A1 Basket Greece: October 2013

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Olympiacos defeated Bayern Munich for third day of Euroleague

Olympiacos hosted Bayern Munich for the third day of Euroleague. Olympiacos started with a 5-0 score and great Dunston in the first quarter. Bayern was following Olympiacos in the first quarter that finished with 25-20. In the 14th minute Olympiacos took a difference of ten points for the first time with Sloukas, Mantzaris and Lojeski in. Bayern Munich managed to take advantage of Olympiacos' turnovers and the difference remained between 4 and 6 points. In the last attack Olympiacos was successful and the half time finished with 8 points difference 47-39. Spanoulis had 10 points in the first half and Dunston 9 points and 7 rebounds. For Bayern Bryce Taylor and Malcolm Delaney had both 8 points. With Matt Lojeski playing good Olympiacos started the second half broadening the difference which on 26th minute reached 15 points. Schaffartzik and Delaney with three pointers and Benzing with three free throws managed to lower the difference to two points. Idbihi equalized the score 66-66 and the fourth quarter started from zero difference. Bayern Munich ran a 15-0 rally in the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter Đedović gave Bayern Munich the lead for the first time in the game with 68-70 and again with 71-76. Two minutes before the end Olympiacos made a 5-0 rally and Giorgos Printezis gave its team back the lead with 77-76. Matt Lojeski scored two points, won a foul and Bayern Munich was charged with technical foul. Mantzaris scored a three pointer one minute before the end the score was 83-76 with a 12-0 rally from Olympiacos. In the last seconds both teams were shooting free throws with Printezis and Sloukas being more accurate and finally winning the game with score 88-83. Giorgos Printezis finished the game with a double double, 13 points and 12 rebounds. Quarters' scores: 25-20, 47-39, 66-66, 88-83.

Olympiacos: Law, Dunston 19, Spanoulis 10, Perperoglou 3, Sloukas 12, Simmons, Begić, Printezis 13, Agravanis 2, Mantzaris 12, Katsivelis, Lojeski 17.

Bayern Munich: Troutman 2, Hamann, Schaffartzik 7, Staiger, Benzing 9, Đedović 13, Zipser, Delaney 20, Idbihi 10, Savović 7, Taylor 11, Bryant 4.

Panathinaikos dismisses Skordilis, signs Apostolidis

Panathinaikos announced today the dismiss of Gaios Skordilis and the addition of Giorgos Apostolidis. Apostolidis is 29 years old, has 2m height and plays as guard. He has played for PAOK, Panellinios, Olympia Larisa, AEL, Trikala and Ilisiakos. Apostolidis was training with Panathinaikos during summer pre-season training.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Panionios lost by Neptūnas for Eurocup

Panionios lost by Neptūnas for Eurocup third day. This was the first home defeat of Panionios in the Eurocup. Panionios was good in third quarter and led the game but the fourth quarter was the weak quarter of the team. Quarters' scores: 18-21, 43-44, 72-65, 86-91

Panionios: McCollum 16, Stamatis, Motsenigos, Duvnjak 18, Carter 5, Milbourne 12, Athanasoulas 5, Batis, Langford 17, Michel, Simtsak 12, Saloustros 1.

Neptūnas: Mažeika 11, Girdžiūnas 2, McClure, Sinica 2, Eitutavičius 3, Šarakauskas 17, Runkauskas 20, Ulanovas 9, Vasylius 23, Smith 4.

PAOK lost by TED Ankara for Eurocup

PAOK lost by Aykon TED Ankara in Thessaloniki. This was the first defeat for PAOK for the Eurocup after two victories. PAOK was leading the score for more than 30 minutes, even by 21 points (41-20), but managed to lose the game. DJ Cooper didn't score another crucial shot in the end. For TED Ankara Vladimir Golubović had a double double with 23 points and 10 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 31-19, 48-32, 61-52, 75-77

PAOK: Payne 4, Cooper 3, Charalampidis 20, Tsochlas 8, Vučićević, Tsairelis 10, Dedas, Margaritis 5, Kalles 4, Bogris 17, Kaselakis 4, Liapis.

TED Ankara: Kavaklioglu 7, Candan 11, Erdeniz 2, Plisnic 2, Valters 9, Golubović 23, Sariaslan,

Tucker 19, Kamer, Ozkan 4, Baygul.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Greek Basketball League fourth day fixtures and results

Saturday 2nd November

16:00 Panionios - Nea Kifisia 64-39

18:00 Ilisiakos - Aries Trikala 67-59

18:00 Ikaros Chalkidas - Panelefsiniakos 74-84

Sunday 3rd November

16:00 Kolossos Rodou - Olympiacos 61-94

16:00 PAOK - Apollon Patras 78-74

16:00 Rethymno Aegean - Aris 84-77

Tuesday 5th November

16:00 Panathinaikos - KAOD 93-72

Greek Basketball Cup semi-finals draw

Panathinaikos - Olympiacos
Aris - Panionios

Knock-out single games on 21st December.

Greek basketball cup first round results

Greek basketball cup second round results
Greek cup quarterfinals results

Monday, October 28, 2013

Panathinaikos defeated Aries Trikala for the third day of Greek Basketball League

Aries Trikala hosted Panathinaikos for the third day of the Greek Basketball League. Aries Trikala haven't any victory in the first two games and as coach Flevarakis said could only gain experiences from this match. Starting five for Aries Trikala were Granger, Mutakabbir, Perunicic, Kommatas and Deligiannis. Starting five for Panathinaikos were Pappas, Diamantidis, Mačiulis, Gist and Mavrokefalidis. Granger opened the score with a two pointer but Diamantidis scored a three pointer and Panathinaikos took the lead. Panathinaikos had 2/2 free throws, 2/2 two pointer and 2/2 three pointer in the first three minutes where the score were 3-13 and before Gist missing the first shot for Panathinaikos. James Gist had 4 steals in the first 5 minutes and Jeremy Granger 3 turnovers and 1 unsportsmanlike foul. Trikala scored 3 three pointers but Panathinaikos finished the first quarter ahead by 17, 12-29. Stephane Lasme was flawless in the first quarter. The second quarter started with a goal-foul from Georgakis and two three pointers from Matalon, so the difference dropped to 8, 21-29. Gist scored the first points for Panathinaikos 4 minutes after second quarter started. Two three pointers from Panathinaikos and the difference was back to 16, 21-37. Trikala improved in the second quarter and the half time finished with 11 points difference. Panathinaikos tightened its defense in the third quarter and the difference flew up to 39 points, 30-69. In the last two minutes Trikala scored 7 points in a row and the third quarter finished with 42-73. Trikala scored 3 three pointers in the final minute and the difference stopped at 20 points, final score 68-88. Argyris Pedoulakis gave time to Charalampopoulos, Shang Ping. Jeremy Granger and Nestoras Kommatos were the best players for Trikala, with Matalon adding 9 points from three pointers. For Panathinaikos all players available played, only Mavrokefalidis and Ping didn't score but four players finished the game with more than 10 points. Vlantimir Giankovits finished the game with double double, 17 points and 10 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 12-29, 26-47, 42-73, 68-88.

