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| BKT EuroCup Regular Season - Round 16 MVP: Malachi Flynn, Bahcesehir College Istanbul |
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Malachi Flynn got the first game-winner of his BKT EuroCup career in Round 16, leading Bahcesehir College Istanbul to a last-second win over Aris Thessaloniki Betsson and taking home the MVP of the Round award in the process.
His career-high 35 PIR – the highest of any player in Round 16 – exemplified the type of impact Flynn had on the victory, with Bahcesehir remaining second in Group A, hot on the heels of first-placed Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem. He finished with 19 points on efficient shooting, going 4-for-5 inside the arc, 2-for-4 from deep and 5-for-6 from the line, while he tied his career high with 7 rebounds, dished 6 assists, had 3 steals and drew 7 fouls, as the Aris players struggled to keep him under wraps. This is the first time in his 16-game EuroCup career that he has earned MVP of the Round honors.
Mitch Creek of U-BT Cluj-Napoca had the second-best index rating in this round, posting a 34 PIR in his team’s 101-99 defeat at BAI Manresa. The Australian forward shot a perfect 11-for-11 on two-pointers and 5-for-7 on free throws en route to 27 points, in addition to recording 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 6 fouls drawn.
Rounding out the list of top performers in Round 16 are three players who finished with a 33 PIR: Devon Daniels of Veolia Towers Hamburg, Rihards Lomazs of Neptunas Klaipeda, and Retin Obasohan of Manresa.
Daniels erupted for 26 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals as Hamburg downed Slask Wroclaw 99-96 to record back-to-back wins for the first time this season. Lomazs had a similarly impressive performance, amassing 31 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 6 fouls drawn in Neptunas’s 98-92 win over Jerusalem. Obasohan played in the final game of Round 16 and put on a clinic, pouring in a career-high 29 points, grabbing 3 rebounds, making 4 assists and drawing 14 fouls, which tied a EuroCup record, as Manresa defeated Cluj.
Individual highs: Fardaws Aimaq, Lietkabelis, 15 rebounds
Rihards Lomazs led all scorers in Round 16 by netting 31 points. Cluj star Fatts Russell remains the leading scorer in the EuroCup with 20.8 points per game.
Fardaws Aimaq of Lietkabelis Panevezys grabbed a round-high 15 rebounds this week. Jerusalem’s Austin Wiley tops the rebounding charts with 8.8 boards per night.
Arnas Velicka of Neptunas provided 12 assists in this round, more than anybody else. He is also first in assists in the EuroCup, averaging 7.7 dimes per contest.
Kadre Gray of Slask had a career-high 5 steals in Round 16, the most of any player. Turk Telekom Ankara ballhawk Dogus Ozdemiroglu is the competition leader in this category with 2.1 steals per game.
Two players – Ismael Kamagate of Besiktas GAIN Istanbul and Dusan Miletic of Cluj – had a round-high 3 blocks. High-flying Manresa center Kaodirichi Akobundu-Ehiogu leads the way in blocks this season with an average of 1.7 rejections per night.
Five players recorded a double-double in Round 16: Kadre Gray (22 points, 10 assists), Dogus Ozdemiroglu (22 points, 11 rebounds), Arnas Velicka (16 points, 12 assists), NINERS Chemnitz’s Kevin Yebo (15 points, 10 rebounds), and Dolomiti Energia Trento’s Andrej Jakimovski (15 points, 10 rebounds).
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