{"id":466207,"date":"2025-10-25T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=466207"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:03:16","slug":"euroleague-roman-sorkin-named-mvp-of-the-round-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-roman-sorkin-named-mvp-of-the-round-6\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague, Roman Sorkin named MVP of the round 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/roman-sorkin\/011219\/\">Roman Sorkin<\/a>\u00a0earned the first MVP of the Round honor of his 129-game EuroLeague career after an outstanding performance in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/teams\/maccabi-rapyd-tel-aviv\/tel\/\">Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/news\/walkers-record-night-and-blatts-big-shot-pushed-lucky-maccabi-past-madrid\/\">92-91 victory over Real Madrid<\/a>, posting a PIR of 30 \u2013\u00a0the highest of any winning player in Round 6.<\/p>\n<p>The forward scored a season-high 21 points on 9-of-11 shooting from two-point range and 3-of-3 from the free-throw line, while also grabbing 6 rebounds, dishing 3 assists, blocking 2 shots, and drawing 4 fouls. Sorkin becomes the first Maccabi player to be named MVP of the Round this season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/leandro-bolmaro\/008985\/\">Leandro Bolmaro<\/a>\u00a0of EA7 Emporio Armani Milan recorded the highest index rating in Round 6, finishing with a career-best 37 PIR in his team\u2019s 100-103 loss to Valencia Basket. Bolmaro poured in a career-high 31 points, shooting 8-of-12 on twos, 2-of-3 from beyond the arc, and 9-of-11 from the free-throw line. He also tallied 4 rebounds, including 3 on the offensive glass, 3 assists, 1 steal, 1 block, and drew 7 fouls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/trey-lyles\/014117\/\">Trey Lyles<\/a>\u00a0of Real Madrid recorded a career-high 29 PIR, the third-best index rating this week, in the loss at Maccabi. The first-year forward contributed 16 points on 3-of-5 shooting from two-point range and 10-of-11 from the free-throw line, along with 10 rebounds, 3 assists, and 7 fouls drawn.<\/p>\n<p>LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/nando-de-colo\/002100\/\">Nando De Colo<\/a>\u00a0posted a season-high 27 PIR in his team\u2019s 85-79 win over Dubai Basketball. De Colo finished with 24 points on 1-of-5 shooting from two-point range, 3-of-7 from three, and 13-of-13 from the free-throw line. He also contributed 1 rebound, 5 assists, 2 steals, and drew 9 fouls.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the list of top performers is Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/jordan-nwora\/013363\/\">Jordan Nwora<\/a>, who posted a 26 PIR. Nwora scored 19 points on 4-of-8 from two-point range, 2-of-3 from three, and 5-of-8 from the free-throw line. He also grabbed 7 rebounds, dished 6 assists, and recorded 1 steal, 1 block, and drew 6 fouls.<\/p>\n<p>Individual highs: Leandro Bolmaro, Milan, 31 points<\/p>\n<p>Bolmaro led the scoring in Round 6 with a career-high 31 points. Paris Basketball\u2019s Nadir Hifi remains the EuroLeague&#8217;s top scorer, averaging 22.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Three players \u2013 Lyles, Dubai\u2019s Filip Petrusev, and Virtus Bologna\u2019s Alessandro Pajola \u2013 each grabbed a round-high 10 rebounds. Olympiacos Piraeus\u2019s Sasha Vezenkov continues to lead the league in rebounding with an average of 9.2 boards per game.<\/p>\n<p>Two players \u2013 Anadolu Efes Istanbul\u2019s Shane Larkin and Maccabi\u2019s Tamir Blatt \u2013 dished out a round-best 9 assists. Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul\u2019s Wade Baldwin is the new league leader in assists, averaging 6.3 per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Sylvain Francisco recorded 4 steals in Round 6, the most by any player this week. Hifi is still atop the steals charts with an average of 2.3 per game.<\/p>\n<p>ASVEL\u2019s Mbaye Ndiaye recorded a career-high 4 blocks in Round 6, the most by any player this week. Real Madrid\u2019s Walter Tavares and Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz\u2019s Khalifa Diop share the league lead in blocks, both averaging 1.5 rejections per game.<\/p>\n<p>Lyles (16 points, 10 rebounds) and Petrusev (13 points, 10 rebounds) were the only players to post a double-double in Round 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Sorkin\u00a0earned the first MVP of the Round honor of his 129-game EuroLeague career after an outstanding performance in\u00a0Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv\u2019s\u00a092-91 victory over Real Madrid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":466206,"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":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-466207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/a2452f31-94d6-4b0f-94bf-48b8111b927e.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466207","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466207"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=466207"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=466207"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=466207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}