Kazakhstan Higher League round 5 best performance: Dmitriy Luchko (by Hoops Agents)

Andrey Portnyagin

Guard Dmitriy Luchko (193-G-97) had a very impressive game in the last round for ChelSU, receiving a Hoops Agents Higher League Player of the Week award for round 5.
The 24-year old player had a double-double of 32 points and 15 rebounds, while his team in a lost game to Irtysh (#5, 3-2) 78-99. ChelSU maintains the 11th position in Kazakhstan Higher League. They are still not able to win a single game in the league yet. Too late to salvage the team, which is currently ranked at the very bottom. They already lost 5 games and recorded no victories. In the team's last game Luchko had a remarkable 62.5% from 2-point range. He turned to be ChelSU's top player in his first season with the team. Dmitriy Luchko has solid league stats. He is in league's top in points (2nd best: 20.6ppg) and rebounds (2nd best: 12.4rpg).

The second best player in last round's games was 27-year old Andrey Portnyagin (181-G-94) of Jambyl. Portnyagin had a very good evening with 32 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists. Bad luck as Jambyl was edged by slightly lower-ranked Namys (#8, 1-2) 98-95. Jambyl is still in a red zone at 7th spot in the standings. His team is not often considered as one of the league's best with a mere 2-3 record. Portnyagin is a newcomer at Jambyl, but is already one of team's top players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 22.2ppg (#1). He also registered 6.8 boards per game.

Third on the list of top players last round was guard Timur Snegirev (186-G-04) of Namys (#8). Snegirev scored 17 points and grabbed thirteen rebounds (!!!). He was a key player of Namys, leading his team to a 98-95 win against slightly higher-ranked Jambyl (#7, 2-3). Snegirev has a very solid season. In 5 games in Kazakhstan he scored 8.6ppg.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Nurlan Zhanibek (175-PG-99) of Namys - 27 points and 7 assists
5. Artem Kozyrkin (185-G-98) of Bars - 18 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists
6. Alexey Umnov (197-F-01) of Irtysh - 20 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists
7. Sergey Dyatlik (194-F-97) of Bars - 16 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists
8. Victor Gorshkov (198-C/F-89) of ChelSU - 16 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists
9. Yevgeniy Kushniruk (193-F-98) of Namys - 17 points and 18 rebounds
10. Maksim Nalogov (198-F/C-94) of Bars - 9 points, 21 rebounds and 5 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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