Aris beat Aries Trikala for Basket League twenty fourth day

Aris beat Aries Trikala for Basket League Grece 2014-2015 twenty fourth day. The visitors were leading the score in the whole game. Torrey Thomas had 25 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. Double double for Vasilis Simtsak with 11 points and 10 rebounds. LeMarcus Reed had 9 points and 8 rebounds, Ogo Adegboye had 12 points. Aleksandar Vezenkov had 7 points with 1/9 three pointers, and 7 rebounds. For Aries Trikala Kwame Alexander had 16 points and 8 rebounds, Brian Tracey had 11 points and 9 rebounds, Alex Harris had 22 points, and Justin Ingram had 12 points and 9 assists.
Quarters' scores: 20-27, 34-42, 52-58, 74-81.

Aries Trikala (Papazoglou): Ingram 12 (2), Nikolopoulos, Tracey 11, Harris 22 (5), Cupkovic 6, Panos 2, Spanos, Matalon 5 (1), Alexanter 16.
Aris (Priftis): Pasalic 10 (2), Reed 9 (1), Thomas 25 (6), Charisis, Vezenkov 7 (1), Naymick 6, Mourtos 1, Simtsak 11, Adegboye 12 (2).

Aris beat Nea Kifisia for Basket League eighteenth day

Aris beat Nea Kifisia for Basket League eighteenth day. This was the sixth victory for Aris in the last seven games. Aris is improving while Nea Kifisia is going worse in the second round of the League. For Nea Kifisia Xavier Silas had 16 points and 6 rebounds, Giannis Psathas had 12 points and 4 rebounds, Uros Duvnjak had 11 points and 4 assists, Dimitris Mavroeidis had 6 rebounds and 7 fouls drawn. For Aris Aleksandar Vezenkov made another double double with 17 points, 11 rebounds, 7 fouls drawn and 4 assists. LeMarcus Reed had 16 points and 9 rebounds, Torey Thomas had 18 points and 7 assists, Ogo Adegboye had 10 points and Vasilis Simtsak had 7 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 19-25, 29-37, 46-55, 65-79

Nea Kifisia: Silas 16(1), Popovic 3(1), Pesakovic 2, Menoudakos, Mavroeidis 5, Psathas 12, Duvnjak 11, Davis 6, Barlos 8, Vasilopoulos 2.
Aris: Pasalic 8(1), Dimas, Reed 16(1), Thomas 18(5), Poulianitis, Charisis 4, Vezenkov 17, Naymick, Mourtos 2, Simtsak 4, Adegboye 10.

Panathinaikos beat Aris for Basket League tenth day

Panathinaikos hosted and beat Aris for Basket League tenth day. Panathinaikos played without Dimitris Diamantidis and Aris took advantage of it and was leading the score by 14-19 in the first quarter. Nikos Pappas entered the court and with a 10-0 run gave his team the scoring lead. Panathinaikos was keeping the lead from 15 points, 68-53, to 5 points, 74-69, and won the game. For Panathinaikos Nikos Pappas had 23 points, Jānis Blūms had 14 points, Vlantimir Giankovits had 9 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists. Esteban Batista made another double double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. For Aris Aleksandar Vezenkov had 19 points and 6 rebounds, Muhamed Pašalić had 12 points and 6 assists, LeMarcus Reed had 13 points and 8 rebounds, Drew Naymick had 5 points and 9 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 24-19, 46-35, 61-51, 76-69

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos 3, Slaughter 6, Bochoridis 2, Giankovits 9, Fotsis 3, Pappas 23, Mavrokefalidis, Gist 4, Batista 12 (10ρ), Blums 14, Wright.
Aris: Pasalic 12, Gikas, Reed 13, Thomas 10, Vezzenkov 19, Naymick 5, Mourtos 2, Symtsak 2, Adegboye 6.

Thanksgiving in Greece. Life overseas.

Thanksgiving in Greece. Live of athletes overseas can sometimes be lonely but it is Thanksgiving and people share food and wishes.

