Hapoel Holon signed Tony Crocker.

Hapoel Holon signed Tony Crocker. Crocker was one of the best player of Nea Kifisia in the Basket League Greece 2013-2014 but he finished the season with a knee injury. Before his injury Crocker made some impressive dunks and two double doubles besides being named MVP of the ninth day of the League.

Tony Crocker had a knee injury and surgery

Tony Crocker of Nea Kifisia AENK had a knee surgery. Crocker is the top scorer of Nea Kifisia but couldn't play for the past two weeks due to an injury of meniscus. The medical team of AENK decided that Crocker should have a surgery now so that he will be ready for the play offs.

Ikaros Chalkidas beat Nea Kifisia for Greek League 20th day

Ikaros Chalkidas hosted and beat Nea Kifisia for Greek Basket League 20th day. Nea Kifisia started better in the game but Ikaros Chalkidas was fighting to avoid relegation. Nea Kifisia won first and third quarter but Ikaros Chalkidas with partial score 31-20 in the last quarter won a crucial game. Giannis Gagaloudis was impressive with 28 points, 8 assists and 2 steals. Ivan Aska was close to another double double but collected 9 rebounds and scored 16 points. Ryan Richards had 11 points with 3/5 three pointers. For Nea Kifisia Tony Crocker had 26 points, Tony Woods 10 points and 8 rebounds, Nikos Barlos had 14 points and 8 rebounds. Crucial victory for Ikaros Chalkidas who struggles to avoid relegation.
Quarters' scores: 20-23, 40-33, 52-61, 83-81

Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad, Roberson 9, Woodall 10, Aska 16, Manolopoulos, Sutton 9, Gagaloudis 28, Spanos, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Richards 11, Persidis.
Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic, Liakopoulos 4, Crocker 26, Kompodietas, Sioutis, Psathas 2, Garrett 2, Woods 10, Tsaldaris 10, Adegboye 7, Kakiouzis 6, Barlos 14.

Nea Kifisia beat Ilisiakos for Greek League 19th day

Nea Kifisia hosted Ilisiakos for Greek Basket League 19th day. Ilisiakos is fighting to avoid relegation and every game is crucial. Ilisiakos was competitive only for one quarter. With 4/24 three pointers and 7 rebounds fewer than Nea Kifisia Ilisiakos didn't have many chances to win the game.  Nikos Liakopoulos with 17 points, Tony Crocker with 16 points and Dimitris Tsaldaris with 14 points were the top scorers of the winners. Tony Crocker made a double double with 16 points and 10 rebounds. For Ilisiakos the new players Eric Devendorf and Courtney Pigram were the top scorers and DJ Stephens added 7 points and 8 rebounds. With that defeat Ilisiakos remained in the bottom of the league table and has fewer chances to avoid relegation.
Quarters' scores: 15-15, 38-29, 59-45, 81-66.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic 8, Liakopoulos 17, Crocker 16, Kompodietas, Psathas, Garrett 7, Petrodimopoulos 4, Woods 5, Tsaldaris 14, Adegboye 2, Kakiouzis 1, Barlos 7.
Ilisiakos: Fakopoulidis, Antonakis, Devendorf 12, Chatzis 8, Dorkofikis 3, Stephens 7, Ioannou 13, Tzougarakis, Mbodj 9, Petrovic, Pigram 14.

Panathinaikos defeated Nea Kifisia for Greek League 18th day

Panathinaikos hosted and defeated Nea Kifisia for Greek Basket League 18th day. Panathinaikos didn't face problems to win Nea Kifisia but were not good in the fourth quarter. For Panathinaikos all twelve players played for at least 7 minutes each. Loukas Mavrokefalidis was the leader with 13 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 fouls drawn. Nikos Pappas had 10 points and 6 rebounds. For Nea Kifisia Tony Crocker had 13 points and 7 rebounds, Nikos Liakopoulos 10 points.
Quarters' scores: 20-11, 42-21, 64-37, 72-59.

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 3, Curry 2, Batiste 4, Fotsis, Ukic 8, Lasme 8, Mavrokefalidis 13, Diamantidis 4, Pappas 10, Jankovits 11, Maciulis 9.
Nea Kifisia: Liakopoulos 10, Diamantopoulos, Crocker 13, Kompodietas 1, Psathas 5, Garrett, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 4, Tsaldaris 6, Adegboye 9, Kakiouzis 3, Barlos 8.

