Basket League Greece 2013-2014 regular season players' statistics

Basket League Greece 2013-2014 regular season players' statistics

Points scored
1. Errick McCollum (Panionios) 466
2. Chris Evans (Aries Trikala) 412
3. J'Covan Brown (KAOD) 397
4. Ivan Aska (Ikaros Chalkidas) 380
5. Lazeric Jones (KAOD) 357

Assists
1. DJ Cooper (PAOK) 172
2. Gagaloudis Giannis (Ikaros Chalkidas) 122
3. Dimitris Diamantidis (Panathinaikos) 114
4. Liakopoulos Nikos (Nea Kifisia) 113
5. Nikou Thomas (Panelefsiniakos) 97

Rebounds
1. Gabriel Kenny (Rethymno Aegean) 243
2. Markovic Nikola (KAOD) 191
3. Sutton Dominique (Ikaros Chalkidas) 187
4. Evans Chris (Aries Trikala) 181
5. Patrick Ewing Jr (Aries Trikala) 179

Steals
1. Demarius Bolds (Apollon Patras) 50
2. Evans Chris (Aries Trikala) 49
3. DJ Cooper (PAOK) 43
4. Papamakarios Manolis (Panelefsiniakos) 37
5. Sutton Dominique (Ikaros Chalkidas) 37

Rating
1. Evans Chris (Aries Trikala) 460
2. Errick McCollum (Panionios) 436
3. DJ Cooper (PAOK) 407
4. Patrick Ewing Jr (Aries Trikala) 406
5. Gabriel Kenny (Rethymno Aegean) 397

Basket League Greece 2013-14 most improved player Giorgos Bogris

Basket League Greece 2013-2014 most improved player Giorgos Bogris. Two players of PAOK were named as the two most improved players of Basket League Greece 2013-2014, Giorgos Bogris and Michalis Tsairelis. Bogris played 25 games with PAOK and had 10.72 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in average.

Most Improved Player of the season

	Player	Points	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
1	Giorgos Bogris (PAOK)	62	11	11	7
2	Michalis Tsairelis (PAOK)	59	12	9	5
3	Aleksandar Vezenkov (Aris)	44	9	6	5
4	Giannis Athinaiou (Aris)	37	7	6	4
5	Errick McCollum (Panionios)	15	2	2	2

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

April fools news: Errick McCollum returns to Apollon Patras

Local newspaper of Patras, Peloponnisos, reported that Errick McCollum will leave Panionios due to economic problems and return to Apollon Patras. The article "reports" that McCollum won't play in the remaining games of the regular season, but will be available for the play offs. Nice one, since Panionios will finish third in the regular season while Apollon Patras will fight to enter the play offs. Besides teams' positions, McCollum had an impressive season and if the American leaves Panionios many Greek and foreign teams will try to sign him.

Panionios beat PAOK for Greek League 23rd day

Panionios hosted and defeated PAOK for Greek Basket League 23rd day. Panionios had won PAOK in the first round game by 91-100 in Thessaloniki. Panionios was leading the score in the first half and PAOK balanced the game in the second one. In the last minutes Kostas Charalampidis scored a three pointer, Errick McCollum didn't score and the game went to extra time. In the extra time DJ Cooper was leading PAOK but he also was the crucial player that missed the final attack. In a very productive game, where the partial total score of each quarter was more than 35 points, Panionios had more rebounds and less turnovers. The two teams had the same three pointers 10/26 and the same successful field goals 22 with the home team shooting 6 more than PAOK. For Panionios Errick McCollum had 20 points, Vasilis Simtsak had 12 points, 9 rebounds and Giannis Athanasoulas had 6 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals. For PAOK Kostas Charalampidis had 26 points, Mark Payne had 24 points, 7 rebounds and 2 steals, Michalis Tsairelis had 12 points and 7 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 30-23, 37-33, 63-63, 83-83. Extra time: 95-92

Panionios: McCollum 20, Duvnjak 4, Carter 10, Milbourne 9, Athanasoulas 6, Batis 13, Skordilis, Langford 8, Michel, Simtsak 12, Kyritsis, Saloustros 13.
PAOK: Payne 24, Cooper 16, Charalampidis 26, Tsochlas, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 12, Dedas 6, Margaritis 1, Kalles, Bogris 5, Kaselakis 2, Liapis.

