Winning the MVP award for the 2006 Promotion Cup was bitter-sweet for Albanian forward Gerti Shima.

Shortly before picking up his award, the 20-year-old had watched his side outplayed by Azerbaijan as the latter lifted the trophy with a 66-57 win on Saturday night.

After winning an Olympic gold in 1988, playing against the USA "Dream Team" in 1992 and collecting a host of other medals in his illustrious career, some might have expected Lithuanian basketball legend Rimas Kurtinaitis to kick back and relax.

He retired in 1997, but nothing could be further from the truth as the former shooting guard has just guided Azerbaijan to their first-ever trophy.

Moldova made it three wins in a row in the Promotion Cup with an 87-73 victory over Andorra in Group A.

Alexei Andrus scored 20 points and Eugeniu Scripcaru had 12 rebounds in the victory.

Gibraltar made a stunning recovery from their opening day humiliation against Moldova in the European Promotion Cup for Men but still lost 68 67 to Andorra on Tuesday.

Thrashed 100-54 on Monday, Gibraltar hit back and led Andorra 21 17 after the opening quarter and maintained that advantage at 38-34 at half-time.