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| Turkish Airlines EuroLeague RS - Round 25 MVP: Nikola Milutinov, CSKA Moscow |
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A stellar performance in a victorious effort allowed Nikola Milutinov to earn the MVP honor for Round 25. Milutinov led CSKA to a 91-72 home win over ALBA Berlin with a performance index rating of 36, the highest of all players in Round 25. He finished the game with 21 points on 7-for-10 two-point and 7-for-8 free-throw shooting. Milutinov added 11 rebounds, 2 steals, a block and 7 fouls drawn for his PIR total. It marked his second MVP honor of this season – he had a PIR of 28 in Round 23 – and the sixth of his career. Coming next, Marcos Knight of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne had a career-high PIR of 30 in his team's 78-72 road loss against Anadolu Efes Istanbul. Knight had personal bests of 21 points and 12 rebounds, hitting 8 of 11 two-pointers and drawing 3 fouls. Scottie Wilbekin of Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv and Luke Sikma of ALBA Berlin each had a PIR of 25. Wilbekin posted 20 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 7 fouls drawn in a losing effort against FC Bayern Munich, while ALBA could not beat CSKA Moscow in the Russian capital despite Sikma's 15 points, 9 rebounds, a block and 9 fouls drawn. Marko Guduric of Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul and Nikola Ivanovic of Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade, with PIRs of 24, completed the top individual performances in Round 25.
Individual highs: Alexey Shved of CSKA, 13 assists
Round 25 MVP Milutinov, Knight and Alex Poythress of Zenit St Petersburg were the top scorers in this round, each with 21 points. Nikola Mirotic of FC Barcelona remains the competition's top scorer at 17.1 points per game. Knight led all rebounders by pulling down a personal-best 12 boards against Efes, while Georgios Papagiannis of Panathinaikos OPAP Athens is first overall in rebounds at 7.6 per night. Alexey Shved dished 13 assists in CSKA's home victory against ALBA Berlin, matching the career high he had reached three times previously. He was a single assist shy of matching CSKA's club record of 14 by Milos Teodosic against Unicaja Malaga in the 2015-16 campaign. Lorenzo Brown of UNICS Kazan ranks first in assists for the season, dishing 6.1 per game. John Brown, also of UNICS, collected 5 steals in his team's road win against Zalgiris Kaunas. He also set a new record for most steals in a EuroLeague season, 66 and counting. Manu Ginobili of Kinder Bologna had the previous record with 64 steals in 2000-01, the competition's original season. John Brown is also the competition's leader in steals at 2.9 per night. Louis Olinde of ALBA, Moustapha Fall of Olympiacos Piraeus and Jehyve Floyd of Panathinaikos each had 2 blocks in Round 25. Walter Tavares of Real Madrid ranks atop the blocks standings at 2.1 per game. Knight, Milutinov, Shved, Lorenzo Brown and John Brown all registered double-doubles in Round 25. |
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