SPAIN: “German Tibor Pleiss (215-C-89) had an amazing evening in the last round for Laboral Kutxa and that’s him to receive a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 16. The 24-year old center had the game-high 25 points adding nine rebounds for Laboral Kutxa in his team’s victory, helping them to beat CAI Zaragoza (#11, 8-8) 92-83. Laboral Kutxa is placed at 6th position in Spanish Liga Endesa. 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 9-7 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 (9th best: 14.1ppg) and averages solid 62.1% FGP.”
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