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.

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.

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.

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.

Panionios defeated Panelefsiniakos for Greek League 14th day

Panionios hosted and defeated Panelefsiniakos for Greek Basket League 14th day. Panionios had a great team game and won the game. With 11 players scoring and all 12 players collecting at least one rebound, Panelefsiniakos couldn't follow Panionios for more than two quarters. Errick McCollum had 18 points and 5 assists, Uros Duvnjak 17 points and 6 rebounds. For Panelefsiniakos Manolis Papamakarios had 15 points and 3 assists. Rob Jones had 14 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists.

Quarters' scores: 16-12, 40-30, 67-50, 92-70.

 

Panionios: McCollum 18, Duvnjak 17, Carter, Milbourne 11, Athanasoulas 9, Batis 8, Skordilis 4, Langford 1, Michel 2, Symtsak 3, Kyritsis 12, Saloustros 7.

Panelefsiniakos: Nikou, Papamakarios 15, Arapis 8, Raley Ross 9, Dimakos, Jones 14, Magounis, Melissaratos 7, Turner 6, Mantzaris 5, Avramidis 6, Rekouniotis.

PAOK lost by Panionios for Greek League tenth day

PAOK hosted Panionios for Greek League tenth day. This was the highlight game of the day between the two teams that play in Eurocup and are in the top places of the table. Panionios started the game with full attack and tight defense. With 4/6 three pointers and 5/8 two pointers in the first quarter Panionios was leading the score with double score, 13-26. In the first half Panionios continued where it stopped in the Eurocup. The Americans of Panionios, Errick McCollum, Landon Milbourne and Carter were leading their team to a great victory. PAOK tried to return into the game but Panionios was unstoppable. Panionios reached 100 points with very precise shots, 23/30 two pointers against 15/33 of PAOK. With this victory Panionios left PAOK two points behind in the League table. Great victory for the team from Athens that showed great skills. For PAOK DJ Cooper was once more the top scorer (22 points, 6 assists) and Giorgos Bogris followed. Errick McCollum scored 26 points with 5/6 three pointers and 7/7 free throws.

Quarters' scores: 13-26, 36-48, 58-69, 91-100

Ξεκινήσαμε... ΠΑΟΚ - Πανιώνιος στο "Παλατακι" pic.twitter.com/jaJs2XOaL5
— PAOK BC the official (@PAOKbasketball) December 14, 2013

PAOK: Payne 4, Cooper 22, Charalampidis 11, Tsochlas 8, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 8, Dedas, Margaritis 11, Kalles, Bogris 17, Kaselakis 10, Koniaris.

Panionios: McCollum 26, Duvnjak 4, Carter 14, Milbourne 15, Athanasoulas 3, Batis 5, Skordilis 8, Langford 12, Michel, Simtsak 2, Kyritsis 8,  Saloustros 3.

Panionios defeated Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek League eighth day

Panionios defeated Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek League eighth day. Panionios started better the game and took a difference that kept until the end of the game. The American players of Panionios were the cornerstone of its victory. McCollum scored 17 points, Milbourne 16 and Carter 15 points. For Ikaros Chalkidas the veteran Giannis Gagaloudis scored 21 points and was the top scorer of the game. Panionios scored 10 three pointers out of 24 attempted and collected 35 rebounds, against only 17 rebounds of Ikaros Chalkidas.

Quarters' scores: 5-17, 30-40, 48-53, 73-80.

Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad 9, Govens 8, Papanikolopoulos 7, Aska 10, Manolopoulos, Sutton 14, Gagaloudis 21, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Masic 2, Richards 2, Bempis.

Panionios: McCollum 17, Stamatis, Duvnjnak 2, Carter 15, Milbourne 16, Athanasoulas, Skordilis 6, Langford 8, Michel 1, Simtsak, Kyritsis 8, Saloustros 7.

