Jordan Farmar nets Euroleague Player of the Week honors

November 5, 2011

Locked-out New Jersey Net Jordan Farmar continued his personal drive to history in impressive fashion against Real Madrid on Thursday night. Farmar contributed a huge 35 overall performance index rating based on 27 points on 10-of-12 overall shooting to go with five assists in Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 88-82 win. The official Euroleague writeup on the EL’s top five performers of week three follows, along with a Farmar-filled highlight reel.

(Euroleague) – Jordan Farmar delivered his finest performance to date since joining Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv over the summer, leading the Israeli champs to an 88-82 victory over Real Madrid and earn Week 3 bwin MVP honors.

Farmar, a Euroleague rookie, had big shoes to fill this season when he took the spot in the starting lineup of All-Euroleague point guard Jeremy Pargo, who led the Israeli champs to the EL title game last season. But in a highly-anticipated showdown against the team Maccabi bested in the semifinals at last season’s Final Four in Barcelona, Farmar came through using his speed, shot-making ability and ball-handling skills to post big numbers: He finished with 27 points on 9-of-11 two-point shooting, made his only three-point attempt, and added five assists, four rebounds and eight fouls drawn for a performance index rating of 35, which was best in the Euroleague this week.

Another newcomer, Partizan mt:s guard Acie Law, also produced his best Euroleague game yet in leading his team to its maiden win this season. Law registered 26 points, seven assists, two steals and just one turnover for a 32 index rating – second best in Week 3 – as Partizan topped Belgacom Spirou, 91-81, Thursday at Pionir Arena.

Third on the list of Week 3 stars is a savvy veteran: Rimantas Kaukenas of Montepaschi Siena went off for 24 points on near-perfect shooting as his team routed Galatasaray Medical Park 103-77 on Wednesday. Kaukenas finished with an index rating of 30.

Week 2 bwin MVP Nicolas Batum produced another big night on the road Thursday, but it wasn’t enough to steer SLUC Nancy to victory. Nevertheless, Batum amassed 22 points, six rebounds, six assists and four steals as part of his 29 index rating. Rounding out the list of top Week 3 performers is two-time All-Euroleague big man Erazem Lorbek, who had 24 points with just two missed shots plus five rebounds as FC Barcelona Regal trumped Unics Kazan 65-93 in Russia.

Nov 5, 2011ballineurope

This post was published on November 5, 2011

Comments: 31

Gabe
11 years ago
At least some fans are getting something out of the NBA lockout. This confirms how strong the NBA is with NBA role players such as Farmer, Law, Batum and Kirilenko dominating Euroleague.
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Michael
11 years ago
This Gabe guy is an enormous tool. The NBA players in Euroleague have been nothing more than solid as a group so far.
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- Gabe
  11 years ago
  lol This guy Michael is an enormous denier. “Nothing more than solid as group?” rotfl Kirilenko has been the first and only player of the month so far for October and the only three players of the week so far have been Kirilenko, Farmer and Batum. So All the 4 Euroleague awards given so far have been given to NBA players (and not all-star nba players just regular nba players). Hard to deny the truth Michael…
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Eric
11 years ago
Why is this Gabe idiot even allowed here?

The only NBA player that is standing out in Europe is Kirilenko. This guy must be smoking crack if he thinks Farmar and Batum are standing out at all.
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- Os Davis
  11 years ago
  @ Eric: “The only NBA player standing out in Europe”? What about Brian Scalabrine?
  
  http://bietemp.wpengine.com/countries/italy/brian-scalabrine-benetton-treviso-success-3362/
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- Gabe
  11 years ago
  Player of the week=standing out
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Jackson
11 years ago
I find this site truly hilarious at times.

“Dominating”…………..the only player even remotely near “dominating” is Kirilenko. Even then only against really crappy teams.

Scalabrine? Playing in such a mediocre league as the Italian League, on a mid sized club like Treviso? With nothing more than mediocre numbers based on the level of his team (even just average Euroleague players would be expected to have better stats than he has on a club like Treviso).

Either people here do not know what the word “dominating” means, or they are just being douche bags.