Happy thanksgiving my beautiful people
— LaMarcus Reed (@lreed31) November 27, 2014

Our dinner dedicated to our Americans for Thanksgiving day & to our captain Kostas Charalampidis. He always with us. pic.twitter.com/zQV1LjXdAA
— PAOK BC the official (@PAOKbasketball) November 27, 2014

Hosting thanksgiving dinner for the foreigners here. who would've thought. Lol. #Overseaslife
— kenneth kadji (@kadji35) November 27, 2014

Kolossos Rodou beat Aris for Basket League seventh day

Aris hosted Kolossos Rodou for Basket League seventh day. Mike James returned to good games and Kolossos Rodou dominated first quarter in Thessaloniki against Aris with partial score 9-25. Aris balanced the game in the second quarter but did not lower the difference. Aleksandar Vezenkov finished first half with 10 points and 9 rebounds while Mike James had 17 points. In the first half Aris had 2/16 three pointers. In the third quarter the home team counter attacked and lowered the difference in one digit number but could not continue in the last quarter and Kolossos celebrated a great victory in Thessaloniki against Aris. Aleksandar Vezenkov made another double double with 21 points and 12 rebounds. LeMarcus Reed had 14 points and Vasilis Symtsak had 9 points. For the winners Mike James had 28 points and 7 rebounds, Jamelle Hagins made a double double with 19 points and 11 rebounds and Tom Liden had 16 points.
Quarters' scores: 9-25, 28-43, 48-55, 65-77

Aris: Pasalic 8, Manolopoulos, Gikas, Reed 14, Thomas 3, Poulianitis, Charisis, Vezenkov 21, Naymick 4, Mourtos, Simtsak 9, Adegboye 6.
Kolossos Rodou: Toliopoulos, Larentzakis 5, Siologkas, Kareem, James 28, Smith 2, Stefanidis, Liden 16, Tsamis 7, Hagins 19, Buljan.

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).

Nea Kifisia beat Aris for Greek Cup

Nea Kifisia hosted and beat Aris for Greek Cup round three. The home team based on the experience of Michalis Kakiouzis and Dimitris Mavroeidis won Aris who got score by Muhamed Pašalić, Reed and Thomas but not from Vezenkov as expected. Torey Thomas lost the last shot and the chance for an extra time and Nea Kifisia qualified to the quarter finals of the Greek Basketball Cup.
Quarters' scores: 21-22, 40-38, 54-55, 73-69

Nea Kifisia (Papatheodorou): Tsaldaris 5 (1), Kafkis 2, Ewing 7, Liakopoulos, Duvnjak 11 (1), Pesakovic 10 (2), Mavroeidis 12 (8 rebs), Psathas 4, Davis 5, Kakiouzis 17 (9 rebs).
Aris (Priftis): Pasalic 14 (4), Manolopoulos 2, Mourtos 2, Simtsak 4, Gkikas, Reed 17, Thomas 16, Charisis, Vezenkov 9, Naymick 5.

Aris beat AEK for Greek Cup

Aris beat AEK in Thessaloniki for Greek Basketball Cup. The home team was leading the game in the whole game. Dusan Sakota and Nontas Papantoniou of AEK did their best to win the game but in the end the home team scored all crucial free throws and secured the victory. For Aris Aleksandar Vezenkov had 22 points and 10 rebounds and LeMarcus Reed had 17 points, 6 steals and 4 steals. Besides Papantoniou and Sakota, Zisis Sarikopoulos made a double double with 12 points and 13 rebounds against his former team. Aris qualified to the next round where will play against Nea Kifisia in Athens.
Quarters' scores: 20-11, 35-31, 52-48, 63-57.

Aris BC (Priftis): Pasalic 7, Manolopoulos, Mourtos, Simtsak, Gkikas, Reed 17, Thomas 9, Charisis 1, Karathanasis, Vezenkov 22 (10 reb), Naymick 7.
AEK BC (Ziagkos): Papantoniou 17, Kyles 3, Sakota 13, Kaselakis 8 (9 reb), Polytarchou 1, Papadionysiou, Goodridge, Kamperidis, Williamson 3, Tsiakos, Sarikopoulos 12 (13 reb)

Aris BC roster 2014-2015

Aris BC roster 2014-2015

Drew Naymick
Muhamed Pašalić
Torey Thomas
Giannis Karathanasis
Vasilis Simtsak
LeMarcus Reed
Tassos Dimas
Stelios Poulianitis
Kostas Charisis
Aleksandar Vezenkov
Spyros Mourtos

Head coach: Dimitris Priftis

*On December 22nd Sotiris Manolopoulos left the club.
*On January 2015 Nikos Gikas left the club.

Aris signed LeMarcus Reed

Aris signed LeMarcus Reed. The 25 years old American played two years with Texas Arlington in NCAA averaging 17.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game in his last season. Reed then moved to Sweden for LF Basket Luleå and Belgium for Antwerp. In the previous season Reed played in Cyprus for Etha Engomis where he averaged 13.9 points, 6.9 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game.