Lowery's 25 points and 9 rebounds give him Hoops Agents La Liga Argentina Player of the Week award

- November 15, 2023

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Dishon Lowery

Dishon Lowery

25-year old American center Dishon Lowery (200-C-1998) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Club Atletico Pilar and receives a Hoops Agents La Liga Argentina Player of the Week award for round 8.
He had the game-high 25 points adding nine rebounds for Pilar in his team's victory, helping them to beat Pico FC (#1, 6-3) 74-67. Pilar is placed at 3rd position in Argentinian La Liga Argentina. They are still close to the very top. Pilar would have been even better if they kept winning the games like in the last round. They have a solid 4-1 record. In the team's last game Lowery had a remarkable 71.4% from 2-point range. He turned to be Pilar's top player in his first season with the team. Oklahoma Baptist University graduate has very impressive stats this year. Lowery is in league's top in points (6th best: 18.4ppg), rebounds (2nd best: 11.4rpg) and averages solid 2.0bpg and 56.7% FGP.

Second best performed player last round was Nicolas Franco (204-C-1999) of Club Atletico Montmartre de Catamarca. He is a center in his 2nd season at Montmartre. In the last game Franco recorded impressive double-double of 23 points and 11 rebounds. Bad luck as Montmartre lost that game 68-75 to Conferencia Norte's leader GEPU (#2, 5-0). Montmartre managed to keep the same 13th spot in Conferencia Norte. 4 lost games are too many comparing to just one victory Montmartre managed to get this year. Franco is well-known at Montmartre and he already established his position as one of the team's leaders.

Third place about best performers goes to forward Rafael Rosende (198-F-1997) of Racing Club Avellaneda (#13). Rosende scored 22 points and grabbed nine rebounds. He was a key player of Racing A., leading his team to a 76-72 win against slightly higher-ranked Ameghino (#12, 3-5). Rosende has a very solid season. In 4 games in Argentina he scored 14.5ppg.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Christopher Hooper (198-PF-1991) of San Isidro - 21 points and 10 rebounds
5. Adrian Boccia (195-F/G-1982) of Provincial - 25 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists
6. Ramiro Ledesma (192-G/F-2000) of Barrio Parque - 19 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists
7. Felipe Bonfigli) of Pico FC - 16 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists
8. Maximo Velez (181-G-1997) of Independiente - 28 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists
9. Andres Lugli (188-PG-1995) of Lanus - 14 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists
10. Augusto Bruera (196-F-1998) of GELP - 12 points and 10 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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