Rookie of the year and MVP in the same season.
Karpenko is the youngest to lead the regular season
After the 2023-2024 regular season of the Junior Gold Basketball League for 18-year-old players in the provinces of Malaga and Melilla, before the start of the playoffs, the most valuable player, MVP and best rookie of the regular season has been Nicolás García Karpenko, 16 years old, player for CB San Pedro 06-07 Rojo, the only undefeated team in the regular season.
Stats : Nicolás García Karpenko averages in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. – Junior Gold League U18-U17 Málaga and Melilla – Regular Season 2023-2024.
MVP and rookie of the year
It is not for less. Karpenko has been the most complete and the one who has achieved the most individual awards in this regular season, of the 210 players from group A and group B who have participated in the league, the majority one and two years older than Karpenko. He has been crowned as the player with the most rating credits, in absolute value 181 credits (15 more than the second), and with the best average rating per game 15.08 (3.23 more than the second). Quite a feat, especially when he is one of the youngest in the competition.
Stats : Nicolás García Karpenko’s average in rating. – Junior Gold League U18-U17 Málaga and Melilla – Regular Season 2023-2024.
Also, Karpenko is the player who has been MVP of the gameday the most times, in 4 games of the 12 he has played, in gamedays 3, 8, 11 and 13. With this enormous result, he doubles his rivals who have barely been on 2 occasions. And in relation to the number of times a player has been game MVP, Karpenko is once again the one with the most game MVPs, 8 in 12 games. Nicolás García Karpenko has been the undisputed leader of the competition’s regular season.
Stats : Nicolás García Karpenko is the player who has been chosen gameday and game MVP the most times. – Junior Gold League U18-U17 Málaga and Melilla – Regular Season 2023-2024.
The individual awards named after Nicolás García Karpenko are MVP and rookie of the year. These are awards that Karpenko has achieved by playing less than his rivals. By time played, in absolute terms, there are 19 players who add more minutes of play than Karpenko and 8 in average minutes played. And by number of games, Karpenko played 2 games less than his rivals to answer the calls for the Malaga U15 and Andalusian U15-U16 selections. Furthermore, Karpenko is not the player who plays the most minutes on his team. There are 2 teammates who play much more than him. One of them is the player who has played the most minutes in the competition, 124 minutes more than Karpenko, that is, more than three complete 40-minute games when Karpenko only missed two.
Stats : Nicolás García Karpenko’s average in minutes played per game. – Junior Gold League U18-U17 Málaga and Melilla – Regular Season 2023-2024.
Karpenko has been the player who scores the most points per game, with an enormous average of 17.33 points per game. In absolute values, only 3 players have added more than 200 points and Karpenko is the second one with 4 fewer points and 2 fewer games played than first one.
Stats : Nicolás García Karpenko’s average in points per game. – Junior Gold League U18-U17 Málaga and Melilla – Regular Season 2023-2024.
More individual awards
Second player who has scored the most 3-pointers per game, with an average of 1.75 per game.
Stats : Nicolás García Karpenko’s average in shots of 3 per game. – Junior Gold League U18-U17 Málaga and Melilla – Regular Season 2023-2024.
Third player who has scored the most free throws per game, with an average of 2.75 free throws per game. And of the 13 players who have taken more free throws than him, Karpenko is the player who has the best free throw success percentage, 73.33%. And eighth in absolute success percentage.
Stats : Nicolás García Karpenko’s average in free throws per game. – Junior Gold League U18-U17 Málaga and Melilla – Regular Season 2023-2024.
Fifth player who has scored the most 2-point shots per game, with an average of 4.66 2-point shots per game.
Stats : Nicolás García Karpenko averages 2 shots per game. – Junior Gold League U18-U17 Málaga and Melilla – Regular Season 2023-2024.
Best defender of the regular season
Furthermore, Karpenko is the player who has committed the fewest personal fouls of the top-9 best players, only 15 personal fouls in the regular season, and he is one of the players who has received the most fouls: 46 in 12 games (3.83 fouls received per game) .
In terms of rebounds, no other player has added more offensive and defensive rebounds than Karpenko. His averages are astronomical for a forward, with 6.83 total rebounds per game, and 4.16 defensive rebounds per game, which support his enormous work on defense.
Finally, another statistic led by Karpenko in the regular season that increases his enormous defensive involvement is stolen balls. Karpenko has an enormous average of 3.75 stolen balls per game, which crowns him as the best defender in the competition.
Stats : Nicolás García Karpenko’s average in total rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds and steals per game. – Junior Gold League U18-U17 Málaga and Melilla – Regular Season 2023-2024.
Málaga and Melilla U18-U17 Junior Gold League 2023-2024 Regular Season. | 210 players play in 16 teams divided into two groups of eight teams. Group A is formed by CB San Pedro 06-07 Rojo, Farma Química Sur EBG Málaga 08*, CP Mijas Montero&Rider Blanco, Avatel Marbella Basket – CB Marbella, CDC Los Olivos, Cash Beltrán Miramar Torremolinos, CB Cártama and Adesa La Mona Tapas . Group B is made up of CB Campillos, Selección Melilla*, EBG’06, Torreparquet TBC, Colegio El Pinar, CB Novaschool Azul Rincón de la Victoria, CB Rincón de la Victoria’07 and CB Salliver Higuerón Hotel Fuengirola Celeste.
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