SPAIN: “24-year old center Tibor Pleiss (215-C-89) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Laboral Kutxa and receives a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 8.He had a double-double of 28 points and 10 rebounds, while his team beat UCAM Murcia (#12, 3-5) 98-90. Laboral Kutxa is placed at 5th position in Spanish league. They would have been even better if they hadn’t lost a few games earlier this season. Laboral Kutxa will need more victories to improve their 5-3 record. It’s Pleiss’ second year at Laboral Kutxa and it’s hard to imagine this team
without him. Pleiss has impressive league stats. He is in league’s top in points (7th best: 14.9ppg) and averages solid 64.4% FGP.”