Nea Kifisia beat Panionios for Greek League 17th day

Nea Kifisia hosted and beat Panionios for Greek Basket League 17th day. Panionios started better and was leading first quarter but Nea Kifisia took the lead in the second quarter and kept it until the end. Nea Kifisia was poor in three pointer, only 2/15 but was more accurate than Panionios in two pointers and free throws. Nea Kifisia had 22/28 free throws while Panionios had 6/16. For Panionios Errick McCollum scored 19 points, Marc Carter had 13 points and 6 rebounds, Landon Milbourne 15 points and 4 rebounds. Nea Kifisia had a more team play with Saša Vasiljević having 15 points, Tony Crocker 13 points and eight more players scoring at least two points.
Quarters' scores: 16-20, 36-30, 47-42, 64-60.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević 15, Liakopoulos 4, Crocker 13, Kompodietas, Psathas 6, Garrett 5, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 2, Tsaldaris 4, Adegboye 4, Kakiouzis 4, Barlos 7.
Panionios: McCollum 19, Stamatis, Carter 13, Milbourne 15, Athanasoulas, Batis 2, Skordilis 7, Langford, Michel 2, Symtsak, Kyritsis 2, Saloustros.

Nea Kifisia defeated Aris for Greek League 16th day

Nea Kifisia hosted and defeated Aris for Greek Basket League 16th day. Nea Kifisia with 8/8 free throws and 4/7 three pointers took an early lead and finished the first quarter with double score, 32-16. Nikos Liakopoulos had 10 points in first quarter. Aris with Alexander Vezenkov managed to lower the difference of the first half to 11 points but the team was still bad in three pointers. Nea Kifisia broadened by one point its lead in the third quarter but in the crucial last one Aris made a 9-0 run and approached in 6 points. Aris was trying to turn the game on its side but Dimitris Tsaldaris with a three pointer in the last minute gave his team 9 points lead and secured the victory. Great game for Dimitris Tsaldaris with 18 points, 4/6 three pointers. Tony Crocker scored 17 points and Michalis Kakiouzis had 8 points and 7 rebounds. For Aris Alexander Vezenkov and Giannis Athinaiou had 12 points each, with Vezenkov having 8 rebounds too.

Quarters' scores: 32-16, 46-35, 60-48, 79-71.

Nea Kifisia: Vasijlevic 10, Liakopoulos 10, Crocker 17, Kompodietas, Sioutis, Garrett 5, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 4, Tsaldaris 18, Adegboye 2, Kakiouzis 8, Barlos 7.

Aris: Bochoridis 2, Hunt, Pelekanos 10, Gikas 2, Tsakaleris 7, Asimakopoulos 9, Charisis 6, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 12, Mourtos 11, Athinaiou 12, Mitoglou.

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.

Greek Basket League dunks

Dominique Sutton's 360 dunk

Tony Crocker's dunk

Greek Basketball League dunk highlights.

Nea Kifisia defeated Aries Trikala for Greek League 14th day

Nea Kifisia hosted and defeated Aries Trikala for Greek Basket League 14th day. Nea Kifisia started better than Aries Trikala the first half, with Tony Crocker and Darrius Garrett leading their team. Nea Kifisia made only 4 turnovers in the first half and had double accuracy than Aries Trikala in two pointers, 73% vs 32%, finishing the first half ahead by 18 points. Aries Trikala complained about referees, since Patrick Ewing Junior was charged with 3 fouls after only 4 minutes in the game. It was almost sure that Aries Trikala will improve in the second half. With Jeremy Granger, Patrick Ewing Junior and Chris Evans made a 9-0 run and lowered the difference from 18 points to only 2 points, 53-51. Nea Kifisia replied with Darrius Garret and two consecutive three pointers from Vasiljevic, broadening the difference to two digits again, 61-51. Nea Kifisia won by 23 points since it had higher shot accuracy, more rebounds and more assists. Tony Crocker was the top scorer with 20 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists. Darrius Garrett had 9 points and 10 rebounds. Saša Vasiljević with 5/9 three pointers and 17 pointers helped his team with crucial shots. The veteran Michalis Kakiouzis with 5/5 two pointers and 2/2 free throws was a reliable player when needed. For Aries Trikala Chris Evans had 18 points and 8 rebounds, Jeremy Granger 15 points and 8 rebounds, Patrick Ewing Junior 16 points and Giannakidis 11 points and 5 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 29-15, 49-31, 69-61, 98-75.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević 17, Liakopoulos 11, Crocker 20, Kompodietas, Sioutis, Psathas, Garrett 9, Woods 8, Tsaldaris 8, Adegboye 6, Kakiouzis 12, Barlos 6.

