22-year old center Harri Keskitalo (210-C-90) put on an amazing game in the last round for JyWe and receives a Eurobasket.com 1st Division Player of the Week award for round 7. He had a double-double of 22 points and 18 rebounds, while his team beat Jarvenpaa (#8, 2-5) 78-71. JyWe maintains the 3rd position in Finnish 1st Division. They would have been even better if they did not have these two lost games earlier in Regular Season. JyWe will need more victories to improve their 5-2 record. It's Keskitalo's second year at JyWe and it's hard to imagine this team without him. Keskitalo has impressive league stats. He is in league's top in rebounds (5th best: 12.0rpg) and averages solid 2.1bpg and 55.7% FGP.
Second best performed player last round was Jerrah Young (201-F-85) of top-ranked Porvoon Tarmo. He is American forward in his first season at Porvoon Tarmo. In the last game Young recorded impressive double-double of 26 points and 13 rebounds. Of course Porvoon Tarmo cruised to a 78-68 relatively comfortable win over the lower-ranked SayRi (#8, 2-4). Of course Porvoon Tarmo still keep group A's top spot. His team lost just one game this season, while they won 6 matches. Young is a newcomer at Porvoon Tarmo and quickly became one of team's most reliable players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 21.7ppg (#4). He also registered 10.4 boards per game. Former The University of Toledo star Young is a former Eurobasket Summer League player, which is considered top international summer league in the market.
Third place about best performers goes to forward Sami Syrjala (197-F-81) of KaU Koris (#4). Syrjala scored 24 points and grabbed fifteen rebounds (!!!). He was a key player of KaU Koris, leading his team to a 103-81 easy win against slightly lower-ranked HBA-Marsky (#5, 3-4). KaU Koris needs these victories very badly if they think about getting closer to top teams in group B. Their record at this point is 4 victories and 3 lost games. Syrjala has a great season in Finland. After only 7 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in rebounds with 12.9rpg (3rd best). He also has FGP: 57.4% and 3PT: 40.7%.
Other top performing players last week: 4. Sakari Salminen (200-F-87) of TuNMKY - 19 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists 5. Joni Harjula (189-G-83) of Pyrinto II - 28 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists 6. Nafis Ricks (188-G) of BC Jyvaskyla - 22 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists 7. Bobby Nash (198-G/F-84) of Ura Basket - 23 points and 14 rebounds 8. Arsene Towa (191-F-81) of Kerava ET - 12 points, 13 rebounds and 2 assists 9. Eric Brennan (201-F-89) of Tapiolan Honka - 18 points and 12 rebounds 10. Oscar Andersen (195-F-93) of Espoo Basket - 31 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists
The Player of the week is choosen based on efficiency calculation, but also including game result, importance of the game, if played recorded double-double/triple-double, etc. The efficiency formula is a combination of various formulas used by different basketball organizations/leagues. We got involved many basketball scouts and journalists to assure it's accuracy. The formula: 1.5*PTS + 3*(REB+AST+ST+BL-TO) - 2*BSAG - 4*PF + 3*PFRV + 4*(2FGPM+3FGPM) + 1.5*FTM - 3*(2FGPA-2FGPM) - 3*(3FGPA-3FGPM) - (FTA-FTM)
The U20 squad has been camping for 10 days now, it has been good, we have been practicing well and we will be ready to play when the Nordic games start.
This traditional tournament will be played at my home town, Vantaa Tuesday-Thursday with Estonia, Denmark and Sweden as our opponents. Good competition , great games for us at this point.
Week after that we will have visitors from Great Britain, will play them twice at Helsinki [read more]
The U20 squad has been camping for 10 days now, it has been good, we have been practicing well and we will be ready to play when the Nordic games start.
This traditional tournament will be played at my home town, Vantaa Tuesday-Thursday with Estonia, Denmark and Sweden as our opponents. Good competition , great games for us at this point.
Week after that we will have visitors from Great Britain, will play them twice at Helsinki.
The last preparation tournament before the championships will take place July 3rd-5th at the beautiful city of Rakvere and again against good competition Estonia, Ukraine and Lithuania. A real test for the young men, especially Lithuania.
Our championships (Group B) will take place July 12th-21st at Romania. There will also be some really good teams: Poland, Belgium.... Tough competition and a great challenge for my team. Our main goal is to produce players for the senior national team, but winning the tournament would be nice also..
After the U20 program I will have one week off before joining the senior national team. Extremely excited about that as well, life is good.
The race between last spring Top-4 teams continues! Bisons (Loimaa), KTP (Kotka), Kataja (Joensuu) and Karhu (Kauhajoki) are getting big "fish" almost weekly, when re-building their rosters and signing new players. The last news comes from Loimaa, where Finnish Champion Bisons have now signed with talented Finnish NT F Carl Lindbom (206-F-91). The contract is model 1+1 years [read more]
The race between last spring Top-4 teams continues! Bisons (Loimaa), KTP (Kotka), Kataja (Joensuu) and Karhu (Kauhajoki) are getting big "fish" almost weekly, when re-building their rosters and signing new players. The last news comes from Loimaa, where Finnish Champion Bisons have now signed with talented Finnish NT F Carl Lindbom (206-F-91). The contract is model 1+1 years. Lindbom averaged last season 13,3 ppg - 5,0 rpg in 27:59 mpg and 48 contests, when being part of Pyrinto (Tampere) roster. Earlier Bisons already signed with Finnish NT G Antto Nikkarinen (185-PG-91, agency: Blacktop Management) and moreover Bisons had NT players Matti Nuutinen (200-PF-90, agency: Blacktop Management) and Mikko Koivisto (194-G-87, college: NC-Greensboro) re-signed. Karhu (Kauhajoki) recently signed with Bosnian PG Bojan Sarcevic (190-G-88) and Kataja (Joensuu) captured Finnish NT PG Teemu Rannikko (189-PG-80) with a 2-year-contract. Interesting times - at least in these four towns.
PG Bojan Sarcevic (190-G-88) from Bosnia and Herzegovina will start 2013-14 his 8th season on top level in Finland, but not anymore in Kotka. Sarcevic played two seasons on KTP roster, but the new host will be Karhu (Kauhajoki). The contract signed is model 1-year. Passed season Sarcevic averaged 10,3 ppg (1 - 90,2%, 2 - 52,7%, 3 - 35,8%), 3,6 rpg, 3,4 apg in 29:15 mpg and 56 contests.
F Mikael Herbert (205-PF-93) instead will attend Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana [read more]
PG Bojan Sarcevic (190-G-88) from Bosnia and Herzegovina will start 2013-14 his 8th season on top level in Finland, but not anymore in Kotka. Sarcevic played two seasons on KTP roster, but the new host will be Karhu (Kauhajoki). The contract signed is model 1-year. Passed season Sarcevic averaged 10,3 ppg (1 - 90,2%, 2 - 52,7%, 3 - 35,8%), 3,6 rpg, 3,4 apg in 29:15 mpg and 56 contests. F Mikael Herbert (205-PF-93) instead will attend Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Herbert averaged 7,2 ppg (1 - 71,4%, 2 - 52,7%, 3 - 29,4%) and 2,9 rpg in 23:46 mpg and 24 games, when playing season # 3 on Korihait roster in Finland. Herbert will be among seven newcomers to the Green Wave program Head Coach Ed Conroy has signed during this summer.
Kataja: took 2nd place (3-3) in Group B of the Regular Season, took 2nd
place (3-3) in Group I of the Top16, lost to Gravelines (FRA) 0-2 in the
Quarterfinals !!!
Pyrinto: took 4th (last) place (2-4) in Group C of the Regular Season
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