Aries Trikala: Perunicic, Ewing 2, Giannakidis 5, Petrovic 5, Kommatos 9, Granger 23, Deligiannis 1, Matalon 11, Fountas, Nikolopoulos, Georgakis 3, Mutakabbir 9.
Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos 3, Bramos 7, Curry 14, Fotsis 5, Lasme 10, Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 3, Gist 7, Pappas 15, Giankovits 17, Ping, Mačiulis 7.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Apollon Patras wins Kolossos Rodou for the third day of Greek Basketball League

Apollon Patras hosted and defeated Kolossos Rodou. The history between two teams was too bad for Kolossos since the team from Rodos had lost all four games it played against Apollon Patras. Kolossos began this season with two defeats and was looking for its first victory against history. Apollon Patras was leading the score but Kolossos Rodou was following close for more than 30 minutes. In the last quarter Apollon widen the difference and finally won by 10. Apollon scored 10 three pointers and had only 9 turnovers, half of the 18 turnovers that Kolossos made and the 6 three pointers that it scored. Christoforos Stefanidis had a perfect game for Kolossos with 4/4 free throws, 5/5 two pointers, 2/2 three pointers, 3 assists and just 1 turnover. For Apollon Patras Demarius Bolds had 25 points and 12 received fouls. Kolossos Rodou remained without victory in three games this season.
Quarters' scores: 24-22, 41-39, 57-74, 76-66.

Apollon Patras: Hill 11, Argyropoulos 2, Kaperonis, Taylor 9, Wilson 7, Lianos 3, Petrović 8, Pelekoudas, Niforas 3, Trepalovac 5, Hot 3, Bolds 25.
Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 6, Rum 5, Matsamas, Georgalis 4, Smith 9, Stefanidis 20, Simpson, Koukoulas, Tsamis 9, Prewitt 9, Osby 4, Danas.

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Olympiacos defeated Ikaros Chalkidas for the third day of Greek Basketball League

Olympiacos smashed Ikaros Chalkidas by 99-61 for the third day of Greek Basketball League. Olympiacos didn't reach 100 points for one but the 38 points of difference says it all. Perperoglou, Sloukas and Dunston scored 52 points combined so Ivan Aska who made a double double with 17 points and 10 rebounds. The game doesn't stand analysis but Ikaros Chalkidas couldn't expect more with 1/18 three pointers compared with 8/19 from Olympiacos.

Quarters' scores: 27-14, 59-32, 78-45, 99-61.

Olympiacos: Petway 8, Law 7, Dunston 15, Spanoulis 4, Perperoglou 22, Papapetrou, Sloukas 15, Simmons 5, Lojeski 9, Printezis 4, Agravanis 7, Katsivelis

Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad 6, Govens 11, Papanikolaou 6, Aska 17, Manolopoulos, Sutton 6, Gagaloudis 9, Spanos, Borovnjak, Toliopoulos, Beck 6, Bempis.

Aris defeated Nea Kifisia for the third day of Greek Basketball League

Aris hosted and defeated Nea Kifisia for the third day of Greek Basketball League. Liakopoulos and Crocker helped their team to took the lead but Vezenkov and Bochoridis managed to balance the first quarter which finished with score 17-17. Aris was ahead in score by 4-5 points in second and third quarter but Nea Kifisia was following close. Liakopoulos equalized for Nea Kifisia two times in the last two minutes. Garrett equalized one minute before the end, Pelekanos was successful in two pointer and gave Aris the two point difference. Sioutis missed the last shot, a three pointer, and Aris defeated Nea Kifisia by only two points. Aleksandar Vezenkov finished the game with a double double, 15 points and 10 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 17-17, 37-31, 51-46, 67-65.

Aris BC: Bochoridis 7, Pelekanos 11, Gikas 17, Tsakaleris 4, Asimakopoulos 1, Poulianitis, Charisis 2, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 15, Sarikopoulos, Mourtos 2, Athinaiou 8.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević 1, Liakopoulos 17, Diamantopoulos, Crocker 25, Menoudakos, Sioutis, Psathas, Garrett 7, Petrodimopoulos 4, Woods, Tsaldaris 9, Barlos 2.

Panelefsiniakos defeated Ilisiakos for the third day of Greek Basketball League

Panelefsiniakos hosted Ilisiakos for the third day of the Greek Basketball League. Panelefsiniakos had 4/6 three pointers in the first quarter which balanced the 5/19 two pointers and give it the lead with 24-16. The score didn't change since Panelefsiniakos finished the game with 11/22 three pointers while Ilisiakos had 3/22. Panelefsiniakos also dominated rebounds with 49 total. Rob Jones finished the game with a double double, 15 points and 11 rebounds. Mouhammad Faye scored 9 points and collected 11 rebounds, close to double double. Manolis Papamakarios served 7 assists, Raley Ross scored 13 points. For Ilisiakos Kevin Anderson scored 21 points and DJ Stephens 14 points.

Quarters' scores: 24-16, 39-32, 55-42,73-58.

Panelefsiniakos: Nikou 9, Papamakarios 5, Raley Ross 13, Dimakos, Jones 15, Magounis 7, Faye 9, Melissaratos, Turner 6, Mantzaris 9, Avramidis, Houhoumis.

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 6, Antonakis, Smith, Chatzis 4, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 2, Stephens 14, Vavatsikos, Ioannou, Tzougarakis 1, Mbodj 10, Anderson 21.

A2 Greece third day results

A2 Greece (second division) third day results

Ikaroi Serron - Korivos 62-70

Arkadikos - Filathlitikos 71-59

Ermis Lagada - Iraklis BC 73-70 E.T (65-65)

Agia Paraskevi - Filippos Veroias 57-59
Kavala - AEK BC 66-72
Pagrati - OFI BC 66-78

Psyhiko - Lavrio 77-72

Rethymno Aegean lost by PAOK for the third day

Rethymno Aegean hosted and lost by PAOK for the third day of Greek Basketball League 2013-2014. Both teams started the season with two victories and were leading the league table. PAOK flight from Hungary, where the team played for Eurocup, directly to Rethymno. Apollon Tsochlas played against his previous team. PAOK started the game with a four points and finished the first quarter with 12-17. Second quarter started the same but 5 minutes before the half time Rethymno Aegean ran a 10-0 rally and took the lead by 4. DJ Cooper three pointers made the first half score 35-33 for Rethymno. In the second half PAOK ran an 8-0 rally and took the lead again, until the end. With consecutive three pointers from DJ Cooper, Mark Payne and Charalampidis PAOK was ahead by 13 points. Final score was 64-81 for PAOK as a result to its offensive play in the last two quarters. Kenny Gabriel made his third double double (10 points, 11 rebounds) in a row, even if his team lost, and now we have to search for the double double records.
Quarters' scores: 12-17, 35-33, 50-57, 64-81.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 2, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 4, Aggelopoulos 11, Pruitt 7, Kalampokis 6, Kanonidis 14, Sinnis, Latovic, Alexander 5, Arbet 5, Gabriel 10.
PAOK: Payne 16, Cooper 10, Charalampidis 15, Tsochlas 2, Vučićević, Tsairelis 15, Dedas, Margaritis 7, Kalles, Bogris 13, Kaselakis, Liapis 3.

