Puerto Rican-Dominican Rep. Forward Jonathan Rodriguez (196-F-87) put on an amazing game in the last round for top-ranked Academia, receiving a Latinbasket.com Player of the Week award for round 22. The 28-year old player was the main contributor (36 points, six rebounds and three assists) to his team's victory, helping them to beat Condores (#6, 9-13) 94-82. It allowed Academia to consolidate first place in the Colombian Liga DirecTV. Academia have a solid 19-3 record. In the team's last game Rodriguez had a remarkable 69.2% from 2-point range. He just recently signed at Academia, being already a very valuable addition to the team. Former Campbell University star has very solid stats this year. Rodriguez is league's best scorer averaging so far 26.7ppg. Rodriguez is in league's top in and averages impressive 56.2% FGP.
The second best player in last round's games was -year old American Titus Mims (201-F) of Aguilas. Mims had a very good evening with a double-double of 28 points and 10 rebounds. Of course he led Aguilas to another comfortable win 83-69 over slightly lower-ranked Piratas (#8, 3-19) being unquestionably team leader. Aguilas' 7th position in the standings has not changed. His team is not often considered as one of the league's best with a mere 8-14 record. Mims is one of the most experienced players at Aguilas and has a reputation of one of team's most reliable players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 23.6ppg (#2). He also registered 9.4 boards per game.
Third on the list of top players last round was American forward R.J. McGhee (198-F, agency: CGL Sports) of Halcones (#5). McGhee got into 30-points club by scoring 31 points in the last round. He went also for six rebounds . He was a key player of Halcones, leading his team to a 93-89 win against Sabios (10-12). The chances of Halcones ranking at the top of the league, however are very questionable as they have already lost 12 games, recording just ten victories. With bigger assistance of his teammates, McGhee could help Halcones to bring them higher in the standings. McGhee has a great season in Colombia. After 22 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 19.8ppg (5th best).
Other top performing players last week: 4. Aramie Brooks (203-F/C-87) of Aguilas - 23 points and 12 rebounds 5. Dwayne Smith (198-F-89) of Academia - 24 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists 6. Stalin Ortiz (190-G-81) of Condores - 26 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists 7. Antonio Davis (196-G/F-82) of Piratas - 19 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists 8. Arnold Fripp (201-F-93) of Piratas - 18 points and 12 rebounds 9. Daniel Sapp (193-G) of Bucaros - 23 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists 10. Juan Herrera (197-F-81) of Sabios - 21 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists
The Player of the week is chosen 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)
Malik Story (ex Caciques) signs at Dinamo Tbilisi - 9 days ago
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Defending champion Dinamo Tbilisi (Superleague) landed 27-year old American swingman Malik Story (196-98kg-90, college: Nevada, agency: Two Points). He played in the summer at Caciques in Colombian LPB league. In 13 games he averaged 11.6ppg, 5.7rpg and 1.8apg. The last season Story played at Moncton Miracles in Canadian NBL Canada where in 40 games he had 14.7ppg, 3.9rpg and 3.1apg. His team won WAC Regular Season in 2012. Story is a very experienced player. He has quite traveled the wor... [read more]
Defending champion Dinamo Tbilisi (Superleague) landed 27-year old American swingman Malik Story (196-98kg-90, college: Nevada, agency: Two Points). He played in the summer at Caciques in Colombian LPB league. In 13 games he averaged 11.6ppg, 5.7rpg and 1.8apg. The last season Story played at Moncton Miracles in Canadian NBL Canada where in 40 games he had 14.7ppg, 3.9rpg and 3.1apg. His team won WAC Regular Season in 2012. Story is a very experienced player. He has quite traveled the world as his pro career brought him to four different countries on three different continents (Europe, Latin America and of course North America). Story has played previously professionally in Finland (Kouvot and Salon Vilpas), Slovakia (Levice), Spain (Araberri) and Dominican Republic (Titanes Licey). He attended University of Nevada until 2013 and it will be his fifth season in pro basketball.
