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 Korivos Amaliadas for Basket League eighteenth day

KAOD hosted and beat Korivos Amaliadas for Basket League Greece 2014-2015 eighteenth day. KAOD covered the difference of the first round defeat and is in better position to avoid relegation. For the winners the experienced Manolis Papamakarios scored 14 points, 10 points in the first quarter, the captain Thodoris Zaras had 16 points and 8 fouls drawn, and Dimitris Tsaldaris had 9 points with 3/4 three pointers. Rod Odom touched a double double with 10 points and 9 rebounds, Rob Loe had 7 points and 9 rebounds, Obie Trotter served 5 assists. Eric Atkins had 2/10 field goals and Trotter had 4 turnovers. For Korivos Amaliadas Rawle Marshall had 18 points, Nikos Aggelopoulos had 13 points and Tim Bowers had 10 points. Andreas Kanonidis collected 5 rebounds, with his 2 offensive rebounds being the total offensive rebounds of his team. Larry Turner and Guille Rubio had 1/4 field goals each.
Quarters' scores: 24-16, 46-31, 62-39, 78-62

KAOD: Slaftsakis, Trotter 8(2), Harris, Georgakis, Atkins 8(1), Odom 10(2), Spyridonidis, Michel 6, Zaras 16(1), Loe 7, Tsaldaris 9(3), Papamakarios 14(3)
Korivos Amaliadas: Magette, Marshall 18(2), Giannakidis 3(1), Angelopoulos 13(2), Papapetrou, Bowers 10(2), Vasiljevic, Kanonidis 6, Filippakos 2, Turner 4, Rubio 5, Galiotos 1.

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.

Kolossos Rodou beat KAOD for Basket League twelfth day

Kolossos Rodou beat KAOD in Drama for Basket League twelfth day. Kolossos won its third game in four visits in Drama with Ernest Scott and Aggelos Tsamis having a great game. The visitors created a lead of 27 points in the second quarter but the home team managed to counter attack in the second half. KAOD's counter attack was not enough although the captain Thodoris Zaras made another great game. Zaras finished the game with 22 points and 4 rebounds, Rob Loe had 7 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, Rod Odom had 7 points and 6 rebounds. For the winners Scott made a double double with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Sotiris Manolopoulos had 14 points with only one missed shot, Aggelos Tsamis had 14 points and 5 rebounds, Jamelle Hagins had 8 rebounds and Dominic Waters served 5 assists.
Quarters' scores: 13-23, 29-50, 51-63, 68-72

KAOD: Slaftsakis 4(1), Trotter 3(1), Georgakis 2, Atkins 5, Odom 7(1), Micel 4, Zaras 22(5), Loe 7, Tsaldaris 4, Papamakarios 10(2).
Kolossos Rodou: Toliopoulos 3(1), Waters 7(1), Manolopolos 14(3), Smith 1, Stefanidis 6, Liden 8(2), Scott 17(5), Tsamis 14(1), Haggins 2.

Rob Loe named MVP of Basket League tenth day

Rob Loe named MVP of Basket League Greece 2014-2015 tenth day for his performance against Apollon Patras. Loe scored 18 πόντους with 4/4 two pointers, 3/4 three pointers, 1/1 free throw, collected 7 rebounds, served one assist, made one steal and had 5 fouls drawn.

KAOD beat Apollon Patras for Basket League tenth day

KAOD hosted and beat Apollon Patras for Basket League tenth day. Before the game KAOD was in the bottom of the table and both teams did not have a road victory. KAOD was leading the game with a small difference for three quarters. In the last quarter Apollon Patras made an 11-0 run and the score became 68-69 from 68-58. KAOD replied and balanced the partial score of the last quarter and won a crucial game. Apollon Patras continued without an away victory. For KAOD Thodoris Zaras had 21 points, Rob Loe had 18 points and 7 rebounds. Manolis Papamakarios had his great come back in the Greek League with 13 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 steals. For Apollon Patras Muhammad El-Amin had 23 points, Toarlyn Fitzpatrick had 6 points and 8 rebounds, Brandon Penn had 14 points and 4 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 16-14, 42-35, 64-58, 82-76.

