Kingsley Named Danish Player Of The Week
10/10/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Oct. 10, 2011
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Former Lumberjack Matt Kingsley was recently named the Danish Basketball League player of the week by Eurobasket.com after a 30-point, nine-rebound game last week for his current team, Svendborg, in a 99-85 win over Falcon.
He has helped lead his team to a a perfect 3-0 record to open the year, in just his first season with the squad. The former Southland Conference player of the year, Kinsley is near the top of the league in points (4t: 25.5ppg), rebounds (8th: 8.0rpg) and is hitting a solid 55-percent from the field.
The Player of the week is chosen based on an efficiency calculation, but also including game result, importance of the game, if played recorded double-double/triple-double, and other factors. The efficiency formula is a combination of various formulas used by different basketball organizations/leagues
In addition to Kinsley, former Lumberjack Jordan Glynn was also featured by Eurobasket.com after a stellar week for his Naestved team where he pumped in 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in a three-point loss to Aalborg. Through just three games in the league, Glynn is averaging 18.7 points and 8.7 rebounds per contest.
An all-conference performer at SFA, Glynn was one of the top rebounders in the Southland Conference the last two seasons, averaging better than eight rebounds per contest and double-figures in scoring in each of his two years as a Lumberjack.
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