BTW, Von Wafer, Acie Law, and Ty Lawson also “dominated” the NBA. It’s a fact. Simply using the standard of “domination” in Europe and applying it to NBA play. They all clearly dominated the NBA under the same criteria.
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- Os Davis
  11 years ago
  @ Jackson: Ah, come on, man. White Mamba rules!
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- Gabe
  11 years ago
  @ Jackosn All those players have won player of the week awards and Kirilenko won player of the month. We can argue back and forth all day but the FACTS are that official Euroleague people (not some random person on a blog like you) agreed that Farmer, Kirilenko and Batum were the best Euroleague player those weeks and Kirilenko was the best in October. Wafer, Law and Lawson never won any awards in the NBA. And as for Kirilenko dominating against crappy teams, that’s the whole point. He’s dominating Euroleague, not the NBA so he’s going to be playing crappy teams. His team is undefeated and he was player of the month in Euroleague play. If the word dominates upsets you I can phrase as Kirilenko has been the MOST dominate out of any player in Euroleague so far.
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  - Apollo
    11 years ago
    @ Jackosn All those players have won player of the week awards and Kirilenko won player of the month. We can argue back and forth all day but the FACTS are that official Euroleague people (not some random person on a blog like you) agreed that Farmer, Kirilenko and Batum were the best Euroleague player those weeks and Kirilenko was the best in October. Wafer, Law and Lawson never won any awards in the NBA. And as for Kirilenko dominating against crappy teams, that’s the whole point. He’s dominating Euroleague, not the NBA so he’s going to be playing crappy teams. His team is undefeated and he was player of the month in Euroleague play. If the word dominates upsets you I can phrase as Kirilenko has been the MOST dominate out of any player in Euroleague so far.
    
    News flash genius, the weekly MVP award is given based solely on the Larry Bird plus minus stat. There is no such thing as “official Euroleague people” voting on it.
    
    Also, the monthly MVP award consisted of a whopping TWO GAMES of play. TWO GAMES.
    
    Please stop trolling.
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    - Gabe
      11 years ago
      Isn’t it funny Apollo that the only players to win Euroleague awards so far have been NBA lockout players? Just saying.
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Apollo
11 years ago
2011-12 NBA LOCKOUT OVERSEAS STATS

Euroleague Stats:

GP MIN PTS FGM FGA FG% 3PM 3PA 3P% FTM FTA FT% OFF DEF TOT AST STL BLK TO PF

Nicolas Batum

3 39.3 20.3 5.3 14.7 .364 1.0 3.3 .300 8.7 10.0 .867 2.0 4.7 6.7 7.3 2.0 0.3 6.3 1.3

Sonny Weems

3 30.0 19.3 7.3 14.3 .512 1.7 3.0 .556 3.0 4.7 .643 0.3 4.7 5.0 0.7 2.0 0.3 3.0 2.7

Nikola Pekovic

3 24.0 17.7 5.7 9.0 .630 0.0 0.0 .000 6.3 7.7 .826 2.7 2.7 5.3 0.7 0.0 0.3 0.7 4.0

Rudy Fernandez

3 27.3 16.3 4.7 11.3 .412 2.7 6.7 .400 4.3 4.7 .929 0.7 3.0 3.7 2.0 1.3 0.0 1.0 2.0

Danilo Gallinari

3 31.0 15.7 3.0 8.7 .346 1.0 4.3 .231 8.7 11.0 .788 0.7 5.3 6.0 1.0 0.3 0.3 2.7 4.0

Danny Green

3 30.7 15.3 5.3 12.0 .444 1.7 5.0 .333 3.0 3.3 .900 2.0 1.7 3.7 2.0 1.0 0.3 2.3 2.7

Nenad Krstic

3 22.7 15.0 6.3 10.0 .633 0.0 0.0 .000 2.3 3.0 .778 2.3 2.7 5.0 0.3 1.3 0.7 0.7 1.7

Jordan Farmar

3 31.0 14.7 5.3 10.3 .516 0.3 1.7 .200 3.7 5.0 .733 0.7 3.0 3.7 4.3 1.7 0.0 1.0 2.3

Acie Law

3 35.7 14.7 5.3 11.3 .471 1.0 2.7 .375 3.0 4.0 .750 0.0 1.7 1.7 4.7 1.0 0.0 3.3 2.7

Andrei Kirilenko

3 26.3 14.3 4.7 7.3 .636 1.3 2.0 .667 3.7 5.3 .688 2.0 6.7 8.7 4.3 0.7 2.7 0.3 1.3

Thabo Sefolosha

3 24.0 14.3 5.0 8.3 .600 1.3 2.7 .500 3.0 5.3 .563 0.7 5.7 6.3 0.0 1.0 0.3 1.7 2.7

Ersan Ilyasova

3 24.7 13.0 4.3 6.7 .650 1.0 2.0 .500 3.3 4.7 .714 1.0 5.3 6.3 1.7 2.3 1.3 1.7 2.7

Sasha Vujacic

3 31.3 12.7 3.3 13.0 .256 1.3 4.7 .286 4.7 4.7 1.000 0.7 3.7 4.3 0.7 1.3 0.0 0.7 3.7

Kevin Seraphin

3 19.3 11.7 5.0 7.7 .652 0.0 0.0 .000 1.7 2.0 .833 2.7 3.3 6.0 0.0 0.7 1.0 1.0 3.3

David Andersen

3 22.0 11.3 4.0 9.0 .444 0.3 1.7 .200 3.0 3.7 .818 0.0 3.7 3.7 0.7 0.3 0.3 1.0 2.0