KAOD: Slaftsakis, Trotter 11, Johnson 4, Georgakis, Atkins 4, Odom 6, Spyridonidis, Michel 5, Zaras 21, Loe 18, Kolovis, Papamakarios 13.
Apollon Patras: Skordilis, Argyropoulos 11, Galloway 8, Penn 14, Fitzpatrick 6, Antonakis, Batis 8, El-Amin 23, Pelekoudas, Molfetas, Niforas, Georgalis 6.

Panelefsiniakos beat KAOD for Basket League ninth day

Panelefsiniakos hosted and beat KAOD for Basket League ninth day. After a balanced first quarter the home team finished the first half with a small lead of five points. Giannis Athanasoulas and Elijah Johnson from Panelefsiniakos and Rod Odom from KAOD finished first half with two digits score. KAOD had 2/10 three pointers in first half, with Rod Odom having 2/2. KAOD could not counter attack in the second half and Panelefsiniakos celebrated a victory after three games. For the winners Elijah Johnson had 17 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, Giannis Athanasoulas had 15 points and Frank Robinson had 9 points. Nikola Markovic made a double double with 16 points and 11 rebounds. For KAOD Eric Atkins and Rod Odom had 12 points each, Rob Loe had 8 rebounds and Thodoros Zaras had 4 assists. KAOD had only 3/12 three pointers, 2/2 for Rod Odom and 1/3 for Obie Trotter. Manolis Papamakarios in his debut with KAOD played 18 minutes did not score having 0/4 three pointers, but served 3 assists.
Quarters' scores: 20-19, 45-39, 67-57, 83-69

Panelefsiniakos (Koutesnis): Cox 1, Robinson 9 (1), Tsakaleris 2, Vasilopoulos 4, Athanasoulas 15 (1), Markovic 16 (1), Dorkofikis 14 (2), Ioannou 2, Johnson 17 (2), Kalles 3, Avramidis.
KAOD (Mexas): Slaftsakis 4, Trotter 9(1), Johnson 8, Georgakis 6, Atkins 12, Odom 12(2), Spyridonidis, Michel, Zaras 10, Loe 8, Papamakarios.

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.

KAOD beat Panionios for Basket League sixth day

KAOD hosted and beat Panionios for Basket League sixth day. Panionios had 3/12 two points shots in the first quarter and KAOD did not shoot any three pointers. Panionios improved in the second quarter and balanced the game. KAOD had 4/6 three pointers in the second quarter and Panionios had 5/5 two pointers. Yaroslav Korolev had 10 points and Tony Woods had 5 points and 5 rebounds in the first half. Panionios continue its counter attack and the third quarter finished with the visitors leading the score by 4 points. Like in the previous game against PAOK Panionios collapsed in the last quarter and the team of KAOD won by 11 points. For KAOD Rob Loe had 16 points and 5 rebounds, Linos Chrysikopoulos had 11 points, Obie Trotter had 7 assists and 9 points. For Panionios Yaroslav Korolev had 22 points and 7 rebounds, Luke Hancock had 13 points, 4 assists and 3 rebounds before being fouled out. Panionios continues without victory after six games in the Basket League, would be a miracle if avoids relegation.
Quarters' scores: 18-11, 37-36, 53-57, 80-69.

KAOD: Slaftsakis 9, Trotter 9, Johnson 2, Georgakis 2, Atkins 7, Odom 9, Spyridonidis, Michel 5, Zaras 10, Loe 16, Chrysikopoulos 11, Kolovis.
Panionios: Xanthopoulos 4, Verginis 9, Koukoulas 1, Spyropoulos, Strnad 1, Motsenigos, Stamatis, Woods 7, Colemen 6, Korolev 22, Pruitt 6, Hancock 13.

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).

Rethymno Aegean beat KAOD for Basket League second day

Rethymno Aegean hosted and defeated KAOD for Basket League second day. First quarter was bad for both team with many missed shots (4/16 field goald for each team) and low score, 9-11. The second quarter was slightly beter but still tight and in the end Rethymno Aegean with Faye and Schaftenaar created a difference of 6 points, 35-29. Allen and Schaftenaar for Rethymno finished the first half with 9 points each. The home team improved at third quarter and with Simpson and Schaftenaar expanded the difference to 9 points, 50-41. KAOD was pressing Rethymno but the home team dominated rebounds and won the game. Mouhammad Faye finished the game with a double double, 19 points and 11 rebounds. Roeland Schaftenaar had 11 points, 6 rebounds and Trevis Simpson had 13 points. For KAOD Eric Atkins had 16 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds. Rob Loe had 13 points, Thororis Zaras had 12 points and Terone Johnson 7 points and 5 assists.
Quarters' scores: 9-11, 35-29, 50-41, 72-66.

