Showing posts with label Panionios BC roster 2014-2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panionios BC roster 2014-2015. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Kolossos Rodou signed Sotiris Billis

Kolossos Rodou signed Sotiris Billis. The 19 years old forward started his career in Panionios youth team and in the previous season played 14 games with Panionios in Basket League. Billis is a member of Greece U19 and U20 national teams.

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Apollon Patras signed Dimitris Verginis

Apollon Patras signed Dimitris Verginis. The 28 years old Greek guard penned an one year contract with Apollon. In the previous season Verginis played for Panionios averaging 9.4 points and 2.2 assists per game. The player had won a triple crown with Panathinaikos, is the younger captain ever of the Basket League Greece since he was named captain of PAOK in 2007-2008, and has also played for Aris and for Lukoil Academic in Bulgaria.


Saturday, July 11, 2015

Aris signed Vasilis Xanthopoulos

Aris signed Vasilis Xanthopoulos. The 31 years old guard penned a two years contract with Aris. Xanthopoulos will play for the first time for Aris, but has played for PAOK in the season 2005-2006. In the previous year the experienced guard played for Panionios and although he had a good season, his team did not manage to avoid relegation. Xanthopoulos finised third in assists in the Basket League Greece 2014-2015, with 129 in total, only behind Spanoulis and Diamantidis, and first in steals with Torey Thomas, having 39 steals each.

Thursday, July 9, 2015

AEK signed Dimitris Moraitis

AEK signed Dimitris Moraitis. The 16 years old play maker is said to be the next best thing of the Greek basketball. Moraitis played with Panionios for the Basket League 2014-2015 and he had played against AEK. He signed a six years contract of about one million euros.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Rethymno Cretan Kings signed Yaroslav Korolev

Yaroslav Korolev came to Greece in October 2014 to help Panionios avoid relegation. Although his team was relegated the performance of Korolev helped him continue in Greece with Rethymno Cretan Kings. The 28 years old Russian played 21 games with Panionios averaging 12.9 points, 6 rebounds and 1.8 assists. 

Friday, March 13, 2015

Panionios signed Marcus Ginyard

Panionios signed Marcus Ginyard. The 27 years old American forward/guard started this season in the NBA D-League for Westchester Knicks, where he was teammate with Thanasis Antetokounmpo. Ginyard graduated from North Carolina and has played in Germany for BBC Bayreuth, in Israel for Ironi Nahariya, in Poland for Anwil Włocławek and  Stelmet Zielona Góra, and in Ukraine for Azovmash Mariupol. Ginyard will replace Luke Hancock who will miss the season due to injury.


Friday, March 6, 2015

Luke Hancock will miss the rest of the season

Luke Hancock will miss the rest of the season due to Achilles tendon rupture. Bad luck for Hancock and Panionios. The player got injured in the last friendly game before returning to action after a minor injury. Without Hancock Panionios' struggle to avoid relegation becomes almost impossible.

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Panionios signed Mackey McKnight

Panionios signed Mackey McKnight. The 22 years old American guard graduated from Lehigh University where he played for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks and holds the record in assists. He signed his first pro contract with Hoverla Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine and now will try to help Panionios avoid relegation. In Lehigh McKnight was teammate with Errick McCollum's younger brother C.J. McCollum.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Panionios signed Chris Chougaz

Panionios signed Chris Chougaz. Chougaz replaced Vangelis Alexandris and became the third coach of Panionios this season. The coach has experience of Greek teams from Kavala and Iraklis and will keep the technical staff of Panionios, Vangelis Degaitas, Nikos Linoksylakis and Andreas Ziakas.

Panionios and Alexandris part ways

Panionios and coach Alexandris part ways. Alexandris replaced Papachatzis who started the season and managed to bring Panionios back to victories. The team seems to have another bad period and Alexandris took the blame.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Panionios signed Justin Tubbs

Panionios signed Justin Tubbs. The 27 years old American guard graduated from Hewitt-Trussville High School and played for the Alabama Crimson Tide and the East Tennessee State in the NCAA. Tubbs had played in Israel for Maccabi Kiryat Bialik, Canada for Ottawa SkyHawks, France for SPO Rouen Basket, Germany for Crailsheim Merlins and back in Canada for Halifax Rainmen.

Monday, December 22, 2014

Panionios released Gabe Pruitt


Panionios released Gabe Pruitt. The 29 years old American guard played 7 games with Panionios, averaging 5.6 points, 1.7 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1 block per game.

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Giorgos Diamantopoulos returns to Panionios

Giorgos Diamantopoulos returns to Panionios. The 34 years old Greek player returned to Panionios as he wished. Diamantopoulos started his career from Papagou and continued with Panionios where he was named Greek League Top Scorer of the season 2002-2003. Diamantopoulos played a year for Olympiacos before returning to Panionios. Then he left Greece and continued his career in Italy for Roseto Basket, then Spain second division for La Palma, Russia for Samara, back to Greece for Kolossos and Maroussi, then Cyprus for Achilleas and Switzerland for Vacallo Basket. In the previous season Diamantopoulos played in the third division of Greece for Doxa Lefkadas, helping the team getting promoted. Diamantopoulos will not debut against Korivos Amaliadas today.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Panionios agreed terms with William Coleman

Panionios signed William Coleman. The 26 years old American forward returns to Greece after 2012-2013 season when he played in the Basket League for Kavala with Vangelis Alexandris as head coach. Coleman started his career in Miami Dade and besides Kavala has also played in Israel for Hapoel Holon, in FYROM for Rabotnicki, in Montenegro for Buducnost Voli Podgorica and in France for Le Mans.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Panionios signed Luke Hancock

Panionios signed Luke Hancock. The 24 years old forward was named Most Oustanding Player of the NCAA Final Four for the season 2012-13 with the Louisville Cardinals, when he also won the NCAA championship.
Hancock joined the Orlando Magic for the Orlando Summer League and the Houston Rockets for the Las Vegas Summer League. A month ago he signed with the Memphis Grizzlies but the team released him only a two weeks later.
Hancock will help Panionios avoid relegation in a very tough season.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Vangelis Alexandris is Panionios' new coach

Panionios counts three defeats in three games and after the release of Thanasis Papachatzis the team was searching for an experienced coach. Vangelis Alexandris had coached Larisa, PAOK, Apollon Patras, Irakleio, Marousi, Olympia Larisas, AEK, Kolossos Rodou, Kavala and the National Team of Jordan.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Panionios signed Gabe Pruitt

Panionios signed Gabe Pruitt. The 28 years old American guard played five games with Rethymno Aegean in the Basket League Greece 2013-2014 and he was named MVP of the first day. Pruitt will help Panionios to avoid relegation with his experience.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Panionios and Thanasis Papachatzis part ways

Panionios and Thanasis Papachatzis part ways. After only two games Panionios announced the release of the coach Papachatzis. The team and the Greek coach could not agree on the plan of the team.

Friday, October 17, 2014

Panionios signed Vasilis Xanthopoulos

Panionios signed Vasilis Xanthopoulos. The 30 years old player returns to Panionios for third time after 2011-2012 and 2007-2009 seasons. Xanthopoulos started his career in Olympiacos and had played for Near East, Panathinaikos, PAOK and Panellinios in Greece and for Obradoiro in the Spanish League.