Otobo's double-double lands him Player of the Week award

- March 12, 2024

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Israel Otobo

19-year old Nigerian center Israel Otobo (200-C-2004) had an amazing evening in the last round for second-ranked Dynamo BBC and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 1.
He had a double-double of 21 points and 13 rebounds, while his team beat Cape Town T. (#4, 0-2), the league's bottom-ranked team 86-73. The game was between two of the league's top four teams. Dynamo was forced-out from the top positions in Basketball Africa League. Dynamo 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 1-1 record. Otobo turned to be Dynamo's top player in his first season with the team. Otobo has impressive league stats. He is in league's top in points (2nd best: 21.0ppg) and averages solid 4.0spg and 56.3% FGP.

Second best performed player last round was Bryton Hobbs (183-G-1991, agency: The French Family Consulting). He is American guard in his first season at Dynamo. In the last game Hobbs recorded an impressive 20 points, 2 rebounds and 8 assists. Of course together with Otobo he helped Dynamo BBC with another comfortable win 86-73 over Cape Town T. (0-2) being unquestionably team leader. The season is still at the very beginning and this victory may help a lot. Let's wait for the next round. Hobbs is a newcomer at Dynamo and quickly became one of team's most reliable players. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 20.0ppg (#4). He also recorded 8.0 assists per game.

Third place about best performers goes to guard Samkelo Cele (198-G-1997) of Cape Town Tigers (#4). Cele scored 26 points. Despite Cele's great performance the Tigers lost 73-86 to #2 ranked Dynamo. But his team cannot count on just a single shooter as he also needs help of the other teammates especially in such crucial game. Cele has individually a great season in Basketball Africa League. After only 2 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 22.5ppg (best scorer).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Aliou Diarra (200-F-2001) of FUS Rabat - 15 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists
5. Johnathan Jordan (178-PG-1992) of FUS Rabat - 20 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists
6. Ngor Manyang (201-SF-1993) of Cape Town T. - 20 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists
7. Dhieu Deng (195-SG-2001) of Dynamo - 18 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists
8. Yanick Moreira (208-C-1991) of P.Luanda - 10 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists
9. Glofate Buiamba (197-PF-1999) of P.Luanda - 17 points and 5 rebounds
10. Morakinyo Williams (209-C-1988) of Dynamo - 14 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists

The Player of the week is selected based on efficiency calculation, but also including game result, importance of the game, if played recorded double-double/triple-double, etc.
The efficiency formula is a combination of various formulas used by different basketball organizations/leagues. We got involved many basketball scouts and journalists to assure it's accuracy.
The formula: 1.5*PTS + 3*(REB+AST+ST+BL-TO) - 2*BSAG - 4*PF + 3*PFRV + 4*(2FGPM+3FGPM) + 1.5*FTM - 3*(2FGPA-2FGPM) - 3*(3FGPA-3FGPM) - (FTA-FTM)

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