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.

KAOD beat Aries Trikala for Greek League 26th day

KAOD beat Aries Trikala in Trikala for Greek Basket League 26th day. It was the most productive game in Greek Basket League 2013-2014 with the two teams scoring 211 points without extra time. Both teams shot and scored many points with free throws, 23/30 for Aries Trikala, 27/33 for KAOD. Chris Evans and Nikola Marković had a massive game. Evans had 35 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals while Marković had 21 points, 15 rebounds and 3 assists. Patrick Ewing Junior had 26 points and 8 rebounds. Mario Matalon had 13 points and 6 assists while Mike Porrini had 11 assists and 2 points. Lazeric Jones had 17 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, Edin Bavčić had 20 points and 5 rebounds. Aries Trikala will continue in the Greek Basket League next season and KAOD will continue in the play offs for the first time in the team history.
Quarters' scores: 28-32, 47-62, 79-82, 103-108.

Aries Trikala: Evans 35, Perunicic, Ewing 26, Giannakidis 6, Petrovic 14, Porrini 2, Sapp, Matalon 13, Fountas, Panos 7, Nikolopoulos, Giannoulis.
KAOD: Slaftsakis 1, Jones 17, Stiggers 6, Brown 21, Vaughn 16, Markovic 21, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 20, Zaras 6, Benas, Kolovis.

KAOD beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek League 25th day

KAOD hosted and beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek Basket League 25th day. Great victory for KAOD who will enter play offs for the first time while Panelefsiniakos stayed in the bottom of the league table. For KAOD Lazeric Jones had 20 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists and Nikola Marković finished the game with a double double with 16 points and 10 rebounds. For Panelefsiniakos David Kyles made a double double with 19 points and 10 rebounds and Petros Melissaratos had 14 points. 
Quarters' scores: 23-12, 39-28, 54-44, 81-68.

KAOD: Slaftsakis, Jones 20, Stiggers 2, Brown 11, Vaughn 4, Markovic 16, Spyridonidis, Bavcic 7, Zaras 15, Benas 4, Kolovis 2.
Panelefsiniakos: Nikou 2, Papamakarios 3, Arapis 2, Kyles 19, Jones 13, Magounis, Fisher 5, Melissaratos 14, Turner 6, Uzas 2, Mantzaris 2, Avramidis.

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.

KAOD beat Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek League 19th day

KAOD hosted and beat Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek Basket League 19th day. KAOD took full advantage of its home performance and defeated Ikaros Chalkidas with a counter attack in the second half. With 14/29 three pointers and 23/33 two pointers KAOD's offense was in a good day. Lazeric Jones with 20 points and J' Covan Brown with 17 points and 7 assists were the top players for KAOD. For Ikaros Chalkidas Ivan Aska with 14 points and 9 rebounds, Dominique Sutton with 10 points and 7 rebounds, Giannis Gagaloudis with 20 points and Strand with 10 points were the only players trying.
Quarters' scores: 18-22, 38-39, 71-57, 96-79.

KAOD: Slaftsakis 5, Jones 20, Stiggers 7, Brown 17, Vaughn 10, Markovic 7, Spyridonidis 2, Bavcic 12, Zaras 14, Benas 2, Kolovis.
Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad 10, Roberson 7, Woodall 5, Aska 14, Manolopoulos, Sutton 10, Gagaloudis 20, Spanos, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Richards 13, Bempis.

Ilisiakos lost by KAOD for Greek League 18th day

Ilisiakos lost by KAOD for Greek League 18th day. In a very crucial game between two teams that fight to avoid relegation KAOD won and this victory made Ilisiakos the team most likely to get relegated. The game was tight but the most focused team in the end won the game. Stiggers scored only 4 points but all of them in the last minute. Pigram scored 23 points for Ilisiakos but missed the crucial shots. For KAOD Nikola Marković had 7 points, 11 rebounds, Julian Vaughn 15 points, 9 rebounds, Slaftsakis 5 points, 9 rebounds and J'Covan Brown 21 points.
Quarters' scores: 21-19, 38-35, 55-57, 70-74.

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 2, Fakopoulidis 4, Antonakis 8, Chatzis 7, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 7, Stephens 4, Vavatsikos, Ioannou 3, Tzougarakis, Mbodj 12, Pigram 23.
KAOD: Slaftsakis 5, Jones 17, Stiggers 4, Brown 21, Vaughn 15, Markovic 7, Spyridonidis, Bavcic 2, Zaras 3, Benas, Kolovis.

