ProA 2012/13

ProA 2012/13
Duration		September 29, 2012 - May 5, 2013
Order of execution		6th season
organizer		2. Basketball Bundesliga , the young league GmbH
Number of games		266
Number of teams		16
Main round
Main round first		SC Rasta Vechta
Main rounds - MVP		Richie Williams ( Rasta )
Top scorer		Logan Stutz ( ETB )
Best young player		Akeem Vargas ( BG 74 )
Coach of the year		Patrick Elzie (Rasta)
Play-offs
master		SC Rasta Vechta
Runner-up		Düsseldorf Baskets
← ProA 2011/12 ProA 2013/14 →
↑ Basketball Bundesliga 2012/13 ProB 2012/13 ↓

The 2012/13 season is the sixth season of the German ProA basketball division . The ProA is the first season of the hierarchically structured 2nd basketball league . The main round began on September 29, 2012.

mode

16 teams are scheduled to take part in the league, playing a regular season as a round-robin tournament in the "everyone against everyone" mode with a return game. The eight best-placed teams in the final table played two finalists in the play-offs in the "Best-of-Five" mode , who thereby acquire the athletic right to participate in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), which they apply when a BBL license is granted Based on economic and infrastructural criteria, eligible for promotion to the BBL. The finalists also play the champions of this league in the two legs. The two worst teams relegate to the lower season ProB of the second division.

conditions

The participating teams must have a minimum budget of 350,000 euros and a venue with a capacity for 1,500 spectators.

During the game there must always be two German players per team on the field, the German players are marked with a German flag on their jerseys.

A maximum of 18 players per season and team can be used. At least nine of these must have German citizenship. Of the maximum of twelve players that can be used per game, at least six must be German. There are double licenses for players in the U24 age group with the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and for U22 players from the regional leagues (and below). These players do not count among the 18 maximum players, but they do count towards the national quota (provided they are German).

Season Notes

• The BG 74 Göttingen are relegated from the basketball Bundesliga 2011/12 . The Gießen 46ers ranked on a relegation place was able to acquire a " wild card " to stay in the top division, since the ProA finalist Kirchheim Knights, as a club entitled to promotion, had no license for the first division.
• The newcomers from the ProB 2011/12 were: Oettinger Rockets Gotha and SC RASTA Vechta as well as the “successors” of the university giants Leipzig .
• The TOPSTAR Kangaroos, who were relegated to the sport, decided not to stay in the league after the Giants Düsseldorf's license was withdrawn and were relegated to the ProB Group South. After the Giants were granted the right to participate, the university giants Leipzig , who moved up, stayed in the ProA, which should start the season with 17 teams. Before the start of the season, the Saar-Palatinate Braves withdrew their team from the game and were the first to be relegated.
• Among other things, Ahmad Smith and Chris J. Gadley changed clubs during the season within the league. Smith scored two triple doubles at his new club Nürnberger BC , one in his first game for NBC against the Kirchheim Knights with 10 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists in a good 28 minutes and another against his former club Oettinger Rockets Gotha. Gadley, on the other hand, scored a triple-double for his old club Uni-Giesen Leipzig, also against the Kirchheim Knights with 17 points, 16 rebounds and 11 blocks in a good 38 minutes.

Main round

table

• Placements after the first half of the season at the end of 2012

	= Play-off places
	= Relegation places

# team Victories Defeats Points Basket points 1 SC Rasta Vechta (N) 23 7th 46 2781: 2488 2 BG 74 Göttingen (A) 22nd 8th 44 2411: 2198 3 Düsseldorf Baskets 20th 10 40 2306: 2221 4th BG Karlsruhe 18th 12 36 2446: 2346 5 Cuxhaven BasCats 17th 13 34 2554: 2518 6th Nuremberg BC 16 14th 32 2472: 2513 7th Science City Jena 15th 15th 30th 2597: 2578 8th Erdgas Ehingen / Original School 15th 15th 30th 2224: 2217 9 MLP Heidelberg 14th 16 28 2509: 2452 10 BV Chemnitz 99 14th 18th 28 2204: 2290 11 Crailsheim Merlins 13 17th 26th 2414: 2446 12 ETB Housing Baskets 12 18th 24 2326: 2452 13 finke baskets Paderborn 12 18th 24 2416: 2515 14th Oettinger Rockets Gotha (N) 11 19th 22nd 2380: 2478 15th Kirchheim Knights 10 20th 20th 2515: 2655 16 Uni-Giant Leipzig (N) 8th 22nd 16 2449: 2637

(A) = relegated from the Basketball Bundesliga / (N) = newcomer and promoted from the ProB

Average viewership

city	Visitors	capacity	workload	Previous year	development
Chemnitz	1,727	2,624	65.8%	1,754	−1.5%
Crailsheim	1,350	1,777	76.0%	1,379	−2.1%
Cuxhaven	1,097	1,513	72.5%	1,001	9.8%
Dusseldorf	544	3,387	16.1%	1,647	−67.0%
Ehingen	772	1,500	51.5%	738	4.6%
eat	1,333	2,850	46.8%	1,094	21.9%
Goettingen	2.132	3,447	61.9%	k. A.	BBL
Gotha	1,293	1,500	86.2%	427	ProB
Heidelberg	773	1,500	51.5%	921	−16.0%
Jena	975	1,500	65.0%	947	2.9%
Karlsruhe	1,960	5,400	36.3%	1,536	27.6%
Kirchheim	963	1,800	53.5%	1,024	−5.9%
Leipzig	551	1,500	36.7%	610	ProB
Nuremberg	1,034	2.140	48.3%	1,082	−4.4%
Paderborn	1,277	2,500	51.1%	1,324	−3.5%
Vechta	1,946	2,000	97.3%	445	ProB
total	1,232	2,309	53.4%	1,169	5.4%

