No 7s given: our grades split from the 8s in Munich thriller

Our index saw a tight, modest night in Munich: Partizan's two-point escape at SAP Garden produced not a single grade above Tonye Jekiri's 6.5, while the reference ratings stamped 8.0 on Jekiri, 8.1 on Duane Washington and 7.9 on Johannes Thiemann. That is a full grade band of disagreement, and it frames the whole game.

The logic is in the components. Washington's 20 points came with a 0.224 rebounding mark and 0.261 defense, a raw score of 0.474: volume, not all-round production. Jekiri's 17 points arrived in 17 minutes with one assist, capping his raw at 0.505. Pajola, meanwhile, is our kind of case: a 0.928 playmaking score from 7 assists holds him at 6.2 despite 4 points, the smallest disagreement among the night's headliners.

Lučić's 9 points on a 0.257 raw make him the widest gap on the board at 2.1. Austin Wiley pulled a perfect 1.0 rebounding mark from 10 boards, yet 4 points and zero assists left him at 5.8. Efficiency, not the 86-84 drama, is what our scale rewards.