Olympiacos swept Panionios and qualified to the League Finals

Olympiacos swept Panionios and qualified to the Basket League Greece Finals. Panionios played much better than in the first two games. Panionios was leading the score in the second and third quarters and the game finished with equal score in normal time, 79-79. in the extra time Vasilis Spanoulis scored a buzzer beater three pointer and Olympiacos won the game, swept Panionios and qualified for the Basket League Greece Finals. Vasilis Spanoulis was the leader of Olympiacos in score, rebounds and assits with 22, 5 and 5 respectively. Errick McCollum was once more the top scorer of  Panionios with 25 points and Kevin Langford helped with 17 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 10 fouls drawn.
Quarters' scores: 16-16, 39-37, 60-55, 79-79. Extra time: 90-93

Panionios: McCollum 25, Duvnjak 8, Carter 4, Milbourne 17, Athanasoulas 3, Batis 4, Langford 17, Michel 1, Simtsak 6, Saloustros 5.
Olympiacos: Petway, Shermandini 1, Dunston 5, Spanoulis 22, Perperoglou 10, Papapetrou 1, Sloukas 8, Simmons 11, Lojeski 7, Printezis 17, Mantzaris.

Panathinaikos swept PAOK and qualified to the League Finals

Panathinaikos swept PAOK and qualified to the Basket League Greece Finals. PAOK was competitive but not as good as in the first two games that took place in Athens and Panathinaikos qualified to the finals with a sweep. Michalis Tsairelis finished the game with a double double, 11 points and 10 rebounds. DJ Cooper had 14 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. For Panathinaikos Ramel Curry and Dimitris Diamantidis finished the game with 17 points each. Roko Leni Ukic had 8 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. 
Quarters' scores: 16-16, 37-38, 53-58, 65-72.

PAOK: Payne 8, Cooper 14, Charalampidis 10, Tsochlas, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 11, Dedas 5, Margaritis 5, Bogris 10, Kaselakis 2, Koniaris.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 6, Curry 17, Fotsis 3, Ukic 8, Lasme 3, Mavrokefalidis 5, Diamantidis 17, Gist 8, Giankovits, Maciulis, Wright 5.

Panathinaikos beat PAOK for Greek League Play Offs semi-finals

Panathinaikos hosted and beat PAOK for Greek League Play Offs semi-finals. PAOK started as good as in the first game and was leading the score in the first half. In the 15th minute PAOK had a lead of 12 points, 20-32. In the first half Panathinaikos had only 1/13 three pointers and was following PAOK. In the third quarter Panathinaikos counter attacked and took the lead in score until the end of the game. In the second half Panathinaikos had 7/13 three pointers. For Panathinaikos James Gist had 17 points, 7 rebounds and 4 steals while Dimitris Diamantidis had 17 points, 4 assists and Roko Leni Ukić had 15 points and 5 assists. For PAOK DJ Cooper made a double double with 16 points, 12 assists, 3 steals and 2 rebounds! Kostas Charalampidis scored 17 points and  Mark Payne scored another 15 points. Panathinaikos made two tights victories against PAOK and now the third game will be held in Thessaloniki. If PAOK keeps playing in this tempo and speed we maybe see a defeat for Panathinaikos in the semi-finals after many years of clean sweeps.
Quarters' scores: 15-18, 31-37, 56-53, 83-77.

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 7, Curry 2, Fotsis 2, Ukic 15, Lasme 6, Mavrokefalidis 6, Diamantidis 17, Gist 17, Pappas 2, Giankovits 1, Maciulis 8.
PAOK: Payne 15, Cooper 16, Charalampidis 17, Tsochlas 1, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 10, Dedas 6, Margaritis 3, Kalles, Bogris 9, Kaselakis, Liapis.

