Alexander Poythress gets MVP of the Week award for VTB United League (by Hoops Agents)

Experienced American-Ivorian Alexander Poythress (205-C/F-1993) had a very impressive game in the last round for Zenit Saint Petersburg and that's him to receive a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 5.
The 33-year old had the game-high 23 points adding five rebounds and two assists for Zenit in his team's victory, helping them to outclass, the league's bottom-ranked team Samara (#12, 0-7) with 34-point margin 99-65. Zenit maintains the 4th position in VTB United League . They would have been even better if they did not have these two lost games earlier in Regular Season. Zenit will need more victories to improve their 5-2 record. Poythress has many years of experience at Zenit, through which he has constantly improved. Alexander Poythress averages this season 10.9ppg.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was young American guard Jalen Blackmon (190-G-2002) of Dinamo Vladivostok. Blackmon impressed basketball fans with 31 points and 3 assists. Bad luck as Dinamo lost that game 79-88 to slightly higher-ranked Uralmash (#6, 3-4). Despite lost game Dinamo moved up to 8th position in the standings. His team is not often considered as one of the league's best with a mere 2-4 record. Blackmon is a newcomer at Dinamo and it seems he did not have too much trouble to become one of team's leaders. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 20.7ppg (#1). He also recorded 3.5 assists per game.

The third best performed player last round was Guyanese Livio Jean-Charles (206-PF-1993) of top-ranked PBC CSKA Moscow. Jean-Charles scored 14 points and grabbed 9 rebounds. He was a key player of CSKA, leading his team to a 79-57 easy win against the lower-ranked Parma-Pari (#5, 3-3). CSKA have amazing season winning all 7 games without a single defeat. Jean-Charles turns to be one of the very best players in the league while he is also a leader of the top team having his eyes on the championship title. Jean-Charles has a great season in VTB United League. After only 7 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in rebounds with 7.6rpg (4th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Patrick Miller (185-G-1992) of Lokomotiv - 16 points, 2 rebounds and 8 assists
5. David McCormack (208-C-1999) of UNICS - 15 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists
6. Samson Ruzhentsev (202-F-2001) of CSKA - 16 points, 12 rebounds and 2 assists
7. DaQuan Smith (188-PG-1999) of Dinamo V. - 23 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists
8. Melo Trimble (188-G-1995) of CSKA - 18 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists
9. Casper Ware (178-PG-1990) of CSKA - 15 points and 4 assists
10. Yauheni Beliankou (198-F) of Enisey - 23 points, 5 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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