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.

PAOK beat Panionios for Basket League fifth day

Panionios hosted PAOK for Basket League fifth day. Panionios was about to make its first victory and led the score 55-52 two minutes before the end but PAOK was more focused with an 8-0 run made the score 55-60. PAOK had more players to score and won a tough game. For Panionios Yaroslav Korolev had 20 points, Gabe Pruitt and Vasilis Xanthopoulos had 10 points each and Tony Woods had 5 points and 8 rebounds. In his debut Luke Hancock had 7 points. For PAOK Julian Vaughn made a double double with 17 points and 11 rebounds. Charalampidis had 11 points, Marc Carter had 9 points and 8 rebounds, Christos Saloustros had 6 points and 6 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 18-18, 33-35, 38-46, 61-65.

Panionios (Alexandris): Xanthopoulos 10, Verginis 4, Koukoulas, Spyropoulos, Strnad 3, Motsenigos, Stamatis, Woods 5, Fitzpatrick 2, Korolev 20, Pruitt 10, Hancock 7.
PAOK (S. Markopoulos): Lanford 4, Liapis, Charalampidis 11, Carter 9, Kakaroudis 4, Tsochlas 5, Dedas, Kottas, Odum 9, Vaughn 17, Saloustros 6.

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.