COLOMBIA 72 VS PUERTO RICO 91 Colombia failed to repeat against Puerto Rico the good performance of the previous day, the Puerto Rican 5 had a 58% average beyond the arc, mostly thanks to a great ball movement, but also because took advantage that the Local defense helped too much in low post situations allowing Puerto Rican shooters to find open shots. Colombia fought, especially on the offensive boards but the second chances achieved with effort did not become un scoring, mainly becaus... [read more]
COLOMBIA 72 VS PUERTO RICO 91 Colombia failed to repeat against Puerto Rico the good performance of the previous day, the Puerto Rican 5 had a 58% average beyond the arc, mostly thanks to a great ball movement, but also because took advantage that the Local defense helped too much in low post situations allowing Puerto Rican shooters to find open shots.
Colombia fought, especially on the offensive boards but the second chances achieved with effort did not become un scoring, mainly because the zone remained very congested and did not allow our people, skilled and fast, to exploit their conditions Attacking the hoop, the team did not executed properly to stretch the rival defense, but on the other hand the percentage of shot, especially in mid-range shots was very low, there is a loud number: Colombia took 76 shots and did not win , Puerto Rico took 62 shots, enough to get a 19 points gap.
Colombian had in Mike Jackson (190-G-87) its best performance , leading the national team with 20 pts, Tello, Trocha and Angola all scored in double digits and never surrendered.
Puerto Rico that play a very good game had several outstanding players, Tyler Davis (208-C-97) who during the 18 minutes in the court was a nightmare for the Colombian defense dominating the rebounds and scoring in the paint, 13 pts and 7 rebounds for the young pivot, but also Andujar, Rivera and Clavell scored in double digit, all 12 Boricuas players scored in yesterday's game.
BRASIL 76 VS COLOMBIA Colombia made their debut in front of their fans with an unprecedented and highly expected roster, including the best of the national talent that plays abroad and challenged Brazil that had to use the best of their repertoire to win the game. Colombia started according to the identity that Guillermo Moreno has been promoting, intense in the defense and fighting the boards but with the plus of scoring in the frontcourt from Juan Diego Tello Palacios Juan Palacios... [read more]
BRASIL 76 VS COLOMBIA
Colombia
made their debut in front of their fans with an unprecedented and highly
expected roster, including the best of the national talent that plays abroad
and challenged Brazil that had to use the best of their repertoire to win the
game.
Colombia
started according to the identity that Guillermo Moreno has been promoting,
intense in the defense and fighting the boards but with the plus of scoring in
the frontcourt from Juan Diego Tello Palacios Juan Palacios (206-F/C-85) and Tonny Trocha-Morelos (208-C-94), Brazil for its part began
trying to find Bruno Caboclo (206-SF-95) in areas where he could take advantage of his size
over Mike Jackson (190-G-87) but the adjustment of the Colombian defense was adequate,
the national team in the first quarter used 9 players in search to maintain the
rigor in defense and to conserve energy.
In the
second quarter Brazil closed the spaces better conceding to Colombia open shots
that could not convert while in offense the brasilians with good execution took
advantage of some mistakes in the Colombian defensive rotation to score near
the hoop , Leonardo Meindl (201-SF-93) began to lead the Brazil thanks to his versatility.
In the
second half coach Moreno sent a starting 5 that included Tony Trocha in the
small forward to have a better match over Caboclo and the strategy worked as he
not only limited Caboclo but took pressure off Stalin Ortiz (190-G-81, college: Valparaiso) allowing him to
score 8 of his 10 points until a strong blow in the right thigh took him out of
the game, however closing the quarter Lucas Mariano (208-C/F-93) just entered getting a
couple of offensive rebounds kept Brazil ahead, the third quarter partial was
for Colombia 15-14.
The last
quarter was very exciting, Braian Angola-Rodas (198-SG-94) and Juan Diego Tello assumed the
offensive load of Colombia, especially Angola with a pair of triples and
attacking the rim, on the other hand the Brazilians took advantage of Colombia
distractions that pass some high screens behind gave them open shots to Fulvio
and Meindl, the game came to be decided during the last minutes in the line of
the free throw, with the game quite
closed Colombia failed 4 of 9 tries.
In the
press conference both coaches show their satisfaction about the effort of their
players, the coach Guidetti pondered the level of the Colombian players
especially the one of Juan Diego Tello.
Coach
Moreno pondered the fact despite the few practices they had, the talent of his selected gives him variants
to face the upcoming games.
Best players
in Brazil: Leon Meindl 19 pts (2/3 triples) 7 rebounds, Fulvio de Assis (188-PG-81) 14 pts
(2/4 triples) 6 assists Bruno Caboclo 11 pts, 11 rebs
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