Kolossos Rodou beat Panionios for Greek League 22nd day

Kolossos Rodou hosted and defeated Panionios for Greek Basket League 22nd day. Kolossos and Panionios have played 20 games for Greek League and Panionios counts 5 wins in a row in total of 12 wins. Kolossos Rodou dominated first half when Panionios was poor in field goals (~30%). In the third quarter Panionios only maanged to lower the difference to 9 points but was still bad in field goals. The home team won the fourth quarter and broadened the difference of its victory to 11 points, 75-64. Bryan Hopkins, Mladen Pantić and Kostas Kakaroudis debuted with Kolossos Rodou in the Greek League. Hopkins didn't score, Kakaroudis had 5 points, 2 rebounds and Pantić had 5 points and 2 rebounds. Aggelos Tsamis was the best player of the home team with 17 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists. Taylor Smith had 10 points and 7 rebounds. For Panionios Errick McCollum was the top player with 26 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists but was alone.
Quarters' scores: 20-14, 38-28, 57-48, 75-64.

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 3, Car 8, Matsamas, Georgalis 8, Hopkins, Smith 10, Stefanidis 10, Tsamis 17, Kakaroudis 7, Pantić 5, Danas, Nadjfeji 7.
Panionios: McCollum 26, Duvnjak, Carter 12, Milbourne 6, Athanasoulas 2, Batis, Skordilis, Langford 8, Michel, Simtsak 4, Kyritsis, Saloustros 6.

Panionios beat Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek League 21st day

Panionios hosted and defeated Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek Basket League 21st day. Panionios won the first game between the two teams and also have won both games in the previous season. Panionios dominated the first quarter when took a lead of 16 points and the first half the difference was at twenty points. Ikaros Chalkidas with 1/11 three pointers and 8 turnovers in first half couldn't ask for more. The difference was getting bigger each quarter and the final difference was 35 points for Panionios. Ikaros Chalkidas finished the game with 1/16 three pointers, 15 turnovers and 11/23 free throws. Panionios had 5 players with two digits score and 11 players scoring. Errick McCollum had 15 points, Marc Carter 13 points and 5 rebounds, Vassilis Simtsak 9 points and 9 rebounds. For Ikaros Chalkidas Dominique Sutton made a double double with 22 points and 13 rebounds. Ivan Aska added 12 more points and 3 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 23-7, 43-23, 67-35, 89-54

Panionios: McCollum 15, Stamatis 5, Motsenigos 2, Duvnjak 11, Carter 13, Milbourne 10, Athanasoulas 4, Batis 4, Skordilis 4, Michel, Simtsak 9, Kyritsis 12.
Ikaros Chalkidas: Woodall 2, Aska 12, Manolopoulos 5, Sutton 22, Gagaloudis 5, Spanos 2, Toliopoulos 4, Vougioukas 2, Demertzis, Richards, Bempis, Persidis.

Errick McCollum named MVP of 20th day

Errick McCollum named MVP of 20th day of the Greek Basket League for his performance against Ilisiakos. In 33 minutes McCollum scored 27 points (7/8 free throws, 4/8 field goals, 4/7 three pointers), 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 steals and 9 fouls drawn.

