Best players of Kazakhstan Higher League round 3 (by Hoops Agents)

- October 23, 2025

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Artem Kozyrkin

Artem Kozyrkin

Artem Kozyrkin (185-G-1998) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for MBK Bars Petropavlovsk and that's him to receive a Hoops Agents Higher League Player of the Week award for round 3.
The 27-year old guard had the game-high 25 points adding two rebounds and seven assists for Bars in his team's victory, helping them to crush, the league's bottom-ranked team Tobyl (#14, 0-3) with 24-point margin 88-64. Bars maintains the 3rd position in Kazakhstan Higher League. They maintain a perfect record without any lost game in the league. The season is still on an early stage, but Bars already had a very good start winning all 3 without losing a single one. In the team's last game Kozyrkin had a remarkable 71.4% from 2-point range. He turned to be Bars' top player in his first season with the team. Kozyrkin has impressive league stats. He is in league's top in points (6th best: 18.3ppg), assists (4th best: 5.3apg) and averages solid 4.0spg and 68.2% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was young forward Aleksei Vereshagin (200-F-1992) of MBK Kazygurt Shymkent. Vereshagin impressed basketball fans with 27 points and 8 rebounds. Of course he led Shymkent to another comfortable win outscoring Champ1on (0-2) 104-70. His team has extremely good start of the season. They won their first game. However the season is at the beginning, so everything can happen. They still may lose their high position in the standings. Vereshagin is one of the most experienced players at Shymkent and has a reputation of one of team's most reliable players.

The third best performed player last round was Maxim Zhukov (173-PG-2001) of ChelSU Kostanay (#5). Zhukov showcased his all-around game by recording 29 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists in the last round. He was a key player of ChelSU, leading his team to a 74-72 win against Tigers-KazATU (#7, 1-2). ChelSU needs these victories very badly if they think about getting closer to top teams. Their record at this point is 2 victories and 1 lost game. Zhukov has a great season in Kazakhstan. After only 3 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 19.0ppg (4th best) and assists with 5.3apg (3rd best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Shyndos Zhumabay (187-G-2005) of Tigers-KazATU - 29 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists
5. Begzod Mammatrimov (198-C/F-2004) of Turan - 18 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists
6. Ramil Urazbaev (188-G-2007) of Tobyl - 16 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists
7. Anuar Shakirov (180-PG-2000) of Shymkent - 18 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists
8. Victor Yuldashev (190-G-2002) of Shymkent - 18 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists
9. Ivan Barabash (188-G-2007) of Tigers-KazATU - 24 points and 8 rebounds
10. Artem Parfenov (198-F-1998) of Bars - 18 points and 15 rebounds

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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