Isaac
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Harvey's 42 points wins NBL POTW
The red-hot shooting form of Gold Coast Blaze guard James Harvey has earned him the National Basketball League's (NBL) Player of the Week for Round 20.And here are the rest of the contenders:
Harvey scored a career-high and franchise record 42 points, as well as adding six rebounds as the Blaze notched just their sixth win of the season with a high-scoring 139-119 victory over the Sydney Spirit at the Gold Coast Convention Centre on Saturday night.
The 42-point haul was the highest by any NBL player this season and surpassed the 41-point effort of New Zealand's Kirk Penney on 18 September 2008 against Wollongong. It also beat Harvey's previous career-high of 39, which he notched against New Zealand on 2 October 2005.
Other contenders for the Player of the Week included Shane Heal (Gold Coast), Kavossy Franklin (Wollongong), Phill Jones (New Zealand), Adam Ballinger (Adelaide), John Rillie (Townsville), Matt Knight (Sydney), David Barlow (Melbourne), Chris Anstey (Melbourne), Martin Cattalini (Cairns), Cameron Tovey (Townsville), Mark Worthington (South), Anthony Petrie (Wollongong), Luke Whitehead (Gold Coast), Luke Schenscher (Adelaide), Russell Hinder (Townsville), Shawn Redhage (Perth) and Glen Saville (Wollongong).Did Saville play more than just that Tigers game? Didn't think his numbers were that special, but I might've forgotten them. Knight was good in his loss and Ballinger had decent numbers for Adelaide. Rillie, Jones, and Heal were the other stand-outs IMO.
Who would you have picked?