Finland – Sherman Gay claims Finnish Korisliiga weekly honour

Sherman Gay Experienced Jamaica-American Sherman Gay (201-F/C-82) had a great game in the last round for KTP Basket and that’s him to receive a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 4.The 34-year old power forward had the game-high 23 points adding six rebounds and two assists for KTP Basket in his team’s victory, helping them to crush Korihait (#9, 1-3) with 19-point margin 85-66. KTP Basket is placed at 4th position in Finnish Korisliiga. KTP Basket is a typical solid league team placed somewhere in the middle or a little bit lower in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 2-2 record. In the team’s last game Gay had a remarkable 71.4% from 2-point range. He turned to be KTP Basket’s top player in his first season with the team. Loyola Marymount University graduate has very impressive stats this year. Gay is in league’s top in points (2nd best: 24.5ppg) and averages solid 1.3bpg and 66.1% FGP.The second most remarkable performance in last round’s games was 29-year old Senegalese forward Papa Dia (208-F-87) of BC Nokia. Dia impressed basketball fans with a double-double of 19 points and 12 rebounds. It was enough for BC …

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