Aliou Diarra gets MVP of the Week award for Rwandan RBL

- March 25, 2025

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Aliou Diarra

Aliou Diarra

Mali Aliou Diarra (200-F-2001) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for league's leader APR Basketball Club Kigali and that's him to receive a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 8.
The 23-year old forward had a double-double of 24 points and 13 rebounds, while his team outclassed Espoir (#9, 1-9) with 27-point margin 91-64. It allowed APR to consolidate first place in the Rwandan RBL. They maintain a perfect record without any lost game in the league. The season is already in a full swing and APR still have not lost a single game, getting all 11 victories. In the team's last game Diarra had a remarkable 90.0% from 2-point range. He turned to be APR's top player in his first season with the team. Diarra has impressive league stats. He is in league's top in points (7th best: 19.3ppg), rebounds (6th best: 10.0rpg) and averages solid 2.2bpg and 75.0% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was center Betoudji Kamndoh (C) of Patriots Basketball Club Kigali. Kamndoh impressed basketball fans with a double-double of 19 points and 13 rebounds. Bad luck as Patriots was edged by slightly higher-ranked REG (#2, 8-1) 79-77. It was definitely game of the week between two contenders to the title. Patriots still maintains its place in the top 3 of the standings, even despite this loss. His team's 6-3 record is not bad at all. Kamndoh is a newcomer at Patriots and it seems he did not have too much trouble to become one of team's leaders.

The third best performed player last round was American Damaria Franklin (190-G-1999) of Azomco (#8). Franklin got into 30-points club by scoring exactly 30 points in the last round. He went also for seventeen rebounds . He was a key player of Azomco, leading his team to a 89-87 win against the higher-ranked Kepler (#5, 3-5). Franklin has individually a great season in Rwanda. After only 7 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 21.7ppg (2nd best). He also has 2.3spg and 1.6bpg.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Jeffery Stubbs (189-PG-1991) of Orion - 30 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists
5. Pitchou Kambuyi (208-C-1988) of Tigers - 20 points and 19 rebounds
6. Franck Nyembo (2006) of Espoir - 19 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists
7. Elie Kaje (198-C/F-1995) of Kepler - 15 points, 15 rebounds and 4 assists
8. Jean-Jacques Boissy (183-PG-2000) of REG - 32 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists
9. Steven Hagumintwari (198-PF-1993) of Patriots - 16 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists
10. Cyiza Twizeyimana (F) of Kepler - 18 points, 9 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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