7DAYS EuroCup RS – Round 12 MVP: Jaylon Brown, Hamburg Towers

With his team depleted, trailing and in need of an offensive spark, Hamburg Towers guard Jaylon Brown stepped up and delivered in his team’s 78-85 win at MoraBanc Andorra on Wednesday night, earning his first MVP of the Round honor in the process. Brown netted 32 points, the most by a Hamburg player in the team’s first season in the competition, while he also matched the EuroCup’s season high with 7 three-pointers made on 15 attempts. Brown also went 2-for-4 on two-pointers and 7-for-9 from the free throw line. He added 6 assists, 4 rebounds and 3 steals, while drawing 7 fouls in 39 minutes on the floor. His resulting performance index rating of 34 was the highest among all players on winning teams in Round 12. Virtus Segafredo Bologna center Mam Jaiteh also had a PIR of 34, but that came in his team’s loss against Buducnost VOLI Podgorica. Jaiteh collected 19 points plus 12 rebounds, 3 blocks, 1 assist and 1 steal. The next-best PIR, 33, belonged to Will Cummings of Boulogne Metropolitans 92, who flirted with a triple-double, collecting 20 points, 9 assists and 9 rebounds in his team’s 95-92 win over his former team, Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar. Rounding out the list of this round’s top performers were four players matching PIRs of 30 each: Yogi Ferrell of Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana, Mathias Lessort of Partizan NIS Belgrade, Travis Trice of Slask Wroclaw and Martynas Echodas of Umana Reyer Venice.

Individual highs: Nikolaos Gkikas, Promitheas, 10 assists

Brown led all players in Round 12 with 32 points, just one shy of the EuroCup season high. Lokomotiv guard Errick McCollum is the overall top scorer with 22.3 points per game. Jaiteh and Bojan Dubljevic of Valencia Basket each had 12 rebounds, the most in Round 12. Kerem Kanter of Slask leads the EuroCup in rebounding with 8.7 per game. Nikolaos Gkikas of Promitheas Patras had 10 assists, more than any other player this round. Virtus playmaker Milos Teodosic leads the competition, averaging 8.1 assists. Maximilian Di Leo of Hamburg Towers and Erdi Gulaslan of Turk Telekom Ankara each had 4 steals to lead all players in Round 12. Derek Needham of Frutti Extra Bursaspor tops the steals charts this season with 2.1 steals per game. Slask big man Aleksander Dziewa was the top shot blocker of the round with 4 blocks. Turk Telekom’s Octavius Ellis leads the Eurocup with 1.7 blocks per game.