{"id":321273,"date":"2023-03-11T13:18:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T12:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=321273"},"modified":"2023-03-11T13:18:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T12:18:31","slug":"euroleague-round-28-co-mvps-gabriel-deck-and-chima-moneke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-round-28-co-mvps-gabriel-deck-and-chima-moneke\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague Round 28 co-MVPs: Gabriel Deck and Chima Moneke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of inspired performances that allows their teams to continue dreaming of early access to the playoffs made\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/gabriel-deck\/009005\/\">Gabriel Deck<\/a>\u00a0of Real Madrid and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/chima-moneke\/012201\/\">Chima Moneke<\/a>\u00a0of AS Monaco the co-MVPs of Round 28. Their mutual PIRs of 26 were the best among winning players in the round.<\/p>\n<p>Deck rallied Real to a 95-91 home victory against Valencia Basket by scoring 10 of his 18 points in the final quarter. He made 5 of 8 two-pointers and 8 of 8 free throws to go with 7 rebounds and 2 assists. Although he posted higher PIRs six times previously in his career, this marks Deck&#8217;s first MVP nod in 118 EuroLeague games. Moneke was a force of nature in just his eighth EuroLeague game, ripping a Monaco club-record 13 rebounds to go with 14 points in a thrilling 93-102 victory at Cazoo Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz. He also had 2 assists, 1 steal and 1 block while shooting 6-for-6 on free throws.<\/p>\n<p>The week&#8217;s highest PIR belonged to Baskonia guard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/darius-thompson\/011078\/\">Darius Thompson<\/a>\u00a0in his team&#8217;s losing effort against Monaco. Thompson posted a personal-high 20 points, 12 assists, 2 steals and 1 block. Valencia guard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/chris-jones\/010568\/\">Chris Jones<\/a>\u00a0also posted a PIR of 26 in his team&#8217;s loss in Madrid. He hit 4 of 5 two-pointers, 3 of 3 threes and 2 of 2 free throws for 19 points.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/isaac-bonga\/006760\/\">Isaac Bonga<\/a>, whose FC Bayern Munich team lost 102-74 at Olympiacos Piraeus, had a personal bests of 24 PIR, 16 points and 4 assists in that game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Round 28 co-MVPs:<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\uddda\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddef\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf9 \ud835\uddd7\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf0\ud835\uddf8 \ud83e\udd1d \ud835\uddd6\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddfa\ud835\uddee \ud835\udde0\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf8\ud835\uddf2<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gabriel_deck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gabriel_deck<\/a> I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chimdogg_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Chimdogg_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yy6i0CiUPg\">pic.twitter.com\/Yy6i0CiUPg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/1634524571629137920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week&#8217;s highest PIR belonged to Baskonia guard\u00a0Darius Thompson\u00a0in his team&#8217;s losing effort against Monaco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":321272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-321273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/0ab46ea3-5705-4545-bbf6-08bb692f9f3b.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321273","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=321273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321273"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=321273"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=321273"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=321273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}