25-year old point guard Trevin Parks (180-PG-91) had an amazing evening in the last round for second-ranked Barsy Atyrau and receives a Asia-basket.com Player of the Week award for round 6. He had the game-high 29 points adding four rebounds and five assists for Barsy Atyrau in his team's victory, helping them to crush, the league's bottom-ranked team Kaspiy Aktau (#3, 0-8) with 18-point margin 80-62. The game was between two of the league's top four teams. Barsy Atyrau maintains the 2nd position in Kazakhstan league. Barsy Atyrau is a typical solid league team placed somewhere in the middle or a little bit lower in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 4-4 record. Parks turned to be Barsy Atyrau's top player in his first season with the team. Johnson C. Smith University graduate has very impressive stats this year. Parks is league's best scorer averaging so far 24.0ppg. Parks is in league's top in rebounds (9th best: 4.5rpg), assists (3rd best: 4.1apg) and averages solid 3.6spg and 53.6% FGP.
Second best performed player last round was Mikhail Yevstigneyev (201-F/C-84). He is former international forward in his 2nd season at Barsy Atyrau. In the last game Yevstigneyev recorded impressive 23 points and 6 rebounds. Of course together with Parks he helped Barsy Atyrau with another comfortable win outscoring Kaspiy Aktau (#3, 0-8) 86-62. It was definitely game of the week between two contenders to the title. Barsy Atyrau consolidated its place in top 2 of the standings. His team's 4-4 record is not bad at all. Yevstigneyev is well-known at Barsy Atyrau and together with Trevin Parks he already established his position as one of the team's leaders. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 13.8ppg (#5). He also registered 6.9 boards per game.
Third place about best performers goes to guard Azim Yagodkin (185-PG-92) of Kaspiy Aktau (#3). Yagodkin scored 18 points and passed five assists. Despite Yagodkin's great performance Kaspiy Aktau lost 62-86 to #2 ranked Barsy Atyrau. But his team cannot count on just a single player as he also needs help of the other teammates especially in such crucial game. Kaspiy Aktau can only dream about fighting for top spots in the league. They have awful season losing so far all 8 games. Too bad for Yagodkin he does not play for a better team. But maybe if he did, his season stats would not be that high. Yagodkin has individually a great season in Kazakhstan. After only 7 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 15.4ppg (3rd best), rebounds with 4.7rpg (8th best) and assists with 5.9apg (2nd best).
Other top performing players last week: 4. Azim Yagodkin (185-PG-92) of Kaspiy Aktau - 12 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists 5. Sergei Kazantcev (210-C-84) of Kaspiy Aktau - 14 points and 4 rebounds 6. Shaim Kuanov (181-PG-91) of Kaspiy Aktau - 19 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists 7. Nikolay Bazhkin (198-G/F-90) of Barsy Atyrau - 12 points and 5 rebounds 8. Pavel Ilin (196-F/G-92) of Barsy Atyrau - 10 points, 7 rebounds and 6 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)
Astana keeps Kolesnikov for another season - 9 hours ago
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BK Astana (National League) re-signed 29-year old former Kazakhstani international swingman Anatoly Kolesnikov (200-93kg-88, college: Nicholls State). He has a double citizenship as he also holds Australian passport. Kolesnikov has played there for the last five seasons. In 6 FIBA Europe Cup games he recorded 6.5ppg, 3.2rpg and 1.0spg in 2015-16 season. Kolesnikov also played 19 games in VTB United League where he averaged 5.2ppg, 2.4rpg and 1.0spg. Kolesnikov played in the final of Kazak... [read more]
BK Astana (National League) re-signed 29-year old former Kazakhstani international swingman Anatoly Kolesnikov (200-93kg-88, college: Nicholls State). He has a double citizenship as he also holds Australian passport. Kolesnikov has played there for the last five seasons. In 6 FIBA Europe Cup games he recorded 6.5ppg, 3.2rpg and 1.0spg in 2015-16 season. Kolesnikov also played 19 games in VTB United League where he averaged 5.2ppg, 2.4rpg and 1.0spg. Kolesnikov played in the final of Kazakhstan League. Among other achievements he received Asia-Basket.com All-Kazakhstan League Honorable Mention award in 2015. Kolesnikov also represented Kazakhstan at the Asian Championships in Changsha-Hunan (China) two years ago. His stats at that event were 6 games: 11.0ppg, 5.8rpg, 1.0spg, FGP: 41.3%, 3PT: 27.3%, FT: 65.5%. Kolesnikov has played also professionally for other Australian teams like Kings and Norths Soul Sports Bears. He attended Nicholls State until 2011 and it will be his seventh season in pro basketball.
