Talented Gregor Hrovat (196-G-94) had a very impressive game in the last round for Helios and that's him to receive a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 5. The 18-year old guard had the game-high 15 points adding five rebounds and four assists for Helios in his team's victory, helping them to edge out Elektra (3-2) 76-73. Helios is placed at 3rd position in Slovenian Telemach League. They would have been even better if they hadn't lost two games earlier this season. Helios will need more victories to improve their 3-2 record. It was one of impressive evenings for Hrovat as usually he does not deliver so high stats. Gregor Hrovat averages this season 11.4ppg.
The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was 24-year old guard Boban Tomic (190-G-88, agency: Alti Sport) of LTHcast Mercator. Tomic impressed basketball fans with 20 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists. Of course he lead LTHcast Mercator to another comfortable win outscoring Polzela (#13, 0-5) 97-74. This victory allowed LTHcast Mercator to move up to 7th position in the standings. His team is not often considered as one of the league's best with a mere 2-3 record. Tomic is a newcomer at LTHcast Mercator and it seems he did not have too much trouble to become one of team's leaders. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 16.8ppg (#4). He also recorded 5.3 assists per game.
The third best performed player last round was another Helios' star - Serbian Gezim Morina (204-C/F-92). Morina scored 21 points and grabbed seven rebounds. He was another key player of Helios, helping his team with a 76-73 win against Elektra (3-2). Helios needs these victories very badly if they think about getting closer to top teams. Their record at this point is 3 victories and 2 lost games. Morina has a great season in Slovenia. After only 5 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in rebounds with 6.6rpg (8th best). Gezim Morina has also Slovenian passport and can play in the league with a status of domestic player.
Other top performing players last week: 4. Dejan Mlakar (192-G-88) of Geoplin Slovan - 9 points and 7 rebounds 5. Bojan Jovanovic (186-G-82) of Maribor Messer - 15 points, 2 rebounds and 10 assists 6. Marko Vranjkovic (204-F/C-90) of Polzela - 18 points and 2 rebounds 7. Robert Abramovic (185-G-88) of LTHcast Mercator - 23 points and 2 rebounds 8. Tomo Cajic (200-F/C-85) of LTHcast Mercator - 11 points and 5 rebounds 9. Nemanja Barac (90) of Rogaska - 14 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists 10. Ivan Drzic (205-C-83) of Tajfun - 20 points, 4 rebounds and 2 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)
Union Olimpija beat Krka 73-68 in Game 3 to avoid a sweep in the finals. Jaka Blazic (196-G-90) scored 14 of his game-high 17 points in the first half, Drazen Bubnic (206-F-86) and Jasmin Perkovic (205-F-80) both poured in 11 points and Klemen Prepelic (191-G-92) came off the bench for 8 assists.
After tying at 27 midway through the second quarter, Olimpija scored five straight points to go up 32-27 and never looked back for rest of the game [read more]
Union Olimpija beat Krka 73-68 in Game 3 to avoid a sweep in the finals. Jaka Blazic (196-G-90) scored 14 of his game-high 17 points in the first half, Drazen Bubnic (206-F-86) and Jasmin Perkovic (205-F-80) both poured in 11 points and Klemen Prepelic (191-G-92) came off the bench for 8 assists. After tying at 27 midway through the second quarter, Olimpija scored five straight points to go up 32-27 and never looked back for rest of the game. They had their largest lead of the game at 45-33 early in the second half. Olimpija still had a double-digit advantage at 65-55 with five minutes left. Krka cut the deficit to 66-70 with 52 second into the game. Teemu Rannikko (189-PG-80) hit just one free throw for Olimpija, but Edo Muric (202-F-91) missed a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to two. Olimpija was outrebouned 26-36 and missed 15 free throws, but they shot 56-percent from the field (27-of-48) to Krka's just 42 percent (24-of-57). Krka was led by Jakov Vladovic (187-PG-83, agency: XL Basketball Agency) with his 13 points, Matjaz Smodis (205-F-79) added 11, Domen Lorbek (198-G/F-85) posted 10 points and Jaka Klobucar (198-G-87) had 8 points and 9 rebounds. Game 3: Krka-Union Olimpija 68-73 (series 2-1) KRKA 68 (22+12+11+23):
Lorbek 10, *Vladovic 13+5 as, *Rojc, Lali 2, Smodis 11, *Pavic 8, *Lucic 8,
Pajic DNP, Bolcina DNP, *Klobucar 8+9 rbs, Anderson 6, E.Muric 2. UNION OLIMPIJA 73 (23+19+13+18): Kokol DNP, Rupnik 2, Prepelic 6+8 as, *Blazic 17, Rannikko 5, *Salin 9, *Bubnik 11, *Perkovic 11, *Mocnik 6, Sulejmanovic 2, Omic 4.
Grosuplje reached an agreement with head coach Dejan Mihevc , who inked a one-year deal with the Telemach League side. Mihevc, 35, arrives from London Leopards, to which he helped to win the 2011-12 British EBL Divison one title
Mihevc is the assistant coach of the U-20 Slovenian national team and he also coached the U-16 Slovenian national team from 2008-2010. He also served as assistant coach with Sentjur. [read more]
Grosuplje reached an agreement with head coach Dejan Mihevc , who inked a one-year deal with the Telemach League side. Mihevc, 35, arrives from London Leopards, to which he helped to win the 2011-12 British EBL Divison one title Mihevc is the assistant coach of the U-20 Slovenian national team and he also coached the U-16 Slovenian national team from 2008-2010. He also served as assistant coach with Sentjur.
Slovenian Telemach League finals will start tomorrow with the first game in Novo mesto, home of defending champions Krka. The finals will be played between two traditional opponents Krka Novo mesto and Union Olimpija Ljubljana. Second game will be played on Wednesday in Ljubljana's Stozice Arena. More experienced team Krka is a slight favourite to win the series, compared to young Union Olimpija [read more]
Slovenian Telemach League finals will start tomorrow with the first game in Novo mesto, home of defending champions Krka. The finals will be played between two traditional opponents Krka Novo mesto and Union Olimpija Ljubljana. Second game will be played on Wednesday in Ljubljana's Stozice Arena. More experienced team Krka is a slight favourite to win the series, compared to young Union Olimpija. Krka finished the regular part of the season with only one loss, while Union Olimpija lost three times.
Game #1, Monday, May 13th, at 20.00: KRKA : UNION OLIMPIJA
Game #2, Wednesday, May 15th, at 18.00: UNION OLIMPIJA : KRKA
Game #3, Friday, May 17th, at 20.00: KRKA : UNION OLIMPIJA
Possible Game #4, Monday, May 20th, at 18.00: UNION OLIMPIJA : KRKA
Possible Game #5, Wednesday, May 22th, at 20.00: KRKA : UNION OLIMPIJA
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