Vangelis Ziagkos is Panionios' new coach

Vangelis Ziagkos is Panionios' new coach. Ziagkos replaces Giorgos Kalafatakis. The 41-year-old Greek coach returns to Panionios after two years. Ziagkos started his coaching career with AEK academies and he was the member of the technical team of AEK during 2008-2011. In 2012 Ziagkos became the head coach of AEK and in two years he promoted the club from B League to Basket League. In November 2014 Ziagkos and AEK parted ways. Ziagkos continued his coaching career with Doxa Lefkadas, Panionios, and Al Riyadhi.

Doxa Lefkadas agreed terms with Charis Markopoulos

Doxa Lefkadas agreed terms with Charis Markopoulos. The Greek coach will lead the newly promoted team of Lefkada, like he successfully did with Korivos Amaliadas in 2014. Markopoulos has worked in the technical crew of PAOK, Aris, and Iraklis and became the head coach of a team in 2014 with Korivos Amaliadas. Since he managed to keep Korivos in the Basket League Markopoulos renewed his contract with the team for another season and also managed to keep the team in the top tier. After two successful season Korivos and Markopoulos parted ways earlier this summer.

Vangelis Ziagkos left Doxa Lefkadas

Vangelis Ziagkos left Doxa Lefkadas. The Greek coach leaves Doxa Lefkadas after a year in the team. The new coach of Doxa Lefkadas is Fotis Takianos, who was the head coach of OFI for three years.

Lefkada friendly tournament

After Mavroskoufia friendly tournament, Aris, Trikala and Apollon Patras will participate in another tournament in Lefkada where the local team that plays in A2 League will host.

Tuesday 15th September
Doxa Lefkadas - Trikala 74-77
Quarters' scores: 18-17, 31-38, 53-53, 74-77
Trikala (Flevarakis): Dowell 11 (2), Soko 16, Tsiloulis 6, Tsiaras 2, Siologkas 1, Conger 19, Koukoulas 6, Robinson 4, Teague 10, Varytimiadis 2.

Wednesday 16th September
Aris - Trikala 93-58
Quarters' scores: 21-9, 45-22, 66-42, 93-58
Aris: Xanthopoulos 6, Dimas, Pelekanos 10 (2), Cupkovic 12 (2), White 11, Waters 5 (1), Zaras 8 (2), Hagins 12, Cohen 4, Mourtos 6, Simtsak 5, McNeal 14.
Trikala: Dowell 8 (1), Soko 19 (1), Tsiloulis 3, Siologkas, Conger 7, Robinson 8 (1), Teague 5, Tsiaras 8 (1), Varytimiadis, Koukoulas.

Doxa Lefkadas - Apollon Patras 76-77
Quarters' scores: 23-21, 39-39, 59-57, 76-77.
Apollon Patras: Niforas 2, Mastrogiannopoulos, Verginis 8 (2), Athanasoulas 14 (2) , Palmblund 10 (2), Petty 3 (1), Duncan 10 (2) , Woods 17 (11 rebounds), Oikonomopoulos, Meier 13 (3).

Thursday 17th September
5.00 pm Aris - Apollon Patras

Giorgos Diamantopoulos returns to Panionios

Giorgos Diamantopoulos returns to Panionios. The 34 years old Greek player returned to Panionios as he wished. Diamantopoulos started his career from Papagou and continued with Panionios where he was named Greek League Top Scorer of the season 2002-2003. Diamantopoulos played a year for Olympiacos before returning to Panionios. Then he left Greece and continued his career in Italy for Roseto Basket, then Spain second division for La Palma, Russia for Samara, back to Greece for Kolossos and Maroussi, then Cyprus for Achilleas and Switzerland for Vacallo Basket. In the previous season Diamantopoulos played in the third division of Greece for Doxa Lefkadas, helping the team getting promoted. Diamantopoulos will not debut against Korivos Amaliadas today.

A2 Basket Greece third day results

A2 Basket Greece third day results

OFI - Kavala 69-63
Ermis Lagada - Ethnikos 57-65
Aetos - Arkadikos 97-88
Lavrio - Iraklis 66-55
Doxa Lefkadas - Pagrati 93-84
Livadia - Psyhiko 64-71
Filippos Veroias - Ilisiakos 73-63

Promitheas friendly tournament

Promitheas Patras friendly tournament

Friday 12/9
Arkadikos – Lavrio 45-59
Doxa Lefkadas - Promitheas 66-71
Saturday 13/9
Doxa Lefkadas - Arkadikos 81-90 (79-79)
Promitheas - Lavrio
Sunday 14/9
Lavrio - Doxa Lefkadas
Arkadikos - Promitheas