*Alonzo Gee

3 28.7 11.0 4.0 9.3 .429 1.3 2.3 .571 1.7 2.0 .833 0.0 6.3 6.3 1.0 0.0 0.3 2.0 2.7

Ty Lawson

3 22.3 9.3 3.7 7.3 .500 0.7 1.7 .400 1.3 3.0 .444 1.0 4.3 5.3 1.3 0.3 0.0 1.7 1.7

Darius Songaila

3 17.7 7.0 3.0 6.7 .450 0.0 0.0 .000 1.0 1.3 .750 1.0 3.0 4.0 0.3 0.3 0.0 2.0 3.0

Reggie Williams

2 12.0 5.0 2.5 3.5 .714 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.5 1.0 1.5 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 2.5

Serge Ibaka

2 12.0 4.5 1.5 3.0 .500 0.0 0.0 .000 1.5 1.5 1.000 1.5 3.0 4.5 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.5 1.0

*DaJuan Summers

1 18.0 4.0 2.0 4.0 .500 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 1.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.0

Joey Dorsey

1 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 2.0

Zaza Pachulia

1 5.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 1.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0

*Released by their teams

From DraftExpress.com

http://www.draftexpress.com/NBA-Lock…s.php?sort=PTS

WOW – that is some epic “domination” by NBA players in Euroleague………….

Whatever, Gabe.
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- Gabe
  11 years ago
  I’m not taking time to decipher all that but Kirilenko and Batum are leading Euroleague in the “Larry Bird” plus minus stat, which basically calculates all stats and is a great way of judging the top players. Batum is leading the league in assists and is second in scoring and Kirilenko is leading the league is rebounds. If either Batum or Kirilenko was top in the NBA in any of those stats I would be amazed, I know they never were in the “Larry Bird” stat because only the elite players can do that.
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Apollo
11 years ago
[B]Jordan Farmar’s 2010-11 NBA stats:[/B]

Per 36 minutes:

Games Played: 73

14.1 Points Per Game

7.4 Assists Per Game
3.5 Rebounds Per Game

1.2 Steals Per Game
2.8 Turnovers Per Game

[B]Jordan Farmar’s 2011-12 Euroleague stats:[/B]

Per 36 minutes:

Games Played: 3

17.1 Points Per Game

5.0 Assists Per Game
4.3 Rebounds Per Game

2.0 Steals Per Game
1.2 Turnovers Per Game

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Gabe: “Jordan Farmar is an NBA scrub.”

Gabe: “Jordan Farmar is dominating Euroleague.”

Me: Gabe is a ridiculous and obnoxious troll.
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bball guy
11 years ago
Batum is

Per minute

10th in ranking

36th in scoring

85th in rebounding

19th in assists

His stats on a big Euroleague team would be something 11/3/3

Summers – cut
Gee – cut
Brown – cut

Several others playing average or poorly. I would not be bragging up the NBA player’s performances and stats so far.

Kirilenko is averaging 13/9 and played against some crappy teams to pad his stats. i honestly fail to see anything impressive at all about what they are doing. From what I have seen, Kirilenko is playing noticeably worse than he normally does in the NBA.
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- Gabe
  11 years ago
  lol Per minute ranking? I sense the desperation. Batum’s team is 2-2 after he went for 21 points and 9 rebounds in defeating the previous unbeaten Caja Laboral. Kirilenko’s team is now one of only two undefeated teams after having five blocks in defeating the previously undefeated Panathinaikos. Farmer’s team is 3-1 after he went for 18 points and 6 assists in leading his team to first place in their group. All three of them are in the top five Euroleague rankings with Batum second in scoring and assists and Kirilenko first in rebounds. Pretty much domination if you ask me. You guys are praying for the lookout to end soon so these guys can go back to being role players in the NBA instead of dominating Euroleague!!
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  - Gabe
    11 years ago
    Also take into account Kirilenko’s blocks and all around stats and who the hell are Summers, Gee and Brown!
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Gabe
11 years ago
Batum gets player of the week again for Euroleague. Man you think there could be one week where to award goes to a non-NBA player. That will probably have to wait for the lockout to end.
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Zoran
11 years ago
These NBA players have left due to the lockout and gone to Euroleague and became pretty much nothing more than scrubs so far in the Euroleague.

1. DaJuan Summers
2. Alonzo Gee
3. Reggie Williams
4. Serge Ibaka
5. Zaza Pachulia
6. Joey Dorsey

While these NBA players have been nothing more than average in the Euroleague so far. And I’m probably being generous in giving them that much credit.

1. Ty Lawson
2. Darius Songaila

That’s 8 NBA players out of the 23 that in Euroleague that are either barely average players, or are basically so far outright scrubs in Euroleague.

