Auguste's 32-point game gives him Hoops Agents Player of the Week award

- March 30, 2026

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Zach Auguste

Zach Auguste

32-year old GRE-USAn center Zach Auguste (208-C-1993, agency: Pensack Sports) had a very impressive game in the last round for Shiga Lakestars and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 45.
He had the game-high 32 points adding nine rebounds and two assists for Shiga L-Stars in his team's victory, helping them to crush Toyama G. (#13, 11-35) with 25-point margin 89-64. The game rather meaningless between the teams, which do not have any influence on top of the standings in West. Lakestars maintains the 10th position in their group in the Japanese league. Shiga L-Stars is rather a weak team placed in lower part in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 17-29 record. In the team's last game Auguste had a remarkable 91.7% from 2-point range. He turned to be Lakestars' top player in his first season with the team. Zach Auguste averages this season 18.1ppg and 8.5rpg.

Second best performed player last round was Kofi Cockburn (213-C-1999) of Hiroshima Dragonflies. He is Jamaican center in his first season at Hiroshima D.. In the last game Cockburn recorded an impressive double-double of 26 points and 12 rebounds. Bad luck as Dragonflies was edged by the lower-ranked Osaka E. (#9, 18-28) 92-88. Hiroshima D. managed to keep the same 5th spot in West. His team lost some distance to top teams. But a 27-19 record is not bad and everything may still change. Cockburn is a newcomer at Hiroshima D. and quickly became one of team's most reliable players.

Third place about best performers goes to center Brandon Davies (208-C-1991) of Alvark Tokyo (#4). Davies got into 30-points club by scoring 33 points in the last round. He went also for six rebounds . Despite Davies' great performance the Alvark lost 83-93 to slightly lower-ranked San-en NP (#6, 27-19). But his team cannot count on just a single shooter as he also needs help of the other teammates. The last thing Alvark Tokyo needs is to lose another game like this one. They lose more and more distance to the top teams in the West. Their record is 30 victories and 16 lost games. Davies has a very solid season. In 14 games in Japan he scored 9.1ppg.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Angelo Caloiaro (203-F-1989) of Kyoto H. - 29 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists
5. David Nwaba (195-G/F-1993) of San-en NP - 20 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists
6. Nick Kay (206-PF-1992) of Shimane SM - 19 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists
7. Damien Inglis (206-F/C-1995) of Yokohama BC - 26 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists
8. Keisei Tominaga (188-G-2001) of Hokkaido L. - 36 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists
9. Sekou Doumbouya (206-PF-2000) of Koshigaya A. - 25 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists
10. Stanley Johnson (201-SF-1996) of Nagasaki - 23 points, 8 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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