PAOK lost by Panathinaikos for Greek League 24th day

PAOK lost by Panathinaikos for Greek Basket League 24th day. With that victory Panathinaikos secured the first place in the regular season again after three years. Panathinaikos had only 4/17 three pointers, while PAOK had 10/21 three pointers, but the visitors were impressive in field goals with 30/43. Another highlight is that Panathinaikos finished the game with 10/10 free throws, Lasme and Wright had 4/4 free throws each and Ukic had 2/2. PAOK could only follow Panathinaikos in the first half. For the home team Giorgos Bogris was the top scorer and player with 14 points and 5 rebounds. DJ Cooper had 9 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. Besides Bogris the other two players of PAOK with two digits score were Greek, Michalis Tsairelis and Vangelis Margaritis. For Panathinaikos Stephane Lasme was the top scorer with 20 points, Dimitris Diamantidis had 10 points and 7 assists, Loukas Mavrokefalidis had 10 points without missing a shot (5/5 field goals) and 5 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 20-24, 31-45, 50-61, 71-82.

PAOK: Payne 8, Cooper 9, Charalampidis 3, Tsochlas 2, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 10, Dedas 6, Margaritis 11, Kalles 3, Bogris 14, Kaselakis 5, Liapis.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 2, Curry 6, Fotsis 6, Ukic 10, Lasme 20, Mavrokefalidis 10, Diamantidis 10, Gist 4, Pappas, Giankovits, Maciulis 4, Wright 10.

Panathinaikos beat Fenerbahçe Ülker for Euroleague TOP 16

Panathinaikos hosted and defeated Fenerbahçe Ülker for Euroleague TOP 16. This was the first game that Obradović played in OAKA Athens as coach of the opponent team, after he left Panathinaikos. Fenerbahçe Ülker won the first game in Istanbul by five points, 77-72, and has also won Olympiacos for the TOP 16  Fenerbahçe started better the game and was leading the score 12-19 in the first quarter, that finished with score 16-19. Panathinaikos balanced the game in the second quarter and the leading of score was changing sides. Half time finished with Panathinaikos leading the score by 4 points, 41-37, with a goal foul scored by Dimitris Diamantidis. Panathinaikos collected 6 more rebounds in the first half but also made 3 more turnovers. In the fist half Zach Wright had 10 points and Mike Batiste 5 rebounds. In the second half Fenerbahçe made a 6-0 run since Panathinaikos didn't score in the first 3 minutes and 20 seconds. Dimitris Diamantidis with a three pointer scored for Panathinaikos and took back the lead in score. Mike Bramos with another three pointer made the score 50-45. Bramos had 4/4 three pointers and 1/1 field goals up to that point. With six consecutive points by Antonis Fotsis Panathinaikos finished third quarter with a lead of 9 points, 58-49. In the fourth quarter Bramos scored his 5th three pointer (5/5 up to that point) and gave his team a lead of 12 points and with his sixth three pointer (6/6) Panathinaikos reached the highest difference +15 (66-51). Fenerbahçe tried to approach Panathinaikos but Dimitris Diamantidis with free throws and Mike Bramos with three pointers secured the victory for Panathinaikos. Panathinaikos won by 9 points and covered the difference of the first game. For Panathinaikos Mike Bramos was the top scorer with 23 points (7/8 three pointers, 1/1 field goals, 4 rebounds). Dimitris Diamantidis had 15 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and 11 fouls drawn. Antonis Fotsis had 10 points and 9 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 16-19, 41-37, 58-49, 76-67.

Respect from the fans... Zeljko Obradovic @Euroleague pic.twitter.com/Ll96WIkRkV
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 20, 2014

Panathinaikos Athens: Bramos 23, Curry, Batiste 2, Fotsis 10, Ukic 8, Lasme 1, Mavrokefalidis 2, Diamantidis 15, Pappas, Giankovits, Maciulis 5, Wright 10.
Fenerbahçe Ülker: McCalebb 6, Jackson 7, Onan 7, Bjelica 9, Mahmutoglu, Kleiza 9, Turkyilmaz, Sekulic 2, Savas, Zoric 4, Bogdanovic 10, Preldzic13.

