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===After the championship===
After winning the Latvian championship, Valmiera/Ordo declined the option to play in the [[Basketball Champions League]]. Lead by head coach [[Uvis Helmanis]] the team's squad was still pretty solid. The team top scorers were [[Janis Kaufmanis]], [[Mārtiņš Laksa]] and [[Artūrs Bērziņš]]. At the end of the season one of the [[EuroLeague]] stars, big man [[D'or Fischer]], was added to the team's roster. But things did not go Valmiera's way. In the [[2016–17 Baltic Basketball League]] Valmiera/Ordo lost in the quarterfinals, while in the [[2016–17 Latvian Basketball League]] the team lost in the bronze medal series. The team struggled financially during the last months of the season, which haunted
In the [[2017–18 Latvian Basketball League]] the team finished in the last position. The new head coach [[Kristaps Valters]] had only three proven players - Janis Kaufmanis, Viktors Iļjins and Edmunds Elksnis. The rest of the team was very young and the team lost most of the games, taking the last position in the national championship and not making the [[2017–18 Baltic Basketball League]] playoff tournament.
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