Latvia – Meiers’ 16 points and 7 rebounds give him Player of the Week award

MartinsMeiers 25-year old center Martins Meiers (208-C-91) had an amazing evening in the last round for second-ranked VEF Riga and receives a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 6.He had the game-high 16 points adding seven rebounds and two assists for VEF Riga in his team’s victory, helping them to edge out Barons Riga (#5, 3-4) 82-81. VEF Riga maintains the 2nd position in Latvia league. They maintain a perfect record without any lost game in the league. The season is still on an early stage, but VEF Riga already had a very good start winning all 4 without losing a single one. It’s Meiers’ second year at VEF Riga and it’s hard to imagine this team without him. Meiers has impressive league stats. He is in league’s top in points (7th best: 14.0ppg), rebounds (6th best: 6.5rpg) and averages solid 66.7% FGP.Second best performed player last round was Tauras Jogela (202-PF-93, agency: Players Group) of Barons Riga. He is Lithuania forward in his first season at Barons Riga. In the last game Jogela recorded impressive 22 points and 4 rebounds. Bad luck as …

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