The race to be the 2021-22 7DAYS EuroCup Regular Season's top scorer is going to be a tight one.
Midseason awards candidates: Top Scorer
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Many great players have led the EuroCup in scoring at some point during their careers since Jaime Arnold of Krka Novo Mesto averaged 20.3 points in the 2002-03 campaign, the competition's inaugural season. Milan Gurovic, Jaycee Carroll, Keith Langford, Alexey Shved, Scottie Wilbekin and more recently, Milos Teodosic and Jaka Blazic, are some of the names on this exclusive list. Here are the top candidates to join them.
Errick McCollum, Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar - 22.3 ppg.
McCollum currently leads the 2021-22 EuroCup in scoring with 22.3 points per night, showing extreme consistency when it comes to putting the ball in the basket. He has scored at least 15 points in all 12 games until now and reached 30 against two of the most physical squads in Group A, Partizan NIS Belgrade (33) and MoraBanc Andorra (30). McCollum has made 41.4% of his three-point shots and 88.1% of his free throws while getting to the foul line more often than anyone else (8.4 attempts per night). McCollum climbed to second place on the all-time scoring list with 1,489 points and passing Bojan Dubljevic (1,527) doesn't seem like a remote possibility.
Johnathan Motley, Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar - 21.2 ppg.
Having two teammates ranking first and second in the scoring table is unprecedented in EuroCup history. Darius Washington (21.6 ppg.) and Radoslav Rancik (18.8 ppg.) of Galatasaray Istanbul ranked first and third, respectively, in the 2009-10 campaign. Peyton Siva (15.2 ppg.) and Rokas Giedraitis (14.8 ppg.) did the same for ALBA Berlin in the 2018-19 season. Motley is second overall with 21.2 points and has played only nine games, so his scoring average could fluctuate more than others. He has buried 64.7% of his two-point shots, making 7.7 of those per night - the highest number of shots inside the arc made on average since the 2016-17 season.
Caleb Homesley, Hamburg Towers - 20.7 ppg.
Hamburg has surprised many EuroCup fans and experts with its high rhythm and Homesley has been at the center of it all. He leads the EuroCup in three-point attempts this season with 9.1 per game. It is also the most shots attempted from downtown per game since the 2004-05 season. Homesley has knocked down 44.0% of his three-point shots and his 4.0 triples per game are second-most in EuroCup history behind only Charles Smith of Virtus Bologna, who made 4.3 during the 2003-04 season). He has scored 20 points or more seven times in 10 games played and reached the 29-point mark twice - against Boulogne Metropolitans 92 in Round 5 and Turk Telekom Ankara in Round 9.