Best players of Luxembourg LBBL round 5

American Lauren Van Kleunen (188-G) had a very impressive game in the last round for league's leader T71 Dudelange and that's her to receive a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 5.
The guard had a double-double of 26 points and 15 rebounds, while her team outclassed Musel Pikes (#2, 3-1) with 43-point margin 99-56. The game was between two of the league's top four teams. It allowed T71 to consolidate first place in the Luxembourg LBBL. They maintain a perfect record without any lost game in the league. The season is still on an early stage, but T71 already had a very good start winning all 5 without losing a single one. In the team's last game Van Kleunen had a remarkable 64.3% from 2-point range. She has many years of experience at T71, through which she has constantly improved. Marquette University graduate has very impressive stats this year. Van Kleunen is in league's top in points (4th best: 23.0ppg), assists (7th best: 3.6apg) and averages solid 2.2spg and 74.5% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was young Belarusian swingman Tatsiana Likhtarovich (180-G/F-1988) of Basket Esch. Likhtarovich impressed basketball fans with 29 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists. Bad luck as Esch was edged by slightly higher-ranked Contern (#3, 3-2) 76-75. It was definitely game of the week between two contenders to the title. Esch still maintains its place in the top 4 of the standings, even despite this loss. Her team's 2-2 record is not bad at all. Likhtarovich is one of the most experienced players at Esch and has a reputation of one of team's most reliable players. She belongs to the best scorers in the league with 24.3ppg (#3). She also registered 5.0 boards per game.

The third best performed player last round was American Da'Ja Green (169-PG-1999) of BBC Les Sangliers Wooltz (#7). Green scored 29 points and grabbed 14 rebounds (!!!). Despite Green's great performance the Les Sangliers lost 72-85 to slightly higher-ranked Amicale (#5, 2-2). But her team cannot count on just a single shooter as she also needs help of the other teammates. Les Sangliers can only dream about fighting for top spots in the league. They have awful season losing so far all 4 games. Green has individually a great season in Luxembourg. After only 2 games, she made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 33.5ppg (best scorer), rebounds with 11.5rpg (6th best) and assists with 5.5apg (2nd best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Brooke Flowers (195-C-2000) of Amicale - 18 points and 13 rebounds
5. Catherine Mreches (166-G-2000) of T71 - 21 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists
6. Shalonda Winton (180-PF-1991) of T71 - 17 points, 13 rebounds and 4 assists
7. Marie Stoffel (173-G-2003) of Amicale - 20 points and 7 rebounds
8. Kyra Coulon (180-SF-2004) of Contern - 23 points and 4 rebounds
9. Esmeralda Skrijelj (175-SF-1995) of Contern - 12 points, 13 rebounds and 9 assists
10. Beatriz Jordao (190-C-1999) of T71 - 11 points, 7 rebounds and 2 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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