Chinese NBL round 9 best performance: Robert Upshaw

- January 15, 2026

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Robert Upshaw

Robert Upshaw

American Center Robert Upshaw (213-C-1994) had a great game in the last round for Jiangsu Yannan Suke, receiving a Hoops Agents NBL Player of the Week award for round 9.
The 31-year old player had a double-double of 38 points and 14 rebounds, while his team edged out Guizhou (#13, 2-7) 113-110. Jiangsu maintains the 7th position in Chinese NBL. Jiangsu 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. In the team's last game Upshaw had a remarkable 55.6% from 2-point range and got four three-pointers out of 8 attempts. He just recently signed at Jiangsu, being already a very valuable addition to the team. Former The University of Washington star has very solid stats this year. Upshaw is in league's top in points (2nd best: 29.5ppg), rebounds (2nd best: 14.4rpg) and averages impressive 2.3bpg and 69.5% FGP.

The second best player in last round's games was young Ukrainian Vladyslav Koreniuk (210-C-1994, agency: BIG) of Hebei Xianglan. Koreniuk had a very good evening with a double-double of 27 points and 12 rebounds. Of course he led Hebei to another comfortable win 128-112 over the lower-ranked Anhui W. (#10, 3-6) being unquestionably team leader. This victory allowed Hebei to move up to 4th position in the standings. His team's 6-3 record is not bad at all. Koreniuk is one of the most experienced players at Hebei and has a reputation of one of team's most reliable players.

Third on the list of top players last round was American guard Tra Holder (185-G-1995) of Jiaozuo Cultural Tourism (#8). Holder got into 30-points club by scoring 35 points in the last round. He went also for six assists. He was a key player of Jiaozuo, leading his team to a 84-78 win against slightly higher-ranked Jiangxi (#6, 5-4). The chances of Jiaozuo ranking at the top of the league, however are very questionable as they have already lost 5 games, recording just four victories. With bigger assistance of his teammates, Holder could help Jiaozuo to bring them higher in the standings. Holder has a great season in China. After only 9 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 26.6ppg (3rd best) and assists with 6.0apg (best passer).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Kevin Cross (201-F-2000) of Hunan - 33 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists
5. Brandon McCoy (213-F-1998) of Hefei - 23 points and 14 rebounds
6. Dischon Thomas (206-F-2000) of Jiaozuo - 22 points, 17 rebounds and 4 assists
7. Ondrej Balvin (217-C-1992) of HK JinNiu - 20 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists
8. Rob Edwards (196-G-1997) of Hangzhou - 26 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists
9. Jawun Evans (185-PG-1996) of Anhui W. - 21 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists
10. Quade Green (183-PG-1998) of Jiangsu - 29 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists

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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