Aleksandr Semenyuk gets MVP of the Week award for Russian Superleague (by Hoops Agents)

Experienced Belarusian Aleksandr Semenyuk (208-C/F-1993) put on an amazing game in the last round for league's second-best Dinamo Grozny and that's him to receive a Hoops Agents Superleague Player of the Week award for round 7.
The 33-year old had the game-high 17 points adding eight rebounds and six assists for Dinamo G. in his team's victory, helping them to crush Rusichi K. (#14, 1-5) with 18-point margin 94-76. Dinamo is placed at 2nd position in Russian Superleague. They are still close to the very top. Dinamo would have been even better if they kept winning the games like in the last round. They have a solid 6-1 record. It was one of impressive evenings for Semenyuk as usually he does not deliver so high stats. Semenyuk has impressive league stats. He is in league's top in rebounds (8th best: 6.6rpg) and averages solid 73.7% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was young guard Grigoriy Tuchkov (183-G-2003) of Kupol-Rodniki Izhevsk. Tuchkov impressed basketball fans with 25 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists. Bad luck as Kupol-Rodniki lost that game 85-103 to slightly higher-ranked Novosibirsk (#11, 2-5). The game was between two teams which are definitely not main contenders for the title. Kupol-Rodniki dropped in the standings to second-to-the-bottom (13th) position. 5 lost games are too many comparing to just one victory Kupol-Rodniki managed to get this year. Tuchkov is well-known by Kupol-Rodniki fans and he already established his position as one of team's most reliable players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 18.5ppg (#2). He also recorded 3.2 assists per game.

The third best performed player last round was Kazakhstan Askar Maydekin (203-F-1997) of Metallurg Magnitogorsk (#9). Maydekin scored 19 points and grabbed 8 rebounds. Despite Maydekin's great performance the Metallurg MGN lost 76-78 to slightly higher-ranked Univ.Surgut (#7, 3-4). But his team cannot count on just a single player as he also needs help of the other teammates. The chances of Metallurg MGN not to end season at such low position in the league, however are less than slim as they have already lost 4 games, recording just two victories. With bigger assistance of his teammates, Maydekin could try to bring Metallurg MGN's a little bit higher in the standings. Maydekin has individually a great season in Russia. After only 3 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 15.7ppg (4th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Vladislav Sharapov (205-C-1999) of Khimki - 27 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists
5. Pavel Lobarev (190-G-1997) of Barnaul - 21 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists
6. Artem Oreshnikov (210-C-2004) of CSKA-2 - 22 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists
7. Aleksey Babushkin (197-SF) of Dynamo Ufa - 17 points and 7 rebounds
8. Kirill Mikheyev (213-C-1998) of Univ.Surgut - 10 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists
9. Egor Sychkov (208-F-2001) of Temp-SUMZ - 14 points and 8 rebounds
10. Dmitriy Khalturin (210-C-2002) of Barnaul - 13 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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