Olympiacos beat Panionios for Greek League Play Offs semi-finals

Olympiacos hosted and beat Panionios for Greek Basket League Play Offs semi-finals. Olympiacos didn't face problems against Panionios since the visitors were very poor in three pointers with 4/19. For Olympiacos Mardy Collins scored 16 points, Giorgos Printezis collected 7 rebounds and Vasilis Spanoulis served 6 assists. For Panionios Errick McCollum with 14 points and Kevin Langford with 10 points were the only positive players. Olympiacos made 1-0 in the semi-finals without struggling and Panionios will have to improve in order to be competitive in the Play Offs.
Quarters' scores: 21-15, 43-29, 60-35, 78-43.

Olympiacos: Petway 9, Shermandini 5, Dunston 3, Spanoulis 9, Perperoglou 8, Papapetrou 3, Sloukas 7, Collins 16, Simmons, Lojeski 11, Printezis 7, Mantzaris.
Panionios: McCollum 14, Duvnjak 3, Carter, Milbourne 6, Athanasoulas, Batis, Skordilis, Langford 10, Michel, Simtsak 6, Kyritsis 4, Saloustros.

LaRon Dendy blocked Kolossos Rodou transfers

LaRon Dendy played for Kolossos Rodou in the 2012-2013 season but the club still owes money to the player. The FIBA Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) decided to set a ban on international transfers of players for Kolossos Rodou until the club pays the player. Dendy will get $24.900 that Kolossos Rodou owes him plus €7.100 for lawyer and court expenses.

Panathinaikos beat PAOK for Greek League Play Offs semi-finals

Panathinaikos hosted and beat PAOK for Greek Basket League Play Offs semi-finals. PAOK entered the game in full speed and tried to surprise Panathinaikos and steal the victory. In the first quarter PAOK scored 32 points and for three quarters the visitors were leading the score. Panathinaikos fight in order to win the game and made 1-0 in the semi-finals series. Tight victory but a victory for Panathinaikos that will probably reverse the psychology in the second game since PAOK did its best but lost the game. Loukas Mavrokefalidis was by far the best player of the game. Mavrokefalidis scored 32 points with 11 fouls drawn, collected 10 rebounds, made one block and no turnovers. This was the first time a player of Panathinaikos scored more than 30 points in a Greek Basket League game with Jaka Lakovič being the last to did so ten years ago. Besides Mavrokefalidis, the captain Dimitris Diamantidis had 17 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds. For PAOK Giorgos Bogris, DJ Cooper, Michalis Tsairelis, Kostas Charalampidis and Mark Payne scored more than 13 points each with Bogris also having 9 rebounds and 4 assists and DJ Cooper having 5 rebounds and 5 assists too.
Quarters' scores: 21-31, 45-49, 65-66, 89-83

Panathinaikos: Bramos, Curry, Fotsis 7, Ukic 7, Lasme 6, Mavrokefalidis 32, Diamantidis 17, Gist  10, Pappas, Giankovits, Maciulis 8, Wright.
PAOK: Payne 13, Cooper 15, Charalampidis 14, Tsochlas 2, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 14, Dedas, Margaritis 3, Kalles, Bogris 16, Kaselakis 6, Liapis.

Kamperidis and Bochoridis declared for NBA Draft 2014

Michalis Kamperidis and Lefteris Bochoridis declared for NBA Draft 2014.
Lefteris Bochoridis, born in 1994, is 196cm high and currently plays for Aris BC in the Greek Basket League. In 26 games with Aris this season Bochoridis has 7.0 points, 2.62 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game in average. 

Michalis Kamperidis is also born i 1994, currently plays for Filathilitikos in A2 second division of Greece and is 204cm high. In 24 games with Filathlitikos Kamperidis has 9.1 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2 assists per game in average.

Sarantis Mastrogiannopoulos debut against Panathinaikos

Sarantis Mastrogiannopoulos, 16 years old Greek player of Apollon Patras, first three pointer against Panathinaikos for Greek Basket League Play Offs.

Panathinaikos young center Giorgos Diamantakos

Panathinaikos' young center Giorgos Diamantakos against Apollon Patras for Greek Basket League Play Offs round one. 9 points with one dunk, 3 rebounds and one block for the young Greek player.

