KAOD beat Nea Kifisia for Basket League twenty fourth day

KAOD beat Nea Kifisia for Basket League Greece 2014-2015 twenty fourth day. Another great victory for KAOD, securing play offs while Nea Kifisia is not the team we liked to watch in the first round. For the winners Manolis Papamakarios scored 16 points with 4 three pointers. Rob Loe had 5 points and 9 rebounds, Guy-Marc Michel made 4 blocks, Rod Odom collected 5 offensive rebounds and 8 in total. For Nea Kifisia Dimitris Mavroeidis had 17 points and 8 rebounds. Nikos Barlos, Xavier Silas and Giannis Psathas collected 7 rebounds each. Nea Kifisia made 19 turnovers, had 7 team assists and 1/14 three pointers.
Quarters' scores: 12-15, 34-26, 54-40, 67-51

KAOD: Slaftsakis, Trotter 11, Harris 3, Georgakis, Atkins 5 (1), Odom 5 (1), Spyridonidis 5 (1), Michel 3, Zaras 7 (1), Loe 5 (1), Chrysikopoulos 7 (1), Papamakarios 16 (4).
Nea Kifisia: Popovic 8, Silas 3, Covington 2, Pesakovic 10, Menoudakos, Mavroeidis 17, Psathas 4, Melissaratos, Davis 2, Barlos 5 (1).

KAOD beat Panelefsiniakos for Basket League twenty second day

KAOD beat Panelefsiniakos for Basket League twenty second day. With this victory KAOD secured that the team will continue in the Basket League and Panelefsiniakos will be relegated to the second division. Great game by KAOD's captain Thodoris Zaras with 14 points and 5 assists. Manolis Papamakarios had 11 points and 5 assists, Rod Odom had 15 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, and Obie Trotter had 12 points and 4 rebounds. For Panelefsiniakos Mitrovic had 15 points with 3/6 three pointers, Kurt Looby collected 8 rebounds, Markovic collected 7 rebounds and scored 6 points, Periklis Dorkofikis scored 10 points. Elijah Johnson had 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 7 points with 1/5 three pointers.
Quarters' scores: 15-10, 41-27, 57-38, 76-61

KAOD: Slaftsakis, Trotter 12(2), Harris 4, Atkins 2, Odom 15(3), Spyridonidis, Michel 11, Zaras 14(2), Loe 4, Tsaldaris 3(1), Papamakarios 11(2)
Panelefsiniakos: Mitrovic 15(3), Vasilopoulos 5(1), Looby 2, Athanasoulas 4, Markovic 6, Dorkofikis 10(2), Ioannou 2, Johnson 7(1), Ofoegbu, Avramidis 4, Simpson 6.

Olympiacos beat KAOD for Basket League twenty first day

Olympiacos hosted and beat KAOD for Basket League Greece 2014-2015 twenty first day. Without Vasilis Spanoulis Olympiacos faced problems against KAOD. Rod Odom, Thodoris Zaras and Eric Atkins scored, Manolis Papamakarios served 5 assists, Guy-Marc Michel collected 6 rebounds. For the winners Matt Lojeski had 13 points and 6 assists, Giorgos Printezis collected 6 rebounds and scored 10 points, and Oliver Lafayette scored 11 points. Olympiacos collected just 24 rebounds in total but made only 9 turnovers while KAOD made 22 turnovers (Zaras made 7 turnovers).
Quarters' scores: 19-14, 36-27, 51-41, 72-62

Olympiacos: Hunter 4, Dunston 8, Darden 9(1), Papapetrou, Lafayette 11, Lojeski 13, Christodoulou, Printezis 10(1), Agravanis, Mantzaris 8(2), Kavvadas 2, Katsivelis 7(2).
KAOD: Trotter 3, Harris 4, Georgakis, Atkins 11(1), Odom 12(2), Spyridonidis, Michel 7, Zaras 11(1), Loe 4, Chrysikopoulos 3(1), Papamakarios 7.

