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Khimki-Podmos. have a solid 23-5 record. In the team’s last game Bovduy had a remarkable 100.0% from 2-point range. He turned to be Khimki-Podmos.‘s top player in his first season with the team. Bovduy has impressive league stats. He is in league’s top in rebounds (3rd best: 8.4rpg) and averages solid 1.8bpg and 51.0% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round’s games was young Nikolay Natcvlishvili (198-SF-2005) of second-ranked CSKA-Junior Moscow. Natcvlishvili impressed basketball fans with 27 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists. Of course he led CSKA-Junior to another comfortable win outscoring the lower-ranked Samara-2 (#9, 9-19) 90-63. CSKA-Junior’s second position in the standings has not changed. His team lost just four games this season, while they won 22 matches. Natcvlishvili is a newcomer at CSKA-Junior and it seems he did not have too much trouble to become one of team’s leaders. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 18.8ppg (#2). He also registered 7.0 boards per game.

The third best performed player last round was Egor Skuratov (190-G-2005) of Enisey Krasnoyarsk 2nd team (#13). Skuratov showcased his all-around game by recording 23 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists in the last round. Despite Skuratov’s great performance the Enisey-2 lost 73-86 to slightly higher-ranked Uralmash-2 (#11, 9-19). But his team cannot count on just a single player as he also needs help of the other teammates. Enisey-2 can only dream about fighting for top spots in the league. They have extremely bad season and 1-25 record places them at the very bottom of the standings. Skuratov has individually a great season in Russia. After 26 games, he made it on the list of the league’s leaders in points with 18.0ppg (3rd best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Mikhail Presnyakov (205-C-2007) of Zenit-2 – 20 points and 11 rebounds
5. Danil Zavorotniy (204-C-2005) of Enisey-2 – 20 points and 7 rebounds
6. Matvey Reshetov (178-PG-2005) of Uralmash-2 – 10 points, 7 rebounds and 14 assists
7. Gleb Firsov (208-C-2005) of Parma-2 – 17 points, 17 rebounds and 3 assists
8. Pavel Rabushko (198-F-2006) of Minsk – 14 points, 11 rebounds and 3 assists
9. Alexandr Konotop (190-SG-2005) of Khimki-2 – 22 points and 2 assists
10. Timur Ivanov (200-PF-2006) of Zenit-2 – 16 points and 12 rebounds

The Player of the week is selected based on efficiency calculation, but also including game result, importance of the game, if played recorded double-double/triple-double, etc.
The efficiency formula is a combination of various formulas used by different basketball organizations/leagues. We got involved many basketball scouts and journalists to assure it’s accuracy.
The formula: 1.5*PTS + 3*(REB+AST+ST+BL-TO) – 2*BSAG – 4*PF + 3*PFRV + 4*(2FGPM+3FGPM) + 1.5*FTM – 3*(2FGPA-2FGPM) – 3*(3FGPA-3FGPM) – (FTA-FTM)

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