Basket League Greece 2014-2015 fifth day

Basket League Greece 2014-2015 fifth day

Saturday 8th November 2014
17:00 Panelefsiniakos - AEK 81-72
17:00 Panionios - PAOK 61-65
17:00 Korivos Amaliadas - KAOD 71-69
17:00 Aris - Nea Kifisia 83-80
17:00 Apollon Patras - Kolossos Rodou 71-55
Sunday 9th November 2014

17:00 Panathinaikos - Rethymno Aegean 79-70
Monday 10th November 2014
18:00 Olympiacos - Aries Trikala

Olympiacos PAOK for Greek League fifth day

Olympiacos hosted and defeated PAOK for the fifth day of Greek Basketball League. Olympiacos and PAOK were the only two undefeated teams in the first four days. DJ Cooper and Tsairelis made PAOK finish the first quarter ahead in score by four points. Mark Payne and Margaritsis in the second quarter broadened the difference for PAOK to 11 points, 18-29. Olympiacos managed to lower the difference with Giorgos Printezis who had 17 points in the first half and finish the first half leading by one with a three pointer by Ace Law. That was the second successful three pointer for Olympiacos in the first half in 20 attempted.Giorgos Printezis made a double double with 17 points and 11 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 16-20, 37-36, 56-55, 78-70.

Olympiacos: Petway, Law 12, Dunston 13, Spanoulis 2, Perperoglou 11, Papapetrou, Lojeski 5, Begić 3, Printezis 21, Agravanis 2, Mantzaris 9, Katsivelis.

PAOK: Payne 6, Cooper 18, Charalampidis 12, Tsochlas, Vučićević, Tsairelis 10, Dedas 5, Margaritis 7, Kalles, Bogris 12, Kaselakis, Liapis.

A2 Greece fifth day results

 A2 Greece fifth day results 

Ikaroi Serron - Iraklis BC 72-69
Arkadikos - Filippos Veroias 80-64
Ermis Lagada - AEK BC 57-69
Agia Paraskevi - OFI BC 75-76
  Kavala - Pagrati 96-82
Psyhiko - Korivos Amaliadas 76-71
Lavrio - Filathlitikos 75-60

Olympiacos defeated Zielona Góra for Euroleague

Olympiacos hosted and defeated Zielona Góra for Euroleague fifth day. Zielona Góra started the game better than Olympiacos and the first quarter finished with the visitor team ahead with double score, 11-22. Olympiacos improved in the second and the first half ended with the team from Poland ahead by 9, 33-42. Aaron Cel and Vladimir Dragičević had 10 points each in the first half. Olympiacos had many missed three pointers in the first half, 2/13 but its two pointers were keeping the team in the game, 11/15. Zielona Góra was ahead by 8 in the end of the third quarter and was ahead in the fourth until the end. In the final minutes Olympiacos approached and lowered the score to 2-3 points. In the final attack Vangelis Mantzaris scored a buzzer beater three pointer and Olympiacos continued its winning streak. This was the first successful field shot for Mantzaris in the game. Vladimir Dragičević finished the game with a double double, with 18 points and 12 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 11-22, 33-42, 55-63, 79-77.

Olympiacos: Petway 2, Law 6, Dunston 6, Spanoulis 18, Perperoglou 5, Papapetrou, Begić 2, Printezis 21, Agravanis, Mantzaris 6, Katsivelis, Lojeski 13.

Zielona Góra: Cel 15, Walker 8, Barlow, Chanas 5, Hrycaniuk, Eyenga 13, Dragičević 18, Brackins 7, Sroka 3, Zamojski, Koszarek 8.

Panionios defeated Bisons Loimaa for Eurocup fifth day

Panionios hosted and defeated Bisons Loimaa for Eurocup fifth day. The team from Finland debuted this year in the Eurocup. Both teams had 2 victories and 2 defeated in the first games. The team from Finland started the game with an offensive attack and finished first quarter ahead by five points. Panionios replied with a massive second quarter. The team from Athens created a difference of 6-8 points which kept until the end. Keving Langford was the first scorer for Panionios and Landon Milbourne was helpful in scoring and rebounds. Mikko Koivosto played 30 minutes and scored 10 points. Billy Keys played 31 minutes without scoring, since he had 0/5 shots and 5 turnovers.
Quarters' scores: 15-20, 38-22, 56-45, 74-62.

