Week 6 MVP: Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Maroussi Costa Coffee
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 Not only did Maroussi Costa Coffee become the Group A champion and qualify to the Last 16 on the final date of the regular season, but big man Loukas Mavrokefalidis became the Week 6 MVP with a performance index rating of 34. Mavrokefalidis led Maroussi to a 72-83 road win against Chorale Roanne with 22 points on 8-for-11 two-pointers and 2-for-3 triples. He added 13 rebounds, 4 assists, a steal, a block and 2 fouls drawn, good for a 34 index. Next came Jimmy Baxter of Besiktas Cola Turka, who led his team to a 96-91 home win against STB Le Havre with 33 points on 10-for-14 two-pointers and 4-for-5 three-pointers to amass a 32 index rating. Tariq Kirksay helped Unics to reach the Last 16 undefeated with 21 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and a 31 index rating, the same as Arthur Lee of CEZ Nymburk, who put together 25 points on 9-for-11 two-pointers, 4 assists and 5 steals in a last-second loss to Hemofarm. Meir Tapiro of Bnei Hasharon, with a 30 index rating in his team's home win over Aris, completed the top individual performances in Week 6.
Individual highs: Hollis Price of Dynamo Moscow, 10 assists
Baxter was the Week 6 top scorer with 33 points against Le Havre. Despite not playing this week, Chris Monroe of Chorale Roanne was the regular season best scorer at 20.6 points per game. Mavrokefalidis led all rebounders by pulling down 13 against Chorale. Demetrius Alexander became the regular season rebounding king, averaging 9.2 per night. Hollis Price of Dynamo Moscow was the only player to reach double digits in assists by dishing 10 against Lukoil Academic. Khalid El-Amin of Azovmash led the regular season in assists (5.2 apg.). Lee and Juby Johnson of Zadar each collected 5 steals to lead the weekly standings. Mire Chatman of Besiktas Cola Turka (3 spg.) was the regular season steals champion. Demetrius Alexander of Barons/LMT, Marcus Slaughter of Chorale Roanne and Timofey Mozgov each had 3 blocks in this week. Slaughter and John Turek of PGE Turow led the regular season blocks standings (1.83 bpg.). Eight players - Mozgov, Mavrokefalidis, Milko Bjelica of Lietuvos Rytas, Adem Oren of Besiktas Cola Turka, Shawn James of Bnei Hasharon, Nikola Ilic of FMP, Petr Benda of CEZ Nymburk and Vladimir Dasic of Buducnost - registered respective double-doubles in Week 6.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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