Lojeski, Mavroeidis and Kemp named MVPs of Basket League first day

Matt Lojeski, Dimitris Mavroeidis and Maurice Kemp named MVPs of Basket League Greece 2015-2016 first day. 
Lojeski scored 20 points, 5/6 free throws, 3/3 two pointers and 3/5 three pointers, collected 6 rebounds and served 3 assists in 24 minutes.
Mavroeidis scored 14 points (5/6 ft, 3/3 2p, 3/5 3p), collected 6 rebounds and served 3 assists in 24 minutes.
Kemp scored 15 points (1/2 ft, 7/11 2p), collected 8 rebounds, served one assist and made two blocks and one steal in 33 minutes.

Basket League Greece 2015-2016 first day results

Basket League Greece 2015-2016 first day results

Korivos Amaliadas - Trikala 64-73
Quarters' scores: 18-14, 37-33, 54-51, 64-73
Korivos Amaliadas: Davis 10(2), Poulianitis 2, Christodoulou 8, Trotter 7 (1), Georgakis 1, Slaftsakis 5, Vasilopoulos 7(1), Council 6, Harris 18 (11 rebounds)
Trikala: Dowel 8, Soko 14 (12 rebounds), Karathanasis, Tsiloulis, Tsiaras 6(1), Conger 13(1), Koukoulas, Vilhjálmsson 7(1), Robinson 10 (2), Kalogiannidis 3(1), Teague 12 (7 rebounds), Varytimiadis.
Quick stats: Trikala 17/34 FT, 19/38 3P / Korivos 4/19 3P

Rethymno Cretan Kings - Apollon Patras 87-73
Quarters' scores:  19-19, 41-33, 64-55, 87-73
Rethymno: Kloof 14 (2), Schaftenaar 18 (1), Giannopoulos 13 (3), Korolev 7, Relphorde 9 (1), Schizas 6, Harrow 10, Cooke, Theodoridis, Kamperidis 10 (1).
Apollon Patras: Athanasoulas 5 (1), Palmblad 11 (1), Duncan 10 (1), Meier 31 (5), Woods 2, Argyropoulos 7, Pelekoudas, Niforas 4, Perry 3.
Quick stats: Meier 5/5 3P, Schizas 1/1 FG+4/4 FT.

Kavala - Lavrio 68-66
Quarters' scores: 15-26, 31-35, 46-47, 68-66.
Kavala (Tzimas): Gordon 7(1), Kostov 17 (2), Kemp 15 (8 rebounds), Van der Mars 2, Tapoutos 20 (2), Stampoulis, Vargas, Demertzis, Medlin 5(1), Kalaitzidis 2.
Lavrio (Serelis): Giannakopoulos 12 (2), Nixon 5, Barlos 14 (3), Young 11 (1), Krubally 10 (10 rebounds), Perrakis 4, Nikolakopoulos 3(1), Kaklamanakis, Evans 2, Sakellariou 5(1).
Quick stats: Kavala 6/30 3p, Lavrio 8/23 3p, Tapoutos 8/8 FT+3/11 2p+2/7 3p.

AEK - PAOK 65-53
Quarters' scores: 15-12, 36-30, 48-45, 65-53
AEK: Hairston, Milosevic 16(2, 11 rebounds), Mavrokefalidis 18 (2, 12 rebounds), Kalampokis 5(1), Worren 4, Carter, Sakota 2, Anosike 3, Papantoniou 7 (5 assists), Scrubb 10 (2).
PAOK: Tepic 4, Vasileiadis 22 (6), Duvnjak 3(1), Markovic 2, Balaban 4, Liapis, Kakaroudis 8 (6 rebounds), Tsochlas, Dedas 3(1), Margaritis 7(1), Kottas.
Quick stats: PAOK 2/7 FT, Vasileiadis 6/10 3p.

Olympiacos - Kolossos Rodou 88-62
Quarters' scores: 32-16, 55-31, 67-40, 88-62
Olympiacos: Spanoulis 5 (8 assists), Papapetrou 2, Milutinov 5 (7 rebounds), Printezis 12, Mantzaris 9, Tsairelis 10, Yang 7, Strawberry 4, Lojeski 20, Agravanis 11, Hackett 3, Athinaiou.
Kolossos Rodou: Larentzakis 7, Linden 2, Releford 4, McGhee 9, Lewis 17, Billis 2, Oikonomopoulos, Manolopoulos 10, Davis 4, Georgallis, Aggelakos, Ahonen 7 (6 assists).
Quick stats: Assists 30-16, Olympiacos 11/20 FT, Tsairelis 5/5 FG, Larentzakis 7 fouls drawn.

