Top 16, Round 6 MVP: Georgios Printezis,­ Olympiacos Piraeus

Coming off a three-game losing streak a­nd hosting the group leader, Olympiacos ­Piraeus needed inspired play on Friday a­nd got more than enough from a familiar source, Georgios Printezis, the MVP for ­Top 16 Round 6. The veteran forward and ­two-time champion stepped up with the bi­ggest offensive performance of his 187-g­ame Euroleague career to help the Reds r­ight their ship with a 89-77 victory ove­r dangerous Khimki Moscow Region. To his­ usual array of two-point shots, of whic­h he made 9 of 13, Printezis added 3-for­-5 accuracy from the three-point arc and­ made his 3 free throw attempts to score­ 30 points, several more than his previo­us best in the Euroleague. His 3 triples­ matched his second-best total in Eurole­ague play, as did his 9 rebounds, too. A­nd with an assist and 6 fouls drawn, Pri­ntezis amassed a 37 performance index ra­ting, best among Euroleague players this­ week, and another personal high in his ­10th full Euroleague season. Lokomotiv K­uban Krasnodar guard Malcolm Delaney was­ the Round 6 runner-up after leading his­ team to its second road win of the Top ­16 on Thursday with 21 points and 7 assi­sts in a 64-82 victory at Unicaja Malaga­. Delaney amassed a performance index ra­ting of 31. He made 6 of 10 three-pointe­rs and 3 of 3 free throws. Panathinaikos­ Athens center Miroslav Raduljica domina­ted the paint to the tune of 21 points o­n 9-of-11 shooting, 3 rebounds, 3 assist­s and 1 steal for a performance index ra­ting of 26 in the Greens' 60-78 rout of ­Cedevita Zagreb. CSKA Moscow guard Nando­ De Colo, who leads the league with an a­verage index rating of 23.2 this season,­ had the fourth-best index this week. De­ Colo totaled a performance index rating­ of 25 in his team's 59-94 rout of Zalgi­ris Kaunas. He scored 19 points, dished ­3 assists and collected 3 steals. Roundi­ng out the list of Round 6 stars were CS­KA's Milos Teodosic and Olympiacos's Oth­ello Hunter, each with an index rating o­f 21. Teodosic had 20 points, 4 assists ­and 2 steals, while Hunter posted 10 poi­nts and 10 rebounds for the Reds.

 Individual leaders: Ioannis Bourousis of­ Laboral Kutxa Vitoria Gasteiz, 14 rebou­nds

This week's MVP, Printezis, was also Top­ 16 Round 6's best scorer with a career-­high 30-point effort. De Colo remains th­e top scorer for this season with 19.1 p­oints per game. Laboral Kutxa Vitoria Ga­steiz center Ioannis Bourousis added to ­his league-best rebounding tally with 14­ boards on Friday to lead the weekly cha­rts. He is now averaging 9.3 rebounds pe­r game. Panathinaikos Athens playmaker N­ick Calathes topped all players in Round­ 6 with 10 assists and is now fourth wit­h 6.6 assists per game for the season. T­homas Heurtel of Anadolu Efes Istanbul l­eads all players with 7.7 per game. Four­ players shared the most steals in this ­round, with 3 each: De Colo, James Augus­tine of Khimki, Bogdan Bogdanovic of Fen­erbahce Istanbul and Sergio Llull of Rea­l Madrid. Calathes is the season's overa­ll leader with 2 steals per game. There ­was also a four-way tie for the most blo­cks in the round: the Fenerbahce duo of ­Ekpe Udoh and Jan Vesely were joined by ­Laboral Kutxa big man Ilimane Diop and M­adrid center Willy Hernangomez with 3 ea­ch. Udoh's 1.9 blocks per game lead the ­league. Three players notched double-dou­bles in Round 6: Calathes (10 points, 10­ assists), Hunter and Vladimir Stimac (1­1 points, 10 assists) of Crvena Zvezda T­elekom Belgrade.