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BKT EuroCup Regular Season Round 5 Co-MVPs: Joel Scott, London Lions and Darius Brown II, Dolomiti Energia Trento

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The Lions forward and Trento playmaker split the honors

Two players took two very different routes to the same award in Round 5. Joel Scott owned the paint for London Lions, while Darius Brown ran the show for Dolomiti Energia Trento. Both posted a PIR of 31 in winning efforts to share MVP of the Round honors for Round 5.

Scott led the Lions to a 79-61 home win over Turk Telekom Ankara with 21 points on 8-of-10 two-pointers, 1-of-2 three-pointers and 2-of-4 free throws, adding 13 rebounds, an assist, a block and 5 fouls drawn. It was a well-earned reward for Scott, who posted a PIR of 33 in Round 3 but missed out on the award because it came in a loss.

Brown picked up his second MVP of the Round award of the season, after earning the honor on his EuroCup debut in Round 1. He helped Trento edge Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 94-92 with 18 points on 5-of-7 two-pointers, 1-of-1 from deep and 5-of-6 free throws, plus 2 rebounds, a game-high 12 assists, a steal and 7 fouls drawn.

Cedi Osman of PAOK Thessaloniki posted the round’s highest PIR of 38, but it came in an 84-81 road loss to Bahcesehir College Istanbul. Osman poured in 30 points on 4-of-4 two-pointers, 5-of-11 three-pointers and 7-of-8 free throws, adding 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 8 fouls drawn.

Elvar Fridriksson of Neptunas Klaipeda followed with a PIR of 33 in a 94-83 road loss to Napoli Basketball. He had 24 points on 6-of-9 two-pointers, 3-of-5 three-pointers and 3-of-5 free throws, plus 4 rebounds, 9 assists and 6 fouls drawn.

Rounding out the top performers were Bahcesehir’s Malachi Flynn and Buducnost’s Juwan Morgan, who each posted a PIR of 29. Flynn had 28 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 4 fouls drawn in his team’s win over PAOK, while Morgan had 14 points, 13 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals, a block and 5 fouls drawn against Trento.

Individual highs: JD Notae, Manresa, 5 steals

Osman led all scorers in Round 5 with 30 points against Bahcesehir. Timmy Allen of Kids&Us Manresa leads the EuroCup at 22.0 points per game.

Scott and Morgan shared the rebounding lead with 13 boards apiece. Jeremiah Robinson-Earl of Aris Thessaloniki is the competition’s top rebounder at 10.4 per game.

Brown’s 12 assists led the round. Otis Livingston of U-BT Cluj-Napoca leads the EuroCup at 7.8 assists per game.

JD Notae of Manresa made a round-high 5 steals in a 65-76 road win over Balkan Botevgrad. Dogus Ozdemiroglu of Turk Telekom Ankara leads the competition at 3.0 steals per game.

Guglielmo Caruso of Napoli blocked a round-high 4 shots against Neptunas. Race Thompson of Skyliners Frankfurt leads the EuroCup at 2.3 blocks per game.

Six players recorded double-doubles in Round 5: Scott (21 points, 13 rebounds), Brown (18 points, 12 assists), Morgan (14 points, 13 rebounds), Livingston (23 points, 10 rebounds), Robinson-Earl (13 points, 11 rebounds), and Ben Burnham of NINERS Chemnitz (22 points, 11 rebounds).

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Regular Season Round 8 Co-MVPs: Elijah Bryant and Antonio Blakeney, Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv

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Teammates share the award for only the third time ever

Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv had two MVPs in one night. Antonio Blakeney caught fire from deep, and Elijah Bryant ran the show as Hapoel routed Anadolu Efes Istanbul 118-88. Both finished with a PIR of 35 to share MVP of the Round honors for Round 8, only the third time in EuroLeague history that two teammates have split the award.

Blakeney poured in a career-high 35 points on 4-of-5 two-pointers, a scorching 8-of-9 from three-point range and 3-of-4 free throws, adding 3 rebounds, an assist and 4 fouls drawn. Bryant had 16 points on 4-of-5 two-pointers, 2-of-2 three-pointers and 2-of-2 free throws, plus 3 rebounds, a career-high 12 assists, 4 steals and 5 fouls drawn.

It is Bryant’s third MVP of the Round award this season and the sixth of his career, while Blakeney earns the honor for the first time. Mirsad Turkcan and Alphonso Ford of Montepaschi Siena were the first teammates to be co-MVPs, each posting a PIR of 32 in Round 8 of the 2002-03 regular season. The most recent were Gustavo Ayon and Luka Doncic of Real Madrid, who shared the award with Bryant Dunston of Efes after all three finished with a PIR of 23 in Game 3 of the 2017 playoffs.

Tyson Carter of Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade and Kendrick Nunn of Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens each posted a PIR of 26. Carter led Zvezda to a 100-78 home win over Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv with 24 points on 2-of-2 two-pointers, 6-of-10 three-pointers and 2-of-2 free throws, adding 5 rebounds, 3 assists, a steal and a foul drawn. Nunn had 20 points on 4-of-6 two-pointers, 1-of-3 three-pointers and 9-of-11 free throws, plus 2 rebounds, 6 assists and 6 fouls drawn in Panathinaikos’s 80-75 home win over Armani Olimpia Milan.

Hapoel’s Dan Oturu and Valencia Basket’s TJ Shorts rounded out the top performers with PIRs of 25. Oturu had 20 points on 9-of-12 two-point shooting, 5 rebounds, a steal and 2 blocks in the win over Efes. Shorts led Valencia to an 86-78 home win over Fenerbahce Tarfin Istanbul with 23 points, including 9-of-10 from the free-throw line, plus 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 10 fouls drawn.

Individual highs: Antonio Blakeney, Hapoel, 35 points

Blakeney’s 35 points against Efes led all scorers in Round 8 and set a new EuroLeague season high. Nadir Hifi of Paris Basketball remains the competition’s top scorer at 20.2 points per game.

Mfiondu Kabengele led all rebounders with 13 boards in Dubai Basketball’s 93-99 home loss to Paris. Jonas Valanciunas of Zalgiris Kaunas leads the season standings at 8.1 rebounds per game.

Bryant was the only player to reach double digits in assists, dishing out 12 against Efes. Chris Jones of Zvezda leads the league at 6.1 assists per game.

Bryant and Bonzie Colson of Maccabi shared the steals lead with 4 each. Luca Vildoza of Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade leads the league at 2.3 steals per game.

Walter Tavares of Real Madrid blocked a round-high 3 shots in an 86-104 road win over Kosner Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz. Aliou Diarra of Virtus Bologna is the EuroLeague’s top shot-blocker at 2.3 per game.

Six players recorded double-doubles in Round 8: Bryant (16 points, 12 assists), Tavares (10 points, 12 rebounds), Kabengele (22 points, 13 rebounds), Valanciunas (17 points, 11 rebounds), Mathias Lessort of Panathinaikos (13 points, 11 rebounds), and Dwayne Bacon of Dubai (24 points, 10 rebounds).

Photo credit: Hapoel Tel Aviv

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