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Jared Small

American Swingman Jared Small (201-G/F-1997) had an amazing evening in the last round for Plunges Olimpas, receiving a Hoops Agents NKL Player of the Week award for round 11.
The 27-year old player had a double-double of 25 points and 10 rebounds, while his team beat Delikatesas (#16, 0-11), the league’s bottom-ranked team 91-79. The game rather meaningless between the teams, which do not have any influence on top of the standings. P.Olimpas is placed at 13th position in Lithuanian NKL. Too late to salvage the team, which is currently ranked such low. They already lost 10 games and recorded just four victories. In the team’s last game Small had a remarkable 62.5% from 2-point range and got four three-pointers out of 6 attempts. He turned to be P.Olimpas‘ top player in his first season with the team. Jared Small averages this season 14.5ppg and 5.7rpg.

The second best player in last round’s games was young Dominykas Domarkas (192-PG-1992) of Omega-Tauras Kauno. Domarkas had a very good evening with a triple-double of 23 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. It was enough for Omega-Tauras to edge the lower-ranked Kretinga (#12, 4-7) 94-88. Omega-Tauras’ 7th position in the standings has not changed. His team lost some distance to top teams. But a 7-4 record is not bad and everything may still change. Domarkas is a newcomer at Omega-Tauras, but is already one of team’s top players.

Third on the list of top players last round was guard Gediminas Lesciauskas (197-SG-2001) of league’s second-best BC Telsiai. Lesciauskas scored 23 points and grabbed 6 rebounds. He was a key player of Telsiai, leading his team to a 90-88 win against the lower-ranked Alytus (#15, 2-9). Telsiai needs these victories very badly if they think about taking over top position in the standings. Their record at this point is 8 victories and 3 lost games. Lesciauskas has a great season in Lithuania. After 11 games, he made it on the list of the league’s leaders in points with 16.0ppg (9th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Mindaugas Stasys (179-PG-1986) of Palanga – 20 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists
5. Augustinas Mikstas (203-PF-2001) of Vytis – 30 points and 12 rebounds
6. Klaidas Metrikis (204-PF-2000) of Neptunas-Akv. – 28 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists
7. Lukas Valantinas (205-C-2001) of Telsiai – 21 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists
8. Juozas Balciunas (188-G-1994) of Alytus – 32 points, 2 rebounds and 8 assists
9. Paulius Semaska (184-PG-1993) of Stekas – 23 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists
10. Juozas Virkutis (203-F-2006) of Neptunas-Akv. – 20 points and 3 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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