Taylor Smith named MVP of Greek League 24th day

Taylor Smith named MVP of Greek Basket League 24th day. Smith played 25 minutes in the game against Ilisiakos and had 17 points, 8/8 field goals, 1/6 free throws, collected 14 rebounds and made one steal. His performance was rated with 27 points in the League ranking system.

Olympiacos beat KAOD for Greek League 24th day

Olympiacos hosted and defeated KAOD for Greek Basket League 24th day. KAOD beat Olympiacos in the first round game and ruined any thoughts that Olympiacos players had to finish first in the regular season. In this game Olympiacos didn't face problems winning KAOD. The visitors had only 6 assists in the game. For the winners Bryant Dunston, Vangelis Mantzaris and Vasilis Kavvadas had 10 points each. Bryant Dunston also had 9 rebounds. For KAOD J'Covan Brown had 29 points, Lazeric Jones had 19 points and Julian Vaughn had 11 points and 9 rebounds. Nikola Markovic had 11 rebounds but was very poor at scoring with 2 points, 0/7 field goals, 0/4 three pointers and 2/6 free throws.
Quarters' scores: 22-18, 40-36, 60-52, 83-71.

Olympiacos: Petway 8, Dunston 10, Christodoulou, Papapetrou 7, Sloukas 7, Collins 14, Simmons 5, Lojeski 6, Agravanis 4, Mantzaris 10, Kavvadas 10, Katsivelis 2
KAOD: Slaftsakis 4, Jones 19, Stiggers 3, Brown 29, Vaughn 11, Markovic 2, Spyridonidis, Bavcic 3, Zaras, Benas.

PAOK lost by Panathinaikos for Greek League 24th day

PAOK lost by Panathinaikos for Greek Basket League 24th day. With that victory Panathinaikos secured the first place in the regular season again after three years. Panathinaikos had only 4/17 three pointers, while PAOK had 10/21 three pointers, but the visitors were impressive in field goals with 30/43. Another highlight is that Panathinaikos finished the game with 10/10 free throws, Lasme and Wright had 4/4 free throws each and Ukic had 2/2. PAOK could only follow Panathinaikos in the first half. For the home team Giorgos Bogris was the top scorer and player with 14 points and 5 rebounds. DJ Cooper had 9 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. Besides Bogris the other two players of PAOK with two digits score were Greek, Michalis Tsairelis and Vangelis Margaritis. For Panathinaikos Stephane Lasme was the top scorer with 20 points, Dimitris Diamantidis had 10 points and 7 assists, Loukas Mavrokefalidis had 10 points without missing a shot (5/5 field goals) and 5 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 20-24, 31-45, 50-61, 71-82.

PAOK: Payne 8, Cooper 9, Charalampidis 3, Tsochlas 2, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 10, Dedas 6, Margaritis 11, Kalles 3, Bogris 14, Kaselakis 5, Liapis.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 2, Curry 6, Fotsis 6, Ukic 10, Lasme 20, Mavrokefalidis 10, Diamantidis 10, Gist 4, Pappas, Giankovits, Maciulis 4, Wright 10.

Rethymno Aegean lost by Panionios for Greek League 24th day

Rethymno Aegean lost by Panionios for Greek Basket League 24th day. In a very tight game the maximum difference reached 7 points and Panionios won by only three points but with this victory secured the third position in the regular season. For Rethymno Aegean Justin Hurtt was the top scorer with19 points. Callistus Eziukwu had 14 points, 6 points and Luka Drča had 13 points and 7 rebounds. Kenny Gabriel had 9 rebounds but only 3 points. For the winners Errick McCollum had only 8 points so the top scorer was Giannis Athanasoulas had 14 points and 4 rebounds. Vasilis Simtsak had 9 rebounds, 5 rebounds and 2 steals.
Quarters' scores: 16-20, 35-37, 57-55, 64-67.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 19, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 3, Aggelopoulos 6, Wright, Kalampokis 5, Kanonidis, Sinis, Latovic, Eziukwu 14, Drča 13, Gabriel 3.
Panionios: McCollum 8, Duvnjak 6, Carter 10, Milbourne 13, Athanasoulas 14, Batis, Skordilis 2, Langford 7, Michel, Simtsak 5, Kyritsis, Saloustros 2.

Panelefsiniakos beat Aries Trikala for Greek League 24th day

Panelefsiniakos hosted and beat Aries Trikala for Greek Basket League 24th day. Panelefsiniakos wanted to win in order to avoid relegation and was more focused than Aries Trikala. In the first half Panelefsiniakos cleared the game. For the winners David Kyles had 20 points, Mouhammad Faye had 18 points and Thomas Nikou had 6 points and 11 assists. For Aries Trikala Chris Evans was the top scorer with 16 points, Christos Deligiannis had 13 points and Jessie Sapp had 10 points.
Quarters' scores: 22-13, 48-28,  75-55, 94-77.

