Spain – Tim Derksen claims Spanish LEB Gold weekly honour

Tim Derksen Talented American Tim Derksen (191-G-94) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Marin and that’s him to receive a Eurobasket.com LEB Gold Player of the Week award for round 3.The 22-year old guard had the game-high 32 points adding four rebounds and three assists for Marin in his team’s victory, helping them to edge out Huesca (#18, 0-3), the league’s bottom-ranked team in overtime 105-102. The game was not the highest importance and did not have significant influence on top of the standings. Marin maintains the 9th position in Spanish LEB Gold. They would have been even better if they hadn’t lost that single game earlier this season. Marin will need more victories to improve their 2-1 record. In the team’s last game Derksen had a remarkable 76.9% from 2-point range. He turned to be Marin’s top player in his first season with the team. University of San Francisco graduate has very impressive stats this year. Derksen is league’s best scorer averaging so far 26.3ppg. Derksen is in league’s top in and averages solid 67.5% FGP and 62.5% from behind 3-point line.The second most remarkable performance in last round’s games was 25-year old guard Borja Arevalo (195-G-91) of Castello. …

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