A huge performance in a winning effort allowed Jaleen Smith of Bahcesehir College Istanbul to earn Round 14 MVP honors with a PIR of 32. Smith led Bahcesehir to a 95-93 overtime home win over Buducnost VOLI Podgorica.<\/p>\n
He finished the game with 19 points on 3-of-6 two-pointers, 2-of-4 three-pointers and 7-of-7 free throws, plus 3 rebounds, 9 assists, 3 steals and 8 fouls drawn, for a career-high PIR of 32, the highest in Round 14. Smith earned EuroCup MVP of the Round honors for the first time and is the second Bahcesehir player to do so; Axel Bouteille was Round 5’s co-MVP along with Marko Pecarski of 7Bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys.<\/p>\n
Bouteille had the second-highest PIR of the round with 28 against Buducnost. He had 23 points on 5-of-6 three-point shooting and 4-of-5 free throws, 9 rebounds and 4 fouls drawn. Jared Harper of Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem, Jaroslaw Zyskowski of Trefl Sopot and Bruno Caboclo of Hapoel Shlomo Tel Aviv, each of whom had a PIR of 26, complete the top individual performances in Round 14.<\/p>\n
Harper had 21 points on 10-of-10 free-throw shooting, 6 rebounds and 7 assists in his team’s 79-91 road victory over U-BT Cluj-Napoca. Zyskowski led Trefl to its first win, 74-97 over Wolves Twinsbet Vilnius, with 20 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists. Caboclo put his fingerprints all over Hapoel\u2019s 89-68 win against Dolomiti Energia Trento, netting 19 points \u2013 shooting 5 of 5 on two-pointers and 3 for 4 from deep \u2013 and grabbing 9 rebounds in 22 minutes on the floor. He also had 2 steals, 1 block and drew 2 fouls.<\/p>\n
Individual highs: Yoan Makoundou, Turk Telekom, 4 blocks<\/strong> Mike Tobey of Dreamland Gran Canaria and Tai Odiase of Bahcesehir each grabbed a round-high 10 rebounds. Umana Reyer Venice\u2019s Mfiondu Kabengele tops the rebounding charts with 9.5 boards per night.<\/p>\n Sergio de Larrea of Valencia Basket and Bahcesehir\u2019s Jaleen Smith, this round\u2019s MVP, each dished 9 assists, the most in Round 14. Cluj playmaker Zavier Simpson is the EuroCup\u2019s leading assist provider with 7.0 dimes per contest.<\/p>\n Ten different players recorded a round-high 3 steals. Valencia\u2019s Jean Montero and Gran Canaria\u2019s Andrew Albicy sit together atop the steals charts this season with 2.0 per game.<\/p>\n Turk Telekom Ankara\u2019s Yoan Makoundou had a career-best 4 blocks in this round, the most of any player. Makoundou\u2019s teammate, Kyle Alexander, is atop the season leaderboard in blocks with 2.1 per night.<\/p>\n Mike Tobey (10 points, 10 rebounds) and Tai Odiase (16 points, 10 rebounds) were the only two players to record double-doubles in Round 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A huge performance in a winning effort allowed Jaleen Smith of Bahcesehir College Istanbul to earn EuroCup Round 14 MVP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":422575,"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":[197],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-422576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/cae89e8e-9179-43e1-90c6-58b6077c850a.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422576","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422576"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=422576"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=422576"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=422576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDJ Seeley of Cluj led all players in scoring in Round 14 with 27 points. Jerusalem\u2019s Jared Harper leads the EuroCup in this category with 23.2 points per game.<\/p>\n