Kentrell Barkley gets MVP of the Week award for Vietnamese VBA (by Hoops Agents)

American Kentrell Barkley (195-G/F-1996, agency: Haylett Sports) had a great game in the last round for league's leader Saigon Heat and that's him to receive a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 24.
The 27-year old swingman had a double-double of 36 points and fifteen rebounds, while his team edged out City Wings (#5, 6-10) 80-78. It allowed Saigon Heat to jump to the first place in the Vietnamese VBA. Saigon Heat have a solid 12-2 record. In the team's last game Barkley had a remarkable 61.9% from 2-point range. He turned to be Saigon Heat's top player in his first season with the team. East Carolina University graduate has very impressive stats this year. Barkley is league's best scorer averaging so far 30.0ppg. Barkley is in league's top in rebounds (2nd best: 16.6rpg), assists (2nd best: 6.9apg) and averages solid 1.1bpg and 63.7% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was young Canadian forward Will Tran (F-1998) of Dragons. Tran impressed basketball fans with a double-double of 31 points and 10 rebounds. Bad luck as Dragons lost that game 88-97 to slightly higher-ranked Catfish (#6, 5-10). Dragons are still at the very bottom. 15 lost games are too many considering they did not win any game. Tran is a newcomer at Dragons and despite he is not a team leader yet, every game he becomes more reliable player. Hopefully performances like the last one will happen more often.

The third best performed player last round was American Brachon Griffin (185-G-1992) of Catfish (#6). Griffin got into 30-points club by scoring 31 points in the last round. He went also for nine rebounds and four assists. He was a key player of Catfish, leading his team to a 97-88 win against Dragons (#7, 0-15). The chances of Catfish not to end season at such low position in the league, however are less than slim as they have already lost 10 games, recording just five victories. With bigger assistance of his teammates, Griffin could try to bring Catfish's a little bit higher in the standings. Griffin has individually a great season in Vietnam. After 11 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 25.3ppg (4th best) and assists with 6.5apg (3rd best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Joshua Keyes (201-F-1995) of Catfish - 24 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists
5. Jeremy Smith (190-G-1991) of City Wings - 28 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists
6. Yevgen Sakhniuk (201-F-1995) of City Wings - 15 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists
7. Phu Vinh Nguyen (203-F/C-1998) of Saigon Heat - 19 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists
8. JR Holder (198-SG-1994) of Dragons - 21 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists
9. Michael Soy (182-PG-1997) of Catfish - 18 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists
10. Vinh Nguyen Quang (180-G-1995) of City Wings - 10 points and 10 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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Tags : KENTRELL BARKLEY, SAIGON HEAT, VIETNAMESE BASKETBALL