KAOD defeated Panionios for the third day of Greek Basketball League

KAOD hosted and defeated Panionios for the third day of Greek Basketball League. Panionios had won for Eurocup earlier this week and had two victories in the first two games of the League. Guy-Marc Michel came back to Drama as an opponent, after playing two years for KAOD. First quarter was very tight with the teams close to score. KAOD started the second quarter better and took the lead by 11 points 28-17. Then PAOK started its counter attack with a 10-0 rally which finished the first half with score 30-35. Chrysikopoulos, Marković and Covic in third quarter managed to change the lead for another time and third quarter finished with KAOD in the lead. McCollum tried to lower the difference in fourth quarter but KAOD managed to keep it and double its victories for the Greek League. Edin Bavčić finished the game with a double double, 11 points and 10 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 15-14, 30-35, 54-46, 76-63.

KAOD: Slaftakis, Covic 11, Lazeric 20, Polk 8, Vaughn, Markovic 18, Spyridonidis,

Bavčić 11, Zaras 3, Benas, Chrysikopoulos 5, Kolovis.

Panionios: McCollum 17, Stamatis, Motsenigos, Duvnjak 11, Carter 2, Milbourne 14, Athanasoulas 2, Batis 6, Langford 5, Michel, Simtsak 6, Saloustros.

Panathinaikos defeats Laboral Kutxa in Nicosia for Euroleague second day

Panathinaikos hosted and defeated Laboral Kutxa in Nicosia, Cyprus for Euroleague second day. The game was sold out since Cypriot fans were able to watch a Euroleague game for the first time in Nicosia. Panathinaikos lost in first day from Lietuvos Rytas and was looking for its first victory. Roko Leni Ukić had debuted in Euroleague with Laboral Vitoria in 2005-2006. Ukić, Diamantidis, Mačiulis, Gist and Lasme were the starting five for Panathinaikos. First quarter started with one three pointer and two steals from Jonas Mačiulis. Panathinaikos had 8/18 three pointers in the first 13 minutes, great offensive game. First half ended with score 50-35. Panathinaikos had 8/13 two pointers, 10/22 three pointers and 16 assists. The game continue with massive Panathinaikos in offense which Laboral Kutxa couldn't follow. Panathinaikos finished the game with some records. 31 assists in one game equalized Euroleague record which holds Maccabi Tel Aviv since 2003-2004. Also Panathinaikos equalized the second more successful three pointers with 18 in one game. Mike Bramos finished the game with 7/11 three pointers. Laboral Kutxa played with 8 players which was a great disadvantage.
Quarters' scores: 26-16, 50-35, 77-56, 95-74.

Panathinaikos: Bramos 21, Curry 15, Batiste 5, Fotsis 8, Ukić 6, Lasme 9, Mavrokefalidis 2,

Diamantidis 9, Gist 8, Pappas, Giankovits 3, Mačiulis 9.

Laboral Kutxa: Nocioni 23, Van Oostrum 1, Diop, Hodge 15, Pleiss 10, Heurtel 5, Jelinek 17, Causer 3.

Friday, October 25, 2013

MVPs and double doubles of the Greek Basketball League

MVPs and double doubles of the Greek Basketball League 2013-2014

1st day

MVP Gabe Pruitt (Rethymno Aegean) vs Ikaros Chalkidas

Giorgos Bogris (PAOK) vs Kolossos Rodou, 14 points and 11 rebounds

Kenny Gabriel (Rethymno Aegean) vs Ikaros Chalkidas, 13 points and 11 rebounds

2nd day

MVP Dominique Sutton (Ikaros Chalkidas) vs Apollon Patras

Dominique Sutton (Ikaros Chalkidas) vs Apollon Patras, 15 points and 17 rebounds

Vlantimir Giankovits (Panathinaikos) vs Panelefsiniakos, 12 points and 11 rebounds

OFI BC roster 2013-2014

Tasos Traianos

Theoharis Plioukas

Stefan Georgevic

Spyros Gryllis

Giannis Karagiolidis

Christoforos Razis

Vasilis Vagenas

Giannis Tozios

Apollonas Deligiorgis

Giousi Kyritsis

Dimitris Stathakis

Manos Tzoulakis

Paris Martzos

Coach: Fotis Takianos

Iraklis BC roster 2013-2014

Kostas Behlivanidis

Michalis Kazakos

Apostolos Apostolidis

Efthimis Kothras

Giannis Maltesios

Dimitris Siologas

Savvas Chrysopoulos

Kostas Tsotsos

Miroslav Cubrilo

Alexandros Mitsialos

Coaches: Stefanos Perkos - Thomas Kostopoulos

Galatasaray lost by Olympiacos for Euroleague second day

Galatasaray hosted and lost by Olympiacos Piraeus in Abdi İpekçi Arena for the second day of Turkish Airlines Euroleague. Galatasaray's guard Henry Domercant was playing for Olympiacos in 2006-2007. Olympiacos was ahead in the score in the whole game and with Spanoulis, Lojeski and Petway scoring 44 points together, Jawai with 22 points were fighting alone.
Quarters' scores: 11-22, 30-42, 57-69, 67-78.

Galatasaray: Erceg 7, Gordon 5, Koksal 5(1), Markoishvili 7, Jawai 22, Aldemir, Macvan, Arroyo 10(2),
Guler, Arslan Dudley 10, Domercant 1.
Olympiacos: Petway 11(2), Law 2, Dunston 9, Spanoulis 18(2), Perperoglou 5(1), Sloukas 5(1),
Simmons 5, Printezis 5(1), Agravanis 2, Mantzaris 1, Lojeski 15(2).

Thursday, October 24, 2013

AEK BC roster 2013-2014

AEK BC 2013-2014 roster

Nikolic (26) 1,93m

Falekas (36) 1,88m
Panagiotaras (20) 1,80m
Papadionysiou (21) 1,91m
Tsiotras (26) 1,96m
Polytarhou (29 ) 1,90m
Droso (20) 2,00m
Karampoulas (32 ) 1,98m
Stoukas (22) 2,01m
Papantonakos (22) 2,05m
Gizogiannis (30) 2,02m
Zeginoglou (25) 2,02m
Despos (37) 2.08m
Tsiakos (31) 2,05m

Coach: Vasilis Ziagos

Greek teams results in Eurocup 2013-2014

PAOK
PAOK - Buducnost Voli Podgorica 85-84

Alba Fehevar - PAOK 88-89
PAOK - TED Ankara 75-77
PAOK - Khimik Yuzhne 77-69
Nizhny Novgorod - PAOK 83-57
Budućnost Voli Podgorica - PAOK 69-75
PAOK - Alba Fehervar 68-64
TED Ankara - PAOK 84-65
Khimik Yuzhne - PAOK 70-58
PAOK - Nizhny Novgorod 52-60

Panionios
Panionios - Radnicki Kragujevac 77-72
Spartak St. Petersburg - Panionios 68-69
Panionios - Neptūnas 86-91
Panionios - Bisons Loimaa 74-62
Radnicki Kragujevac - Panionios 84-77
Panionios - Spartak St. Petersburg 76-69
Neptūnas - Panionios 78-86
Bisons Loimaa - Panionios 93-89 (80-80)

Panionios in Last 32
Panionios - Nizhny Novgorod 75-89
Bilbao - Panionios 93-62
Crvena Zvezda - Panionios 86-64
Panionios - Crvena Zvezda 66-78
Nizhny Novgorod - Panionios 80-67
Panionios - Bilbao 84-88

Spartak St. Petersburg lost from Panionios second day Eurocup

Spartak St. Petersburg hosted and was defeated by Panionios for the second day of the Eurocup. Spartak St. Petersbourg won Besiktas Integral Forex Istanbul with 58 - 62 for the first day, while Panionios won Radnicki Kragujevac with 77-72. Jared Homan made a double double with 16 points and 10 rebounds but wasn't enough for his team. For Panionios McCollum, Carter and Milbourne scored 57 points in total while Langford was negative with 0/7 shots in 21 minutes, and Simtsak 0/4 in 19 minutes.
Quarters' scores: 13-22, 33-35, 54-48, 68-69.