Panathinaikos beat Apollon Patras for Greek League Play Offs

Panathinaikos beat and eliminated Apollon Patras for Greek Basket League Play Offs round one. Panathinaikos had 12 players that scored and the captain Dimitris Diamantidis had 16 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists. This time Charalampopoulos was the young player of Panathinaikos that played and scored 3 points. For Apollon Patras Roland Ross had 23 points, Jeremiah Wilson had 8 rebounds but the surprise was the young Sarantis Mastrogiannopoulos who had 5 points with 1/1 triple and 2/2 free throws.
Quarters' scores: 10-19, 29-38, 45-58, 67-82

Apollon Patras: Ross 23, Daniel 9, Wilson 5, Lianos 1, Oikonomopoulos, Petrovic 12, Pelekoudas, Molfetas, Niforas , Mastrogiannopoulos 5, Milutinovic 7, Hot 5.
Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos 3, Bramos 6, Curry 5, Fotsis 7, Ukic 2, Lasme 10, Mavrokefalidis 13, Diamantidis 16, Gist 4, Pappas 4, Giankovits 4, Wright 8.

Olympiacos beat Aris for Greek League Play Offs

Olympiacos beat and eliminated Aris for Greek Basket League Play Offs round one. Olympiacos doubled its victories against Aris in the play offs with the same ease of the first game. Vasilis Spanoulis scored 15 points and served 7 assists, Stratos Perperoglou and Giorgos Printezis scored 10 points each and all players of Olympiacos played at least 5 minutes. For Aris Lefteris Bochoridis and Kostas Charisis scored 10 points each but the team couldn't compete Olympiacos.
Quarters' scores: 8-17, 26-36, 40-59, 59-74.

Aris: Bochoridis 10, Hunt, Pelekanos 4, Gikas 5, Tsakaleris 6, Asimakopoulos 9, Poulianitis, Charisis 10, Laretzakis 9, Sarikopoulos 1, Mourtos 5, Mitoglou.
Olympiacos: Petway 6, Dunston 6, Spanoulis 15, Perperoglou 10, Papapetrou, Sloukas 8, Collins 5, Simmons 3, Printezis 10, Mantzaris 9, Kavvadas, Christodoulou 2.

Panionios won KAOD for Greek League Play Offs

Panionios won and eliminated KAOD for Greek League Play Offs round one. Marc Carter scored 27 points with 7/13 three pointers and Errick McCollum had 20 points and 7 rebounds. For KAOD J'Covan Brown had 18 points and 6 assists, Nikola Markovic had 12 rebounds and 7 assists, Julian Vaughn had 13 points and 9 rebounds. Panionios doubled its victories against KAOD since it had more players of quality and qualified to the next round of the play offs.
Quarters' scores: 25-13, 42-31, 57-59, 71-81

KAOD: Slaftsakis 6, Jones 11, Stiggers 5, Brown 18, Vaughn 13, Markovic 7, Spyridonidis, Bavcic 5, Zaras 4, Benas 2.
Panionios: McCollum 20, Duvnjak 10, Carter 27, Athanasoulas, Milbourne 9, Batis 7, Skordilis 2, Langford 4, Michel 2, Simtsak, Saloustros.

PAOK beat Nea Kifisia for Greek League Play Offs

PAOK beat and eliminated Nea Kifisia for Greek League Play Offs round one. PAOK was leading the score in the first half but Nea Kifisia counter attacked in the second quarter and lowered the difference to 3 points, 72-75, but PAOK managed to win a very tight game. Kostas Charalampidis with 23 points, Michalis Tsairelis with 17 points and 9 rebounds were the best players for PAOK. For Nea Kifisia Nikos Liakopoulos with 13 points, 5 assists and Dimitris Tsaldaris with 14 points were the top scorers while the veteran Michalis Kakiouzis had 14 rebounds and 8 points. In the last minutes Saša Vasiljević was charged with a foul and then was charged with a technical foul. Tight game for PAOK that doubled its victories against Nea Kifisia and continued in the play offs.
Quarters' scores: 17-23, 31-42, 56-60, 75-79

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic 8, Liakopoulos 13, Reece 2, Kompodietas 9, Psathas 5, Peterson 4, Woods 3, Tsaldaris 14, Adegboye 2, Kakiouzis 8, Barlos 7.
PAOK: Payne 8, Cooper 4, Charalampidis 23, Tsochlas 5, Tsairelis 17, Dedas 8, Margaritis 2, Bogris  4, Kaselakis 8, Liapis.