Aries Trikala: Evans 18, Perunicic 3, Ewing 16, Giannakidis 11, Petrovic 4, Lekakis, Porrini 8, Granger 15, Deligiannis 8, Fountas, Nikolopoulos, Georgakis 2.

Olympiacos defeated Nea Kifisia for Greek League twelfth day

Olympiacos hosted and defeated Nea Kifisia for Greek League twelfth day. Nea Kifisia started the game with a 9-1 run with 3/3 three pointers, 2/2 by the veteran Michalis Kakiouzis. The first quarter finished with the team of Nea Kifisia ahead in score by 4 points and finished the first half leading the score by one point, 32-33. Nea Kifisia had 5/13 three pointers in the first half while Olympiacos had 1/10. Darrius Garrett with 7 points and 6 rebounds and Tony Crocker with 9 points were the leaders of AENK in the first half. For Olympiacos Bryant Dunston had 10 points and 5 rebounds in the first half. Kakiouzis with another three pointer, 3/3 up to that moment, reached 11 points and kept the lead for his team in the third quarter. Olympiacos made an 8-2 run in the end of the third quarter and finished it leading the score, for the first time after early first quarter. In the last quarter Nea Kifisia made a counter attack with Liakopoulos and Tsaldaris but Olympiacos with Sloukas, Mantzaris and Spanoulis managed to win the game. Tight victory for Olympiacos and a good game for Nea Kifisia. Vasilis Spanoulis finished the game with 13 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists. Kostas Sloukas was the top scorer for Olympiacos with 15 points and 4 rebounds. Michalis Kakiouzis finished the game with 13 points and 8 rebounds. Darrius Garrett missed a double double with 9 points and 9 rebounds, plus 4 blocks.

Quarters' scores: 15-19, 32-33, 49-48, 69-64

Olympiacos: Dunston 12, Spanoulis 13, Perperoglou 6, Papapetrou, Sloukas 15, Simmons 3, Lojeski 2, Begic 2, Printezis 12, Agravanis, Mantzaris 4, Kavvadas.
Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic, Liakopoulos 11, Diamantopoulos, Crocker 15, Sioutis, Psathas, Garrett 9, Woods, Tsaldaris 10, Adegboye 2, Kakiouzis 13, Barlos 4.

Nea Kifisia defeated Apollon Patras for Greek League eleventh day

Nea Kifisia hosted and defeated Apollon Patras for Greek League eleventh day. This was the third victory in a row for Nea Kifisia and the third defeat in the row for Apollon Patras. Nea Kifisia was leading the game except of the second quarter where Apollon Patras made its counter attack. Apollon Patras had a poor 30% accuracy in two pointers with 15/50 shots. Nea Kifisia had two players with a double double, Tony Crocker and Tony Woods. Tony Crocker scored 14 points and collected 11 rebounds, while Tony Woods scored 12 points, collected 13 rebounds and made 5 blocks! The veteran Michalis Kakiouzis helped a lot with 10 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists in 23 minutes.

Quarters' scores: 21-10, 32-26, 52-37, 72-54.

 

Nea Kifsia: Vasiljevic 6, Liakopoulos 10, Crocker 14, Kompodietas, Sioutis 3, Garrett 9, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 12, Tsaldaris 6, Adegboye, Kakiouzis 10, Barlos 2. 

Apollon Patras: Hill, Argyropoulos 5, Daniel 5, Wilson 15, Lianos, Petrovic, Pelekoudas 6, Molfetas 2, Niforas 2, Trepalovac 4, Hot 2, Bolds 13.

 

 

Tony Crocker named MVP of ninth day

Tony Crocker named MVP of ninth day of the Greek Basketball League. Nea Kifisia defeated PAOK and Crocker had a crucial part in this victory with 29 points (6/7 two pointers, 3/3 three pointers, 8/10 free throws), 5 rebounds and 9 fouls drawn. This is the first time a player of Nea Kifisia is named MVP. 