Panathinaikos defeated Aris for Greek League 20th day

Panathinaikos hosted defeated Aris for Greek Basket League 20th day. This was the 17th consecutive victory of Panathinaikos against Aris for the Greek Basket League. Aris was competitive only for one quarter when the team from Thessaloniki was leading the score by 10-14. Aris was poor in three pointers with 2/14 and collected 11 rebounds less than Panathinaikos. Zack Wright was the top scorer of Panathinaikos with 15 points. All twelve players available were used in the game by coach Argyris Pedoulakis, including the young Greek players Vasilis Charalampopoulos and Giorgos Diamantakos. For Aris Alexander Vezenkov was the top player with 13 points and 6 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 20-16, 44-28, 60-40, 71-59.

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 6, Fotsis 6, Ukic 11, Mavrokefalidis 10, Diamantidis 3, Gist 4, Pappas 5,  Giankovits 9, Diamantakos, Maciulis 2, Wright 15.
Aris: Bochoridis, Gikas 2, Asimakopoulos 7, Poulianitis, Charisis 6, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 13, Sarikopoulos 12, Mourtos 8, Athinaiou 7, Mitoglou 4.

Armani Milan beat Panathinaikos for Euroleague Top 16

EA7 Emporio Armani Milan beat Panathinaikos Athens for Euroleague Top 16. Panathinaikos had a bad first half and a very bad second quarter that let Armani Milan finish the first half with 15 points lead in score. With a counter attack mainly in the fourth quarter Panathinaikos lowered the difference but couldn't win the game. Panathinaikos lost and left behind in group standings, only benefit from the game is that Panathinaikos has the points advantage. Zack Wright in his debut with Panathinaikos in Euroleague had 17 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists. James Gist with 21 points and 9 rebounds was the top player of Panathinaikos.
Quarters' scores: 19-13, 41-26, 59-49, 77-75.

Armani Milan: Gentile 8, Cerella 8, Melli 3, Hackett 5, Kangur, Langford 18, Samuels 16, Toure, Wallace, Lawal 2, Moss 7, Jerrells 10.
Panathinaikos Athens: Bramos 7, Batiste, Fotsis 10, Ukic 2, Lasme 5, Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 6, Gist 21, Pappas 2, Giankovits, Maciulis 5, Wright 17.

Panionios lost by Panathinaikos for Greek League 19th day

Panionios hosted Panathinaikos for Greek Basket League 19th day. Panionios had a period of bad games and Panathinaikos was coming after a great victory against Olympiacos for Euroleague. Panathinaikos' coach Argyris Pedoulakis used 11 players and shared the game time. For another game Errick McCollum was the top scorer and leader of Panionios with 27 points, 7 assists, 7 fouls drawn and 3 steals. Marc Carter added 10 points and 7 rebounds. For Panathinaikos Stephane Lasme had 14 points without losing any shot, 6/6 field goals and 2/2 free throws. Panathinaikos was bad in three pointers with 3/12 but had 22/35 free throws. In his debut Zack Wright played 20 minutes and had 9 points, 2/7 field goals, 5/10 free throws, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 6 fouls drawn.
Quarters' scores: 10-10, 23-26, 38-43, 64-69.

Panionios: McCollum 27, Duvnjak, Carter 10, Milbourne 5, Athanasoulas, Batis 8, Skordilis 2, Langford 6, Michel, Simtsak 2, Kyritsis 4, Saloustros.
Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 5, Fotsis 7, Ukic 2, Lasme 14, Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 6, Gist 6, Pappas 8, Giankovits, Mačiulis 12, Wright 9.

Acropolis International Basketball Tournament 2013 day one

Greece defeated Bosnia Herzegovina with 88-71 in the first day of Acropolis International Basketball Tournament 2013. Top scorer for Greece was Antonis Fotsis with 13 points while Vassilis Spanoulis scored 9 points and gave 9 assists. For Bosnia Teletović and Zack Wright scored both 13 points.

At the other game Lithuania defeated Italy with 79-63 and Linas Kleiza scored 18 points.

Acropolis International Basketball Tournament 2013 day one results

Greece - Bosnia Herzegovina 88-71

Lithuania - Italy 79-63