Guatemalan Liga Metropolitana round 8 best performance: Dilan Castillo

Enrique Samayoa

Dilan Castillo (03) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Centenarios, receiving a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 8.
The 18-year old player was the main contributor (33 points, five rebounds and three assists) to his team's victory, helping them to edge out Villa Nueva (#2, 3-2) 86-85. The game was between two of the league's top four teams. Centenarios is placed at 4th position in Guatemalan Liga Metropolitana. Centenarios is rather a weak team placed in lower part in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 1-2 record. In the team's last game Castillo had a remarkable 77.8% from 2-point range and got six three-pointers out of 12 attempts. He turned to be Centenarios' top player in his first season with the team. Dilan Castillo has solid league stats. He is in league's top in points (3rd best: 22.5ppg) and averages impressive 2.5spg,77.8% FGP and 62.5% from behind 3-point line.

The second best player in last round's games was 39-year old Enrique Samayoa (193-PF-82) of league's second-best Villa Nueva. Samayoa had a very good evening with a double-double of 30 points and 10 rebounds. Bad luck as Villa Nueva was edged by slightly lower-ranked Centenarios (#4, 1-2) 86-85. It was definitely game of the week between two contenders to the title. Villa Nueva still maintains its place in the top 2 of the standings, even despite this loss. His team's 3-2 record is not bad at all. Samayoa is a newcomer at Villa Nueva, but is already one of team's top players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 19.2ppg (#6). His other stats are also decent: 7.6rpg and 4.2apg.

Third on the list of top players last round was Dereck Morgan of Amatitlan (#3). Morgan scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds. Despite Morgan's great performance Amatitlan lost 64-78 to #1 ranked Halcones. But his team cannot count on just a single player as he also needs help of the other teammates especially in such crucial game. The last thing Amatitlan needs is to lose another game like this one. They lose more and more distance to the top teams. Their record is 3 victories and 2 lost games. Morgan has a very solid season. In 5 games in Guatemala he scored 10.6ppg.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Edwin Ruiz) of Centenarios - 22 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists
5. Bernie Diaz (200-C-81) of Villa Nueva - 22 points and 10 rebounds
6. David Monterroso (180-PG-79) of Halcones - 21 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists
7. Diego Villagran (SG-93) of Centenarios - 14 points and 5 rebounds
8. Pablo Gonzalez (194-G/F-89) of Halcones - 12 points and 6 rebounds
9. Mario Reyes (01) of Halcones - 14 points and 6 rebounds
10. Ricardo Amaya (191-G-84) of Halcones - 11 points and 11 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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