Rethymno Aegean (Skourtopoulos): Simpson 13, Schizas 2, Koumpouras 4, Schaftenaar 11, Council 4, Allen 9, Kalampokis 6, Faye 19, Sinis, Chilaris, Kravic 4, Doulgerakis.
KAOD (Mexas): Slaftsakis 5, Vasojevic, Johnson 7, Georgalis 2, Atkins 16, Odom 4, Spyridonidis 2, Michel 1, Zaras 12, Loe 13, Chrysikopoulos.

KAOD beat Aries Trikala for Basket League first day

KAOD hosted and beat Aries Trikala for Basket League first day. In tight game KAOD managed to start the season with a victory. Terone Johnson scored 12 points, while Rob Loe and Linos Chrysikopoulos score 10 points each. Diamantis Slaftsakis scored 3 points but collected 13 rebounds. For Aries Trikala only Justin Ingram scored more than 10 points and served 6 assists while Cupkovic scored 9 points and collected 6 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 15-11, 29-23, 42-39, 62-57.

KAOD: Slaftsakis 3, Vasojevic 4, Johnson 12, Georgakis 3, Atkins 4, Odom 7, Spyridonidis, Michel 4, Zaras 5, Loe 10, Chrysikopoulos 10.
Aries Trikala: Ingram 13, Tracey 6, Bowie 4, Cupkovic 9, Panos 2, Spanos, Kamariotis, Deligiannis 7, Matalon 4, Varytimiadis, Kadji 7, Houhoumis 5.

Kymi tournament first day results

Nea Kifisia beat KAOD and Panelefsiniakos beat Kymi for the first day of the Kymi friendly tournament.

Nea Kifisia - KAOD 73-59

Nea Kifisia: Jackson 12, Liakopoulos 5, Popovic 15(3), Pešaković 2, Menoudakos, Mavroeidis 5, Psathas 6(1), Melissaratos, Kakiouzis 2, Tsaldaris 4, Duvnjak 15(1), Ewing 7(1) 

KAOD: Slaftsakis 11(1), Vasojevic 4, Johnson 3(1), Georgakis 3, Atkins 7(1), Odom 2, Spyridonidis, Koukoulas 7, Zaras 4, Loe 12, Chrysikopoulos 6(2)

Kymi - Panelefsiniakos 66-73

Kymi: Kolokas 2, Setsios 9, Kapiniaris 4, Papantoniou 5, Katranas 5, Gizogiannis 16, Konstantakopoulos 1, Siamandouras 6, Kakiouzis 18, Pantazis, Skouloudis, Erebenazie.
Panelefsiniakos: Cox 18 (4), Athanasoulas 12 (1), Avramidis, Vasilopoulos 11 (3), Tsakaleris 8 (1), Mantzaris 10 (2), Markovic 12 (2), Murray 2, Sotirakis.

KAOD BC roster 2014-2015

KAOD BC roster 2014-2015

Obie Trotter
Rod Odom
Eric Atkins
Terone Johnson
Rob Loe
Stratos Voulgaropoulos
Diamantis Slaftsakis
Thodoris Zaras
Giannis Kolovis
Linos Chrysikopoulos
Alexandros Spyridonis
Giorgos Georgakis
Manolis Koukoulas
Manolis Papamakarios
Dimitris Tsaldaris
Darrell Harris

Coach: Kostas Mexas
Assistant Coach: Dimitris Misiakos

*KAOD started with Nikola Vasojevic but released him after three games.
*On November 5th KAOD signed Obie Trotter.
*On December 5th KAOD signed Manolis Papamakarios.
*On January 2015 KAOD signed Dimitris Tsaldaris.
*On February 2015 KAOD signed Darrell Harris.

KAOD signed Rob Loe

KAOD signed Robert "Rob" Loe. The 23 years old New Zealander is 2.11 meter high and member of the national team of New Zealand which participated in the FIBA World Basket Championship Spain 2014. In the tournament Loe averaged 3.5 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. Loe graduated from Saint Louis where he played for Saint Louis Billikens averaging 10.3 points and 5.7 rebounds per game.