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

- August 5, 2025

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Lehlohonolo Mhlongo

Power forward Lehlohonolo Mhlongo (PF) had a very impressive game in the last round for Mpumalanga Rhinos and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 10.
He had a double-double of 12 points and 14 rebounds, while his team crushed, the league's bottom-ranked team Warriors (#5, 0-4) with 21-point margin 75-54. Rhinos is placed at 4th position in South African league. Too late to salvage the team, which is currently ranked such low. They already lost 3 games and recorded just one victory. In the team's last game Mhlongo had a remarkable 55.6% from 2-point range. He turned to be Rhinos' top player in his first season with the team. Mhlongo has impressive league stats. He is in league's top in points (4th best: 17.3ppg) and averages solid 5.0bpg and 51.9% FGP.

Second best performed player last round was Prosper Chimeremeze of league's second-best Soweto Panthers. He is a in his 2nd season at Panthers. In the last game Chimeremeze recorded an impressive double-double of 12 points and 11 rebounds. Of course he led Panthers to another comfortable win outscoring Warriors (#5, 0-4) 68-41. Panthers' second position in Group B has not changed. His team's 3-1 record is not bad at all. Chimeremeze is well-known at Panthers and he already established his position as one of the team's leaders.

Third place about best performers goes to Nkitsing Moleleki of Free State Warriors (#5). Moleleki scored 15 points and grabbed 7 rebounds. Despite Moleleki's great performance the Warriors lost 54-75 to slightly higher-ranked Rhinos (#4, 1-3). But his team cannot count on just a single player as he also needs help of the other teammates. Warriors can only dream about fighting for top spots in Group B. They have awful season losing so far all 4 games. Moleleki has a very solid season. In 4 games in South Africa he scored 13.8ppg.

Other top performing players last week:
4. Benjamin Myburgh (185-G-1997) of Panthers - 12 points, 9 rebounds and 11 assists
5. Manqoba Khoza) of Rhinos - 8 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists
6. Kevin Romenoh (193-SF-1986) of Panthers - 16 points and 3 rebounds
7. Uyanda Masinga) of Warriors - 10 points and 4 rebounds
8. Sicelo Dzingwa (195-G/F-1999) of Panthers - 15 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists
9. Henry Matusow) of Rhinos - 18 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists
10. Umtha Mavuso (PG) of Rhinos - 17 points, 5 rebounds and 7 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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