Ilisiakos lost by Panionios for Greek League 20th day

Ilisiakos lost by Panionios for Greek Basket League 20th day. Panionios had lost 3 consecutive games and wanted this victory but Ilisiakos wanted it more since the team stands alone in the bottom of the league table. Panionios took an early lead in the first quarter but Ilisiakos with 33-17 partial score in the second quarter turned the game upside down. Third quarter was more balanced and in the end Panionios with Errick McCollum and Landon Milbourne won a tight game. For Panionios Errick McCollum had 27 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 steals. Landon Milbourne had 22 points and Christos Saloustros 12 points and 6 rebounds. For Ilisiakos Courtney Pigram had 28 points, 5 rebounds but also 8 turnovers. DJ Stephens had 8 points and 7 rebounds. Ilisiakos is now the team that will most likely relegate to second division.
Quarters' scores: 11-21, 44-38, 59-59, 73-87

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 15, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 2, Devendorf 5, Chatzis 2, Dorkofikis, Stephens 8, Ioannou 7, Tzougarakis, Mbodj 6, Petrovic, Pigram 28.
Panionios: McCollum 27, Stamatis, Duvnjak, Carter 12, Milbourne 22, Athanasoulas, Batis 3, Skordilis 1, Michel, Simtsak 10, Kyritsis, Saloustros 12.

Errick McCollum's offensive foul against Panathinaikos

Errick McCollum's offensive foul against Panathinaikos

Panionios lost by Panathinaikos for Greek League 19th day

Panionios hosted Panathinaikos for Greek Basket League 19th day. Panionios had a period of bad games and Panathinaikos was coming after a great victory against Olympiacos for Euroleague. Panathinaikos' coach Argyris Pedoulakis used 11 players and shared the game time. For another game Errick McCollum was the top scorer and leader of Panionios with 27 points, 7 assists, 7 fouls drawn and 3 steals. Marc Carter added 10 points and 7 rebounds. For Panathinaikos Stephane Lasme had 14 points without losing any shot, 6/6 field goals and 2/2 free throws. Panathinaikos was bad in three pointers with 3/12 but had 22/35 free throws. In his debut Zack Wright played 20 minutes and had 9 points, 2/7 field goals, 5/10 free throws, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 6 fouls drawn.
Quarters' scores: 10-10, 23-26, 38-43, 64-69.

Panionios: McCollum 27, Duvnjak, Carter 10, Milbourne 5, Athanasoulas, Batis 8, Skordilis 2, Langford 6, Michel, Simtsak 2, Kyritsis 4, Saloustros.
Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 5, Fotsis 7, Ukic 2, Lasme 14, Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 6, Gist 6, Pappas 8, Giankovits, Mačiulis 12, Wright 9.

Nizhny Novgorod beat Panionios for Eurocup Last 32

Nizhny Novgorod beat Panionios for Eurocup Last 32 round. This was the second time Nizhny defeated Panionios this year and the fourth victory against Greek teams, since Nizhny had won PAOK twice. Dijon Thomson finished the game with a double double, 19 points and 11 rebounds. For Panionios 10 players scored. Panionios didn't avoid its fifth defeat in five games in the Last 32 round, although the team improved its game.
Quarters' scores: 24-13, 43-35, 57-50, 80-67.

Nizhny Novgorod: Baburin 7, Brezec, Ivlev 2, Antonov 10, Korobkov 9, Khvostov 5, Gubanov 16, Panin 9, Thompson 19, Rochestie 3, Saleyev.
Panionios: McCollum 22, Duvnjak 7, Carter 9, Milbourne 2, Athanasoulas, Batis 2, Skordilis 5, Langford 7, Michel, Symtsak 2, Kyritsis 8, Saloustros 3.

Panionios beat KAOD for Greek League 16th day

Panionios beat KAOD for Greek Basket League 16th day. Panionios was better for three quarters and was leading the score by 20 points in the end of the third quarter. In the last quarter Panionios blacked out and with partial score 5-19 KAOD lowered the final score to 6 points difference. For Panionios Errick McCollum scored 21 points and Marc Carter 14 points. Gaios Skordilis scored 4 points and collected 9 rebounds. For KAOD Edin Bavčić scored 15 points, Julian Vaughn had 7 points and 6 rebounds and Nikola Marković 11 points, 6 rebounds and 4 steals.