Spartak St. Petersburg: McGrath 9, Koscheev, Burtt 11, Korolev 6, Yakovenko 11, Nesterov 3, Surotsev 12, Voitiuk, Homan 16, Tkachenko.
Panionios; McCollum 16, Stamatis, Duvnjak 3, Carter 23, Milbourne 17, Athanasoulas 8, Batis, Langford, Michel 2, Simtsak, Saloustros.

Alba Fehervar lost by PAOK for the second day of Eurocup

Alba Fehervar hosted and lost by PAOK for the second day of Eurocup by one point 88-89. Alba Fehervar lost in first day by Nizhny Novgorod with 82 - 64, while PAOK won Buducnost Voli Podgorica with 85-84. PAOK doubled his last minute and by one point victories in Eurocup. Kemp scored 26 points but missed the last shot which let PAOK win the game by one.
Quarters scores: 16-13, 42-35, 67-64, 88-89.

Alba Fehervar: Kemp 26, Szanati 2, Hobbs 16, Olah 2, Juhos 4, Moore 18, Toth P. 4,
Somogyi 4, Toth N. 8, Supola 4.
PAOK: Payne 13, Cooper 6, Charalampidis 19, Tsochlas 6, Tsairelis 21, Dedas 2, Margaritis 12, Bogris 10

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

A2 Basketball Greece results

Results of the Greek second basketball league A2.

First day results

Second day results
Third day results
Fourth day results

Fifth day results
Sixth day results
Seventh day results
Eighth day results
Ninth day results

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Dominique Sutton named MVP of the second day

Dominique Sutton named MVP of the second day of the Greek Basketball League. Sutton had a great game against Apollon Patras and made a double double with 15 points and 17 rebounds. Sutton feels good at Chalkida, which as he says is a nice town with a view by the sea, and at Greek Basketball League. He is looking forward to play in the Greek All Star game, since he already has won the dunk contest of the ΝΒDL.

Greek Basketball League third day fixtures and results

Greek Basketball League third day

Saturday 26/10/2013

16:00 KAOD - Panionios 76-63

16:00 Rethymno Aegean - PAOK 64-81

18:00 Aris - Nea Kifisia 67-65

18:00 Panelefsiniakos - Ilisiakos 73-58

19:15 Olympiacos - Ikaros Chalkidas 99-61

Sunday 27/10/2013

16:00 Apollon Patras - Kolossos Rodou 76-66

Monday 28/10/2013

17:00 Aries Trikala - Panathinaikos 68-88

Shang Ping first official game and points with Panathinaikos in Greece

Shang Ping (尚平) debuted with Panathinaikos ( 帕纳辛纳克斯篮球队) in Greek Basketball League (希腊篮球联赛) against Panelefsiniakos and scored his first four points. Shang Ping became the first Chinese player to play and score in Greece and one of the first Chinese in Europe.

Monday, October 21, 2013

Panathinaikos smashes Panelefsiniakos for the second day of Basketball League Greece

Panathinaikos hosted and smashed Panelefsiniakos for the second day of the Greek Basketball League. First home game for the Greek champions and the debut of the first Chinese player in Greece, Shang Ping. Both teams started the season with a defeat and they were searching for their first victory. The history between the two teams were the two games of the previous season, where Panathinaikos had two victories 95-68 and 59-77. Panathinaikos starting five were Ukić, Diamantidis, Mačiulis, Gist and Mavrokefalidis. Panelefsiniakos starting five were Papamakarios, Avramidis, Jones, Fayer and Turner. Panathinaikos took the lead early in the first quarter, although its players had 2/9 three pointers. With Panathinaikos having 7 assists and Panelefsiniakos having 11 turnovers the first quarter finished 18-8. For Panelefsiniakos Papamakarios scored 4 points in the first quarter but also made two fouls. Panelefsiniakos made only three turnovers in the second quarter but finished the half time without any points from three pointers and just one from free throws. Mavrokefalidis had 4/4 shots and was the top scorer of the first half with 9 points. Panathinaikos played tight defense allowing Panelefsiniakos scoring just 21 points in first half. In offense Panathinaikos had poor statistics with 9/19 free throws and 3/15 three pointers. Second half was an offensive and defensive monologue for Panathinaikos. Vlantimir Giankovits was scoring and the team was defending. On 34th minute Shang Ping entered the court, becoming the first Chinese player that played and scored in Greek Basketball League. Final score 74-35, with Panathinaikos breaking its defensive allowance record in Greek Basketball League. Previous record was against Peristeri where the opponent team scored 41 points. Vlantimir Giankovits made a double double with 12 points and 11 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 18-8, 32-21, 57-29, 74-35.

Panathinaikos: Bramos 4, Curry 7, Fotsis, Ukić 5, Lasme 5, Mavrokefalidis 11, Diamantidis 11, Gist 4, Pappas 6, Giankovits 12, Ping 4, Mačiulis 5.

Panelefsiniakos: Nikou 2, Papamakarios 7, Ross 4, Dimakos, Jones 7, Magounis 2, Faye 7, Melissaratos, Turner 4, Mantzaris 2, Avramidis, Houhoumis.

Panathinaikos' Euroleague game in Nicosia is sold out

Panathinaikos will play in Nicosia's "Tassos Papadopoulos - Eleftheria" hall against Laboral Kutxa Vitoria on October 25th and the game is already sold out. The Basketball Federation of Cyprus has announced that all tickets have been sold and the fans should arrive on time due to large attendance.

Dimitris Menoudakos' unique record with Nea Kifisia

Nea Kifisia may have lost from KAOD on Sunday but Dimitris Menoudakos made a unique record. Dimitris Menoudakos by entering the game for almost two minutes became the only player to have played in 8 different divisions with the same team. Menoudakos started playing for Nea Kifisia when the team was in fourth division of ESKA, local league of Athens. Nea Kifisia jumped four amateur divisions, D to A ESKA, and four professional divisions, G, B, A2 and A1.

Shang Ping will debut in Greek Basketball League

Shang Ping (尚平) will take the place of Mike Batiste in the game against Panelefsiniakos for the second day of the Greek Basketball League. Shang Ping will debut in the Greek Basketball League and becoming the first player from China to play in Greece. Panathinaikos ( 帕纳辛纳克斯篮球队) officially opens a new market today.

