Rikic's 29 points and 8 rebounds give him Player of the Week award

36-year old BIH-CROn center Robert Rikic (219-C-1990) had a very impressive game in the last round for league's best team KK Rabotnicki AD Skopje and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 5.
He had the game-high 29 points adding eight rebounds for Rabotnicki in his team's victory, helping them to beat Madzari 2003 (#9, 1-4) 89-79. It allowed Rabotnicki to consolidate first place in the North Macedonian league. They maintain a perfect record without any lost game in the league. The season is still on an early stage, but Rabotnicki already had a very good start winning all 5 without losing a single one. In the team's last game Rikic had a remarkable 80.0% from 2-point range. It's his second year at Rabotnicki and it's hard to imagine this team without him. Rikic has impressive league stats. He is in league's top in points (8th best: 19.0ppg), rebounds (4th best: 9.6rpg) and averages solid 57.1% FGP.

Second best performed player last round was Tederick Wolfe (196-G/F-1997, agency: Dominion Sports Group) of KK Tikvesh Golden Eagle Kavadarci. He is American swingman in his first season at Tikvesh. In the last game Wolfe recorded an impressive 24 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. It was enough for Tikvesh to edge TFT (2-3) by 3 points 77-74. This victory allowed Tikvesh to move up to 6th position in the standings. His team is not often considered as one of the league's best with a mere 2-3 record. Wolfe is a newcomer at Tikvesh and quickly became one of team's most reliable players. Former Wayland Baptist University star Wolfe is a former Eurobasket Summer League player, which is considered top international summer league in the market.

Third place about best performers goes to guard Cam Hamilton (180-PG-1999) of Sokoli 1933 (#10). Hamilton scored 19 points and passed 9 assists. He was a key player of Sokoli 1933, leading his team to a 87-81 win against the higher-ranked Strumica (#5, 2-3). Sokoli 1933 can only dream about fighting for top spots in the league. They have extremely bad season and 1-4 record places them at the very bottom of the standings. Hamilton has individually a great season in North Macedonia. After only 5 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 20.4ppg (4th best) and assists with 5.4apg (4th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Marland Harris (206-F-2001) of Strumica - 15 points and 9 rebounds
5. Cameron Gooden (182-G-1998) of Kumanovo MK - 21 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists
6. Malique Jacobs (190-G-2000) of Strumica - 19 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists
7. Bojan Krstevski (206-F/C-1989) of Kumanovo MK - 19 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists
8. Stefan Gligorijevic (205-PF-1998) of Tikvesh - 19 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists
9. Cameron Jones (198-G-1999) of Madzari 2003 - 18 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists
10. Darrin Govens (185-PG-1988) of Rabotnicki - 14 points, 6 rebounds and 8 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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