By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
A stunning performance in a winning effort against one of his former teams earned Elie Okobo of AS Monaco the Round 11 MVP honors with a PIR of 36.
Okobo has earned MVP of the Round honors for the third time in his career, becoming the first Monaco player to achieve this accolade this season.
French guard led Monaco to a 103-92 home win against LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne, scoring 27 points – his most since joining Monaco in 2022 – on 6-of-8 two-pointers, 3-of-4 three-pointers, and 6-of-6 free throws. He added six assists, three steals, and six fouls drawn to accumulate a PIR of 36, just one shy of matching his career-best effort.
He outshone Theo Maledon of ASVEL and Bayern Munich’s Andreas Obst, who both amassed a PIR of 30, with the German guard breaking the EuroLeague record with 11 three-pointers, as well as Barcelona’s Jabari Parker and EA7 Emporio Armani Milan’s Zach LeDay, who had a PIR of 29. LeDay’s squad claimed a 98-86 victory against Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv.
Obst’s season-high scoring performance behind EuroLeague record
Behind breaking the record for three-pointers in a single EuroLeague game, Bayern’s Andreas Obst scored 34 points in Round 11, the most of any player this season. His teammate Carsen Edwards leads the league in scoring with an average of 21.4 points per game.
Tyson Ward of Paris Basketball led all rebounders in Round 11 by pulling down 11 boards. Two players – Milan’s Nikola Mirotic and Real Madrid’s Walter Tavares – are tied at the top of the league in rebounds with 7.5 per game.
Four players dished out 10 assists in Round 11: Elijah Bryant of Anadolu Efes Istanbul, TJ Shorts of Paris Basketball, Rokas Jokubaitis of Maccabi, and Facu Campazzo of Real Madrid. Maccabi’s Tamir Blatt remains the league’s top assist provider this season with an average of 8.7 dimes per game.
Alpha Diallo of Monaco collected a career-best 5 steals, the most in Round 11. Diallo also leads the league in steals this season, averaging 1.7 per contest.
Georgios Papagiannis, also of Monaco, registered a round-high 3 blocks. Efes’s Vincent Poirier and Real Madrid’s Walter Tavares are tied for the league lead with 1.6 blocks per game.
Paris duo TJ Shorts (21 points, 10 assists) and Tyson Ward (11 points, 11 rebounds), Efes’s Elijah Bryant (11 points, 10 assists), and Real Madrid’s Facu Campazzo (12 points, 10 assists) all posted double-doubles in Round 11.