A2 Greece second day results

A2 Greece - Second League

Second day results

Saturday 19 October
Lavrio - Ikaroi Serron 86-83
Korivos Amaliadas - Arkadikos 70-62
Filathlitikos -Ermis Lagada 79-69
Filippos Veroias - Kavala 65-61
AEK - Pagrati 88-59
Psyhiko - OFI 101-97 (2 E.T)

Sunday 20 October
Iraklis - Agia Paraskevi 79-56

Sunday, October 20, 2013

KAOD defeats Nea Kifisia for Basketball League

Nea Kifisia hosted and lost by KAOD for the first home game of the newly promoted team. The newly promoted team started the first half good and was ahead in score but KAOD dominated last 15 minutes and won the game. Nea Kifisia starting five were Liakopoulos, Crocker, Sioutis, Woods and Barlos. KAOD starting five were Lareric, Polk, Vaughn, Markovic and Chrysikopoulos. First quarter was great for Nea Kifisia who finished it leading the score by 29-18. KAOD tightened its defense in the second quarter and lowered the difference to 7 points, 47-40. In the third quarter KAOD made a counter attack and on 36' Markovic balanced the score to 49-49. KAOD team play, since 10 players have scored, gave results. KAOD finished the third quarter ahead by 3, 59-62. KAOD played against Garret in the beginning of the last quarter, when Garrett scored 4 points after 5 points from KAOD. Christian Polk with two three pointers in a row gave KAOD an 8 points lead, 6 minutes before the end. Tony Crocker was trying to keep Nea Kifisia in the game but Polk was bombing three pointers and the difference reached 12 points, 67-79. KAOD scored 12 three pointers and had 6/6 fast breaks. Christian Polk in the third and fourth quarter and Linos Chrysikopoulos were the cornerstone of KAOD's victory. For Nea Kifisia Tony Crocker and Darrin Garrett scored 42 points together but weren't enough to win the game.

Quarters' scores: 29-18, 47-40, 59-62, 84-95

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević 9, Liakopoulos 9, Diamantopoulos, Crocker 30, Kompodietas, Menoudakos, Sioutis 3, Psathas 2, Garrett 12, Woods 9, Tsaldaris 2, Barlos 8.

KAOD: Slaftakis 6, Covic 2, Lazeric 15, Polk 22, Vaughn 6, Markovic 8, Spyridonidis 4,

Bavcic 3, Zaras 8, Benas 4, Chrysikopoulos 17, Kolovis.

Olympiacos defeats Ilisiakos for Basketball League

Ilisiakos hosted and lost by Olympiacos by 57-78. Olympiacos started the game after two consecutive wins so the first quarter finished with a clear lead of 11 points, 12-23. Ilisiakos balanced the game at second quarter and the half time ended with 25-36. Second half started with a counter attack from Ilisiakos and the difference at the end of third quarter was 7 points, 44-51. In the last quarter Olympiacos managed to keep the difference above 10 points. Olympiacos scored 10 three pointers and left no chances nor hope to Ilisiakos. Final result 57-78. Nikos Chatzis tried with 16 points but was trying alone. For Olympiacos Matt Lojeski scored 21 points, collected 8 rebounds and made just 2 turnovers. Only Papapetrou didn't score for Olympiacos and Spanoulis scored 3 points in 20 minutes.

Quarters' scores: 12-23, 25-36, 44-51, 57-78.

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 6, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 3, Smith 6, Chatzis 16, Dorkofikis 9, Stephens 5, Vavatsikos, Ioannou, Tzougarakis, Mboj 4, Anderson 8.

Olympiacos: Petway 9, Law 7, Dunston 5, Spanoulis 3, Papapetrou, Sloukas 5, Simmons 9, Lojeski 21, Printezis 11, Agravanis 3, Mantzaris 3, Katsivelis 2.

Ikaros Chalkidas wins Apollon Patras for Basketball League second day

Ikaros Chalkidas hosted and defeated Apollon Patras (72-64) in the first game for Ikaros in Chalkida for the Greek Basketball League. Ikaros starting five were Strnad, Govens, Aska, Sutton and Spanos. Apollon Patras starting five were Hill, Wilson, Lianos, Trepalovac and Bolds. Apollon Patras started the game with four points but Ikaros managed to take the lead and finish the first quarter ahead by one, 19-18. Sutton and Aska helped their team finish the first half with a difference of 9 points, 39-30. Argyropoulos and Amin Hot were more productive in the third quarter and Apollon Patras lowered the difference in third quarter to 7 points, 56-49. Ikaros Calkidas kept a safe difference and won by points. Dominique Sutton made a perfect double double with 15 points and 17 rebounds. Darrin Govens scored 14 points and served 9 assists. With Sutton and Govens Ikaros Chalkidas celebrated its first home victory.

Quarters' scores: 19-18, 39-30, 56-49, 72-64

Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad 5, Govens 14, Papanikolopoulos 3, Aska 12, Manolopoulos 6, Sutton 15, Gagaloudis 8, Spanos 3, Borovnjak, Vougioukas, Beck 6, Bempis.

Apollon Patras: Hill 3, Argyropoulos 13, Taylor 10, Wilson 11, Lianos 3, Petrovic 7, Pelekoudas, Niforas, Zafiris, Trepalovac 3, Hot 10, Bolds 4.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

PAOK defeats Aris for the Basketball League Greece

Aris and PAOK have played earlier in this season for the Greek Cup, where Aris eliminated PAOK. For the Basketball League second day Aris hosted PAOK who played without Mark Payne. Starting five for Aris were Bochoridis, Athinaiou, Pelekanos, Vezenkov and Charisis. Starting five for PAOK DJ Cooper, Charalampidis, Kaselakis, Tsairelis and Bogris. Charalampidis scored the first points of the game and Bochoridis replied with two points for Aris. Bogris was charged with offensive foul and then with a technical foul, which was an early foul problem for PAOK First quarter finished with score 20-17 for Aris. On 26' Pelekanos scored five points in a row, became the first player to reach 10 points with perfect stats and kept the difference for Aris in 5 points. Four points from Bochoridis made the score in the half time 38-28. Eight points difference for Aris who managed to keep Charalampidis to 7 points and DJ Cooper to 1 assist in the first half. Aris had 5/5 fastbreaks in the first half and 4 steals. Aris added four points to its difference in every quarter. In the second half PAOK started with a 11-0 and took the lead in the score. Giorgos Bogris was unstoppable in the third quarter scoring 12 points and making 2 blocks. Athinaiou with two three pointers gave the lead to Aris and DJ Cooper with one three pointer back to PAOK. Last quarter was more balanced with Aris trying to reach the score and PAOK escaping with either Bogris or Cooper. In the last two minutes both team were missing all shots, before Aris makes a 5-0 rally, taking the lead by three points 45 seconds before the end. DJ Cooper scored another three pointer in the last minutes and led the game to extra time, since Asimakopoulos missed the last shot. Another crucial three pointer by DJ Cooper for PAOK. Athinaiou started the extra time with a three pointer and Charalampidis replied. After two minutes Tsairelis scored two free throws and Bogris with a shot gave PAOK four points lead. Athinaiou scored for Aris, Tsairelis was accurate in free throws and PAOK defeated Aris by 4, 75-79. Bogris didn't make another double double but scored 21 points and got 8 rebounds. Tsairelis almost did it with 13 points and 9 rebounds. DJ Cooper served just 3 assists but scored 15 points and the crucial three pointer. Pelekanos and Athinaiou ware once more Aris' leader with 19 and 17 points.