Quarters' scores: 30-20, 55-37, 72-52, 77-71.

Panionios: McCollum 21, Stamatis, Carter 14, Milbourne 9, Athanasoulas 2, Batis 9, Skordilis 4, Langford 5, Michel 4, Simtsak 2, Kyritsis 7, Saloustros.

KAOD: Slaftsakis 2, Jones 10, Stiggers 10, Brown 4, Vaughn 7, Marković 11, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 15, Zaras 10, Benas 2, Kolovis.

Panionios lost by Crvena Zvezda for Eurocup Last 32

Panionios lost by Crvena Zvezda for Eurocup Last 32. This was the fourth defeat in a row for Panionios in the Last 32 round. In a tight game Panionios was ahead in first quarter, following in the second and third quarter but lost another game and will not continue in Eurocup.

Quarters' scores: 21-19, 40-40, 52-54, 66-78.

Panionios: McCollum 15, Stamatis, Carter 15, Milbourne 8, Athanasoulas 5, Batis 7, Skordilis 3, Langford 8, Michel, Symtsak, Kyritsis 5, Saloustros.

Crvena Zvezda: Rebic, Lazic 4, Blazic 7, Simonovic 13, Marjanovic, Radenovic 8, Katic 19, Tejic, Nelson 14, Jenkins 10, Stojanovic, Dragicevic 3.

Aries Trikala lost from Panionios for Greek League 15th day

Aries Trikala hosted Panionios for Greek Basket League 15th day. First quarter started tight but Aries Trikala made a small counter attack in the end and finished it with a small lead of five points. Chris Evans finished the first quarter with 7 points and 6 rebounds. In the second quarter Trikala created a 7 points difference, 23-16, Panionios took the lead 33-34, but first half finished with a 6-0 run from Aries Trikala and 5 points lead. Aries Trikala finished the first half with only 6 turnovers and Chris Evans having a double double with 11 points and 10 rebounds in 20 minutes! Marc Carter had 5 turnovers of the 13 team turnovers of Panionios. In the third quarter Aries Trikala was ahead by 4-5 points but Errick McCollum started scoring for Panionios and with 4/4 three pointers gave a 4 points lead for his team, 55-59. Third quarter finished with Panionios scoring three pointers and Aries Trikala with Mario Matalon free throws. Vasilis Simtsak helped Panionios keep the lead in the fourth quarter beginning. One minute before the end Patrick Ewing Junior scored a three pointer making the score 73-75. McCollum, Langford, Kyritsis, Evans failed to score and Mike Porrini scored and equalized the score 75-75, 30 seconds before the end. Kyritsis and Perunicic failed to score and the game finished with equal score in normal time, 75-75. In extra time Panionios was leading the score and Aries Trikala was equalizing, 75-77 to 77-77, then 77-79 to 79-79 but with consecutive free throws from Nikolopoulos and Patrick Ewing Junior Aries Trikala took the lead with 83-79. Keving Langford scored a three pointer and made the score 83-82. Marc Carter scored the most crucial two points of the game and gave his team a great victory with score 83-84 in extra time. Chris Evans finished the game with double double, 12 points, 14 rebounds, 4 steals and 2 assists. Michael Porrini had 18 points and 4 assists. For Panionios all players, except young Skordilis, scored at least 2 points in the game with Errick McCollum being again the top scorer with 20 points.

Quarters' scores: 20-15, 39-34, 58-62, 75-75
Extra time: 83-84.

Aries Trikala: Evans 12, Perunicic 15, Ewing 18, Giannakidis 6, Petrovic 1, Lekakis, Porrini 18, Deligiannis 3, Matalon 8, Fountas, Nikolopoulos 2, Georgakis.
Panionios: McCollum 20, Duvnjak 7, Carter 6, Milbourne 4, Athanasoulas 6, Batis 10, Skordilis, Langford 13, Michel 4, Simtsak 6, Kyritsis 6, Saloustros 2.