Spanish LF Challenge round 3 best performance: Chanaya Pinto

Mozambican Forward Chanaya Pinto (185-F-2000) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for second-ranked Club Joventut Badalona, receiving a Hoops Agents LF Challenge Player of the Week award for round 3.
The 26-year old player had a double-double of 28 points and 12 rebounds, while her team beat Coruna (#6, 2-1) 84-69. Joventut is placed at 2nd position in Spanish LF Challenge. They maintain a perfect record without any lost game in the league. The season is still on an early stage, but Joventut already had a very good start winning all 3 without losing a single one. In the team's last game Pinto had a remarkable 87.5% from 2-point range. She turned to be Joventut's top player in her first season with the team. Former The Pennsylvania State University star has very solid stats this year. Pinto is in league's top in points (2nd best: 18.3ppg) and averages impressive 1.3bpg,2.3spg,56.0% FGP and 60.0% from behind 3-point line.

The second best player in last round's games was young American Teya Sidberry (185-F-2003) of Gardenstore Baloncesto Sevilla. Sidberry had a very good evening with 22 points and 7 rebounds. Of course she led Sevilla to another comfortable win 67-54 over Gran Canaria (0-3) being unquestionably team leader. A very good start of the season for her team, which won so far all 3 games without any defeat. Sidberry is a newcomer at Sevilla, but is already one of team's top players.

Third on the list of top players last round was forward Sofia Galeron (185-F-1999) of Unicaja Mijas Malaga (#7). Galeron scored 14 points and grabbed 13 rebounds (!!!). She was a key player of Unicaja, leading her team to a 80-47 easy win against NBF Castello (#15, 0-3). Unicaja needs these victories very badly if they think about getting closer to top teams. Their record at this point is 2 victories and 1 lost game. Galeron has a great season in Spain. After only 3 games, she made it on the list of the league's leaders in rebounds with 8.7rpg (7th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Katiana Benitez (174-F-2001) of Zamora - 15 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists
5. Brianna Jackson (190-F-2000) of NBF Castello - 15 points and 15 rebounds
6. Alba Orois (170-G-2002) of Sevilla - 13 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists
7. Cesarina Capellan (178-SF-2003) of Ardoi - 21 points and 9 rebounds
8. Ana Jimenez (175-G/F-2000) of Coruna - 22 points and 2 rebounds
9. Debora Reis (183-F-2001) of Unicaja - 12 points and 7 rebounds
10. Carmen Garcia (195-C-2001) of Melilla - 7 points and 7 rebounds

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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