Panathinaikos beat Fenerbahçe Ülker for Euroleague third day

Panathinaikos hosted and beat Fenerbahçe Ülker for Euroleague third day. Panathinaikos players probably felt good with  Želimir Obradović in the court even as the opponent coach and had a great day. With 31 points in the first quarter and 59 in the half time Panathinaikos was unstopable. Panathinaikos finished first half with 2 team turnovers, 10/12 three pointers and 16 assists. AJ Slaughter had 17 points with 5/7 three pointers, Esteban Batista had 14 points with 6/7 field goals and Dimitris Diamantidis with his 6 assists reached 1005 total assists in Euroleague. In the second half it was natural that Panathinaikos would not continue in such high level but still broadened the difference in the third quarter. Only in the last quarter Fenerbahce with partial score 9-16 lowered the difference to 18 points. Panathinaikos had 18/26 three pointers, 25 assists and 16 turnovers (14 in the second half). Fenerbahce Ulker with 4/21 three pointers could not compete but with only 7 turnovers didn't let the score reach record levels. AJ Slaughter had 23 points with 7/10 three pointers, Antonis Fotsis had 4/4 three pointers, Janis Blums had 3/3 three pointers and Dimitris Diamantidis had 10 assists. Dimitris Diamantis needed one assist to break the 1.000 assists milestone and is now counting 1.009 assists in Euroleague.
Quarters' scores: 31-19, 59-36, 82-57, 91-73

Panathinaikos (Ivanovic): Charalampopoulos, Slaughter 23, Bochoridis 3, Giankovits 7, Fotsis 13, Pappas 9, Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 5, Gist 8, Batista 14, Blums 9, Wright.
Fenerbahçe Ülker (Obradović): Goudelock 9, Hickman 5, Bjelica 16, Erden, Turkyilmaz, Bogdanovic 10, Altintig, Savas 2, Zoric 9, Vesely 13, Sipahi 4, Preldzic 5.

Enisey Krasnoyarsk signed DJ Cooper

Enisey Krasnoyarsk signed DJ Cooper as his manager Charis Papadopoulos confirmed. The American guard recently acquired a Bosnian passport and his new contract has a release option if DJ Cooper agrees with a team that will play in Euroleague until 10th of July. DJ Cooper had a great season with PAOK and he break the assists record of the Basket League Greece in his first professional season. DJ Cooper was the MVP of the first round and best guard of the Basket League Greece.

PAOK beat Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek League 26th day

PAOK hosted and beat Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek Basket League 26th day. With this defeat Ikaros Chalkidas was relegated to the second division and PAOK will continue in the play offs. Anthony Roberson had 23 points, Dominique Sutton had 14 points and 19 rebounds, Ivan Aska had 18 points and 5 rebounds but those were not enough for Ikaros Chalkidas to win PAOK and avoid relegation. DJ Cooper with his 9 assists broke the record for more assists of a PAOK player in a single season. Damir Mulaomerovic had 171 assists in 2003-2004 season and DJ Cooper has 172 assists in this season. Mark Payne scored 20 points, Giorgos Bogris had 12 rebounds and Kostas Charalampidis didn't score with 7 shots attempted.
Quarters' scores: 20-18, 54-35, 69-51, 88-74.

PAOK: Payne 20, Cooper 8, Charalampidis, Tsochlas 3, Tsairelis 14, Dedas 14, Margaritis 6, Kalles 1, Bogris 8, Kaselakis 8, Liapis 6, Koniaris.
Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad, Roberson 23, Woodall, Aska 18, Manolopoulos, Sutton 14, Gagaloudis 5, Spanos, Toliopoulos 2, Vougioukas, Richards 10, Bempis 2.

Dimitris Diamantidis reached 1700 assists in Greek League

Dimitris Diamantidis in the game against KAOD became the first player to dish 1700 assists in Basketball League Greece. 

 

Panathinaikos defeats Laboral Kutxa in Nicosia for Euroleague second day

Panathinaikos hosted and defeated Laboral Kutxa in Nicosia, Cyprus for Euroleague second day. The game was sold out since Cypriot fans were able to watch a Euroleague game for the first time in Nicosia. Panathinaikos lost in first day from Lietuvos Rytas and was looking for its first victory. Roko Leni Ukić had debuted in Euroleague with Laboral Vitoria in 2005-2006. Ukić, Diamantidis, Mačiulis, Gist and Lasme were the starting five for Panathinaikos. First quarter started with one three pointer and two steals from Jonas Mačiulis. Panathinaikos had 8/18 three pointers in the first 13 minutes, great offensive game. First half ended with score 50-35. Panathinaikos had 8/13 two pointers, 10/22 three pointers and 16 assists. The game continue with massive Panathinaikos in offense which Laboral Kutxa couldn't follow. Panathinaikos finished the game with some records. 31 assists in one game equalized Euroleague record which holds Maccabi Tel Aviv since 2003-2004. Also Panathinaikos equalized the second more successful three pointers with 18 in one game. Mike Bramos finished the game with 7/11 three pointers. Laboral Kutxa played with 8 players which was a great disadvantage.
Quarters' scores: 26-16, 50-35, 77-56, 95-74.

Panathinaikos: Bramos 21, Curry 15, Batiste 5, Fotsis 8, Ukić 6, Lasme 9, Mavrokefalidis 2, 

Diamantidis 9, Gist 8, Pappas, Giankovits 3, Mačiulis 9.

Laboral Kutxa: Nocioni 23, Van Oostrum 1, Diop, Hodge 15, Pleiss 10, Heurtel 5, Jelinek 17, Causer 3.

PAOK signed D.J. Cooper

PAOK signed D.J. Cooper. The 22 years old point guard is an Ohio college graduate where he achieved great accomplishments. Cooper is the only player in NCAA Division I history to post at least 2,000 career points, 900 assists, 600 rebounds and 300 steals. In last season Cooper won the title of MAC player of the year 2013 and from 2011 till 2013 he was member of All-MAC first team. Great player for PAOK BC which can make the difference in the forthcoming season.
Video from DJ Cooper arrival in Thessaloniki, Greece.