Crvena Zvezda earned the fourth win in Euroleague regular season. They prevailed against visiting Valencia in a tough game on Thursday night. Lorenzo Brown (196-G-90, college: NC State) scored key four points late in regulation to propel the Serbian powerhouse to the win. He finished with 19 points for the hosts.
Valencia stayed in front throughout the first half. The Spanish team led by two points after ten minutes 17:19. They extended their lead to as many as 4 points at the big break 41:37. But Crvena Zvezda turned things around in the third quarter. They used a 23:10 rally to snatch a 60:51 advantage at the final break. Valencia denied the deficit in the fourth quarter and regained a 71:69 lead with under three minutes remaining. But Lorenzo Brown stepped up for the home side in the late stages of the game to secure the win for Crvena Zvezda. Branko Lazic (195-SG-89, agency: BeoBasket) delivered 14 points for the winners. Bojan Dubljevic (205-C/F-91, agency: BeoBasket) answered with 22 points and 8 rebounds for Valencia.

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By Eurobasket Data Center

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Second best performed player last round was Bosko Bumbic (191-G-01) of Borac U19. He is a guard in his 3rd season at Borac U19. In the last game Bumbic recorded impressive triple-double of 12 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists. Of course he led Borac U19 to another comfortable win outscoring Marinos U19 (#11, 0-6) 95-38. This victory allowed Borac U19 to move up to 8th position in the standings. His team lost some distance to top teams. But 3-3 record is not bad and everything may still change. Bumbic is one of the most experienced players at Borac U19 and has a reputation of one of team’s most reliable players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 16.0ppg (#8). His other stats are also decent: 9.7rpg and 7.3apg.

Third place about best performers goes to guard Nikola Radovanovic (195-SG-01) of Dinamik U19 (#9). Radovanovic scored 18 points. Despite Radovanovic’s great performance Dinamik U19 lost 55-75 to the higher-ranked Crvena Zv. U19 (#2, 5-1). But his team cannot count on just a single player as he also needs help of the other teammates. The chances of Dinamik U19 not to end season at such low position in the league, however are less than slim as they have already lost 4 games, recording just two victories. With bigger assistance of his teammates, Radovanovic could try to bring Dinamik U19’s a little bit higher in the standings. Radovanovic has individually a great season in Serbia. After only 6 games, he made it on the list of the league’s leaders in assists with 5.0apg (7th best). He also has 2.8spg and FGP: 72.9%.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Luka Spasojevic (188-G-01) of Sloga U19 – 19 points, 6 rebounds and 9 assists
5. Stefan Agoc (200-F-02) of Mega Bemax U19 – 16 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists
6. Nikola Markovic (02) of Konstantin U19 – 26 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists
7. Mihailo Musikic (210-C-02) of Mega Bemax U19 – 14 points, 12 rebounds and 7 assists
8. Marko Pavicevic (207-C-01) of Crvena Zv. U19 – 18 points and 4 rebounds
9. Nikola Barac (01) of Radnicki U19 – 24 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists
10. Nikola Manojlovic (197-G-02) of Crvena Zv. U19 – 11 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists

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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