{"id":249134,"date":"2021-11-27T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=249134"},"modified":"2021-11-27T14:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:16:06","slug":"turkish-airlines-euroleague-rs-round-12-mvp-william-howard-ldlc-asvel-villeurbanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/turkish-airlines-euroleague-rs-round-12-mvp-william-howard-ldlc-asvel-villeurbanne\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines EuroLeague RS &#8211; Round 12 MVP, William Howard, LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J6sEgFH1Icw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>William Howard of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne will never forget his Round 12 performance against AS Monaco. Howard led ASVEL to a thrilling 84-85 victory, burying the game-winning shot from almost midcourt and earning the Round 12 MVP honor in the process. Howard finished the game with career highs of 23 points, 10 rebounds, 3 steals and a performance index rating of 33 that was the highest among all EuroLeague players this round. He was also near-perfect while shooting in 3 of 5 two-pointers, 5 of 5 triples and 2 of 4 free throws. He topped it all off with what was arguably one of the most spectacular game-winning shots in competition history to claim the MVP of the Round honor for the first time in his EuroLeague career. Georgios Papagiannis of Panathinaikos OPAP Athens followed with a PIR of 31, his new career-high, in a 70-64 home win over Zenit St Petersburg. Papagiannis tied his personal best with 18 points, making 8-of-9 two points shots, and also posted 13 rebounds and 4 blocks, both of them the second-best totals of his career. Darrun Hilliard of FC Bayern Munich had a PIR of 30 in a road loss against his former team, CSKA Moscow. Hilliard netted 28 points on 6-for-10 three-point shooting and had 5 rebounds, 3 steals and 2 blocks. The next-best PIR, 29, belonged to Shane Larkin of Anadolu Efes Istanbul, whose 25 points, 7 assists and 2 steals paced a road win over city rival Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul. Scottie Wilbekin of Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv and Shavon Shields of AX Armani Exchange Milan, each with a PIR of 28 in losing efforts, completed the top individual performances in Round 12.<\/p>\n<p><b>Individual highs: Georgios Papagiannis, Panathinaikos OPAP Athens, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Darrun Hilliard scored 28 points to lead all players in Round 12. Elie Okobo of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne continues as the league&#8217;s overall scoring leader at 18.9 points per game. Papagiannis had 13 rebounds, the most this round. He improved his league-best rebounding average to 7.9 per game. Thomas Heurtel of Real Madrid and Lorenzo Brown of UNICS Kazan each had 9 assists, more than any players this week. Nick Calathes of FC Barcelona leads the EuroLeague with 5.7 assists per game. Two players had 4 steals in Round 12, Pierria Henry of Fenerbahce and Lamar Peters of Bitci Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz. John Brown III of UNICS Kazan tops the steals chart in his first EuroLeague season with 2.7 per game. Papagiannis also led all shot blockers in Round 12 with 4 blocks. Real center Walter Tavares is the league leader with 1.7 blocks per game. Papagiannis and Howard were the only players to register double-doubles in this round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Howard of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne will never forget his Round 12 performance against AS Monaco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":249135,"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":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-249134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-press-release-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/2021-11-27-10-20-6458.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249134","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249134"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=249134"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=249134"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=249134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}