Georgia – Burnette’s double-double lands him Player of the Week award

Tre Burnette Guard Tre Burnette (196-G) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Olimpi and receives a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 3.He had a double-double of 26 points and 14 rebounds, while his team outclassed, the league’s bottom-ranked team Mgzavrebi (#7, 0-2) with 39-point margin 88-49. Olimpi is placed at 6th position in Georgia league. Olimpi is rather a weak team placed in lower part in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 1-2 record. In the team’s last game Burnette had a remarkable 72.7% from 2-point range. He turned to be Olimpi’s top player in his first season with the team. University of South Dakota graduate has very impressive stats this year. Burnette is in league’s top in points (6th best: 18.7ppg), rebounds (7th best: 9.3rpg) and averages solid 62.5% FGP.Second best performed player last round was Illya Shemosiuk (188-PG-85) of Batumi. He is Ukrainian guard in his first season at Batumi. In the last game Shemosiuk recorded impressive 23 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists. Of course he led Batumi to another comfortable win outscoring Cactus Tbilisi …

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