Walker IV's 30-point game gives him Player of the Week award

28-year old American shooting guard Lonnie Walker IV (196-SG-1998) had a great game in the last round for Besiktas Fibabanka Istanbul and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 9.
He had the game-high 30 points adding four rebounds and five assists for Besiktas in his team's victory, helping them to edge out Virtus BO (4-5) 103-101. The game rather meaningless between the teams, which do not have any influence on top of the standings. Besiktas is placed at 14th position in Euroleague. Besiktas is a typical solid league team placed somewhere in the middle or a little bit lower in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 4-5 record. In the team's last game Walker IV had a remarkable seven three-pointers out of 11 attempts. He turned to be Besiktas' top player in his first season with the team. Lonnie Walker IV averages just after two games 17.5ppg.

Second best performed player last round was Theo Maledon (193-G-2001) of Real Madrid. He is French guard in his 2nd season at Real Madrid. In the last game Maledon recorded an impressive 26 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists. Of course he led Real Madrid to another comfortable win 95-76 over the lower-ranked Fenerbahce (6-3) being unquestionably team leader. This victory allowed Real Madrid to move up to 5th position in the standings. His team lost some distance to top teams. But a 6-3 record is not bad and everything may still change. Maledon is well-known at Real Madrid and he already established his position as one of the team's leaders. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 16.3ppg (#6). He also recorded 5.2 assists per game.

Third place about best performers goes to guard Nadir Hifi (185-G-2002) of Paris Basketball (#16). Hifi scored 26 points and passed 4 assists. He was a key player of Paris Basket, leading his team to a 99-94 win against slightly lower-ranked M.Tel-Aviv (#18, 2-7). The chances of Paris not to end season at such low position in the league, however are less than slim as they have already lost 6 games, recording just three victories. With bigger assistance of his teammates, Hifi could try to bring Paris' a little bit higher in the standings. Hifi has individually a great season in Euroleague. After only 6 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 21.2ppg (best scorer).

Other top performing players last week:
4. TyTy Washington (193-G-2001) of ASVEL - 21 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists
5. Kenneth Faried (203-C-1989) of Baskonia - 17 points and 8 rebounds
6. Chima Moneke (198-PF-1995) of Crvena zvezda - 15 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists
7. Filip Petrusev (211-C-2000) of Dubai - 20 points and 3 rebounds
8. Jonas Valanciunas (211-C-1992) of Zalgiris - 16 points and 8 rebounds
9. Aleksandar Vezenkov (204-PF-1995) of Olympiacos - 23 points and 4 rebounds
10. Justin Robinson (185-G-1997) of Barca - 22 points

The Player of the week is selected 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)

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