{"id":500837,"date":"2017-10-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/round-1-mvp-pierre-jackson-maccabi-fox-tel-aviv\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:43:47","slug":"round-1-mvp-pierre-jackson-maccabi-fox-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/round-1-mvp-pierre-jackson-maccabi-fox-tel-aviv\/","title":{"rendered":"Round 1 MVP: Pierre Jackson, Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-video-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y7mrExGRvSE\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Many stars shined brightly as the long-awaited start of the 2017-18 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season unfolded this week, but none did so more than Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv guard Pierre Jackson, who delivered a memorable opening night performance and earned his first MVP of the Round honor.<\/p>\n<p> \tIn only his seventh EuroLeague appearance, and first since 2014, Jackson was nothing short of spectacular, flirting with a rare triple-double and setting several<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">cl<br \/> \tub<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> and EuroLeague marks in Maccabi\u2019s 71-88 road win at Brose Bamberg.<\/p>\n<p> \tJackson posted 27 points, shooting 4-of-8 from two-point range, 5-for-5 from three-point land, and missed only one of his 5 free throw attempts. He also dished 9 assists, pulled down 7 rebounds, which along with 2 steals and 6 fouls drawn added up to a performance index rating of 41.<\/p>\n<p> \tThat was not only the highest index rating of Round<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">1,<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> but also the best PIR by a EuroLeague player in any opening game this decade and best in any non-overtime opening game this century! No Maccabi player had such a high PIR 2008, either. Jackson\u2019s 27 points tied for third-most points on an opening night this decade and for the third-most points by a Maccabi player this decade. By going 5 of 5 from three-point land, he also matched the club-record for most three-pointers without a miss, too.<\/p>\n<p> \tTeenage sensation Luka Doncic of Real Madrid had the second highest performance index rating of the week, 32, in his team&#8217;s road win at Anadolu Efes Istanbul. Doncic scored a career-high 27 points on 6 of 8 two-pointers and 3 of 6 threes. He also made 6 of 7 free throws and collected 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 6 fouls drawn.<\/p>\n<p> \tKevin Seraphin of FC Barcelona Lassa registered an index rating of 31, third best in Round 1, after posting 24 points, 9 rebounds, 3 blocks, 2 assists and 6 fouls drawn.<\/p>\n<p> \tMadrid big man Gustavo Ayon and Efes guard Errick McCollum, each had index ratings of 30, rounding out the best five performances of the week.<\/p>\n<p> \tAyon scored 16 points on 7 of 11 two-pointers, pulled down 10 rebounds, and had 4 assists, 3<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">steals<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> and 2 blocks.<\/p>\n<p> \tIn the same game but on the losing side, McCollum made his EuroLeague debut with 26 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 9 fouls drawn.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson\u2019s 27 points tied for third-most points on an opening night this decade and for the third-most points by a Maccabi player this decade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-500837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500839,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500837\/revisions\/500839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500837"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=500837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}