Alaina Rice's triple-double lands her Player of the Week award

- November 15, 2024

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Alaina Rice

Alaina Rice

American Guard Alaina Rice (173-G) had a very impressive game in the last round for second-ranked KBF Prishtina, receiving a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 5.
The player recorded a triple-double of 18 points adding also 19 rebounds and 12 assists, while her team beat Junior 06 (#5, 1-4) 73-62. Prishtina is placed at 2nd position in Kosovan Superliga. They would have been even better if they hadn't lost two games earlier this season. Prishtina will need more victories to improve their 3-2 record. Rice turned to be Prishtina's top player in her first season with the team. Former Syracuse University star has very solid stats this year. Rice is in league's top in points (5th best: 21.8ppg), rebounds (2nd best: 13.2rpg), assists (3rd best: 7.4apg) and averages impressive 1.2bpg and 3.4spg.

The second best player in last round's games was American Dana Thompson (183-F) of league's leader KBF Bashkimi Prizren. Thompson had a very good evening with 30 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists. Of course she led Bashkimi to another comfortable win outscoring Trepca (#6, 0-5) 76-52. Of course Bashkimi still keep the league's top spot. A very good start of the season for her team, which won so far all 5 games without any defeat. Thompson is a newcomer at Bashkimi, but is already one of team's top players. She belongs to the best scorers in the league with 16.6ppg (#6). She also registered 8.2 boards per game.

Third on the list of top players last round was Ukrainian center Veronika Liubinets (192-C-1999) of Peja 03 (#4). Liubinets scored 24 points and grabbed 12 rebounds (!!!). She was a key player of Peja 03, leading her team to a 64-62 win against #3 ranked Penza in a game of the week. Peja 03 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. Liubinets has a great season in Kosovo. After only 5 games, she made it on the list of the league's leaders in rebounds with 15.0rpg (#1 in league).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Tanyia Gordon (178-F) of Junior 06 - 30 points and 13 rebounds
5. Jeanae Terry (155-PG-2001) of Penza - 16 points, 15 rebounds and 6 assists
6. Caterrion Thompson (175-G-1998) of Bashkimi - 20 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists
7. Aulona Muhadri (182-F/C-1998) of Bashkimi - 11 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists
8. Kayla Johnson (178-SF) of Prishtina - 19 points and 8 rebounds
9. Jeta Zeka (174-G/F-1995) of Penza - 16 points and 6 rebounds
10. Vivian Woo (170-G-2000) of Trepca - 17 points, 8 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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Tags : ALAINA RICE, KBF PRISHTINA, KOSOVAN BASKETBALL, , LIGA UNIKE