Rochestie, this year’s bomber

By Lefteris Moutis / moutis@eurohoops.net

Nizhny Novgorod’s Taylor Rochestie was by far the season’s best scorer in the Euroleague, having the highest average of points in the last seven years.

The American guard of the “Cinderella” Nizhny Novgorod who had an excellent run in the Euroleague, got, in total, 397 points in 21 games and with an average of 18,9 per game, he was the top scorer of the season. In total, Andrew Goudelock got the most points, but the honors go to the player with the highest point average in the season up to the Final Four.

Player	Team	Ppg	Total	Games
Taylor Rochestie	Nizhny	18,9	397	21
Boban Marjanovic	Crvena Zvezda	16,6	398	24
Andrew Goudelock	Fenerbahce	16,4	443	27
Milos Teodosic	CSKA M.	15	346	23
Devin Smith	Maccabi	15	376	25
Zoran Erceg	Galatasaray	15	330	22
Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	14,9	358	24
James Anderson	Zalgiris	14,5	349	24
Trey Thompkins	Nizhny	14,5	333	23
Alessandro Gentile	Milano	14,3	286	20

So, the Euroleague will award Taylor Rochestie the ‘Alphonso Ford’ Trophy, an award that got its name from the legend of the European courts Alphonso Ford, who won the title of the top scorer two seasons in a row (2001-02) with Peristeri and Olympiacos (with an average of 26 and 24,8 points per game respectively) and who passed away prematurely on the 4th of September 2004.

Below you can review the previous winners of the award.

Season	Player	Team	Points per game
2004-05	Charles Smith	Scavolini Pesaro	20,6
2005-06	Drew Nicholas	Benetton Treviso	18,4
2006-07	Igor Rakosevic	Tau Ceramica	16,2
2007-08	Marc Salyers	Roanne	21,8
2008-09	Igor Rakosevic	Tau Ceramica	18
2009-10	Linas Kleiza	Olympiacos	17,1
2010-11	Igor Rakosevic	Efes Pilsen	17,2
2011-12	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	16,9
2012-13	Bobby Brown	Montepaschi Siena	18,8
2013-14	Keith Langford	Milano	17,6
2014-15	Taylor Rochestie	Nizhny Novgorod	18,9