Lega Basket Serie A 2018/19

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Lega Basket Serie A 2018/19
Lega Basket Serie A Logo.jpg
Duration October 7, 2018 - June 22, 2019
Order of execution 18th season
organizer Lega Basket (LBA)
Number of teams 16
Main round
Main round first AX Armani Exchange Milano
Main rounds - MVP Drew Crawford
Top scorer Frank Gaines
Coach of the year Romeo Sacchetti
Play-offs
Italian champion Umana Reyer Venezia
   Runner-up      Banco di Sardegna Sassari
Finals - MVP Austin Daye

← LBA 2017/18

Series A2 2018/19 ↓

The 2018/19 season was the 18th season of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A , the top division in the Italian men's basketball club . It was the 97th championship in Italian men's basketball . The main round started on October 7, 2018 and ended on May 12, 2019 with the 30th and final game day. The play-off final round for the championship lasted until June 22, 2019.

AX Armani Exchange Milano started the season as defending champion , while Fiat Torino took on as defending cup .

Alma Trieste was promoted to the 2018/19 season .

After the main round, Fiat Torino was relegated after eight points were deducted from Turin for not paying social security contributions and income taxes. In May 2019, the association also filed for bankruptcy.

Reyer Venezia Mestre celebrated the 4th Italian championship title after a 4: 3 win in the final series against Dinamo Sassari . Cup winner was Vanoli Cremona , which won its first national title and was able to prevail in the final 83:74 against New Basket Brindisi .

International competitions

competition Italian participants
EuroLeague 2018/19 AX Armani Exchange Milano
EuroCup 2018/19 Dolomiti Energia Trentino , Germani Basket Brescia , Fiat Torino
Basketball Champions League 2018/19 Sidigas Avellino , Virtus Segafredo Bologna , Umana Reyer Venezia
FIBA Europe Cup 2018/19 Banco di Sardegna Sassari , Openjobmetis Varese

With Virtus Bologna Basketball as the Champions League winner and Dinamo Sassari as the FIBA ​​Europe Cupe winner, the Seria A had two winners in the European club competitions 2018/19.

Teams

Overview map of the clubs in the 2018/19 season
team city Hall Places
Sidigas Avellino Avellino Palasport Del Mauro 05,100
Virtus Segafredo Bologna Bologna PalaDozza 05,570
Germani Basket Brescia Brescia PalaGeorge 05,000
Happy Casa Brindisi Brindisi PalaPentassuglia 03,534
Acqua S. Bernardo Cantù Cantù Palasport Pianella 03,910
Vanoli Cremona Cremona Palasport PalaRadi 03,519
EA7-Emporio Armani Milano Milan Mediolanum Forum 12,500
VL Pesaro Pesaro Adriatic Arena 10,323
Oriora Pistoia Pistoia PalaCarrara 03,916
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia Reggio nell'Emilia PalaBigi 03,500
Banco di Sardegna Sassari Sassari Pala Serradimigni 05,000
Fiat Torino Turin PalaRuffini 04,500
Dolomiti Energia Trentino Trent BLM Group Arena 04,000
Alma Trieste Trieste PalaTrieste 07,000
Openjobmetis Varese Varese Pala whirlpool 05,300
Umana Reyer Venezia Venice Palasport Taliercio 03,000

table

= Relegation place (place 16)
= Playoff places (places 1 to 8)

in brackets: M = champions of the previous season / P = cup winners of the previous season / A = promoters for this season

Fiat Torino was deducted eight points towards the end of the season for unpaid social security contributions and income taxes.

# team Games Victories Defeats baskets
1 AX Armani Exchange Milano (M) 30th 23 7th 2609: 2391
2 Vanoli Cremona 30th 20th 10 2440: 2256
3 Umana Reyer Venezia 30th 20th 10 2504: 2360
4th Banco di Sardegna Sassari 30th 18th 12 2593: 2436
5 Happy Casa Brindisi 30th 18th 12 2454: 2370
6th Dolomiti Energia Trentino 30th 17th 13 2383: 2410
7th Alma Trieste (A) 30th 16 14th 2634: 2527
8th Sidigas Avellino 30th 16 14th 2470: 2456
9 Openjobmetis Varese 30th 16 14th 2385: 2284
10 Acqua S. Bernardo Cantù 30th 16 14th 2526: 2571
11 Virtus Segafredo Bologna 30th 15th 15th 2387: 2410
12 Germani Basket Brescia 30th 14th 16 2408: 2443
13 Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia 30th 9 21st 2363: 2493
14th VL Pesaro 30th 7th 23 2382: 2754
15th Oriora Pistoia 30th 6th 24 2253: 2511
16 Fiat Torino (P) 30th 9 21st 2492: 2611

Playoffs 2018/19

  Quarter finals Semifinals final
                           
  1 Olimpia Milano 3        
8th Scandone Avellino 2  
1 Olimpia Milano 0
  4th Dinamo Sassari 3  
4th Dinamo Sassari 3
5 New Basket Brindisi 0  
4th Dinamo Sassari 3
  3 Reyer Venezia 4th
2 Vanoli Cremona 3    
7th Pall. Trieste 1  
2 Vanoli Cremona 2
  3 Reyer Venezia 3  
3 Reyer Venezia 3
  6th Aquila Trento 2  


Overview of the individual play-off rounds

Quarter finals

Olimpia Milano (1) - Scandone Avellino (8) 3: 2 (74:82, 76:61, 62:69, 86:80, 92:76)
Vanoli Cremona (2) - Pall. Trieste (7) 3: 1 (82:75, 89:81, 86:91, 81:78)
Reyer Venezia (3) - Aquila Trento (6) 3: 2 (67:57, 69:51, 59:72 , 51:61, 87:62)
Dinamo Sassari (4) - New Basket Brindisi (5) 3: 0 (89:73, 106: 97, 92:87)

Semifinals

Olimpia Milano (1) - Dinamo Sassari (4) 0: 3 (79:86, 101: 112 a.d., 96: 108 a.d.)
Vanoli Cremona (2) - Reyer Venezia (3) 2: 3 ( 80:87, 78:74, 75:73 n.V., 75:78, 69:79)

final

Reyer Venezia (3) - Dinamo Sassari (4) 4: 3 (72:70, 66:80, 76:73, 88:95, 78:65, 77:87, 87:61)

Honors 2018/19

Award Surname society
MVP main round United StatesUnited States Drew Crawford Vanoli Cremona
Best Young Player (U22) United StatesUnited States Tony Carr Acqua S. Bernardo Cantù
Coach of the year ItalyItaly Romeo Sacchetti Vanoli Cremona
Best Italian player ItalyItaly Riccardo Moraschini Happy Casa Brindisi
Best new discovery United StatesUnited States John Brown III Happy Casa Brindisi
Best defender United StatesUnited States Aaron Craft Dolomiti Energia Trentino
Best manager ItalyItaly Simone Giofrè Happy Casa Brindisi
MVP final round United StatesUnited States Austin Daye Umana Reyer Venezia
Best rebounder final round United StatesUnited States Jack Cooley Banco di Sardegna Sassari

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