KAOD beat Rethymno Aegean for Basket League fifteenth day

KAOD hosted and beat Rethymno Aegean for Basket League 2014-2015 fifteenth day. KAOD was counting three and Rethymno Aegean four defeats in a row before the game. For Rethymno Aegean Roeland Schaftenaar returned as the top scorer with 16 points, Vincent Council had 15 points and 6 assists, Mouhammad Faye had 8 rebounds and 6 points but 0/4 field goals. For the winners Rob Loe had 22 points, Obie Trotter had 14 points and 5 assists, Manolis Papamakarios had 8 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists. Rod Odom and Guy-Marc Michel had 8 points and 8 rebounds each.
Quarters' scores: 18-16, 48-33, 72-52, 91-76.

KAOD (Mexas): Slaftsakis 5, Trotter 14(2), Atkins 10(1), Odom 8, Spyridonidis, Michel 8, Zaras 11(1), Loe 22(2), Tsaldaris 5(1), Papamakarios 8(1)
Rethymno Aegean (Sjourtopoulos): Simpson 11(1), Schizas 5(1), Koumpouras 2, Schaftenaar 16(2), Council 15(1), Allen 7, Kalampokis 9, Faye 6(2), Sinis 3(1), Cheilaris 2, Kravic.

Olympiacos beat KAOD for Basket League eighth day

Olympiacos beat KAOD in Drama for Basket League eighth day. Olympiacos played tight defense on KAOD who had 0/6 three pointers in the first half. Dimitris Agravanis had 10 points in seven minutes in the first half with 1/1 two pointers, 2/2 three pointers and 1/1 free throws. Othello Hunter had 9 rebounds out of 19 team rebounds in the first half. KAOD had 0/3 three pointers in the third quarter but improved and with partial score 20-14 lowered the difference to 17 points. In the last quarter KAOD did not complete its counter attack and Olympiacos won by 18 points. KAOD could not expect more with 3/13 three pointers and 18/43 two pointers. For the home team Rod Odom had 14 points and 8 rebounds, Guy-Marc Michel had 12 points and 8 rebounds, Eric Atkins had 6 points and 4 assists. For the winners Vangelis Mantzaris had 17 points, Dimitris Agravanis had 12 points, Othello Hunter had 12 rebounds and 6 points, Vasilis Spanoulis had 8 points and 6 assists.
Quarters' scores: 11-23, 25-48, 45-62, 64-82

KAOD: Slaftsakis 13, Trotter 2, Johnson, Georgakis 2, Atkins 6(1), Odom 14(2), Spyridonidis, Michel 12, Zaras 10, Loe 4, Chrysikopoulos 1, Kolovis.
Olympiacos: Petway 11(3), Hunter 6, Dunston 9, Spanoulis 8, Darden, Sloukas 8(1), Lafayette 8, Christodoulou, Agravanis 12(2), Mantzaris 17(4), Kavvadas 3.

Panathinaikos beat KAOD for Basket League seventh day

Panathinaikos hosted and beat KAOD for Basket League seventh day. Panathinaikos did not face problems against KAOD and AJ Slaughter had a great game after time. KAOD had Eric Atkins with 18 points and 6 assists, Rob Loe with 8 points and 9 rebounds, Guy-Marc Michel had 6 rebounds and 9 rebounds. For Panathinaikos all available players played and scored. George Papagiannis debuted and scored his first two points. AJ Slaughter had 28 points with 5/8 three pointers, Dimitris Diamantidis had 11 points and 4 assists, Esteban Batista had 9 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and Julian Wright made two impressive blocks.
Quarters' score: 26-15, 42-30, 63-40, 86-55.

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos 3, Slaughter 28(5), Bochoridis 3(1), Giankovits 5(1), Fotsis 3, Pappas 5, Mavrokefalidis 5(1), Diamantidis 11(1), Batista 9, Wright 4, Blums 8(2), Papagiannis 2.
KAOD: Slaftsakis, Trotter 2, Johnson 3(1), Georgakis 3, Atkins 18(2), Odom, Spyridonidis 3(1), Michel 6, Zaras 4(1), Loe 8(2), Chrysikopoulos 8(1), Kolovis.