PAOK beat Nea Kifisia for for Greek League play offs round one

PAOK beat Nea Kifisia for for Greek Basket League play offs round one. PAOK faced problems to win Nea Kifisia that was very competitive and led the score by 17-20. DJ Cooper with 20 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists was the best player of PAOK and the leader of his team. Kostas Charalampidis added 15 points and Vangelis Margaritis 10 points and 5 rebounds. For Nea Kifisia Nikos Liakopoulos had 14 points, Nikos Barlos 15 points, Ogo Adegboye 10 points and Dimitris Tsaldaris 12 points. Tough victory for PAOK that made 1-0 in the play offs in its home.
Quarters' scores: 17-15, 44-32, 54-47, 70-66

PAOK: Payne 10, Cooper 20, Tsochlas 5, Charalampidis 15, Tsairelis 8, Dedas, Margaritsis 10, Bogris, Kaselakis 2.
Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic, Liakopoulos 14, Reece 3, Kompodietas, Psathas 6, Peterson, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 4, Tsaldaris 12, Adegboye 10, Kakiouzis 2, Barlos 15.

Panionios beat KAOD for Greek League play offs round one

Panionios beat KAOD for Greek Basket League play offs round one. Panionios beat KAOD or Errick McCollum beat Edin Bavčić. Errick McCollum had 25 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists while Edin Bavčić had 29 points and 7 rebounds. KAOD was following Panionios in score but could not reverse the game and win it. Uros Duvnjak, Landon Milbourne and Marios Batis for Panionios and Lazeric Jones, Nikola Markovic finished the game with two digits score. Good game for three quarters for KAOD but Panionios took advantage of its home and won the game.
Quarters' scores: 23-19, 45-39, 60-57, 83-73.

Panionios: McCollum 25, Duvnjak 10, Carter 7, Milbourne 11, Athanasoulas, Batis 11, Skordilis 4, Langford 9, Michel, Simtsak, Saloustros 6.
KAOD: Slaftsakis, Jones 12, Stiggers, Vaughn 4, Markovic 10, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 29, Zaras 3.

Panathinaikos beat Apollon Patras for Greek League play offs round one

Panathinaikos beat Apollon Patras for Greek Basket League play offs round one. Panathinaikos scored 32 points in the first quarter and didn't let Apollon Patras hope to win the game. Panathinaikos' coach Fragiskos Alvertis used Vlantimir Giankovits and the young Giorgos Diamantakos who both were positive helping their team winning. Giankovits had 10 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists. Giorgos Diamantakos had 9 points, 3 rebounds and 1 block. James Gist had 7 rebounds and 6 points. For Apollon Patras Jeremiah Wilson had 12 rebounds, 9 rebounds and Giannis Lianos had 16 points and 6 rebounds. Easy victory for Panathinaikos that also won more players in its rotating game.
Quarters' scores: 32-15, 43-28, 74-35, 88-61.

Panathinaikos: Bramos 7, Curry 9, Ukic 8, Lasme 8, Mavrokefalidis 9, Diamantidis 7, Gist 6, Pappas 3, Giankovits 10, Diamantakos 9, Maciulis 8, Wright 4.
Apollon Patras: Ross 3, Daniel 14, Wilson 9, Lianos 16, Oikonomopoulos, Petrovic 3, Molfetas, Niforas 4, Milutinovic 3, Hot 9.

