25-year old American guard
Kirsten Deans (173-G-2001, agency:
LBM Management) had a great game in the last round for second-ranked
TED Ankara Kolejliler and receives a Hoops Agents TKBL Player of the Week award for round 4.
She got a double-double of 27 points and 10 assists, while her team beat
Mersin G. (#4,
2-2)
93-81. The game was between two of the league's top four teams.
TED Ankara maintains the 2nd position in Turkish league. They maintain a perfect record without any lost game in the league. The season is still on an early stage, but
TED Ankara already had a very good start winning all 4 without losing a single one. In the team's last game Deans had a remarkable five three-pointers out of 10 attempts. She turned to be
TED Ankara's top player in her first season with the team. The University of Mississippi graduate has very impressive stats this year. Deans is in league's top in points (2nd best: 25.0ppg) and averages solid 42.3% from behind 3-point line.
Second best performed player last round was
Iyana Moore (173-G-2003) of
Mersin Bsb Gelisim. She is American guard in her first season at Mersin G.. In the last game Moore recorded an impressive 30 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists. Bad luck as Mersin G. lost that game
81-93 to league's leader
TED Ankara (#2,
4-0). It was definitely game of the week between two contenders to the title. Mersin G. 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. Moore is a newcomer at Mersin G. and quickly became one of team's most reliable players. She belongs to the best scorers in the league with 23.3ppg (#3). She also registered 4.5 boards per game.
Third place about best performers goes to forward
Asia Strong (188-F-2000) of
Gallardo Spor Kulubu (#3). Strong scored 24 points and grabbed 15 rebounds (!!!). Despite Strong's great performance the Gallardo lost
61-69 to #1 ranked
Kirklareli. But her team cannot count on just a single player as she also needs help of the other teammates especially in such crucial game. The last thing Gallardo needs is to lose another game like this one. They lose more and more distance to the top teams. Their record is 2 victories and 1 lost game. Strong has a great season in Turkey. After only 3 games, she made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 19.0ppg (5th best) and rebounds with 12.7rpg (3rd best). Strong attended one of camps at
Eurobasket Summer League on her way to pro basketball.
Other top performing players last week:4.
Reyna Scott (178-G) of Konya - 24 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists
5.
Eylul Babuz (172-SG-2006) of TED Ankara - 15 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists
6.
Zee Spearman (193-F-2004) of TED Ankara - 24 points and 10 rebounds
7.
Zeynep Toremis (165-G-2006) of Fenerbahce G. - 14 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists
8.
Nursima Uzumcu (2001) of Mersin G. - 12 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists
9.
Bigue Sarr (190-F) of Konya - 23 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists
10.
Destiney McPhaul (175-G-2003) of Bodrum - 20 points, 8 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)