Greece Women's National Team in Eurobasket 2015

Greece Women's National Team in Eurobasket 2015. The Eurobasket Women 2015 will be hosted in Hungary and Romania. Greece participates in group B (hosted in Oradea, Romania) with Poland, Turkey, Italy and Belarus.

11th June 2015
18.00 Poland - Turkey
20.30 Italy - Belarus

12th June 2015
18.00 Greece - Italy
20.30 Belarus - Poland

13th June 2015
18.00 Poland - Greece
20.30 Turkey - Belarus

14th June 2015
18.00 Italy - Poland
20.30 Greece - Turkey

15th June 2015
18.00 Belarus - Greece
20.30 Turkey - Italy

Olympiacos defeated Galatasaray for Euroleague

Olympiacos hosted and defeated Galatasaray for Euroleague. After first game when Olympiacos won in Abdi İpekçi Arena, the Euroleague champions defeated Galatasaray for second time. Before the game four players of Olympiacos had a doping control. Galatasaray had very bad accuracy in two and three pointers, only 32% in field goals and 14% in three pointers, no luck with such poor shots. Olympiacos finished the game with only 4 attempted free throws but 20 assists and 40 rebounds. Highlight of the match, but a negative one, the fight between Mirza Begić and Mensa Bonsu one minute before the end. This was the 17th consecutive win for Olympiacos in this season, a new record for the Greek team.

Quarters' scores: 18-10, 35-24, 59-35, 72-54.

Olympiacos: Petway 4, Law, Dunston 18, Spanoulis 12, Perperoglou 3, Papapetrou 3, Sloukas 5, Begić 8, Printezis 9, Agravanis, Mantzaris 3, Lojeski 7.

Galatasaray: Erceg 2, Koksal 3, Hairston 2, Atsur, Akyol 3, Aldemir 10, Mensa-Bonsu 7, Macvan 2, Arroyo 6, Guler 10, Arslan 9, Domercant. 

Olympiacos wins Anadolu Efes in friendly game

Olympiacos BC wins Anadolu Efes with 83-78 in friendly game.
  Quarters' scores were 18-31, 32-50, 55-63, 78-83

Sloukas led the game for Euroleague winners and Savanović for Anadolu Efes. 

Vasileiadis scored only 6 points.

Olympiacos BC: Petway 8(2), Law 9(1), Lojeski 2, Dunston 8, Mantzaris 5(1), Christodoulou , Papapetrou 9(1), Simmons 6, Perperoglou 8(2), Sloukas 15(1), Printezis 13

Anadolu Efes S.K.: Planinić 8, Lucas 4, Batuk 2, Barać 6, Erden 10, Savanović 16, Balbay 3, Hopson 16, Kılıçlı, Vasileiadis 6, Osman 7

Olympiacos wins BC Budivelnyk in friendly game

Olympiacos wins BC Budivelnyk in friendly game with 80-72.

Quarters' scores were 18-25, 33-43, 52-63, 80-72. The team from Ukraine was leading the game for more than  three quarters but Olympiacos 4 minutes before the game attacked and won the game with 8 points.

 Olympiacos BC: Petway 10(1), Law 15, Agravanis 1, Dunston 13, Mantzaris 5, Christodoulou 2, Papapetrou 5, Simmons 7, Perperoglou 5, Sloukas 11, Printezis 6.

BC Budivelnyk: Ahearn 12, Gorbenko 13, Strēlnieks 3, Anisimov 13, Tischenko 5, Anikienko 6, Downs 9, Minard 11.

Greece defeated Turkey in Eurobasket Slovenia

Greece defeated Turkey in Eurobasket Slovenia with a larger score than the statistics were forecasting. Greece won with 61-84 without her leader Vassilis Spanoulis. Turkey improved her bad percentages in free throws and two point shoots but Greece had a great percentage 66,7% in 3 points shooting and reduced the turnovers to just 12 and 21 assists during the game. Türkoglu had an awful nigh with 0% in field shoots, 0/5 2 points shots and 0/4 3 points shots and only scored 2 free throws out of 4. Greece had another wonderful team rotation game with only Kavvadas and Printezis to finish without scoring but Yannis Bourousis finished the game with 21 points and 80% accuracy in field goals. Andrea Trinchieri coached the team smooth without Vassilis Spanoulis and now he has to lead the team against his home country Italy, the other team of the group with only victories.

Eurobasket Slovenia: Greece vs Turkey pre-match stats and analysis

Greece plays against Turkey in a death match where Turkey can be eliminated from Eurobasket Slovenia 2013. In first two games Greece has two victories and Turkey two defeats. Greece scored 79,5 points in average while Turkey only 65,0 points. Greece allows her opponents to score 61,0 points in average, almost the scoring average of Turkey, while Turkey allows opponents to score 75,5,  close to scoring of Greece. By scores only the most possible result seems 77-63 for Greece but the lack of Spanoulis and the rivalry of the two teams may lower the score. A weakness of the Greek team in the first two games is free throws percentage with a low of 62,0% which can be crucial in the forthcoming games. But even 62% free throws percentage seems high for Turkey which has the lowest percentage in the tournament with 55,8%. Greece is also bad in turnovers with average 17,5 turnovers per game while Turkey makes lower turnovers with an average of 12,0 per game. The lack of Spanoulis though won't alter much the style of play for the Greek national team since their opponents make 25,5 fouls per game which is the highest number in the tournament. This high number of won fouls is result of Trinchieri's rotating system which makes full use of the bench depth of Greece. To sum up, Greece has a leading position before the game but we expect Turkey to higher its shooting percentages at this game. Greece will depend on its rotating system to wear Turkey with fouls and in such a crucial game poor free throws percentages won't help the weaker Turkey. If percentages and averages play basketball then Greece will win Turkey with 5-10 points and a score about 77-63.

Banvit wins Apollon Patras in friendly game

Banvit Basketbol Kulübü defeated Apollon Patras with 70-92. It was the first friendly game that Apollon gave in Patras for this season with about 600 people attendance. Apollon Patras starting five were Argyropoulos, Bolds, Molfetas, Trepalovac, Danniel. First quarter ended with Banvit leading the score by 22-31, halftime found Banvit leading with 35-52, third quarter with 54-67 and final score was 70-92. Sammy Mejia had a good game and E.J. Rowling an amazing halftime buzzer beater. For Apollon Trepalovac and Nelson were good in their first game with their new team.
Apollon Patras: Argyropoulos 3, Nelson 6, Wilson 16(4), Lianos 2, Petrovic 3(1), Pelekoudas 2, Daniel 10, Trepalovac 10, Bolds 18(1).
Banvit: Rowland 13(2), Gordon 2, Edge 6, Mejia 23, Vrabac 6, Cantekin 5, Özer 8, Prepelič 13, Veyseloğlu 6, Kurtoğlu 6.

Apollon Patras to host friendly game with Banvit BK

Apollon Patras will host Banvit Basketbol Kulübü for a friendly game in Patras on Friday 6th September.

Banvit has a Greek coach this season, Dimitris Itoudis, former assistant coach in Panathinaikos. It will be the first home friendly game for Apollon Patras this season.

PAOK will participate in Edirne international friendly tournament

PAOK BC will participate in Edirne international friendly tournament. Besides the host team Olin Edirne Basket and PAOK BC also Uşak Sportif and Trabzonspor Basketball will participate in the tournament. The link between Edirne and PAOK is Christos Tapoutos. The Greek player of Edirne was a former player of PAOK and Aris BC. The tournament will take place in Edirne on 20, 21 and 22 September 2013.