Kifisia - Arkadikos 68-66
Quarters' scores: 20-25, 37-39, 57-62, 68-66.
Kifisia: Gikas 16 (2, 8 assists), Popovic, Mavroeidis 14 (9 rebounds), Kaselakis 7 (1), Hogue 15 (9 rebounds), Chatzinikolas, Chrysikopoulos 12, Stiggers 3 (1), Bristol 1, Spyridonidis.
Arkadikos: Labropoulos 14 (1), Van Oostrum 6 (1), Brown 10 (2), Booker 10 (1, 7 assists), Nuutinen 17 (5), Kopsaftis, Konstantinou, Stefanidis, Kallinikidis 6 (2), Tzougarakis, Santee 30.
Quick stats: Arkadikos 12/39 3p, Hogue 7/7 FT, Nuutinen 5/9 3p.

Aris -  Panathinaikos 70-76
Quarters' scores: 24-18, 39-35, 51-54, 70-76
Aris: Pelekanos 11(1), White 13(2), Waters 14 (2), Koen 10 (1), McNeal 11(1), Xanthopoulos 2, Cupkovic 3(1), Diplaros, Zaras 3(1), Mourtos 3, Symtsak.
Panthinaikos: Pavlovic 4, Raduljica 14, Feldein 3, Gist 17 (1, 7 rebounds), Calathes 11(2), Charalampopoulos, Giankovits 7, Fotsis 5 (9 rebounds), Diamantidis 12 (3, 8 assists), Kuzmic 3.
Quick stats: Giankovits 0/5 3p, Raduljica 6/6 FG + 2/2 FT, Gist 6/7 FG +2/6 FT.

Mike James named MVP of Basket League first day

Mike James named MVP of Basket League first day. James played 35 minutes against Panionios and scored 26 points, collected 8 rebounds, served 9 assists and made two blocks. His ranking reached 37 points that was enough to name him MVP of the first day.

Korivos Amaliadas beat AEK for Basket League first day

Korivos Amaliadas hosted and defeated AEK for Basket League first day. It was the game between the two newly promoted teams from A2 League but Korivos Amaliadas was playing home and AEK was most experienced team in A1 League. For Korivos Amaliadas, who celebrated its first victory in the Basket League, Rob Lowery scored 18 points, Darrius Garett had 9 points and 8 rebounds, Josh Maggete 10 points and 5 assists. Milan Milošević who recently signed with AEK started the new season with a double double with 16 points and 11 rebounds, also Ziris Sarikopoulos made a double double with 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 22-10, 41-37, 55-55, 80-67.

Korivos Amaliadas: Maggette 10, Robert 18, Giannakidis 10, Angelopoulos 6, Papapetrou, Davis 3, Vasiljevic 11, Kanonidis 9, Filippakos, Garrett 9, Dmitriev, Galliotos 4.
AEK: Papantoniou 6, Kyles 1, Sakota 13, Kaselakis 2, Polytarchou 8, Papadionysiou, Wright 5, Kamperidis, Williamson 2, Sarikopoulos 14, Milosevic 16, Goodridge.

A2 Greece first day results

A2 Greece first day results

Saturday 11th October

OFI - Filippos Veroias 67-70
Ermis Lagada - Ilisiakos 87-89
Lavrio - Ethnikos 67-58
Doxa Lefkadas - Arkadikos 72-73
Livadia - Iraklis 71-79
Psyhiko - Pagrati 89-81
Aetos - Kavala 63-65

Basket League Greece 2014-2015 first day

Basket League Greece 2014-2015 first day

12th October 2014

17:00 Panelefsiniakos - Aris 70-78
17:00 Panionios - Kolossos Rodou 76-92
17:00 Korivos Amaliadas - AEK 80-67
17:00 KAOD - Aries Trikala 62-57
17:00 PAOK - Rethymno Aegean 88-79 (69-69)
17:00 Olympiacos - Apollon Patras 82-56 (without fans)
19:30 Panathinaikos - Nea Kifisia 76-66