Quarters' scores: 20-17, 38-30, 51-54, 68-68

Extra time: 75-79

Aris: Bochoridis 9, Pelekanos 19, Gikas 8, Tsakaleris, Asimakopoulos 6, Poulianitis, Charisis 6, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 4, Mourtos 6, Athinaiou 17, Mitoglou

PAOK: Cooper 15, Charalampidis 15, Tsochlas 4, Vučićević, Tsairelis 13, Dedas, Margaritis 3, Kalles 4, Bogris 21, Kaselakis 4, Liapis, Koniaris

Kolossos Rodou loses from Rethymno Aegean

Kolossos Rodou hosted and was defeated by Rethymno Aegean for the second day of the Greek Basketball League. Rethymno started the game with a 0-7 ran but the first quarter finished balanced 18-18. Rethymno high accuracy in three pointers and dunks dominated second quarter where the partial score was 9-21. Rethymno started the game better than Kolossos and finished the first half with a burst that gave it the lead by 12 points. Hurtt and Kalampokis had a good first half while Kolossos Rodou had a more team game with 7 players scoring. Rethymno's 19 rebounds and 5 three pointers made the difference in first half. Hurtt (5/5 three pointers!) and Pruitt continued scoring at third quarter and the difference reached 21 points, 32-53. Taylor Smith finished the third quarter with a three pointer and reduced the difference to 11 points, 48-59. Fourth quarter started with Papantoniou and Osby lowering the difference down to 6 points but Hurtt was unstoppable! Hurtt scored his sixth three pointer (6/6!) and the difference was back to 11 points. In a game where Rethymno Aegean scored 11 three pointers and collected 29 rebounds Kolossos Rodou didn't have big chances. Kenny Gabriel made another double double with 10 points and 10 rebounds, two double doubles in two games!

Quarters' scores: 18-18, 27-39, 48-59, 66-76

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 10, Rum, Matsamas, Georgalis 6, Smith 14, Stefanidis 10, Simpson 2, Koukoulas 6, Tsamis 5, Prewitt, Osby 13, Danas.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 25, Kallinikidis 2, Koumpouras 6, Aggelopoulos 10, Pruitt 8, Kalampokis 12, Kanonidis, Sinnis, Latovic, Kwame, Arbet 3, Gabriel 10.

Panionios wins Aries Trikala for the second day of Greek Basketball League

Panionios hosted and defeated Aries Trikala for the second day of Greek Basketball League.
First two points for Nestoras Kommatos and Aries Trikala but then Panionios ran an 8-0 score and took the lead in score. First quarter finished without any team scoring a three pointer, 0/4 for Panionios and 0/4 for Aries Trikala. Since the defenses were tight both teams mainly scored with free throws, 7 for Panionios and 8 for Aries Trikala. First quarter finished with Panionios ahead by 5 points since it had better accuracy in shots than Aries Trikala who had 20% in two pointers and 0% in three pointers. Second half started with four points from Ewing Jr for Trikala and the first three pointer for Panionios from Carter. Patrick Ewing Junior who entered in the second quarter started with 4/4 two pointers and was the main reason Trikala followed the score, but also made 3 fouls and went back to bench. Without Ewing Trikala felt back in score since Errick McCollum scored and served assists. Panionios had scored 15 points from free throws while Trikala finished first half without three pointers after five attempts. Chris Evans scored the first three pointers for Trikala and Nestoras Kommatos the second, marking a counter attack for Trikala in the second half. In 36' Aries Trikala took the lead in score for the first time after 0-2 with 38-40. Duvnjak with a three pointer made the score 43-42 that gave the lead again to Panionios. Ewing was fouled out on 35' and then Trikala bench was charged with technical foul. Three free throws made the score 58-51 and Panionios took a great advantage. Trikala tried in the end but Batis blocked Mutakabbir in the crucial attack. Evans finished the game with 17 and 7 rebounds, Kommatos with 12 points and Ewing Jr with 10 points before being fouled out. Panionios scored 34 points with free throws which was the statistical highlight of the match. Errick McCollum was the leader of Panionios for another game with Milbourne following with 15 points. Panionios doubled its victories and Aries Trikala its loses.

Quarters' scores: 15-10, 34-28, 47-44, 69-62

Panionios: McCollum 17, Stamatis, Duvnjak 7, Carter 3, Milbourne 15, Athanasoulas 4, Batis 6, Kavvadas 3, Langford 7, Michel 2, Simtsak 3, Saloustros 2.

Aries Trikala: Evans 17, Perunicic, Ewing 10, Giannakidis 5, Kommatos 12, Granger 2, Deligiannis 6, Matalon, Fountas, Georgakis, Mutakabbir 8, Petrovic 2.

Olympiacos wins Unicaja Malaga for Euroleague premiere

Olympiacos Piraeus, the Euroleague back to back champions, hosted and defeated Unicaja Malaga for the first day of Euroleague 2013-2014. Starting five for Olympiacos Spanoulis, Perperoglou, Simmons, Printezis, Mantzaris. Starting five for Unicaja Malaga Suarez, Granger, Dragic, Hettsheimeir, Caner-Medley. Giorgos Printezis scored the first points of the Greek team. Jayson Granger started the game with an unsportsmanlike foul on Vasilis Spanoulis. Unicaja Malaga ran a 8-0 score and from 6-6 led the game to 6-14. Dragic and Hettsheimeir had a good first quarter but then the second disappeared. Sloukas and Spanoulis with three pointers finished the first quarter with score 18-22. Unicaja Malaga was leading the score for 30 minutes but when the fourth quarter started Olympiacos had a burst and in the end won the game by 8 points, 69-61. Statistics highlights the 21 assists of Olympiacos and the fact that both teams had better accuracy in three pointers than two points shots. Quarters' scores: 18-22, 26-33, 44-45, 69-61
Play of the night by Petway, Olympiacos.

Olympiacos: Petway 13, Law, Dunston 3, Spanoulis 13, Perperoglou 4, Sloukas 8, Simmons 4, Printezis 9, Agravanis, Mantzaris 3, Katsivelis, Lojeski 12.

Unicaja Malaga: Conde, Sabonis 2, Vidal 2, Calloway 3, Suarez 8, Granger 4, Vazquez 12, Kuzminskas, Dragic 12, Hettsheimeir 8, Caner-Medley 9, Stimac 1.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Panathinaikos lost by Lietuvos Rytas at Euroleague day one

Lietuvos Rytas hosted and defeated Panathinaioks in Vilnius, Lithuania for the first day of Euroleague 2013-2014. Two players of Lietuvos Rytas have previously played for Panathinaikos, Andreas Glyniadakis and Milenko Tepić. Mike Bramos stayed back in Athens. Lietuvos was the last team to participate in Euroleague after qualification games and during preparation won Aris. Gist scored the first points for Panathinaikos and was the main scored for his team in the first quarter. Lietuvos led the score by scoring three points and free throws and created a difference of six points 17-11. Panathinaikos than ran a 8-0 score with Ukić and Mavrokefalidis. The Greek center had a good first quarter in offense and defense. Panathinaikos low accuracy in three points and Lietuvos Rytas just one turnover were the stat highlights of the quarter. Mike Batiste reached 10 points, Ukić 4 assists while Omar Cook had 8 points and 4 assists in the first half. The third quarter started from zero. Panathinaikos didn't improve its accuracy and turnovers so Lietuvos Rytas gained a small difference of 4 points in the first five minutes of the third quarter but Panathinaikos managed to finish the quarter leading the score. Dimitris Diamantidis had 1/7 three points shots, 0/2 free throws but on the other hand he served 7 assists and scored 4 points in the last 20 seconds, leading the game to extra time. Andreas Glyniadakis made 3 fouls and 1 block in seven minutes but didn't score. Seibutis had a weird game with 4/4 three points shots and 2/7 two points shots. In the extra time Panathinaikos ran a quick 4-0 with Mačiulis and Ukić. But then Lietuvos Rytas ran a 6-0 with Babrauskas scoring 5 points and Darius Songaila scoring one free throw but missing three in a row. 21 seconds before the end Gist with a dunk made the score 82-83. Renaldas Seibutis scored 5.5 seconds before the end and the score changed to 84-83. Argyris Pedoulakis called a time out for Panathinaikos' last offense of 5 seconds. Ukić missed a three points shot and the ball was out for Panathinaikos at 0.4 seconds. Mike Batiste lost the last shot and Panathinaikos lost the game by 84-83.
Quarters' scores: 25-25, 42-42, 59-60, 74-74. Extra time: 84-83

Panathinaikos: Curry 12, Batiste 12, Fotsis 3, Ukić 8, Lasme 4, Mavrokefalidis 10, Diamantidis 6,
Gist 10, Pappas 5, Giankovits, Mačiulis 13.