Aris beat KAOD for Basket League fourth day

Aris beat KAOD in Drama for Basket League fourth day. Aris was leading the score in the whole game but KAOD counter attacked in the end and 14 seconds before the end Spyridonidis equalized the score, 72-72. Moourtos missed two free throws but Aleksandar Vezenkov was there to collect the rebound and score two free throws which gave his team the victory. Another great game for KAOD's captain Thodoris Zaras with 26 points and 5 assists. For KAOD Rob Loe added 9 points and 5 rebounds, Michel had 7 points and 7 rebounds, Diamantis Slaftsakis had 6 rebounds, 4 points and 3 assists. For Aris Ogo Adegboye had 17 points, LeMarcus Reed had 9 points and 7 rebounds, Drew Naymick had 12 points and 7 rebounds. Aleksandar Vezenkov made another double double with 13 points and 12 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 10-15, 31-34, 46-58, 70-74

KAOD: Slaftsakis 4, Vasojevic 5, Johnson 2, Georgakis, Atkins 8, Odom 2, Spyridonidis 5(1), Michel 7, Zaras 26(4), Loe 9(1), Chrysikopoulos 2.
Aris: Pasalic, Gikas 6(1), Reed 9(1), Vezenkov 13(1), Naymick 12, Simtsak 2, Adegboye 17(2).

KAOD signed Guy-Marc Michel

KAOD signed Guy-Marc Michel. The 26 years old center returns to Drama and KAOD after a year in Panionios.

Panionios BC roster 2013-2014

Panionios BC roster 2013-2014
(update with new transfers November 2013)

Duvnjak Uros

Stamatis Dimitris

Saloustros Christos

Spyropoulos Anastasios

Mpatis Marios

Simtsak Vasilis

Guy-Marc Michel

 Langford Kevin

Carter Mark

McCollum Errick 

 Milbourne Landon

Athanasoulas Giannis

Motsenigos Spyros
Skordilis Gaios
Kyritsis Alexis

Coach: Sferopoulos Giannis

*On 28th November Vasilis Kavvadas moved from Panionios to Olympiacos.

Greek police arrested the foreign players of Panionios BC

In another incident of racism, the Greek Police arrested four foreign players of Panionios BC.

The four foreign players of Panionios BC, Landon Milbourne, Kevin Langford, Guy-Marc Michel, Uros Duvnjak, were in a car driving in Piraeus street after Greek Basketball League draw. A policeman probably didn't like four foreign people in the same car and made a signal to stop the car. Landon Milbourne was the driver and he didn't realize the policeman was signalling him to stop the car. A riot police group ran after the car and stopped it in the middle of the street. The policemen asked the four men to exit the car and handcuffed all four of them at once. Guy-Marc Michel was afraid so that policemen pushed him into the police car and drove to the police station. No one of the players could speak Greek and no one from the policemen could understand English nor French or so, but even when the Greek basketball player of Kolossos Rodou Christoforos Stefanidis informed the policemen about the players the policemen didn't show any regret and drove the foreign players to the police station. After going to the police station the Greek player who was the only one that policemen could understand explain to them who the four foreigners were and the policemen released them after some time.
So even if you are a legal foreigner who plays basketball in Greece, if you don't speak Greek and you are black and tall you may end to the police station in handcuffs for nothing.

All information is taken from Eleftherotypia newspaper article in Greek here.

Panionios BC signed Guy-Marc Michel and Dimitris Stamatis

Panionios BC signed two players. Guy-Marc Michel, 25 years old French center, who played with KAOD in the previous season having an average of 8.3 points per game. Dimitris Stamatis is a very young and promising player. He was playing for Evriali Glyfadas in A ESKANA, local division of Athens, where he was the leading scorer of the league. Stamatis also played with Greek national team of young men in the previous Eurobasket having an average of 12.4 points per game. A player to watch in the future since Olympiacos was also interested in him.