Panionios: McCollum 14, Stamatis, Duvnjak 3, Carter 12, Milbourne 14, Athanasoulas, Skordilis 4, Kavvadas 4, Langford 19, Symtsak, Kyritsis 4, Saloustros.
Bisons Loimaa: Nikkarinen 9, Nuutinen 2, Robinson 11, Lindbom, Kotti 13, Pehkonen, Koivisto 10, Makalainen, Keys, Williamson 13, Sampson 4.

Nizhny Novgorod defeated PAOK for Eurocup fifth day

Nizhny Novgorod hosted PAOK for Eurocup fifth day. Both teams had 3 victories in the first 4 games. PAOK team had a long trip to Russia, which tired the players and had an impact in the game. Only Michalis Tsairelis scored more than 10 points for PAOK while DJ Cooper and Kostas Charalampidis weren't productive. For Nizhny Novgorod Dijon Thomson made a double double with 15 points and 11 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 19-12, 37-30, 55-40, 87-53.

Nizhny Novgorod: Baburin 2, Babbitt 5, Brezec 10, Ilev 3, Antonov 9, Khostov 12, Gubanov 3, Panin 14, Thomson 15, Savelyev 2, Paul, Golovin 13.
PAOK: Payne 2, Cooper 7, Charalampidis 8, Tsochlas 6, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 13, Dedas, Margaritis 8, Kalles 1, Bogris 5, Kaselakis 3, Liapis 2.

Patrick Ewing Jr named MVP of fifth day

 Patrick Ewing Jr named MVP of the fifth day. Ewing scored made a double double against Ikaros Chalkidas with 17 points, 12 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 assist. His performance was ranked with 32 in the HBF ranking system so he was named MVP of the fifth day. Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association official site hosts an article for Ewing with title "Like father, like son!" mentioning of course his father Patrick Ewing. Patrick Jr plays 20 minutes on average in the first five games and with 9.8 points, 8.2 rebounds per game. He likes Trikala, the friendly people and the enjoys Greek food and the competitive Greek League. Here is our little article when Trikala signed Patrick Ewing Jr.

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.

Panionios defeated Aris for Greek League fifth day

Panionios defeated Aris for the fifth day of the Greek Basketball League. Aris was leading the score with ease in the first half with 29-20. Panionios lowered the difference in the third quarter and the last minutes were a fight for the win. Uros Duvnjak scored five points in the last minute and Panionios won Aris by two points. Panionios had 17 turnovers but also had 43 rebounds. Uros Duvnjak scored 20 points, Athinaiou 22 points, 3 assists and 3 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 16-11, 29-20, 47-44, 63-65.

Aris: Bochoridis 3, Hunt 2, Pelekanos 4, Gikas 7, Tsakaleris, Asimakopoulos 2, Charisis 9, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 12, Sarikopoulos, Athinaiou 22.
Panionios: McCollum 12, Stamatis, Duvnjak 20, Carter 12, Milbourne 10, Athanasoulas, Skordilis 5, Kavvadas, Langford, Simtsak, Kyritsis, Saloustros 2. 

KAOD defeated Ilisiakos Greek League fifth day

KAOD hosted and defeated Ilisiakos for the fifth day of the Greek Basketball League. KAOD started the game better than Ilisiakos and was leading the score for three quarters. Ilisiakos was approaching and lowering the distance and managed to equalize and took the lead in the fourth quarter. KAOD was calm in the last two minutes and with Edin Bavčić scoring took the victory in the end. DJ Stephens had a great game but missed the last three pointer. Julian Vaughn (11 points, 10 rebounds) for KAOD and DJ Stephens (16 points, 11 rebounds) for Ilisiakos finished the game with a double double.

Quarters' scores: 22-16, 42-34, 60-55, 76-73

KAOD: Slaftsakis 2, Covic 3, Jones 10, Brown 19, Vaughn 11, Marković, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 16, Zaras 13, Benas 2, Kolovis.

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 8, Antonakis 5, Smith 14, Chatzis 5, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 3, Stephens 16, Vavatsikos, Ioannou 5, Tzougarakis 2, Mbodj 11, Anderson 4.

