Basketball Champions League – Jimmy Baron claims Basketball Champions League weekly honour

Jimmy Baron American Jimmy Baron (191-G-86) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for league’s leader Neptunas and that’s him to receive a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 8.The 30-year old guard had the game-high 42 points adding four rebounds for Neptunas in his team’s victory, helping them to beat Usak (#7, 2-6) 103-88. It allowed Neptunas to consolidate first place in the Basketball Champions League group C. Neptunas have a solid 7-1 record. In the team’s last game Baron had a remarkable ten three-pointers out of 15 attempts. He turned to be Neptunas’ top player in his first season with the team. Rhode Island University graduate has very impressive stats this year. Baron is in league’s top in points (6th best: 17.0ppg) and averages solid 64.3% FGP and 50.0% from behind 3-point line.The second most remarkable performance in last round’s games was 25-year old American shooting guard Rion Brown (198-SG-91) of Kataja Basket. Brown impressed basketball fans with 40 points and 7 rebounds. Of course he led Kataja Basket to …

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