| BC Mureş | ||||
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| Nickname | Tigers | |||
| Leagues | Romanian Basketball Division A Balkan League |
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| Founded | 1997 | |||
| Arena | Sala Sporturilor (capacity: 1,950 seats, maximum: 2800) |
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| Location | Târgu Mureş, Romania | |||
| Team colors | Blue and White | |||
| President | Szalkay József | |||
| Head coach | Deri Csaba | |||
| Championships | {{{championships}}} | |||
| Website | Official website | |||
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BC Mureş (Baschet Club Mureş) is a Romanian professional basketball club, based in Târgu Mureş, Romania. The team plays in the Romanian Basketball Division A.
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Every home game of the team is usually a sell-out, with more than 2000 fans creating a loud atmosphere, many of them season-ticket holders. The fans' favourite motto at home games is ``Welcome to the Jungle``, which symbolize the feeling given by the home court. For BC Mureş, the home field advantage is usually decisive, because of the huge support given by the fans which give the players adrenaline and a moral advantage. For the last 3 seasons many fans attended the teams away games which gave the players a feeling of home atmosphere. The team's mascot Tiger is present at every home game and is responsible for entertaining the crowd and dancing with the cheerleaders. It is also noteworthy that the website, forum, fans magazine and many of the administrative issues around the club are done by the fans on a voluntary basis. Since 2007 there is also an Association called "Pro BC Mures" formed by the fans.
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| C | Aleksandar Mladenovic | Jakab Cristian | Mihai Buciuman | ||
| PF | Flavius Lapuste | Liviu Dumitru | Alin Borsa | ||
| SF | Dwight Lewis | Andrei Capusan | Gabriel Hallai | Norbert Pascu | |
| SG | Jason Forte | Vlad Pora | |||
| PG | JuJuan Cooley | Jason Straight |
The novelty of the season was that every club was able to sign 7 international players (excluding the European Union) but will be compelled to use at least one Romanian player on the floor throughout the entire game. BC Mureş has conformed to the new rule and initially signed 7 international players (all of them from the United States). The club's superstar JuJuan Cooley and forward Luke McKenna decided to sign for an additional season next to the Romanian ``veterans`` Pora Vlad, Jakab Crisitian and Szaszgaspar Barnabas. The management signed contracts with 5 new American players (Levi Levine, Haron Hargrave, Aaron Coombs, Cory Largent and Sean Knitter) . Another important achievement made by the club was the signing of two Romanian players that had already played for BC Mureş in the past: center Vajda Attila and forward Trif George complete the 2008-2009 roster.
Unfortunately turmoil and instability started to unravel shortly after the start of the season. The team lost 8 of its 14 autumn season games and despite advancing to the next round in the Romanian Cup, coach Corui resigned after a tough home loss against Mediaş, being subjected to criticism from the fans, and Levine was released shortly after. Audrius Prakuraitis from Lithuania was signed as the new head coach after a short guidance of the team under assistant Szaszgaspar. Center Aaron Coombs left due to injury and was replaced by Major Wingate, an athletic big man.
The winter break ended with serious financial issues looming over the club. Hargrave and Coombs reunited with ex-coach Corui at Medias, Largent left to play in Luxembourg and Knitter departed for France in a mysterious way on the first match-day. The only new signing, Lithuanian shooting guard Pociukonis, was not be enough to supply the bench depth needed for the playoff contention. Because of money shortage, three of the BC Mureş II players were called up to the First team squad (Cormos, Biro and Patru), all of them former components of the latter. As a result the division B team folded. The team finished the regular season on a disappointing 10th place. In the first round of the play-out they easily dispatched Rapid, a team formed exclusively by Romanian players, in two games.
In order to able to develop its own reinforcement strategy the club decided to form a second team that will play in the Romanian Basketball division B under the name of BC Mureş II. Young and promising players like Biro Ferenc, Bogdan Cormos, Soos Tibor, Daniel Patru, Bogdan Puscas and "veteran" Ioan Muresan along with other local talents will play at this team. The goal of this new team is to prepare the Romanian players for the high level of the Romanian Division A basketball.
BC Mureş finished the regular season on the 8th place, with a record of 15 wins and 11 losses. The team led in points scored, but also in points conceded. In the first round of the playoffs, BC Mureş was paired against league leaders Asesoft Ploiesti. After losing the first game away from home by a narrow margin, they were defeated on their home court which meant elimination. Playing for the 5-8th place with playmaker JuJuan Cooley out, the team did not get another win, so their final league position for the season remained 8th.
In the 2006-2007 competition it finished on the 9th place being only one win away from the playoffs.
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