Aries Trikala defeated Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek League fifth day

Aries Trikala hosted and defeated Ikaros Chalkidas for the fifth day of the Greek Basketball League. Aries Trikala had 4 defeats in the league and Ikaros Chalkidas with one victory were one point ahead. Ikaros Chalkidas won and eliminated Aries Trikala for the Greek Cup second round by 4 points. Patrick Ewing Jr and Khalid Mutakabbir (3/3 three pointers in first quarter) started the game with a 19-2 run for Aries Trikala. Dominique Sutton started to scored but the first quarter finished with 29-16 for Aries Trikala in their best quarter till now in the league. Second quarter was better for Ikaros Chalkidas that finished the half time behind by 8 points, 43-35. Evans, Petrovic and Mutakabbir were scoring three pointers with Aries Trikala having 12/27 in total. Dominique Sutton, who made a double double early in the fourth quarter, was trying with Gagaloudis and Aska but weren't enough. This was the first victory for Aries Trikala in this season and the team reached Ikaros Chalkidas in the table. Aries Trikala scored 100 points. Patrick Ewing made his second double double, 17 points and 12 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and zero turnovers! Chris Evans scored 25 points, Mutakabbir 18 points and Petrovic 16. For Ikaros Chalkidas the veteran Gagaloudis scored 20 points and Dominique Sutton made another double double with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 29-16, 43-35, 67-52, 100-65.

Aries Trikala: Evans 25, Perunicic, Ewing 17, Giannakidis 5, Petrovic 16, Granger 10, Deligiannis 4, Matalon, Fountas 3, Nikolopoulos, Georgakis 2, Mutakabbir 18.
Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad, Govens 8, Papanikolopoulos 3, Aska 14, Manolopoulos 5, Sutton 12, Gagaloudis 20, Borovnjak 1, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Beck 2, Mpempis. 

Apollon Patras defeated Rethymno Aegean Greek Basketball League fifth day

Apollon Patras hosted and defeated Rethymno Aegean for Greek Basketball League fifth day. The two teams have played two league games before and Rethymno Aegean had won both of them. Apollon Patras hosted and defeated Rethymno Aegean for the Patras cup friendly tournament. Demarius Bolds, first scorer till now in the league, started the game for Apollon Patras with a 10-2 run. Fanis Koumpouras and his teammates replied and Rethymno Aegean finished first quarter ahead by 8, 16-24. Apollon Patras was terrible at three pointers with 1/16 in first quarter, Petrović had 0/4. Gabe Pruitt and Justin Hurtt were scoring and Kenny Gabriel collecting the rebounds for Rethymno Aegean, as usual. Apollon Patras had a solid third quarter and managed to equalize and get the lead by one, but the quarter ended with 54-55. In the last quarter Lianos and Petrovic scored and their team got 8 points difference 3 minutes before the end, 72-64. One minute before the end Demarius Bolds broadened the difference to 11 points, 76-65. Apollon Patras made only 7 turnovers in the whole game which balanced the 5/27 three pointers. Rethymno Aegean was ahead for 30 minutes but couldn't handle Apollon's counter attack in the last five minutes. Bolds, Argyropoulos and Petrovic scored 54 points in total. Kenny Gabriel missed another double double with 10 points and 9 rebounds. Gabe Pruitt had 23 points, 5 rebounds, 3 steals and 10 fouls drawn. This was the first time Apollon Patras wins Rethymno Aegean for the league.

Quarters' scores: 16-24, 35-42, 54-55, 82-73.

Apollon Patras: Hill 5, Argyropoulos 17, Kaperonis, Taylor 12, Daniel 4, Lianos 5, Petrovic 16, Pelekoudas, Molfetas, Zafeiris, Trepalovac 2, Bolds 21.
Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 10, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 10, Aggelopoulos 4, Pruitt 23, Kalampokis 4, Kanonidis, Sinis, Latovic, Alexander 7, Arbet 5, Gabriel 10.

Greek Basketball League fifth day fixtures and results

Greek Basketball League fifth day fixtures and results

Saturday 9 November 2013

17:00 Apollon Patras- Rethymno Aegean 82-73

18:00 Aries Trikala - Ikaros Chalkidas100-65

Sunday 10 November 2013

16:00 Panelefsiniakos - Kolossos Rodou 97-69

16:00 KAOD - Ilisiakos 76-73

19:30 Aris - Panionios 63-65

21:30 Nea Kifisia - Panathinaikos 65-88

Monday 11 November 2013

19:15 Olympiacos - PAOK 78-70