Panionios defeated Spartak St. Petersburg for Eurocup

Panionios hosted and defeated Spartak St. Petersburg for Eurocup. Panionios won the first game with one point but the second game was easier for the Greek team. Panionios took the lead from the first quarter but in the third quarter Spartak counter attacked and equalized the score. In the last quarter Panionios managed to win Spartak St. Petersburg for second time. Saloustros finished the game with 9 points and 9 rebounds. Errick McCollum scored 24 points. Steven Burtt scored 26 points while Donald McGrath and Jared Homan scored each 16 points. For Spartak St. Petersbourg only 5 players scored in the game.

Quarters' scores: 22-11,39-27, 51-51, 76-69.

Panionios: McCollum 24, Stamatis, Duvnjak 10, Carter 11, Milbourne 14, Athanasoulas, Skordilis 2, Langford 2, Michel, Symtsak 4, Kyritsis, Saloustros 9.

 Spartak St. Petersburg: McGrath 16, Koscheev 8, Burtt 26, Korolev 3, Yakovenko, Fidii, Popov, Nesterov, Pershin, Voitiuk, Homan 16, Tkachenko

Panionios defeated Ilisiakos for Greek League seventh day

Panionios hosted and defeated Ilisiakos for Greek League seventh day. Ilisiakos started better and took the lead. First quarter finished with Ilisiakos ahead by 5, 18-23, same in the second quarter, 32-37. Ilisiakos was keeping the victory for 33 minutes but then Panionios counter attacked and won the game in the end. Ilisiakos scored only 8 points in the last quarter and gave Panionios a difficult victory. McCollum was once again the leader of Panionios with 29 points and 33 in the ranking system. DJ Stephens scored 15 points and collected 8 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 18-23, 32-37, 52-56, 69-64.

Panionios: McCollum 29, Stamatis, Duvnjak 15, Carter 2, Milbourne 10, Athanasoulas, Skordilis 2, Kavvadas 1, Langford 5, Simtsak, Kyritsis 4, Saloustros 1. 

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 13, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 3, Smith 7, Chatzis 6, Dorkofikis 2, Stephens 15, Vavatsikos, Ioannou 4, Tzougarakis, Mbodj 6, Anderson 8.

Panionios defeated Bisons Loimaa for Eurocup fifth day

Panionios hosted and defeated Bisons Loimaa for Eurocup fifth day. The team from Finland debuted this year in the Eurocup. Both teams had 2 victories and 2 defeated in the first games. The team from Finland started the game with an offensive attack and finished first quarter ahead by five points. Panionios replied with a massive second quarter. The team from Athens created a difference of 6-8 points which kept until the end. Keving Langford was the first scorer for Panionios and Landon Milbourne was helpful in scoring and rebounds. Mikko Koivosto played 30 minutes and scored 10 points. Billy Keys played 31 minutes without scoring, since he had 0/5 shots and 5 turnovers.
Quarters' scores: 15-20, 38-22, 56-45, 74-62.

Panionios: McCollum 14, Stamatis, Duvnjak 3, Carter 12, Milbourne 14, Athanasoulas, Skordilis 4, Kavvadas 4, Langford 19, Symtsak, Kyritsis 4, Saloustros.
Bisons Loimaa: Nikkarinen 9, Nuutinen 2, Robinson 11, Lindbom, Kotti 13, Pehkonen, Koivisto 10, Makalainen, Keys, Williamson 13, Sampson 4.

Panionios defeated Aris for Greek League fifth day

Panionios defeated Aris for the fifth day of the Greek Basketball League. Aris was leading the score with ease in the first half with 29-20. Panionios lowered the difference in the third quarter and the last minutes were a fight for the win. Uros Duvnjak scored five points in the last minute and Panionios won Aris by two points. Panionios had 17 turnovers but also had 43 rebounds. Uros Duvnjak scored 20 points, Athinaiou 22 points, 3 assists and 3 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 16-11, 29-20, 47-44, 63-65.

Aris: Bochoridis 3, Hunt 2, Pelekanos 4, Gikas 7, Tsakaleris, Asimakopoulos 2, Charisis 9, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 12, Sarikopoulos, Athinaiou 22.
Panionios: McCollum 12, Stamatis, Duvnjak 20, Carter 12, Milbourne 10, Athanasoulas, Skordilis 5, Kavvadas, Langford, Simtsak, Kyritsis, Saloustros 2. 

