Kazakhstan National League round 11 best performance: Robert Pan (by Hoops Agents)

- December 3, 2023

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Robert Pan

International Center Robert Pan (202-C-1995) had an amazing evening in the last round for top-ranked Irbis Almaty, receiving a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 11.
The 28-year old player was the main contributor (33 points, seven rebounds and eight assists) to his team's victory, helping them to crush Aktobe (#5, 5-5) with 19-point margin 114-95. It allowed Irbis to consolidate first place in the Kazakhstan National League. Irbis has a very good season and are considered to have a run for the championship title. They improved their record to 9-1. In the team's last game Pan had a remarkable 90.0% from 2-point range. It's his second year at Irbis and it's hard to imagine this team without him. Robert Pan has solid league stats. He is in league's top in rebounds (8th best: 7.5rpg) and averages impressive 74.6% FGP.

The second best player in last round's games was young Russian Valeriy Likhodey (205-PF-1986) of league's second-best Astana Academy. Likhodey had a very good evening with 32 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists. Of course he led Astana Ac. to another comfortable win 90-76 over the lower-ranked Irtysh (#8, 1-11) being unquestionably team leader. Astana Ac.'s second position in the standings has not changed. His team's 8-4 record is not bad at all. Likhodey is a newcomer at Astana Ac., but is already one of team's top players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 17.8ppg (#6). He also registered 7.2 boards per game.

Third on the list of top players last round was American guard Keshon Tabb (180-PG-1999) of MBK Irtysh Pavlodar (#8). Tabb got into 30-points club by scoring 37 points in the last round. He went also for ten rebounds and eight assists. He was a key player of Irtysh, leading his team to a 86-77 win against the higher-ranked Astana Ac. (#2, 8-4). Tabb has individually a great season in Kazakhstan. After 12 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 25.2ppg (best scorer) and assists with 4.8apg (5th best). He also has 4.3spg, FGP: 54.1% and 3PT: 41.0%. Tabb attended one of camps at Eurobasket Summer League on his way to pro basketball.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Nazim Adylbekov (200-F-2001) of Irtysh - 17 points and 10 rebounds
5. Norbertas Giga (208-F/C-1995) of Irbis - 17 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists
6. Igor Kanygin (207-C-1994) of Astana Ac. - 23 points and 14 rebounds
7. Marcus Myers (185-PG-1996) of Irbis - 16 points, 4 rebounds and 10 assists
8. Boris Nazmutdinov (192-SG-1996) of Aktobe - 21 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists
9. Shakir Smith (185-PG-1992) of Aktobe - 26 points and 4 assists
10. Lorenzo Anderson (190-G-2000) of Irbis - 19 points, 2 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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