MIES (Switzerland) - We're inches away from the end of the Play-In Series and the start of the Round of 16. Sounds like a midway point of the entire season, perfect timing to assemble our two expert writers to find the answer to this question:

Which young player stood out the most in this season of the Basketball Champions League?

We invited Diccon Lloyd-Smeath and Igor Curkovic to the chat.

Diccon is a basketball coach and analyst living in Madrid, constantly digging in the crates of box scores and clicking through hours of game footage, and writing marvelous breakdowns and Insider Columns.

Igor is the writer and editor responsible for the Power Rankings, the MVP Race and the Help-Side Column.

Here's what they had to say about the new kids on the block: