Bayern guard had a career-best scoring night in a win
Round 23 MVP: Carsen Edwards, FC Bayern Munich
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A stunning offensive performance in the German derby was enough for FC Bayern Munich’s Carsen Edwards to secure Round 23 MVP honors with a round-high 34 PIR.
Edwards scored a career-high 34 points in Bayern’s 84-99 win at ALBA Berlin, netting 6-of-9 two-pointers, 5-of-13 three-pointers and 7-of-8 free throws. He also posted 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 3 fouls drawn, giving him a career-best 34 PIR. This is the first time Edwards has been the MVP of the Round, while it is the second time this season a Bayern player has earned MVP of the Round honors – and 11th time all-time – following Shabazz Napier back in Round 6.
Real Madrid’s Facundo Campazzo and LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne’s Theo Maledon had the joint second-best PIR in Round 23 with 29. In Real Madrid’s dramatic 90-89 victory over Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Argentine amassed 22 points, going 6 for 9 on two-pointers, 1 for 4 on threes and 7 for 7 on free throws, 4 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 6 fouls drawn. ASVEL beat FC Barcelona 100-94, with Maledon recording 18 points on 2-of-6 two-pointers, 2-of-7 three-pointers and 8-of-8 free throws, 4 rebounds, 9 assists, 2 steals and 9 fouls drawn. AS Monaco’s Mike James and Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade’s Isaac Bonga round out the list of top performers with a 28 PIR. James had 24 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 12 fouls drawn in Monaco’s 80-86 win at Virtus Segafredo Bologna, while Bonga finished with 16 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 3 fouls drawn in Partizan’s 92-86 triumph over Paris Basketball.
Individual highs: Carsen Edwards, Bayern, 34 points
Bayern’s Edwards scored 34 points in Round 23, the most of any player. Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens’s Kendrick Nunn leads the league in scoring with 20.1 points per game.
Baskonia’s Nikos Rogkavopoulos led all players in Round 23 by pulling down 11 rebounds. Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade’s Joel Bolomboy has averaged a league-best 8.0 rebounds per contest this season.
ASVEL’s Theo Maledon and Anadolu Efes Istanbul’s PJ Dozier both recorded a round-high 9 assists. Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv’s Tamir Blatt (7.41 apg.) is the leading assist provider in the league, narrowly ahead of Paris’s TJ Shorts (7.38 apg.).
Maccabi’s Jaylen Hoard made 4 steals in Round 23, more than anyone else. Bayern’s Nick Weiler-Babb tops the steals charts with 1.6 per night.
Three players – Panathinaikos’s Wenyen Gabriel, Real Madrid’s Walter Tavares, and Monaco’s Georgios Papagiannis – had a round-best 3 blocks. Papagiannis (1.35 bpg.) leads the EuroLeague in blocks, just ahead of Tavares (1.30 bpg.), Gabriel (1.27 bpg.), and Efes’s Vincent Poirier (1.26 bpg.).
Baskonia duo Rogkavopoulos (22 points, 11 rebounds) and Chima Moneke (14 points, 10 rebounds) were the only players to record a double-double in Round 23.