Olympiacos beat Aris for Greek League play offs round one

Olympiacos beat Aris for Greek Basket League play offs round one. With Vasilis Spanoulis who had 18 points, 5 assists and 5 rebounds and Giorgos Printezis with 16 points and 6 rebounds Olympiacos didn't face any problems against Aris and won easily by 33 points. For Aris Alexander Vezenkov and Michalis Pelekanos in scoring and Zisis Sarikopoulos in rebounds were the only positive players. Easy start for Olympiacos in the play offs.
Quarters' scores: 20-14, 33-27, 63-35, 77-44.

Olympiacos: Petway 3, Dunston 7, Spanoulis 18, Perperoglou, Papapetrou 8, Sloukas 4, Collins 13, Simmons, Lojeski, Printezis 16, Mantzaris 8, Kavvadas.
Aris: Bochoridis 8, Pelekanos 12, Gikas, Tsakaleris, Charisis 4, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 12, Sarikopoulos 6, Mourtos 2.

Greek Basket League 2013-2014 Play Offs round two

Greek Basket League 2013-2014 Play Offs round two
First to win three games qualifies to the next round.

1st game
Tuesday 13/5
21:30 Panathinaikos - PAOK 89-83
19:30 Olympiacos - Panionios 78-43

2nd game
Thursday 15/5
19:30 Panathinaikos - PAOK 83-77
21:30 Olympiacos - Panionios

3rd game
Monday 19/5
20:00 PAOK – Panathinaikos
18:00 Panionios – Olympiacos

4th game (if needed) *
Wednesday 21/5
18:00 PAOK – Panathinaikos
20:00 Panionios - Olympiacos

5th game (if needed) *
Friday 23/5
19:30 Panathinaikos – PAOK
21:30 Olympiacos – Panionios

Errick McCollum named MVP of Greek League regular season second round

Errick McCollum named MVP of Greek League regular season second round. Errick McCollum finished the regular season first in points, first in fouls drawn and first in free throws, second in three pointers and second in ranking.

Voting for Basket League Greece second round MVP

Player	Team	Votes
Errick McCollum	Panionios	14
J'Covan Brown	KAOD	11
Alexander Vezenkov	Aris	7

Kolossos Rodou beat Aris for Greek League 26th day

Kolossos Rodou hosted and beat Aris for Greek Basket League 26th day. Nontas Papantoniou with a three pointer in the last minute gave his team the victory. Kolossos Rodou finished the season with a victory and Aris will continue to play offs againt Olympiacos. Lefteris Bochoridis continued with good games and was Aris' top scorer with 18 points while Michalis Pelekanos had 17 points and Alexander Vezenkov 16 points. For Kolossos Rodou Kostas Kakaroudis had 14 points and 5 rebounds, Nontas Papantoniou had 12 points with his winning three pointer and Giannis Georgallis had 3 points and 7 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 16-18, 39-39, 63-56, 72-69.

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 12 , Car 3, Georgallis 3, Hopkins 7, Smith 6, Stefanidis 3, Simpson 10, Tsamis 2, Kakaroudis 14, Pantic 8, Nadjfej 4.
Aris: Bochoridis 18, Hunt, Pelekanos 17, Gikas, Asimakopoulos 2, Charisis 8, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 16, Sarikopoulos 2, Mourtos 6.

Olympiacos beat Panionios for Greek League 26th day

Olympiacos hosted and beat Panionios for Greek Basket League 26th day. Olympiacos finished the regular season with a victory against Panionios. In a game with many dunks and three pointers Olympiacos didn't face problems winning the third team of the league table. Bryant Dunston had 12 points and 6 rebounds while Vasilis Spanoulis had 9 points and 5 assists. For Panionios Errick McCollum had 18 points, Christos Saloustros had 5 points and 7 rebounds and Kevin Langford had 13 points.
Quarters' scores: 27-18, 42-38, 63-55, 76-66

Olympiacos: Petway 4, Dunston 12, Spanoulis 9, Perperoglou 2, Sloukas 11, Collins 9, Simmons 4, Lojeski 12, Printezis 7, Mantzaris, Kavvadas 6, Katsivelis.
Panionios: McCollum 18, Duvnjak 6, Carter 4, Milbourne 7, Athanasoulas, Batis 6, Skordilis, Langford 13, Michel 3, Symtsak 2, Kyritsis 2, Saloustros 5.