If I was an NBA only fan like Gabe, the last thing I would be doing is talking about how great NBA players are supposedly doing in the Euroleague. Because a whole bunch of them have been pretty damn awful so far.

He wants to cherry pick his players and stats and just ignore anything that does not match his rhetoric. But by constantly harping on this nonsense, he causes people to bring up all the NBA players that are playing like crap, something which would not happen if he just kept his trash talking out of this forum.
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Zoran
11 years ago
Oh, and Devin Brown who missed the last NBA season with an injury, also got cut in Euroleague already, along with Summers and Gee.

This is some real serious “dominating of Euroleague scrubs”.
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- Gabe
  11 years ago
  Never even heard if Brown, Summers, Gee, Williams or Dorsey which means if they even played in the NBA they were scrubs as well. And I’m not cherry picking, I’m just pointing out that Kirilenko, Batum and Farmer are the best in Euroleague right now, which they are not in the NBA.
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Michael Roces Galla
11 years ago
what is going on here? There’s no question the Euroleague is the 2nd best league in the world. There is no question that NBA ball is the world leader. Even European players say this all the time about the NBA being their ultimate dream, and they freely admit when you play in the NBA, you are playing against the best players in the world! Is there any sane mind that would disagree with that? Wow , I can’t even believe you guys are discussing this!
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- Gabe
  11 years ago
  lol You haven’t really been on this site Michael Roces Galla. There a a few, but vocal, delusional Euroleague fans who actually believe Euroleague is equal to the NBA. There’s some crazy people out there. These who are the same people who say things like Team USA will be lucky to get to the semi-finals of FIBA tournaments. Pretty crazy.
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Apollo
11 years ago
Gabe obviously is NOT a basketball fan. Numerous NBA players and he has “never even heard of them”.

Gabe is a paid employee of the NBA that just comes here to spread around NBA hype and marketing and bash the Euroleague – CONFIRMED.
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- Gabe
  11 years ago
  I’m not a basketball fan because I’ve never heard of Joey Dorsey? Did you hear of him before he came to Euroleague? Yes I’m not a basketball “fanatic” (nerd) who knows the names of all 400 NBA players but I think I know at least the top 200 and those guys are not them.
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Gabriel
11 years ago
NBA = $-350 million every year in “profits”.

Euroleague = $+125 million every year in profits.

At this point in time, the NBA is a joke league that won’t even exist much longer.
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- Gabe
  11 years ago
  Won’t exist much longer? lol You think the NBA is going to disband? At worst they’ll lose this one season. A joke league with the best players and the best teams in the world? The salary of one NBA is equal to almost all of Euroleague. How’s watching games in those high school arenas? Do they have bake sales in the hallways of Euroleague games?
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Apollo
11 years ago
Why the hell is this Gabe guy allowed to troll and insult European basketball and all its fans here?

He is a rude, obnoxious jerk.
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- Gabe
  11 years ago
  lol How’d Greece do in the last World Championships?
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Euroleague > NBA
11 years ago
So today we see Ty Lawson and Sonny Weems become total scrubs

we also see Pelekanos completely DOMINATE Batum

oh yeah, and Kirilenjko barely get a higher ranking than Jankunas.

Gabe, you must be retarded.
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Djordje Djordjic
11 years ago
Ok lets analyse the 2 leagues:

Players: NBA no contest

Rules: NBA rules promote isolation play, the game largely deteriorates into a 1on1 or 2on2 game. International rules promote team play that produces more team play on defence and offence.

Drama: In Euroleague all games are important and usually are very close. In the NBA the first 82 games are scrub games used to promote individual players to sell cereals and t-shirts. The games start to matter in the playoffs and then they become worthy. Do the playoffs redeem the previous 5 wasted months?

Values: NBA – individual, Int’l (Euroleague) – team. During the season in the NBA the most valued things are the Individual stats and highlight moves. How many triple doubles are there, will Love break the double/double record, will Griffin dunk over 2 or 3 players… Won and lost games are secondary. In Euroleague the most valuable thing are the WINS. I follow Partizan, I do not care who scored how many points, had rebounds, I only care that the team wins! But that is just me.

Fans: Euroleague no contest

Summary:
I like the passion and the drama of Euroleague, focus is on the team and not the individual. All games are great because they decide something. I like the skill and athleticism of the NBA, I like the playoffs, I hate the season games. Some things are just off in the NBA. Reading about NBA to me sometimes feels like reading a business journal. Franchise, marketability, big market, small market are too tied to the game. Euroleague also has some really ridiculous things, wildcard invitations, suspicious top 16 “draws”(I do not know if it is valid to call it a draw since it is almost predetermined) that really break the spirit of the competition.

So what’s better? It ends up being a question of taste and hence it is pointless to answer. I don’t care, I watch both and enjoy both.
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