Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20120319233806/http://sportservis.name/wsw/index.php?p=81&ni=24553 Titula Hemofarma u senci Gurovićeve tetovaže