Thanasis Papachatzis is Hoops Lebanon new coach

Thanasis Papachatzis is Hoops Lebanon new coach. The 47 years old Greek coach has worked as a head coach for APOEL in Cyprus, Lokomotiv in Russia, Aris, Panionios, and Apollon Patras in Greece.

Mexas replaces Papachatzis in Apollon Patras

Thanasis Papachatzis was fired from Apollon Patras after only three games (and three defeats) in the Basket League 2015-2016. Kostas Mexas is the new coach of Apollon Patras. Mexas beat Apollon in his last visit in Patras, as KAOD's coach. In the previous season KAOD renewed Mexas' contract, but the team was relegated due to financial problems. In the previous season Papachatzis was fired from Panionios after only two games. This was the first coach change for the Basket League 2015-2016.

Apollon Patras roster 2015-2016

Apollon Patras roster 2015-2016

#4 Vasilis Niforas
#5 Nikos Argyropoulos
#6 Dimitris Verginis
#8 Sarantis Mastrogiannopoulos
#9 Giannis Athanasoulas
#10 Martin Pahlmblad
#11 Darren Duncan
#13 Andreas Pelekoudas
#14 Dionisis Tataris
#16 Andreas Oikonomopoulos
#17 Periklis Bazinas
#21 Tony Meier
#23 Perry Petty
#25 Tony Woods
#** Giannis Kouzeloglou
#** Dejan Cup

Head Coach:  Thanasis Papachatzis

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.

Panionios BC roster 2014-2015

Panionios BC roster 2014-2015

Luke Hancock
Strnad Nejc
Tony Woods
Vasilis Xanthopoulos
Brian Fitzpatrick
Yaroslav Korolev
Koukoulas Manolis
Stamatis Dimitris
Motsenigos Spyros
Spyropoulos Anastasis
Billis Sotiris
Giorgos Diamantopoulos
Justin Tubbs

Head coach: Chris Hugaz
 
*Thanasis Papachatzis started the season with Panionios but left the club on October 21st 2014.
*On November 22nd Panionios signed Giorgos Diamantopoulos.
*On December 22nd Panionios released Gabe Pruitt.
*On December 22nd Panionios signed Justin Tubbs. 
*In January 2015 Panionios released Vangelis Alexandris.
*In January 2015 Panionios signed Chris Hugaz as its head coach.

Thanasis Papachatzis is Panionios' new coach

Panionios announced that the head coach of the team is Thanasis Papachatzis. Only few days before the League starts Papachatzis left Peristeri where he was the head coach and is now in charge of Panionios. The coach was the assistant coach of Giannis Sfairopoulos in the previous season, so he knows the team and the players. Before Panionios Papachatzis had worked for Maroussi academies, Dafni, Panathinaikos (as assistant of Božidar Maljković, Slobodan Subotic, Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou and Kostas Politis), AEK, Aris, and Lokomotiv Kuban (again as assistant of Božidar  Maljković). Papachatzis had studied in North Carolina and had worked with Dean Smith.