Besiktas defeated Panionios for Eurocup fourth day

Besiktas Integral Forex Istanbul hosted and defeated Panionios Athens for the fourth day of Eurocup. Both teams had 2 wins and 1 defeat until the game. McCollum was the scoring leader of Panionios but his team could only follow Besiktas for three quarters. Besiktas collected 41 rebounds, 15 of which were offensive. Panionios had low accuracy in two pointers, only 38%, same with three pointers.Quarters' scores: 21-15, 36-31, 48-47, 71-57

Besiktas: Yağmur, Güler 6, Özmızrak, Lofton 12, Broekhoff, Ružić 2, Perkins 20, Buckman 14, Şanlı, Şirin, Iverson 9, Topaloğlu 8.
Panionios: McCollum 22, Stamatis, Motsenigos, Duvnjak, Carter 6, Milbourne 14, Skordilis, Kavvadas 2, Langford 8, Simtsak, Kyritsis 5, Saloustros.

KAOD defeated Panionios for the third day of Greek Basketball League

KAOD hosted and defeated Panionios for the third day of Greek Basketball League. Panionios had won for Eurocup earlier this week and had two victories in the first two games of the League. Guy-Marc Michel came back to Drama as an opponent, after playing two years for KAOD. First quarter was very tight with the teams close to score. KAOD started the second quarter better and took the lead by 11 points 28-17. Then PAOK started its counter attack with a 10-0 rally which finished the first half with score 30-35. Chrysikopoulos, Marković and Covic in third quarter managed to change the lead for another time and third quarter finished with KAOD in the lead. McCollum tried to lower the difference in fourth quarter but KAOD managed to keep it and double its victories for the Greek League. Edin Bavčić finished the game with a double double, 11 points and 10 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 15-14, 30-35, 54-46, 76-63.

KAOD: Slaftakis, Covic 11, Lazeric 20, Polk 8, Vaughn, Markovic 18, Spyridonidis, 

Bavčić 11, Zaras 3, Benas, Chrysikopoulos 5, Kolovis. 

Panionios: McCollum 17, Stamatis, Motsenigos, Duvnjak 11, Carter 2, Milbourne 14, Athanasoulas 2, Batis 6, Langford 5, Michel, Simtsak 6, Saloustros.

Spartak St. Petersburg lost from Panionios second day Eurocup

Spartak St. Petersburg hosted and was defeated by Panionios for the second day of the Eurocup. Spartak St. Petersbourg won Besiktas Integral Forex Istanbul with 58 - 62 for the first day, while Panionios won Radnicki Kragujevac with 77-72. Jared Homan made a double double with 16 points and 10 rebounds but wasn't enough for his team. For Panionios McCollum, Carter and Milbourne scored 57 points in total while Langford was negative with 0/7 shots in 21 minutes, and Simtsak 0/4 in 19 minutes.
Quarters' scores: 13-22, 33-35, 54-48, 68-69.

Spartak St. Petersburg: McGrath 9, Koscheev, Burtt 11, Korolev 6, Yakovenko 11, Nesterov 3, Surotsev 12, Voitiuk, Homan 16, Tkachenko.
Panionios; McCollum 16, Stamatis, Duvnjak 3, Carter 23, Milbourne 17, Athanasoulas 8, Batis, Langford, Michel 2, Simtsak, Saloustros.