Nea Kifisia defeated PAOK for Greek League ninth day

Nea Kifisia hosted and defeated PAOK for Greek League ninth day. This was the second time PAOK lost from a team from the bottom of the table, after the defeat by Aries Trikala. PAOK was ahead in score in the first half but the tiredness from of the players and the counter attack of Nea Kifisia gave the victory to the home team. Nea Kifisia finished the game with 13/22 three pointers but PAOK had 10/25 three pointers too.Tony Crocker scored 29 points and Saša Vasiljević 24 points for Nea Kifisia. Michalis Kakiouzis in his debut with Nea Kifisia scored 6 points and collected 4 rebounds. For PAOK DJ Cooper with 20 points and 6 assists, and Giorgos Bogris with 16 points, were not enough to win the game.
Quarters' scores: 19-22, 38-41, 69-65, 95-86.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević 24, Liakopoulos 2, Crocker 29, Kompodietas 3, Sioutis, Psathas, Garrett 2, Woods 12, Tsaldaris 10, Adegboye 3, Kakiouzis 6, Barlos 4.
PAOK: Payne 7, Cooper 20, Charalampidis 2, Tsochlas 8, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 11, Dedas 9, Margaritis 13, Kalles, Bogris 16, Kaselakis, Liapis.

Kolossos Rodou defeated Nea Kifisia for Greek League eighth day

Kolossos Rodou hosted and defeated Nea Kifisia for Greek League eighth day. This was the third victory in a row for Kolossos Rodou and the first with the new coach Dimitris Priftis. Bambale Osby and Aggelos Tsamis were the best players for Kolossos against Tony Crocker, Ogo Adegboye and the veteran Nikos Barlos for Nea Kifisia.

Quarters' scores: 13-14, 26-28, 45-42, 62-59.

 

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou, Rum, Matsamas, Georgalis 5, Kommatos 7, Smith 6, Stefanidis 10, Simpson 4, Koukoulas, Tsamis 15, Osby 15, Kapelan.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic, Crocker 17, Kompodietas 3, Menoudakos, Sioutis, Psathas, Garrett 6, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 5, Tsaldaris 8, Adegboye 10, Barlos 10.

Nea Kifisia defeated Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek League seventh day

Nea Kifisia hosted and defeated Ikaros Chalkidas. This was the second victory for Nea Kifisia. The game was mainly a free throws competition, where Nea Kifisia had 25/43 and Ikaros Chalkidas 16/28. Nea Kifisia collected 50 and Ikaros Chalkidas 42 rebounds, a very high number for both teams. Nikos Barlos made his first double double for the season with 10 points and 12 rebounds. Dominique Sutton made another double double with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Ivan Aska scored 20 points and Tony Crocker 18 points, both steady scorers for their teams.

Quarters' scores: 28-14, 44-32, 63-52, 75-66.

Nea Kifisia: Liakopoulos 14, Diamantopoulos, Crocker 18, Kompodietas 8, Menoudakos, Sioutis 3, Garrett 3, Petrodimopoulos 4, Woods 8, Tsaldaris 2, Adegboye 5, Barlos 10.

Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad 7, Govens 5, Papanikolopoulos 2, Aska 20, Manolopoulos 3, Sutton 10, Gagaloudis 11, Borovnjak, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Beck 8, Bempis.

 

Ilisiakos defeated Nea Kifisia

Ilisiakos hosted Nea Kifisia in a game where the winner would leave the loser last in the table. The veteran Nikos Barlos helped his team took the lead in the first quarter, where Nea Kifisia was ahead with 18-26. DJ Stephens and Petrodimopoulos scored in the second quarter and the first half finished with the two teams close in score, 37-39. Third quarter was competitive as well and the score remained balanced. Ilisiakos with Kevin Anderson scoring better in the last quarter, turned the game upside down and finally won it by 6 points, 71-65. Great come back for Ilisiakos in a crucial home game. Tony Crocker and Tony Woods both finished the game with a double double, 11 points and 10 rebounds for Crocker, 14 points and 11 rebounds for Woods.

Quarters' scores: 18-26, 37-39, 51-53, 71-65.

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 9, Antonakis 7, Smith 7, Chatzis 2, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis, Stephens 12, Vavatsikos, Ioannou 3, Tzougarakis, Mbodj 13, Anderson 18.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević 2, Liakopoulos 8, Diamantopoulos, Crocker 11, Menoudakos, Sioutis 2, Garrett, Petrodimopoulos 6, Woods 14, Tsaldaris 11, Adegboye, Barlos 11.

