Plymouth City Patriots’ guard Elvisi Dusha has
won the Molten BBL Player of the Month award for November after producing the
best month of his decade-long BBL career under difficult circumstances for his
team.
After coming off the bench to start the season,
Dusha has stepped up admirably with backcourt injuries to, first, Antonio
Williams and, then, Troy Simons, to now be fifth in the BBL in minutes per
game, averaging 38:45 in the last month as an ironman for his team.
As Plymouth went 2-2 and rose to sixth in the BBL
Championship table in November, Dusha averaged 19 points, 10 assists, three
rebounds and two steals per game, shooting 41% from the three-point line and
making all 12 of his free-throw attempts. That included 22 points and nine
assists in a big road win at Newcastle Eagles, as he had eight points and four
assists in a decisive fourth quarter in which Patriots poured in 30 to secure
the victory.
The Albanian international then dished out an
astonishing 17 assists – the highest of any player in a BBL game this season –
as Patriots went through a century in beating Manchester Giants at Plymouth
Pavilions, with five of those dimes coming as he pulled the strings in a third
quarter where they established a double-figure lead, before he nailed a dagger
three-pointer with one minute to go when Giants had got back to within one
point.
Currently second overall in the BBL for assists
(8.2 per game), second in total three-pointers made (24) at a 39% clip, which
is good enough for tenth in the league, the 28-year-old veteran of ten BBL
campaigns is currently putting up the best numbers of his career for points,
assists and three-point makes.
Dusha and his team now look forward to a tough
six-game schedule in December, notably ending the year with a South-West derby
against Bristol Flyers just after Christmas, before a road trip to London Lions
to finish 2022.
