February 04, 2012
Week 4 MVP: Darius Washington, Galatasaray Cafe Crown
Darius Washington - Galatasaray Cafe CrownJust when his team needed it most, a second Galatasaray Cafe Crown player this season earned the Eurocup weekly MVP as point guard Darius Washington guided his team to victory with the highest performance index rating in the competition so far this season! Washington was everywhere as Galatasaray turned back Alba Berlin by 93-79 at home in Istanbul on Tuesday. It was Alba's first loss and denied it early qualification to the Last 16. Washington shined with 31 points on near-perfect shooting: 10 of 12 two-pointers, 2 of 3 triples and 5 of 5 free throws. He added 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 7 fouls drawn to amass a 45 index, which tied for the seventh-best performance in the seven-year history of the competition. Following him with the week's second-best performance came Hasan Rizvic of Azovmash Mariupol, who led his team to its first Eurocup win of the season with a 39 index rating. Rizvic helped Azovmash beat Banca Tercas Teramo 90-82 with 24 points on 11-for-12 two-point shooting, 11 rebounds and 5 blocks. Next, Sammy Mejia of Cholet Basket paced his team to a critical 79-70 home win against Crvena Zvezda with 35 points on 5-of-6 three-pointers, 3 rebounds and 5 fouls drawn, good for a 38 index rating. Kostas Charalampidis of Panellinios, with an index rating of 37, finished fourth, while Drake Diener of Teramo and Michael Wright of PGE Turow, each with a 36 index, completed the top individual performances of Week 4.

Individual highs: Justin Gray, PGE Turow, 11 assists

Mejia was also the Game 4 top scorer with 35 points against Crvena Zvezda. Mire Chatman of Besiktas Cola Turka is still the regular season top scorer at 23.5 points per game. Vladimer Boisa of Zadar led all rebounders in Week 4 by pulling down 14 in his team's home win against Hapoel Jerusalem. Marcus Slaughter of Sluc Nancy leads the rebounds table at 10.5 per night. Justin Gray of PGE Turow was the only player to record double-digits in assists this week as he dished 11 to help get his team's first win, against Panellinios. Kristaps Valters of DKV Joventut is first overall in assists at 7.5 per game. Evren Buker of Galatasaray, Fred House of Azovmash, Pavel Sergeev of BC Triumph Lyubertsy, Joe Smith of Lauretana Biella and Josh Fisher of Gran Canaria 2014 each collected 4 steals in Week 4. Sergeev, House and Konstantin Nesterov of Triumph share first place in the overall standings at 2.75 steals per night. Rizvic had 5 blocks to lead the weekly standings and is also first overall at 3.5 per game. As many as eight players - Rizvic, Diener, Nesterov, Boisa, Victor Claver of Power Electronics Valencia, Milovan Rakovic of Spartak St. Petersburg, Kevin Seraphin of Cholet and Aleksey Zhukanenko of Dynamo Moscow - registered respective double-doubles in Week 4.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Eurocupbasketball.com
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