Panathinaikos defeated Nea Kifisia for Greek League fifth day

Panathinaikos defeated Nea Kifisia for the fifth day of Greek Basketball League. Panathinaikos started the game with energy and a lot of three pointers, finished the first quarter with18 points difference that kept until the end. Panathinaikos had 15/27 three pointer and 15/26 two pointers. For Nea Kifisia Tony Crocker scored 20 points and collected 7 rebounds. For Panathinaikos all players except Shang Ping scored.

Quarters' scores: 10-28, 27-45, 42-67, 65-88.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević 13, Liakopoulos 7, Chatzinikolas, Diamantopoulos 2, Crocker 20, Kompodietas, Menoudakos, Sioutis 3, Garrett 2, Woods 3, Adegboye 4, Barlos 7.

Panathinaikos: Bramos 3, Curry 18, Fotsis 6, Ukić 9, Lasme 5, Mavrokefalidis 9, Diamantidis 7, Gist 14, Pappas 9, Jankovits 3, Ping, Mačiulis 5.

Aris defeated Nea Kifisia for the third day of Greek Basketball League

Aris hosted and defeated Nea Kifisia for the third day of Greek Basketball League. Liakopoulos and Crocker helped their team to took the lead but Vezenkov and Bochoridis managed to balance the first quarter which finished with score 17-17. Aris was ahead in score by 4-5 points in second and third quarter but Nea Kifisia was following close. Liakopoulos equalized for Nea Kifisia two times in the last two minutes. Garrett equalized one minute before the end, Pelekanos was successful in two pointer and gave Aris the two point difference. Sioutis missed the last shot, a three pointer, and Aris defeated Nea Kifisia by only two points. Aleksandar Vezenkov finished the game with a double double, 15 points and 10 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 17-17, 37-31, 51-46, 67-65.

Aris BC: Bochoridis 7, Pelekanos 11, Gikas 17, Tsakaleris 4, Asimakopoulos 1, Poulianitis, Charisis 2, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 15, Sarikopoulos, Mourtos 2, Athinaiou 8.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević 1, Liakopoulos 17, Diamantopoulos, Crocker 25, Menoudakos, Sioutis, Psathas, Garrett 7, Petrodimopoulos 4, Woods, Tsaldaris 9, Barlos 2.

KAOD defeats Nea Kifisia for Basketball League

Nea Kifisia hosted and lost by KAOD for the first home game of the newly promoted team. The newly promoted team started the first half good and was ahead in score but KAOD dominated last 15 minutes and won the game. Nea Kifisia starting five were Liakopoulos, Crocker, Sioutis, Woods and Barlos. KAOD starting five were Lareric, Polk, Vaughn, Markovic and Chrysikopoulos. First quarter was great for Nea Kifisia who finished it leading the score by 29-18. KAOD tightened its defense in the second quarter and lowered the difference to 7 points, 47-40. In the third quarter KAOD made a counter attack and on 36' Markovic balanced the score to 49-49. KAOD team play, since 10 players have scored,  gave results. KAOD finished the third quarter ahead by 3, 59-62. KAOD played against Garret in the beginning of the last quarter, when Garrett scored 4 points after 5 points from KAOD. Christian Polk with two three pointers in a row gave KAOD an 8 points lead, 6 minutes before the end. Tony Crocker was trying to keep Nea Kifisia in the game but Polk was bombing three pointers and the difference reached 12 points, 67-79. KAOD scored 12 three pointers and had 6/6 fast breaks. Christian Polk in the third and fourth quarter and Linos Chrysikopoulos were the cornerstone of KAOD's victory. For Nea Kifisia Tony Crocker and Darrin Garrett scored 42 points together but weren't enough to win the game. 

Quarters' scores: 29-18, 47-40, 59-62, 84-95

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević 9, Liakopoulos 9, Diamantopoulos, Crocker 30, Kompodietas, Menoudakos, Sioutis 3, Psathas 2, Garrett 12, Woods 9, Tsaldaris 2, Barlos 8.

KAOD: Slaftakis 6, Covic 2, Lazeric 15, Polk 22, Vaughn 6, Markovic 8, Spyridonidis 4, 

Bavcic 3, Zaras 8, Benas 4, Chrysikopoulos 17, Kolovis.