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Estonia – Van der Mars’ double-double lands him Player of the Week award
- Updated: October 17, 2016
Thomas vander Mars 26-year old center Thomas van der Mars (208-C-90) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Rapla and receives a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 3.He had a double-double of 21 points and 12 rebounds, while his team crushed Tarvas (#5, 1-2) with 23-point margin 90-67. Rapla is placed at 4th position in Estonia league. They would have been even better if they hadn’t lost that single game earlier this season. Rapla will need more victories to improve their 2-1 record. van der Mars turned to be Rapla’s top player in his first season with the team. University of Portland graduate has very impressive stats this year. van der Mars is in league’s top in points (9th best: 16.7ppg), rebounds (6th best: 10.0rpg) and averages solid 1.3bpg and 64.5% FGP.Second best performed player last round was Dominykas Milka (203-C-92) of league’s second-best TU/Rock. He is Lithuania center in his first season at TU/Rock. In the last game Milka recorded impressive double-double of 17 points and 14 rebounds. Of course he led TU/Rock to another comfortable win 81-68 over Parnu …