May 25, 2012
Week 4 MVP: Ronald Burrell, RheinEnergie Cologne
Ronald Burrell - RheinEnergie Week 4 of the Euroleague regular season brought some special wins, one of which produced the MVP. Ronald Burrell of RheinEnergie was a big reason why the German champs won their first-ever Euroleague game, beating Climamio on the road in Bologna, Italy on Thursday. Burrell scored 21 points, grabbed 13 rebounds, dished 3 assists, made 3 steals and drew 7 fouls to rack up an index rating of 36, highest of the week. Another player who led his team to an historic first Euroleague victory, Mirsad Turkcan of Fenerbahce Ulker, amassed the second-best index rating of the week, 34. Turkcan posted 22 points and 10 rebounds in Fenerbahce's home win. Third among the top performances of the week as Scoonie Penn of Olympiacos (index rating 31), who scored 26 points in a road win over Le Mans. Brent Wright of Cibona (29) was fourth, due to his 17 points and 10 rebounds in a double-overtime loss at Partizan, and Alex Acker of Olympiacos (28) was fifth after he put up 21 points against Le Mans.

"It was exciting for us to get the win because we are the underdog in our group," Burrell said on Friday. "We feel we have a great opportunity to represent German basketball, and last night we showed ourselves, too, that we can win games in this group. After losing big to Tau at home, there was a question mark in everyone's head, but we bounced back strong in the German League from that type of loss and then kept it going last night. It shows our team is tough, and I'm proud of that. We didn't go to Bologna with a sense of desperation, but we did have a nothing-to-lose attitude. We just felt we had to play that way to get a win. It has definitely taken some of us a little adjusting to get going in the Euroleague. The games come quick - we're already in Week 4 - and there's not too much time to make adjustments. But we did it now and we'll see how well it works going forward."

The overall top player rating of the season still belongs to Juan Carlos Navarro of Winterthur FCB, who holds an average index of 26.00. Navarro is also the best scorer of the competition so far with 23.5 points per game. Turkcan is leading the list of the best rebounders with 10 per game. Nikos Zisis of Benetton continues as the best passer so far, tied with Tau Ceramica's Zoran Planinic, each at 5.8 assists per game. Michael Wilkinson of Aris TT Bank is the player with the most steals, 3.25 per game, while Marcus Haislip of Efes Pilsen is blocking 2 shots per game, the most in the Euroleague through four weeks.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Euroleague.net
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