Panathinaikos beat KAOD in extra time for Greek League 17th day

Panathinaikos beat KAOD in extra time for Greek League 17th day. KAOD had defeated Panathinaikos in the previous season and Olympiacos in this season in Drama. The team from Drama was close to a second victory against Panathinaikos in Drama but Julian Vaughn missed a free throw 0.2 seconds before the end and the game went to extra time were Panathinaikos won by two. For Panathinaikos Dimitris Diamantidis and Jonas Mačiulis scored 18 points each, with the captain having 5 rebounds and 5 assists too. Stephane Lasme made a double double with 14 points and 11 rebounds but he also had 5 turnovers. For KAOD J'Covan Brown scored 27 points with 6/8 three pointers and 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals. Lazeric Jones had 23 points, 5 assists and 6 steals.

Quarter's scores: 8-21, 36-40, 59-53, 72-72, Extra Time: 85-87

KAOD: Slaftsakis 2, Jones 23, Stiggers 11, Brown 27, Vaughn 10, Markovic 4, Spyridonidis, Bavcic, Zaras, Benas 2, Kolovis.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 3, Curry 6, Batiste 2, Fotsis 5, Ukic 6, Lasme 14, Mavrokefalidis 5, Diamantidis 18, Gist 7, Pappas 3, Giankovits, Mačiulis 18.

KAOD lost from Nea Kifisia for Greek League 15th day

KAOD hosted Nea Kifisia for Greek Basket League 15th day. Nea Kifisia started the game better than KAOD and took the lead by six points in the first quarter. KAOD reacted in the second quarter and with an 8-0 run equalized the score from 17-25 to 25-25. The first half finished with Nea Kifisia ahead by one points, 32-33. Nea Kifisia had 6/9 three pointers with Dimitris Tsaldaris having 11 points and Tony Crocker 8 points. For KAOD team game was the key with 9 players having scored in the first half. KAOD's team game helped the team to take the lead in the third quarter. Although in the beginning Nea Kifisia created a six points difference, 32-38, KAOD managed to counter attack and finish third quarter ahead by 3 points. With J'Covan Brown and Lazeric Jones KAOD reached 8 points of difference in the fourth quarter, 58-50. Nea Kifisia reduced it to 3 points, 59-56, with Kakiouzis and Garrett. The last minute was tight for both teams with Dimitris Tsaldaris scoring again after a long time and making the score 66-64. Tony Crocker equalized the score, 66-66, but Zaras with a three pointer and Slaftsakis with a free throw gave their team 4 points lead. Liakopoulos scored 2/2 and Lazeric Jones 1/2 free throws. Liakopoulos scored a crucial three pointer and the game finished with equal score in normal time, 71-71. Nea Kifisia was leading the score in the extra time before Dante Stiggers equalized, 74-74. Thodoros Zaras scored in the last seconds and made the score 76-74. Dimitris Tsaldaris and Michalis Kakiouzis failed to score but their team was collecting the rebounds and Dimitris Tsaldaris with his 5th but most crucial three pointer gave his team a great victory with score 76-77. For KAOD Diamantis Slaftsakis was the top player with 13 points and 8 rebounds, with Lazeric Jones having 19 points and 7 rebounds. For Nea Kifisia Dimitris Tsaldaris had 20 points with 5/9 three pointers, including the crucial winning one. Tony Crocker had 16 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals. The veteran Michalis Kakiouzis had 2 points and 7 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 10-16, 32-33, 48-45, 71-71
Extra time: 76-77.

KAOD: Slaftsakis 13, Jones 19, Stiggers 8, Brown 9, Vaughn 7, Marković 2, Spyridonidis 2, Bavčić 5, Zaras 11, Benas, Kolovis.
Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic 2, Liakopoulos 11, Crocker 16, Kompodietas 3, Sioutis, Garrett 8, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 7, Tsaldaris 20, Adegboye 3, Kakiouzis 2, Barlos 5.

