Eurocup – Strebkov’s 31-point game gives him Player of the Week award

IvanStrebkov 25-year old point guard Ivan Strebkov (192-PG-91) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for N.Novgorod and receives a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 8.He had the game-high 31 points adding two rebounds and four assists for N.Novgorod in his team’s victory, helping them to edge out Lietkabelis (#4, 3-4) 91-89. N.Novgorod is placed at 3rd position in their group in EuroCup group A. N.Novgorod 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 3-3 record. In the team’s last game Strebkov had a remarkable 62.5% from 2-point range and got four three-pointers out of 6 attempts. It’s his second year at N.Novgorod and it’s hard to imagine this team without him. Strebkov has impressive league stats. He is in league’s top in points (5th best: 18.2ppg), assists (7th best: 5.2apg) and averages solid 60.0% FGP and 40.5% from behind 3-point line.Second best performed player last round was Chris Babb (196-G-90) of Ratiopharm. He is American guard in his 2nd season at Ratiopharm. In the last game Babb …

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