Best players of Israeli National League round 25 (by Hoops Agents)

Eddie Ekiyor

Canadian Eddie Ekiyor (206-C-1997) had a very impressive game in the last round for M.Ma'ale Adum. and that's him to receive a Hoops Agents National League Player of the Week award for round 25.
The 25-year old center had a double-double of 23 points and eleven rebounds, while his team beat H.Afula (#1, 19-6) 84-77. M.Ma'ale Adum. maintains the 9th position in Israeli National League. M.Ma'ale Adum. 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 12-13 record. In the team's last game Ekiyor had a remarkable 71.4% from 2-point range. He turned to be M.Ma'ale Adum.'s top player in his first season with the team. Carleton University graduate has very impressive stats this year. Ekiyor is in league's top in points (3rd best: 20.7ppg), rebounds (2nd best: 10.7rpg) and averages solid 1.3bpg and 55.7% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was young American power forward Jimmy Hall (203-PF-1994) of league's best team H.Afula. Hall impressed basketball fans with a double-double of 27 points and 15 rebounds. Bad luck as H.Afula lost that game 77-84 to the lower-ranked M.Ma'ale Adum. (#9, 12-13). H.Afula managed to keep the same 1st spot in the standings. His team has currently 19-6 record. Hall is a newcomer at H.Afula and it seems he did not have too much trouble to become one of team's leaders.

The third best performed player last round was American Lamonte Bearden (191-G-1995) of H.Ramat Gan (#14). Bearden scored 28 points and passed nine assists. Despite Bearden's great performance H.Ramat Gan lost 82-88 to the higher-ranked M.Rehovot (#11, 8-17). But his team cannot count on just a single shooter as he also needs help of the other teammates. H.Ramat Gan can only dream about fighting for top spots in the league. They have extremely bad season and 4-21 record places them at the very bottom of the standings. Bearden has a very solid season. In 6 games in Israel he scored 20.3ppg. He also has 5.8apg, 2.8spg and FGP: 53.0%.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Yogev Ohayon (189-PG-1987) of I.Nahariya - 18 points, 4 rebounds and 11 assists
5. Duane Johnson (201-F-1991) of M.Ma'ale Adum. - 18 points, 14 rebounds and 2 assists
6. Brandon Sherrod (198-F/C-1992) of M.Rehovot - 23 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists
7. Demetrius Treadwell (201-F-1991) of M.Ramat Gan - 11 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists
8. Jawun Evans (185-PG-1996) of M.Rishon - 25 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists
9. Cody Riley (206-F-1997) of M.Rishon - 19 points and 7 rebounds
10. Kevin Capers (188-G-1993) of M.Ramat Gan - 28 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists

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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