Lietuvos Rytas: Tepić 6, Babrauskas 10, Palacios 12, Seibutis 19, Glyniadakis, Gecevicius 7,
Orelik, Lideka, Cook 10, Bendzius, Songaila 13, Jelovac 7

Gabe Pruitt named MVP of the first day

Gabe Pruitt named MVP of the first day of the Greek Basketball League. Pruitt got the highest score in ranking with 29 after scoring 20 points, serving 8 assists, collecting 4 rebounds and making 3 steals against Ikaros Chalkidas.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Panionos wins Radnicki Kragujevac for Eurocup first day

Panionos hosted and defeated Radnicki Kragujevac for the first day of Eurocup by 77-72. Yarou had a great double double with 14 points and 16(!) rebounds but wasn't enough for Radincki. McCollum was the leader of Panionios for another game with 27 points and Duvnjak followed with 19 points. Quarters' scores: 2-15, 28-25, 44-48, 77-72

Panionios: McCollum 27(1), Duvnjak 19(1), Carter 2, Milbourne 8(1), Athanasoulas 6(1), Mpatis 5(1), Kavvadas 6, Langford, Michel 2, Simtsak 2, Saloustros.

Radnicki Kragujevac: Seeley 14(2), Lesic 3, Jovic 6, Stefanovic, Mladan 16(4), Kalinic 5,

Yarou 14(16 rebounds), Dimic, Balmazovic 11(3), Jevtovic, Marinovic 3

PAOK agreed terms with Ryvon Covile

PAOK agreed terms with Ryvon Covile. The 29 years old American center graduated from Detroit Mercy and played for Cantabria Lobos in Spain and for Gilboa/Afula Haemek in Israel. Last season Covile was in Japan for Aishin. Covile has previously played in Euroleague with Orleans Loiret Basket and he made his Euroleague records against Olympiacos. Next season he played in Eurocup with Le Mans.

Greek Basketball League first day highlights

Giorgos Bogris and Kenny Gabriel who made a double double. Kenny Gabriel scored 13 points and collected 11 rebounds, while Giorgos Bogris scored 14 points and collected 11 rebounds. Kostas Charalampidis, who scored 26 points for PAOK against Kolossos Rodou. The lowest score from all seven games of the first day was between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos where the two teams scored 100 points in total. On the contrary PAOK and Kolossos Rodou scored 169 points in total. Rethymno Aegean has the player with the highest ranking, Gabe Pruitt with 29, and the fourth highest ranking, Kenny Gabriel with 22. PAOK has Bogris and Charalampidis who were ranked 3rd and 5th. Panionios' Errick McCollum is the player with the second highest ranking and second in points scored.

PAOK defeated Buducnost for Eurocup first day

PAOK hosted and defeated Buducnost Voli Podgorica for the first day of the Eurocup. The match was unpredictable till the last second, when DJ Cooper scored a three points shot and gave his team the victory. Bogris had a great game, specially in the first half but he missed two free throws in the last minute which could have been crucial. Bogris scored 28 points and DJ Cooper scored 16 point, with 3/3 three points shots, plus served 8 assists (like he did in the Greek League premiere). Buducnost will only keep Jeleel Akindele's double double, who scored 12 points and collected 12 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 24-19, 34-38, 52-58, 85-84

PAOK: DJ Cooper 16(3), Charalampidis 10(1), Tsochlas 5(1), Vučićević 4, Tsairelis 15(1), Dedas, Margaritis 3(1), Kalles, Bogris 28, Kaselakis 4, Liapis

Buducnost: Sehovic 9, Mihailovic 15(1), Popovic M. 1, Subotic 6, Vitkovac 3, Popovic A. 22(4), Akindele 12, Ivanovic, Capin 14(3), Coleman 2.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Greek basketball league 2013-2014 second day

Greek basketball league 2013-2014 second day schedule

Saturday 19 October 2013

16:00 Panionios - Aries Trikala 69-62

18:00 Kolossos Rodou - Rethymno Aegean 66-76

21:30 Aris BC - PAOK BC 75-79 (68-68)

Sunday 20 October 2013

17:00 Ikaros Chalkidas - Apollon Patras 72-64

18:00 AE Nea Kifisia - KAOD 84-95

18:00 Ilisiakos - Olympiacos 57-78

Monday 21 October 2013

19:15 Panathinaikos - Panelefsiniakos 74-35

Panionios will host Aries Trikala who had totally different first day, since Panionios won in the end the away game against Panelefsiniakos while Aries Trikala lost in home game against Nea Kifisia. Aries Trikala have to play tough defense in order to avoid a second defeat. Kolossos Rodou against Rethymno Aegean is a hard to predict game. Aris against PAOK is the highlight of the weekend. Aris defeated and eliminated PAOK from the Greek cup quarterfinals in away game and the first game for the championship comes two weeks after. If Nea Kifisia wins KAOD would have made a great beginning for a newly promoted team. Ilisiakos will start the season with two defeats and has to plan the next day, same for Panelefsiniakos who lost in the end at first day and has to play against Panathinaikos.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Olympiacos wins Panathinaikos for the first day of Greek Basketball League