Nea Kifisia beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek League 26th day

Nea Kifisia beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek Basket League 26th day. Panelefsiniakos wanted to win in order to avoid relegation without waiting other results but the team avoided relegation since both Ilisiakos and Ikaros Chalkidas lost. Panelefsiniakos was better in the first and second quarters but the home team had a total black out in the third quarter when it scored only 5 points. For Panelefsiniakos Rob Jons had 11 points. For Nea Kifisia Nikos Barlos had 13 points and Michalis Kakiouzis had 12 points and 15 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 16-19, 43-36, 48-53, 63-71.

Panelefsiniakos: Nikou 2, Papamakarios 7, Arapis 3, Kyles 8, Jones 11, Magounis, Faye 10, Fisher 7, Melissaratos 8, Turner, Uzas, Mantzaris 7.
Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic 10, Liakopoulos 9, Reese 2, Kompodietas 3, Psathas 10, Peterson 3, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 6, Tsaldaris 3, Adegboye, Kakiouzis 12, Barlos 13.

Greek Basket League 2013-2014 Play Offs round one

Greek Basket League 2013-2014 Play Offs round one
First to win two games qualifies to the next round. 

Tuesday 6th May 2014
16:05 Olympiacos - Aris 77-44
18:00 Panionios - KAOD 83-73
19:15 Panathinaikos - Apollon Patras 88-61
20:00 PAOK - Nea Kifisia 70-66

Thursday 8th May 2014
16:00 KAOD - Panionios* 71-81
17:30 Aris - Olympiacos* 59-74
20:00 Nea Kifisia - PAOK* 75-79
20:00 Apollon Patras - Panathinaikos* 67-82

*Qualified to the next round

PAOK beat Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek League 26th day

PAOK hosted and beat Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek Basket League 26th day. With this defeat Ikaros Chalkidas was relegated to the second division and PAOK will continue in the play offs. Anthony Roberson had 23 points, Dominique Sutton had 14 points and 19 rebounds, Ivan Aska had 18 points and 5 rebounds but those were not enough for Ikaros Chalkidas to win PAOK and avoid relegation. DJ Cooper with his 9 assists broke the record for more assists of a PAOK player in a single season. Damir Mulaomerovic had 171 assists in 2003-2004 season and DJ Cooper has 172 assists in this season. Mark Payne scored 20 points, Giorgos Bogris had 12 rebounds and Kostas Charalampidis didn't score with 7 shots attempted.
Quarters' scores: 20-18, 54-35, 69-51, 88-74.

PAOK: Payne 20, Cooper 8, Charalampidis, Tsochlas 3, Tsairelis 14, Dedas 14, Margaritis 6, Kalles 1, Bogris 8, Kaselakis 8, Liapis 6, Koniaris.
Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad, Roberson 23, Woodall, Aska 18, Manolopoulos, Sutton 14, Gagaloudis 5, Spanos, Toliopoulos 2, Vougioukas, Richards 10, Bempis 2.

KAOD beat Aries Trikala for Greek League 26th day

KAOD beat Aries Trikala in Trikala for Greek Basket League 26th day. It was the most productive game in Greek Basket League 2013-2014 with the two teams scoring 211 points without extra time. Both teams shot and scored many points with free throws, 23/30 for Aries Trikala, 27/33 for KAOD. Chris Evans and Nikola Marković had a massive game. Evans had 35 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals while Marković had 21 points, 15 rebounds and 3 assists. Patrick Ewing Junior had 26 points and 8 rebounds. Mario Matalon had 13 points and 6 assists while Mike Porrini had 11 assists and 2 points. Lazeric Jones had 17 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, Edin Bavčić had 20 points and 5 rebounds. Aries Trikala will continue in the Greek Basket League next season and KAOD will continue in the play offs for the first time in the team history.
Quarters' scores: 28-32, 47-62, 79-82, 103-108.