Panelefsiniakos: Nikou 6, Papamakarios 7, Arapis 5, Kyles 20, Jones 6, Faye 18, Fisher 8, Melissaratos 1, Turner 10, Uzas, Mantzaris 8, Avramidis 5.
Aries Trikala: Evans 16, Perunicic 5, Ewing 9, Giannakidis 3, Petrovic 6, Lekakis, Porrini 4, Sapp 10, Deligiannis 13, Matalon 7, Panos 4, Nikolopoulos.

Kolossos Rodou beat Ilisiakos for Greek League 24th day

Kolossos Rodou hosted and beat Ilisiakos for Greek Basket League 24th day. With that victory Kolossos avoided relegation while pushed Ilisiakos to its relegation. Kolossos Rodou had only 2/20 three pointers but also had 16 rebounds more than Ilisiakos. For the winners Taylor Smith was the best player with 17 points and 14 rebounds. Kostas Kakaroudis and Mladen Pantic were again positive with 13 and 10 points respectively. For Ilisiakos Courtney Pigram had 17 points and Cheikh Mbodj had 12 points.
Quarters' scores: 20-16, 39-31, 55-43, 72-60.

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 7, Car, Matsamas, Georgalis 4, Hopkins 9, Smith 17, Stefanidis 5, Simpson, Tsamis 2, Kakaroudis 13, Pantic 10, Nadjfeji 5.
Ilisiakos: Kafkis 5, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 2, Chatzis 2, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 9, Nikopoulos, Ioannou 6, Tzougarakis 7, Mbodj 12, Pigram 17.

Ikaros Chalkidas lost by Aris for Greek League 24th day

Ikaros Chalkidas lost by Aris for Greek Basket League 24th day. With that victory Aris will enter the play offs in the sixth position and Ikaros Chalkidas will has to say goodbye to the first division. Aris had 11/25 three pointers, 10 more rebounds and 10 more assists than the home team. For the home team Ivan Aska had 20 points and 8 rebounds, Dominique Sutton and Giannis Gagaloudis had 17 points each. For the winners Michalis Pelekanos was the top scorer with 25 points, Alexander Vezenkov made a double double with 14 points and 10 rebounds, while Kostas Charisis had 12 rebounds and 8 points.
Quarters' scores: 19-36, 33-52, 58-72, 77-88.

Ikaros Chalkidas: Roberson 8, Woodall 5, Aska 20, Manolopoulos 8, Sutton 17, Gagaloudis 17, Spanos, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Demertzis, Richards 2, Bempis.
Aris: Bochoridis 19, Hunt, Pelekanos 25, Gikas 8, Tsakaleris, Asimakopoulos, Poulianitis, Charisis 6, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 14, Sarikopoulos 4, Mourtos 12. 

Apollon Patras beat Nea Kifisia for Greek League 24th day

Apollon Patras hosted and beat Nea Kifisia for Greek Basket League 24th day. Nea Kifisia was leading the score in the first half but Apollon Patras with good defense in the third quarter took the lead and won the game. With that victory Apollon Patras secured a place in the play offs. Apollon had only 3/17 three pointers but also made only 10 turnovers. Andreja Milutinović with 14 points were the top scorer for the winners. Jeremiah Wilson collected 12 rebounds and scored 8 points, while Roland Ross had 13 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals. For Nea Kifisia Dimitris Tsaldaris and Nikos Liakopoulos were the top scorers with 14 points each. Darrius Garrett had 8 points and 9 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 17-14, 29-36, 57-49, 75-67.

Apollon Patras: Ross 13, Argyropoulos 11, Daniel 11, Wilson 8, Lianos, Petrovic 9, Pelekoudas 4, Molfetas 2, Niforas, Zafeiris, Milutinović 14, Hot 3.
Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic 9, Liakopoulos 14, Chatzinikolas, Sioutis 3, Psathas, Garrett 8, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 11, Tsaldaris 14, Adegboye 4, Kakiouzis 2, Barlos 2.

Greek Basket League 24th day fixtures and results

Greek Basket League 24th day fixtures and results

Saturday 5th April 2014
16:00 Kolossos Rodou - Ilisiakos 72-60
16:00 Ikaros Chalkidas - Aris 77-88
16:00 Panelefsiniakos - Aries Trikala 94-77
16:00 Apollon Patras - Nea Kifisia 75-67
16:00 Rethymno Aegean - Panionios 64-67
Sunday 6th April 2014
16:00 PAOK - Panathinaikos 71-82
Monday 7th April 2014
19:15 Olympiacos - KAOD 83-71