By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
The five players who make up Team of the Week for Gameday 7 in the 2019-20 Basketball Champions League Regular Season are Ryan Toolson of BAXI Manresa, Zoltan Perl of Falco Szombathely, Lamonte Ulmer of JDA Dijon, Evangelos Margaritis of PAOK and Jerai Grant of SIG Strasbourg.
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Ryan Toolson, Baxi Manresa
The 34-year old sharp-shooter has earned a reputation throughout his long career in Europe as a player who will take -and make – any shot, so the fact he is Manresa’s leading scorer in the BCL is hardly surprising.
On Tuesday however, in a very physically demanding clash, Toolson came up big in the clutch to guide Manresa to their first ever road win in the competition and did so at the home court of Dinamo Sassari, previously a fortress.
The veteran scored 9 points, including a crucial jumper with 59 seconds on the clock, dished out 2 assists and came up with a steal in the final seven-minute stretch, for Manresa to clinch a 74-73 victory.
Toolson finished with 24 points on 9 of 17 shooting from the field (4 of 8 from three-point range), 4 assists and 3 steals for an efficiency rating of 21. The American-born guard has registered that same efficiency rating in three games so far in this BCL campaign, and on all three occasions Manresa ended up winning.
Zoltan Perl, Falco
Seven games into Falco’s maiden campaign in the BCL, Perl becomes the first ever player of the Hungarian champions to earn a spot on Team of the Week, behind yet another spectacular display at home.
In Wednesday’s game against Neptunas Klaipeda, Perl came off the bench with about three minutes left in the opening quarter and, as a man in a hurry, he had an immediate impact.
The Hungarian international collected 21 points in 21 minutes of action as he shot 9 of 12 from two-point range, while he also added 7 assists and 5 rebounds to propel Falco as they pulled away from their Lithuanian visitors to claim a head-turning 97-73 victory.
Perl’s performance was rated at 26 in terms of efficiency, his second-best of the season so far, and he is now leading his team in that respect with an average efficiency rating of 18.