2008–09 BC Mureș Târgu Mureș season

PRESEASON GAMES

Tournament in Medias were Bc Mures played without Luke McKenna (inj.), Levi Levine (inj.), Sean Knitter (not arrived) and Cory Largent (not arrived):

• Csu Sibiu – Bc Mures 104 – 89
• Gaz Metan Medias – Bc Mures 88 – 78
• CSS U Craiova – Bc Mures 77 – 72

Friendly games in Hungary:

• MAFC Budapest (div.2) – Bc Mures 50 – 100
• Veszprém (div.2) – Bc Mures 66 – 88

Göcsej Cup – tournament in Zalaegerszeg :

• Lami-Véd Körmend (div. 1) – Bc Mures 102 – 80 [McKenna 21(2), Hargrave 15(1), Cooley 15(3), Vajda 8, Largent 8(1), Coombs 8, Levine 3(1), Knitter 2]
• Dombóvár (div. 1) – Bc Mures 94 – 70 [Hargrave 17(4), Coombs 17, Knitter 10(1), Cooley 7(1), Levine 6(1), McKenna 4, Szászgáspár 3(1)]
• Soproni sŐrdögök (div.1) – Bc Mures 69 – 70 [Cooley 12(2), Knitter 12(2), McKenna 12, Pora 8, Largent 8(1), Levine 5, Jakab 5, Coombs 4, Hargrave 2, Trif 2]

Friendly game and introduction of the Bc Mures 2008–2009 roster

• Bc Mures – CSU Brasov 103 – 83 [Coombs 20(1), Hargrave 19(5), Levine 18(2), Vajda 11, Cooley 10(2), McKenna 8, Largent 5, Jakab 5, Trif 4, Knitter 3(1)]

The Romanian Basketball Federation decided to increase the number of participants for the 08–09 season from 14 clubs to 16 clubs. In this case none of the clubs that played in the last season relegated to div. 2. CS Energia Rovinari and CSS ``U`` Craiova are the two new summer clubs that will complete the Romanian Basketball Division A team list. After the folding of the Rm.Valcea club there were only 15 teams left to start the championship race.

2008–2009 SQUAD CHANGES (December 2009)

In

• Audrius Prakuraitis – head coach signed from Panevezys (div.1)
• Marius Pociukonis
• Major Wingate – signed from France

2008–2009 SQUAD CHANGES (sept-oct 2008)

In

• Cory Largent – signed from Paysandu (div.1)
• Haron Hargrave – signed from Sacramento State (NCAA1)
• Levi Levine – signed from UCC Demons
• Vajda Attila – on loan from Gaz Metan Medias
• George Trif – signed from CSM Leonardo Oradea
• Aaron Coombs – signed from Longwy (div.3)
• Sean Knitter – signed from Fjölnir (div.1)

Out

• Bryan McCullough – signed to Lami-Véd Körmend (div.1)
• Frank Edward Russell – unknown destination
• Louis Truscott – signed to Benfica (div.1)

Players

Bc Mures 08/09 roster First division
N/A		Major Wingate	Center
3		JuJuan Cooley	175 cm	75 kg	Guard
N/A		Bogdan Cormoş	Guard
N/A		Daniel Patru	Forward
34		Ferenc Bíró	Forward
10		Barnabás Szászgáspár	183 cm	82 kg	Guard
12		Vlad Pora	193 cm	91 kg	Guard
14		Cristian Jakab	205 cm	92 kg	Center
10		George Trif	194 cm	88 kg	Forward
7		Attila Vajda	204 cm	88 kg	Center
33		Luke McKenna	201 cm	100 kg	Forward
11		Marius Pociukonis	Guard

• Second division players (Reserves)

Bc Mures 08/09 roster Second div.
1		Ferenc Bíró	205 cm	97 kg	Center
4		Bogdan Cormoş	177 cm	70 kg	Guard
5		Tibor Soós	183 cm	70 kg	Guard
8		Daniel Patru	192 cm	92 kg	Forward
20		Bogdan Puşcaş	194 cm	87 kg	Forward
N/A		László Fodor	N/A	N/A kg	Guard

08/09 Depth chart

In order to be 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 Mures 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. Due to money shortage three of these 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.