Altamiranda number one in Uruguayan LSB for round 8 (by Hoops Agents)

Diego Altamiranda

Colombian Forward Diego Altamiranda (201-F-2001) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Juventus, receiving a Hoops Agents LSB Player of the Week award for round 8.
The 21-year old player had a double-double of 28 points and 13 rebounds, while his team outclassed, the league's bottom-ranked team Circulo (#1, 0-9) with 34-point margin 97-63. The game was between two of the league's top four teams. Juventus maintains the 4th position in Uruguayan LSB. Juventus is rather a weak team placed in lower part in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 3-6 record. In the team's last game Altamiranda had a remarkable 62.5% from 2-point range. He turned to be Juventus' top player in his first season with the team. Diego Altamiranda has solid league stats. He is in league's top in points (2nd best: 18.0ppg), rebounds (6th best: 10.4rpg) and averages impressive 2.3bpg.

The second best player in last round's games was young Agustin Britos (191-F/G-1997) of Salto Uru.. Britos had a very good evening with a double-double of 17 points and 12 rebounds. Bad luck as Salto Uru. lost that game 65-70 to slightly higher-ranked Ferro CS (#2, 8-1). It was definitely game of the week between two contenders to the title. Salto Uru. still maintains its place in the top 3 of the standings, even despite this loss. His team's 6-3 record is not bad at all. Britos is a newcomer at Salto Uru., but is already one of team's top players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 16.7ppg (#4). He also registered 11.1 boards per game.

Third on the list of top players last round was American forward Jeremy Ireland (200-F-1996) of league's top team Nacional FC. Ireland scored 17 points and grabbed ten rebounds. He was a key player of Nacional FC, leading his team to a 91-58 easy win against the lower-ranked Universitario (#5, 2-7). Nacional FC confirms their top position in the standings. Ireland has a great season in Uruguay. After only 8 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 23.3ppg (best scorer), rebounds with 10.0rpg (7th best) and assists with 3.1apg (8th best). Ireland attended one of camps at Eurobasket Summer League on his way to pro basketball.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Diego Dias Silva (207-C/F-1990) of Ferro CS - 13 points, 13 rebounds and 2 assists
5. Bruno Cardozo (182-PG-2000) of Juventus - 15 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists
6. Luca Cattani (188-F-1995) of Nacional FC - 11 points, 14 rebounds and 2 assists
7. Santiago Fletcher (196-F/C-2000) of Juventus - 16 points and 4 rebounds
8. Mariano Techeira (171-PG-1995) of Nacional FC - 15 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists
9. Lucas Conde (F-2001) of Circulo - 13 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists
10. Kevin Nelson (193-F-1984) of Salto Uru. - 15 points and 8 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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