Aris defeated KAOD for Greek League 14th day

Aris hosted and defeated KAOD for Greek Basket League 14th day. First quarter was bad for Aris that had 0/8 three pointers while KAOD had 67% in all shots, 4/6 free shots, 4/6 two pointers and 2/3 three pointers. Lazeric Jones finished the first quarter with 11 points. Aris made a 6-0 run in the second half and took the lead by two points. Lefteris Bochoridis scored the first three pointer for Aris, after 11 failed attempts, making the score 25-22. First half finished with Aris ahead by 9 points. Aris had 1/16 three pointers but with only 4 turnovers and 10/16 two pointers was ahead in score. KAOD had 13 turnovers in the first half, which were the main reason of being behind in score. Aris improved having 5/13 three pointers and only 10 more turnovers in the second half and broadened the difference to 20 points in the third half. KAOD didn't counter attacked and the game finished with a broad victory for Aris. Kostas Charisis finished the game with a double double, 10 points and 10 rebounds. For KAOD Lazeric Jones finished the game with 19 and Benas with 11 points.

Quarters' scores: 14-18, 35-26, 58-38, 77-59.

Aris: Bochoridis 9, Hunt, Pelekanos 13, Tsakaleris 11, Asimakopoulos 4, Poulianitis, Charisis 10, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 9, Mourtos 9, Athinaiou 12, Mitoglou.

KAOD: Slaftsakis 8, Jones 19, Stiggers 7, Brown 9, Vaughn, Marković, Spyridonidis, Bavčić, Zaras 3, Benas 11, Chrysikopoulos, Kolovis 2.

Apollon Patras lost by KAOD for Greek League tenth day

Apollon Patras hosted KAOD for Greek League tenth day. Apollon had 0/6 three pointers in the first quarter but KAOD with 3/13 two pointers couldn't expect more. In a bad attacking game Apollon Patras scored its first three pointer in 17th minute with Taylor. The first half finished with KAOD having poor shot accuracy, only 1/6 three pointers and 6/23 two pointers, no chance to win the game without improving. Lenny Daniel with 6 points and 6 rebounds in the first half was close to another double double. In the last quarter the counter attacke of KAOD with Lazeric Jones took place. Jones, Cović and Bavčić made the score equal and surpassed the home team three minutes before the end. Apollon Patras took back the lead two minutes before the end but Marković with a three pointer gave his team the lead by two points and there was one minute left. Argyropoulos missed the shot for Apollon,  J'Covan Brown scored two free throws and KAOD was ahead by four points with 45 second left. Lenny Daniel with a dunk lowered the difference to two points and the game was on fire. Lazeric Jones made a turnover but Demarius Bolds and Nikos Argyropoulos missed a shot each and their team lost a game that was leading for more than 30 minutes. Daniel Lenny Daniel made another double double, as expected in the half time, with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Edin Bavčić also made a double double with 14 points and 12 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 12-11, 31-23, 52-40, 62-64.

Apollon Patras: Hill 6, Argyropoulos 8, Taylor 11, Daniel 17, Lianos, Oikonomopoulos, Pelekoudas, Niforas 2, Zafeiris, Trepalovac 1, Hot, Bolds 17.

KAOD: Slaftsakis 9, Cović 3, Jones 15, Brown 9, Vaughn 4, Marković 10, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 14, Zaras, Benas, Kolovis.

KAOD defeated Rethymno Aegean for Greek League ninth day

KAOD hosted and defeated Rethymno Aegean for Greek League ninth day. This was the a victory after three defeats in a row for KAOD. The game was tight with the two teams following each other in the score point to point. Lazeric Jones, J'Covan Brown and Nikola Marković were the leader of KAOD with 19, 17 and 18 points respectively. For Rethymno Aegean Derek Wright scored 19 points and Damir Latovic made a double double with 10 points and 10 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 18-17, 42-43, 61-60, 83-82.

KAOD: Slaftsakis, Covic, Jones 19, Brown 17, Vaughn 4, Markovic 18, Spyridonidis 5, Bavcic 13, Zaras 5, Benas 2, Kolovis.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 9, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 4, Aggelopoulos 6, Wright 19, Kalampokis 6, Kanonidis, Sinis, Latovic 10, Alexander 4, Arbet 10, Gabriel 14. 

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.

KAOD signed Lazeric Jones

KAOD signed Lazeric Jones. The 23 years old American was playing in Israel with Maccabi Rishon LeZion and he is an UCLA graduate. His twitter account is Zeek_Jones11