Olympiacos hosted (without fans) and defeated Panathinaikos for the first day of Greek Basketball League. Both teams have some injured players but Roko Leni Ukić followed the his team to SEF. Panathinaikos had won the last four games against Olympiacos, 3 games for the play offs finals and the cup final. Olympiacos' captain Vasilis Spanoulis had played for Panathinaikos and Panathinaikos' center Loukas Mavrokefalidis has played for Olympiacos. Vasilis Spanoulis and Dimitris Diamantidis score 11 points on average when they play against Panathinaikos and Olympiacos respectively. The three referees were Christos Christodoulou, Spyros Gontas and Christos Panagiotou. Mantzaris, Spanoulis, Perperoglou, Printezis and Simmons the starting five for Olympiacos. Gist, Lasme, Diamantidis, Pappas and Mačiulis the starting five for Panathinaikos. First attack for Panathinaikos, Diamantidis missed the shot, Perperoglou also missed the shot for Olympiacos. Mantzaris scored the first points for Olympiacos for this season, with a three points shot. Lasme scored the first points for Panathinaikos, after 3 minutes after the beginning. Panathinaikos played good defense for 8 minutes Olympiacos scored mainly with free throws and three points shots in the first quarter, having 2/9 two points shots. With those two field goals Olympiacos finished the first quarter leading the score by three, 16-13. First quarter finished with 3/3 fast breaks for Panathinaikos and 3/7 three points shots for Olympiacos. Panathinaikos started second quarter without scoring for 2 minutes and 20 seconds, so Olympiacos broadened the difference to 22-14, with 5/10 three points shots. Both team continued with bad shooting percentages 27% for Olympiacos and 36% for Panathinaikos in two points shots, so the second quarter was less productive for Olympiacos and the same poor for Panathinaikos. Matt Lojeski with two free throws in the last 2 seconds gave the lead to Olympiacos for the halftime and became the first player who scored 10 points. Third quarter started with Printezis scoring a three points shot and a goal-foul. Very bad offensive play by Panathinaikos who up to third quarter has 25% in free throws, 35% in two points shots and 18% in three points shots. Bad quarter was marked with a technical foul for Panathinaikos' coach Argyris Pedoulakis due to complaining. Panathinaikos scored only 9 points in third quarter so the fourth quarter started with Olympiacos leading the score by eight points. Simmons started fourth quarter with a goal-foul. Panathinaikos tried to lower the difference with three points shots which were mainly unsuccessful. Four minutes before the end Panathinaikos had already four team fouls while Olympiacos had none. Sloukas scored five consecutive points which maintained a safe difference. 60 seconds before the end Petway scored a three point shot and raised the difference to 9 points. Diamantidis turnover and unsportsmanlike foul ended the game. It was a tight game with a lot of tactics and poor shooting percentages. Both team collected 40 rebounds which and made 16 turnovers. Partial quarters' scores: 16-13, 13-14, 15-9, 11-9 Quarters' scores: 16-13, 29-27, 44-36, 55-45

Olympiacos. Begić, Spanoulis 2, Agravanis, Printezis 12(1), Dunston, Petway 3(1), Simmons 2,
Sloukas 9(1), Katsivelis, Mantzaris 7(2), Lojeski 14(1), Perperoglou 3(1)

Panathinaikos: Ukić 1, Diamantidis 16, Bramos 3. Pappas 6, Curry 2, Giankovits, Mačiulis, Fotsis 5, Gist, Mavrokefalidis 9, Batiste 2, Lasme 2.

Greek basketball league 2013-2014 results

Greek Basket League 2013-2014 results

First day results 12-13-14 October 2013

Second day results 19-20-21 October 2013
Third day results 26-27-28 October 2013
Fourth day results 2-3-5 November 2013
Fifth day results 9-10-11 November 2013
Sixth day results
Seventh day results
Eighth day results 31 November-1-2-December 2013
Ninth day results 7-8-9 December 2013
Tenth day results 14-15-16 December 2013
Eleventh day results 28-29 December 2013
Twelfth day results 4-5 January 2014
Thirteenth day results 11-12-13 January 2014
Fourteenth day results 18-19-20 January 2014
Fifteenth day results 25-26-27 January 2014
Sixteenth day results 1-2 February 2014
Seventeenth day results 5-6 February 2014
Eighteenth day results 15-16 February 2014
Nineteenth day results 22-23-24 February 2014

Twentieth day results 1-2-3 March 2014

Twenty first day results 15-16-16 March 2014

Greek Basketball mourns for Filippos Syrigos

Greek Basketball mourns for the loss of its journalist. Filippos Syrigos passed away on Sunday, 13th of October 2013, after after a lost fight with cancer. Syrigos was the first journalist who placed Basketball in the Greek television. He became famous among all Greeks for his coverage of the 1987 Eurobasket final in Athens, where Greece won its (first) gold medal.

Syrigos was the director of the first basketball-only magazine in Greece "To triponto", leader of Eleftherotypia's sports department and journalist for Athlitiki Iho, Sport FM, ERT and Nova.

Apollon Patras wins Ilisiakos for the first day of Greek Basketball League 2013-2014

Apollon Patras hosted and defeated Ilisiakos with 80-65 for the first day of Greek Basketball League 2013-2014. Trepalovac scored the first points of Apollon Patra who ran a 7-0 score before Ilisiakos replied with its own rally at 9-7. First quarter finished with Apollon Patras ahead by 23-16. Apollon scored 4 three points shots in first and had 75% 2-points shots accuracy. Half-time found the host team ahead by 12 points, 47-35. Apollon had 100% accuracy in free throws, 61% in two points shots and 46% in three points shots, which accuracy made the difference since most statistics were balanced. Quarters' scores 26-16, 47-35, 63-49, 80-65.

Apollon Patras: Hill 3, Argyropoulos 8, Kaperonis, Taylor 12(2), Wilson 19(3), Lianos 2, Petrovic 5, Molfetas, Zafiris, Trepalovac 19, Hot 3, Bolds 18(2)
Ilisiakos: Kafkis 10(1), Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 5, Smith, Chatzis 9(1), Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 15(2), Vavatsikos 2, Ioannou 4, Tzougarakis, Mbodji 6, Anderson 14(1).

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Panelefsiniakos lost by Panionios for the first day of Greek Basketball League 2013-2014

Panelefsiniakos hosted and lost by Panionios for the first day of the Greek Basketball League 2013-2014. Athanasoulas scored the first points for Panionios with a 3-points shot and Faye replied with the first two points for Panelefsiniakos. First quarter finished with 19-19 score and Faye with Mantzaris having scored 6 points for Panelefsiniakos while for Panionios McCollum, Duvnjak and Kavvadas had 4 points each. McCollum reached 10 points in the second quarter and Panionios was ahead by 25-31. Mantzaris also reached 10 points for Panelefsiniakos and the halftime score was 41-38. In the first half Panelefsiniakos dominated rebounds with 21 (12-9) against 8 of Panionios (5-3). Third quarter was as competitive as the previous one with the teams being in short distance. Panionios collected 11 rebounds, 3 more than in the whole half time. Both teams had poor accuracy in three points, around 25% each, making it a tough game. Third quarter score was 57-56, so both teams entered last quarter from equal basis. In the fourth quarter Panionios ran a 4-0 score and turned the score to 57-60 9 minutes before the end. Batis and Duvnjak gave Panionios a five point lead 4 minutes before the end. Batis and Papamakarios then had a verbal fight so they were both charged with technical foul and then the first scored once more making the score 62-69. Batis was the man for Panionios in the last quarter. Panelefsiniakos tried with three points shots in the end to win the game but 25% accuracy it wasn't that easy. McCollum scored two points, Faye two free throws but then Nikou made a steal 30 seconds before the end and scored a three points shot 15 seconds before the end and the game was still on. Batis scored only one out of two free throws, Nikou also missed one free throw and the last three points shot. After all Panionios defeated Panelefsiniakos by two points, 72-74, in a great game that keep the fans excited till the end. Panionios scoring stability is something to remember with the team scoring 19, 19, 18, 18 points in each quarter. Quarters' scores: 19-19, 41-38, 57-56, 72-74.

Panelefsiniakos: Nikou 14(2), Papamakarios 8(1), Ross 6, Dimakos, Jones 5, Magounis 8 (1),
Faye 12(1), Melissaratos 5, Turner 4, Mantzaris 10, Avramidis.
Panionios: McCollum 23, Stamatis, Motsenigos, Duvnjak 17(1), Milbourne 4, Athanasoulas 6(1),
Batis 10(1), Kavvadas 6, Langford, Michel, Simtsak 8, Saloustros.