Aries Trikala: Evans 35, Perunicic, Ewing 26, Giannakidis 6, Petrovic 14, Porrini 2, Sapp, Matalon 13, Fountas, Panos 7, Nikolopoulos, Giannoulis.
KAOD: Slaftsakis 1, Jones 17, Stiggers 6, Brown 21, Vaughn 16, Markovic 21, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 20, Zaras 6, Benas, Kolovis.

Rethymno Aegean beat Ilisiakos for Greek League 26th day

Rethymno Aegean hosted and defeated Ilisiakos for Greek Basket League 26th day. Ilisiakos wanted the victory in order to avoid the relegation but with a crucial mistake in the final seconds lost the game and relegated in the second division after five consecutive years in the Greek Basket League. Ilisiakos started the game with a 6-0 run and was leading the score in the first quarter. Rethymno Aegean counter attacked in the second quarter and with a 12-0 run took the lead in score. Rethymno Aegean was keeping the lead in the third and last quarter until the end. Ilisiakos took a small lead and was close to avoid relegation but Courtney Pigram made a crucial turnover and lost the ball. Giannis Kalampokis scored and made the score 63-62. Ilisiakos made another turnover and lost the game which led to the relegation in the second division. For Rethymno Aegean Kenny Gabriel was the top scorer with 15 points and 8 rebounds, Luka Drča had 14 points and 7 rebounds, Callistus Eziukwu had 8 points and 9 rebounds. For Ilisiakos Cheikh Mbodj had 22 points and 17 rebounds but he lost crucial free throws in the last minute also Courtney Pigram had 16 points but he made the crucial turnover in the last minute. Panagiotis Kafkis had 16 points and 7 assists.
Quarters' scores:14-18, 32-29, 47-43, 63-62.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 2, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 5, Aggelopoulos 7, Antonopoulos, Kalampokis 12, Kanonidis, Sinis, Latovic, Eziukwu 8, Drča 14, Gabriel 15.
Ilisiakos: Kafkis 16, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis, Chatzis, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 6, Vavatsikos, Ioannou 2, Tzougarakis, Mbodj 22, Pigram 16.

Panathinaikos beat Apollon Patras for Greek League 26th day

Panathinaikos beat Apollon Patras in Patras for Greek Basket League 26th day. In the first round game Apollon Patras troubled Panathinaikos and so it did in this game in the first half. Apollon Patras was leading the score in the first and second quarters but with 13-31 partial score in the third quarter Panathinaikos counter attacked and won the game by 16 points. Panathinaikos had an impressive 79% (26/33) two pointers while both teams were good in three pointers, 12/23 for the home team and 10/24 for the away team. For Apollon Patras Roland Ross had 16 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, while Giannis Molfetas was the top scorer with 19 points and 5/5 three pointers. For Panathinaikos Stephane Lasme was perfect with 21 points, 8/8 field goals, 5/5 free throws, 4 rebounds and 7 fouls drawn. Ramel Curry scored 18 points and Loukas Mavrokefalidis scored 12 points while Roko Leni Ukić had 4 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists. 
Quarters' scores: 23-15, 45-44, 58-75, 79-95.

Apollon Patras:  Ross 16, Argyropoulos 10, Kaperonis 3, Daniel 9, Wilson 10, Lianos 4, Oikonomopoulos, Petrovic, Molfetas 19, Niforas 2, Milutinovic 3, Hot 3.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 9, Curry 18, Fotsis 5, Ukic 4, Lasme 21, Mavrokefalidis 12, Diamantidis 2, Gist 8, Pappas 5, Giankovits, Maciulis 3, Wright 8.

Greek Basket League 26th day fixtures and results

Greek Basket League 26th day fixtures and results

Saturday 3rd May 2014
18:00 Panelefsiniakos - Nea Kifisia 63-71
18:00 Apollon Patras - Panathinaikos 79-95
18:00 Aries Trikala - KAOD 103-108
18:00 PAOK - Ikaros Chalkidas 88-74
18:00 Rethymno Aegean - Ilisiakos 63-62
18:00 Kolossos Rodou - Aris 72-69
19:15 Olympiacos - Panionios 76-66