Robert Lowery (ex Astana) agreed terms with Antalya Buyuksehir Belediye - 4 days ago
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Antalya Buyuksehir Belediyeinked 30-year old American point guard Robert Lowery (188-82kg-87, college: Dayton). He played most recently at BK Astana in Kazakhstan National League. In 8 games he recorded very impressive stats: 18.8ppg, 5.3rpg, 5.6apg and 3.4spg (in top 3) last season. Lowery helped them to win the league title (twice) (also twice). He also played 27 games in VTB United League where he averaged 14.4ppg, 3.3rpg, 4.2apg and 1.9spg. The previous (15-16) season Lowery played at... [read more]
Antalya Buyuksehir Belediye inked 30-year old American point guard Robert Lowery (188-82kg-87, college: Dayton). He played most recently at BK Astana in Kazakhstan National League. In 8 games he recorded very impressive stats: 18.8ppg, 5.3rpg, 5.6apg and 3.4spg (in top 3) last season. Lowery helped them to win the league title (twice) (also twice). He also played 27 games in VTB United League where he averaged 14.4ppg, 3.3rpg, 4.2apg and 1.9spg. The previous (15-16) season Lowery played at ALBA Berlin in German BBL. In 12 games he had 10.6ppg, 3.8rpg, 2.2apg and 1.3spg. He also played 3 games in Eurocup where he got 13.7ppg, 5.0rpg, 1.7apg and 2.0spg. The other team Lowery played shortly was Nea Kifisia in Greek A1. In 6 games he got remarkable 16.2ppg, 5.2rpg, 2.8apg and 1.3spg. He is a very experienced player. Lowery has played also professionally in Italy (Lighthouse Conad Trapani), Latvia (VEF Riga), Greece (Koroivos), Czech Republic (Levharti Chomutov), Germany (Saar Pfalz Braves) and Turkey (Balikesir). He attended University of Dayton until 2010 and it will be his eighth season in pro basketball.
Ike Joseph Udanoh (ex Hyeres-Toulon) signs at Astana - 7 days ago
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BK Astana (National League) landed 28-year old American (has also Nigerian passport) power forward Ike Joseph Udanoh (203-107kg-89, college: Wayne St., MI, agency: Octagon Europe). He played most recently at Hyeres-Toulon in French ProA. In 29 games he averaged 5.6ppg, 5.3rpg, 1.2apg and 1.0spg last season. The previous (15-16) season Udanoh played at Mantova in Italian Serie A where in four games he had 12.5ppg, 10.5rpg, 1.0apg, 1.8spg and 1.5bpg. He also played that season for Kleb Bask... [read more]
BK Astana (National League) landed 28-year old American (has also Nigerian passport) power forward Ike Joseph Udanoh (203-107kg-89, college: Wayne St., MI, agency: Octagon Europe). He played most recently at Hyeres-Toulon in French ProA. In 29 games he averaged 5.6ppg, 5.3rpg, 1.2apg and 1.0spg last season. The previous (15-16) season Udanoh played at Mantova in Italian Serie A where in four games he had 12.5ppg, 10.5rpg, 1.0apg, 1.8spg and 1.5bpg. He also played that season for Kleb Basket Ferrara (Serie A) in Italy. In 6 games he recorded very impressive stats: 16.2ppg, 11.8rpg, 1.2apg and 1.7spg. The other team Udanoh played that season for was Loimaan Korikonkarit in Finnish Korisliiga. In 17 games he got 12.7ppg, 6.9rpg and 1.2spg. He also played 20 games in VTB United League where he got 9.9ppg, 5.4rpg and 1.0apg. Among other achievements Udanoh's team was regular season runner-up in Finnish League in 2014. He received also All-GLIAC 1st Team award back in 2012 at his college time. Udanoh is a very experienced player. He has quite traveled the world as his pro career brought him to four different continents (Europe, Asia, Latin America and of course North America). Udanoh has played previously professionally in Austria (Raiffeisen Flyers Wels), Qatar (Al Ahli), Uruguay (Larre Borges) and Finland (Tapiolan Honka). He attended Wayne State University, MI until 2012 and it will be his sixth season in pro basketball. Udanoh's game is described as:
A very energetic front court player, with an ideal body to play a physical, tough game. He's very effective at the defensive side and can spend time in both center and PF positions as well, taking advantage from his quickness at the 5 and from his power at the 4.
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