Statistical best performance

Teams

Defensively best team: BG 74 Göttingen (2198 points, ø 73.3 per game)
Defensively worst team: Kirchheim Knights (2655 points, ø 88.5 per game)

Attacking best team: SC RASTA Vechta (2781 points, ø 92.7 per game)
Attacking worst team: BV Chemnitz 99 (2204 points, ø 73.5 per game)

Individual players

category	player	team	Single game	total	ø section *
Points	Logan Stutz	ETB housing	44	564	20.1
Rebounds	Marcus Smallwood Chris J. Gadley Donald Lawson	Kirchheim Knights Uni-R. Leipzig / D'dorf Baskets BV Chemnitz 99	20 17 16	230 277 268	7.9 9.9 10.3
Assists	Ahmad Smith Richie Williams	Rockets Gotha / NBC SC Rasta Vechta	14 1 14	154 213	5.9 7.3
Steals	Virgil Matthews Richie Williams	natural gas Ehingen / U. SC Rasta Vechta	8 7	60 79	2 2.7
Blocks	Chris J. Gadley Devin White	Uni-R. Leipzig / D'dorf Baskets MLP Heidelberg	11 9	54 57	1.9 2.0
effectiveness	Richie Williams Stevie J. Johnson	SC RASTA Vechta Crailsheim Merlins	49 37	616 367	21.2 21.6
Double-double	Logan Stutz Chris J. Gadley	ETB Housing Uni-R. Leipzig / D'dorf Baskets		11 2 11	39.3% 39.3% 2

^* In the Average column, only the best scores from players who played more than half of the season's games were taken into account.
¹ Ahmad Smith set the record in the NBC jersey in just under 36 minutes, Richard Williams had just under a minute more than he reached the same mark.
² While Stutz scored all double doubles in 28 games for the ETB Wohnbau Baskets, Gadley got seven double doubles in 17 games for his old club from Leipzig, so that he only achieved a rate of 41.1% in the Leipzig jersey.

Play-offs

= Promotion places

	Quarter finals									Semifinals									Final 5
	1	SC Rasta Vechta	86	76	73
	8th	natural gas Ehingen / U.	79	70	62
										1	SC Rasta Vechta	72	77	60	72	86
										4th	BG Karlsruhe	76	60	77	61	74
	4th	BG Karlsruhe	97	79	84	91
	5	Cuxhaven BasCats	62	88	73	75
																			1	SC Rasta Vechta	84	84
																			3	Düsseldorf Baskets	78	78
	3	Düsseldorf Baskets	90	72	70	75	81
	6th	Nuremberg BC	81	73	76	66	60
										3	Düsseldorf Baskets	83	85	90
										7th	Science City Jena	61	72	80
	2	BG 74 Göttingen	76	72	108	85
	7th	Science City Jena	86	87	89	86

⁵ The final is played in the two-legged mode, in which the better-placed team had home rights after the main round in the second leg, so that the worse-placed team had to play at home first in the first leg.

Honors

Player of the month

• October: DeWayne Richardson (PF / C ,, BG Karlsruhe)
• November: Richie Williams (PG,, SC Rasta Vechta)
• December: Logan Stutz (C ,, ETB Wohnbau Baskets)
• January: Scott Thomas (SF ,, Cuxhaven BasCats)
• February: Stevie J. Johnson (PF,, Crailsheim Merlins)
• March: Lee Jeka (PG, / , Science City Jena)

Youngster of the month

• October: Akeem Vargas (SG ,, BG 74 Göttingen)
• November: Tim Unterluggauer (C ,, Ehingen Steeples)
• December: Malik Müller, (SG ,, Ehingen Steeples)
• January: Akeem Vargas (SG ,, BG 74 Göttingen)
• February: Michael Wenzl (C ,, BG 74 Göttingen)
• March: Kenneth Ogbe (SG,, Ehingen Steeples)

Player and coach of the season

The winners of the awards for the entire season were announced on May 3, 2013.

• Player of the Year: Richie Williams (PG,, SC Rasta Vechta)
• Youngster of the year: Akeem Vargas (SG ,, BG 74 Göttingen)
• Trainer of the year: Patrick Elzie ( , SC Rasta Vechta)

See also

• List of German basketball teams

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NN: Are the next European basketball champions coming from the ProA? ( Memento of July 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from The Young League website; Hagen, May 3, 2009. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
2. ↑ Giants Düsseldorf and Uni-Giant Leipzig are there: ProA plays with 17 teams. DieJungeLiga.de, June 21, 2012, archived from the original on February 10, 2013 ; Retrieved June 26, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Braves withdraw from the professional field. June 27, 2012, accessed September 26, 2016 . 
4. ↑ NN: DJL: The players, youngsters and coach of the year. ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from Die Junge Liga — Website; Hagen, May 3, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2019.