{"id":175444,"date":"2020-10-01T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=175444"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:08:20","slug":"eurocup-round-1-mvp-troy-caupain-ratiopharm-ulm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/eurocup-round-1-mvp-troy-caupain-ratiopharm-ulm\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurocup Round 1 MVP: Troy Caupain, ratiopharm Ulm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 7DAYS EuroCup newcomer, do-it-all guard Troy Caupain of ratiopharm Ulm, celebrated his debut by leading a comeback victory and earning the MVP honor for Round 1 of the regular season. Caupain did a lot of everything to help Ulm rally from 14 points behind at halftime to defeat Mornar Bar 84-76. He scored 18 points while missing just 2 shots. He had a team-high 8 rebounds and his 6 assists tied for the best of the game. In the end, his 34 performance index rating was not only tops on a winning team in Round 1, but also tied for Ulm&#8217;s third-highest in eight EuroCup seasons. With that 34 PIR, Caupain had good company, none other than former EuroCup champ Jamar Smith, whose 25 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists were not enough to prevent UNICS Kazan from losing 85-78 at Umana Reyer Venice. Experienced forward Danilo Andjusic, with a PIR of 32, led JL Bourg En Bresse to a resounding 82-99 road win over Bahcesehir Koleji Istanbul in the EuroCup debut for both clubs. An eight-season EuroCup veteran at age 26, Nikola Ivanovic of Buducnost VOLI Podgorica, came next with a 31 PIR based on his 24 points in a 93-81 home win over Germani Brescia. And the fifth-best performance of Round 1 saw big man Alvin Williams lead Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar to an 89-72 home win over Telenet Giants Antwerp with his 19 points and 9 rebounds, good for a PIR of 30.<\/p>\n<h3>Individual highlights: Alpha Kaba, Nanterre, 15 rebounds<\/h3>\n<p>The top scorer in Round 1 was Ian Miller of Promitheas Patras with 27 points in a 75-86 home loss to Herbalife Gran Canaria. Headlining the rebounders was Alpha Kaba, whose 15 boards helped Nanterre 92 edge Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana 80-76. The top passers, with 10 assists each were Gary Browne of Dolomiti Energia Trento in an 86-93 road win at Frutti Extra Bursaspor, and Kenneth &#8220;Speedy&#8221; Smith in Antwerp&#8217;s loss to Lokomotiv. John Petrucelli&#8217;s 4 steals for Ulm were the most swiped in Round 1, while in the same game, Taylor Smith of Mornar batted away 4 shots for the most blocks of the week.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x7wke1p\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The versatile guard out of Cincinnati celebrated his debut by leading a comeback victory and earning the MVP honor for Round 1 of the regular season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[197],"tags":[1166,11160],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-175444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurocup","tag-7-days-eurocup-en","tag-troy-caupain-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175444"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=175444"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=175444"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=175444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}