Panionios wins Aries Trikala for the second day of Greek Basketball League

Panionios hosted and defeated Aries Trikala for the second day of Greek Basketball League.
First two points for Nestoras Kommatos and Aries Trikala but then Panionios ran an 8-0 score and took the lead in score. First quarter finished without any team scoring a three pointer, 0/4 for Panionios and 0/4 for Aries Trikala. Since the defenses were tight both teams mainly scored with free throws, 7 for Panionios and 8 for Aries Trikala. First quarter finished with Panionios ahead by 5 points since it had better accuracy in shots than Aries Trikala who had 20% in two pointers and 0% in three pointers. Second half started with four points from Ewing Jr for Trikala and the first three pointer for Panionios from Carter. Patrick Ewing Junior who entered in the second quarter started with  4/4 two pointers and was the main reason Trikala followed the score, but also made 3 fouls and went back to bench. Without Ewing Trikala felt back in score since Errick McCollum scored and served assists. Panionios had scored 15 points from free throws while Trikala finished first half without three pointers after five attempts. Chris Evans scored the first three pointers for Trikala and Nestoras Kommatos the second, marking a counter attack for Trikala in the second half. In 36' Aries Trikala took the lead in score for the first time after 0-2 with 38-40. Duvnjak with a three pointer made the score 43-42 that gave the lead again to Panionios. Ewing was fouled out on 35' and then Trikala bench was charged with technical foul. Three free throws made the score 58-51 and Panionios took a great advantage. Trikala tried in the end but Batis blocked Mutakabbir in the crucial attack. Evans finished the game with 17 and 7 rebounds, Kommatos with 12 points and Ewing Jr with 10 points before being fouled out. Panionios scored 34 points with free throws which was the statistical highlight of the match. Errick McCollum was the leader of Panionios for another game with Milbourne following with 15 points. Panionios doubled its victories and Aries Trikala its loses.

Quarters' scores: 15-10, 34-28, 47-44, 69-62

Panionios: McCollum 17, Stamatis, Duvnjak 7, Carter 3, Milbourne 15, Athanasoulas 4, Batis 6, Kavvadas 3, Langford 7, Michel 2, Simtsak 3, Saloustros 2.

Aries Trikala: Evans 17, Perunicic, Ewing 10, Giannakidis 5, Kommatos 12, Granger 2, Deligiannis 6, Matalon, Fountas, Georgakis, Mutakabbir 8, Petrovic 2.

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.

Panionios wins Kolossos Rodou for Greek Cup quarterfinals

Panionios wins Kolossos Rodou with 82-65 for the Greek Cup quarterfinals. First quarter finished with Panionios leading the score by 10 points (27-17) and by the halftime Panionios has increased the difference to 17 points (48-31). Panionios controlled the game and eliminated Kolossos Rodou from the Greek cup.
A productive game for Panionios foreign players McCollum, Duvnjak and Milbourne that scored 56 points.

Quarters' scores: 27-17, 48-31, 62-52, 82-65.

Panionios: McCollum 22(1), Stamatis, Motsenigos, Duvnjak 15(1), Milbourne 19(1), Athanasoulas 9(1), Mpatis 3(1), Kavvadas 10, Langford, Michel, Simtsak 2, Saloustros 2.
Kolossos Rodou VAP: Papantoniou 11(1), Ram 2, Matsamas, Georgallis 5, Smith 12, Stefanidis, 
Simpson 11, Koukoulas 2, Tsamis 5, Pruitt 2, Osbi 15, Danas.

Panionios wins Rethymno Aegean in Petros Oikonomakis friendly tournament

Panionios wins Rethymno Aegean in Petros Oikonomakis friendly tournament first game.

Panionios had a great McCollum scoring 15 points and won the game with 68-63.

Quarters' scores were 15-15, 32-28, 44-47, 63-68. This was the second time Panionios won Rethymno Aegean in friendly game for this season after winning in Artaki with 77-72

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 8, Kalinikidis, Koumpouras 6, Aggelopoulos 16 (2), Pruitt 4, Antonopoulos, Kalampokis 9, Kanonidis 1, Arbet 2, Latovic 2, Kwame 7, Gabriel 8.

Panionios : McCollum 15 (2), Stamatis , Motsenigos 2, Duvnjak7 (1), Michel 1, Milbourne 11 (1), Athanasoulas, Mpatis 8 (1), Simtsak 7, Kavvadas 3, Langford 3, Saloustros 11.

Panionios defeated Apollon Patras in friendly game

Panionios BC defeated Apollon Patras in a friendly game that took plate in Patras. Panionios was leading the score in the whole game that finished with 55-68. Quarters' scores wereb12-20,23-37, 37-57, 55-68.

For Panionios Landon Milbourne was the first scorer with 17 points. Apollon Patras has only won one friendly game until now, the one against Rethymno Aegean for Patras Cup.

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.