By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
Zoltan Perl of Falco became the first Hungarian-born player in Basketball Champions League history to earn the weekly MVP honor for his performance in Gameday 7.
Per championsleague.basketball:
Jarrod Jones, who was born in the USA but is a naturalized Hungarian, had claimed the weekly MVP honor on Gameday 1 of the 2017-18 season.
Perl was born in Szombathely and started his career at Falco, so he has a very special bond with the BCL debutants who have turned heads in the competition.
“To be honest, I’ve never thought about individual things, I just want to play well and help my team to win as many games as possible,” the Falco winger told championsleague.basketball.
“I’m happy [to be named MVP] but I don’t feel more responsibility because of this. We just have to keep our focus and continue working hard, as we have done until now.”
The 24-year-old Hungarian international was certainly laser-focused on Wednesday night when Falco was playing host to Neptunas Klaipeda in Group D action, as he came off the bench and got the hot hand almost immediately.
Perl scored 21 points in just 21 minutes of play on 9 of 12 shooting from two-point range and added 7 assists and 5 rebounds to register an efficiency rating of 26 and guide Falco to an eye-popping 97-73 win over the formidable Lithuanian team.
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