Dwayne Bacon and Tamir Blatt delivered standout performances on the road in Round 32 to share co-MVP honors, each finishing with a PIR of 27.
Bacon led Dubai Basketball to a 74-87 road win over FC Bayern Munich, finishing with 21 points on 8-of-10 two-pointers, 1-of-4 from three and 2-of-2 free throws, adding 3 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 steals. Blatt guided Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv to an 85-89 road victory over LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne with 14 points on 1-of-1 two-pointers and 4-of-7 from three, 13 assists and no turnovers. This is the second time that Blatt has earned MVP of the Round honors in his career, while Bacon had previously shared the award once before.
Mfiondu Kabengele, also of Dubai, Virtus Bologna’s Aliou Diarra and Anadolu Efes Istanbul’s Sehmus Hazer each posted a PIR of 26 to round out the round's top individual performances.
Kabengele finished with 16 points on 3-of-5 two-pointers, 2-of-3 from three and 4-of-4 free throws, adding 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks against Bayern. Diarra recorded 11 points on 4-of-6 two-pointers and 3-of-4 free throws, along with 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks in his team's 109-91 road loss at Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv. Hazer put up 26 points on 6-of-8 two-pointers, 4-of-7 from three and 2-of-3 free throws, with 2 rebounds, 2 assists and a steal in Efes's 93-98 home loss to AS Monaco.
Hapoel’s Johnathan Motley, Virtus duo Derrick Alston Jr. and Matt Morgan, and Real Madrid’s Walter Tavares each narrowly missed out with a PIR of 25.
Individual highs: Tamir Blatt, Maccabi, 13 assists
Sehmus Hazer topped all scorers in Round 32 with 26 points. Sasha Vezenkov of Olympiacos Piraeus leads the competition in scoring with 19.5 points per game.
Jaylen Hoard of Maccabi led the round in rebounding with 11 boards. Nikola Milutinov of Olympiacos tops the overall standings with 7.2 rebounds per game.
Tamir Blatt's 13 assists were the most of any player in Round 32. Codi Miller-McIntyre of Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade leads the competition with 7.2 assists per game.
Eugene Omoruyi of Kosner Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz collected 4 steals, more than anybody else. Aleksa Avramovic of Dubai leads the overall standings with 1.5 steals per night.
Aliou Diarra and Derek Willis of Paris Basketball each recorded a round-high 3 blocks. Tavares leads the competition with 2.0 blocks per game.
Blatt (14 points, 13 assists), Tavares (12 points, 10 rebounds), Zalgiris’s Nigel Williams-Goss (11 points, 10 assists) and Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade’s Nick Calathes (12 points, 10 assists) were the only players to post double-doubles in Round 32. It was Calathes's 47th career double-double, ranking second all-time behind Mirsad Turkcan's record of 50.
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