Olympiacos wins Unicaja Malaga for Euroleague premiere

Olympiacos Piraeus, the Euroleague back to back champions, hosted and defeated Unicaja Malaga for the first day of Euroleague 2013-2014. Starting five for Olympiacos Spanoulis, Perperoglou, Simmons, Printezis, Mantzaris. Starting five for Unicaja Malaga Suarez, Granger, Dragic, Hettsheimeir, Caner-Medley. Giorgos Printezis scored the first points of the Greek team. Jayson Granger started the game with an unsportsmanlike foul on Vasilis Spanoulis. Unicaja Malaga ran a 8-0 score and from 6-6 led the game to 6-14. Dragic and Hettsheimeir had a good first quarter but then the second disappeared. Sloukas and Spanoulis with three pointers finished the first quarter with score 18-22. Unicaja Malaga was leading the score for 30 minutes but when the fourth quarter started Olympiacos had a burst and in the end won the game by 8 points, 69-61. Statistics highlights the 21 assists of Olympiacos and the fact that both teams had better accuracy in three pointers than two points shots. Quarters' scores: 18-22, 26-33, 44-45, 69-61
Play of the night by Petway, Olympiacos.

Olympiacos: Petway 13, Law, Dunston 3, Spanoulis 13, Perperoglou 4, Sloukas 8, Simmons 4, Printezis 9, Agravanis, Mantzaris 3, Katsivelis, Lojeski 12. 

Unicaja Malaga: Conde, Sabonis 2, Vidal 2, Calloway 3, Suarez 8, Granger 4, Vazquez 12, Kuzminskas, Dragic 12, Hettsheimeir 8, Caner-Medley 9, Stimac 1.

Panathinaikos lost by Lietuvos Rytas at Euroleague day one

Lietuvos Rytas hosted and defeated Panathinaioks in Vilnius, Lithuania for the first day of Euroleague 2013-2014. Two players of Lietuvos Rytas have previously played for Panathinaikos, Andreas Glyniadakis and Milenko Tepić. Mike Bramos stayed back in Athens. Lietuvos was the last team to participate in Euroleague after qualification games and during preparation won Aris. Gist scored the first points for Panathinaikos and was the main scored for his team in the first quarter. Lietuvos led the score by scoring three points and free throws and created a difference of six points 17-11. Panathinaikos than ran a 8-0 score with Ukić and Mavrokefalidis. The Greek center had a good first quarter in offense and defense. Panathinaikos low accuracy in three points and Lietuvos Rytas just one turnover were the stat highlights of the quarter. Mike Batiste reached 10 points, Ukić 4 assists while Omar Cook had 8 points and 4 assists in the first half. The third quarter started from zero. Panathinaikos didn't improve its accuracy and turnovers so Lietuvos Rytas gained a small difference of 4 points in the first five minutes of the third quarter but Panathinaikos managed to finish the quarter leading the score. Dimitris Diamantidis had 1/7 three points shots, 0/2 free throws but on the other hand he served 7 assists and scored 4 points in the last 20 seconds, leading the game to extra time. Andreas Glyniadakis made 3 fouls and 1 block in seven minutes but didn't score. Seibutis had a weird game with 4/4 three points shots and 2/7 two points shots. In the extra time Panathinaikos ran a quick 4-0 with Mačiulis and Ukić. But then Lietuvos Rytas ran a 6-0 with Babrauskas scoring 5 points and Darius Songaila scoring one free throw but missing three in a row. 21 seconds before the end Gist with a dunk made the score 82-83. Renaldas Seibutis scored 5.5 seconds before the end and the score changed to 84-83. Argyris Pedoulakis called a time out for Panathinaikos' last offense of 5 seconds. Ukić missed a three points shot and the ball was out for Panathinaikos at 0.4 seconds. Mike Batiste lost the last shot and Panathinaikos lost the game by 84-83.
Quarters' scores: 25-25, 42-42, 59-60, 74-74. Extra time: 84-83

Panathinaikos: Curry 12, Batiste 12, Fotsis 3, Ukić 8, Lasme 4, Mavrokefalidis 10, Diamantidis 6,
Gist 10, Pappas 5, Giankovits, Mačiulis 13.

Lietuvos Rytas: Tepić 6, Babrauskas 10, Palacios 12, Seibutis 19, Glyniadakis, Gecevicius 7,
Orelik, Lideka, Cook 10, Bendzius, Songaila 13, Jelovac 7

Gabe Pruitt named MVP of the first day

Gabe Pruitt named MVP of the first day of the Greek Basketball League. Pruitt got the highest score in ranking with 29 after scoring 20 points, serving 8 assists, collecting 4 rebounds and making 3 steals against Ikaros Chalkidas.

Greek Basketball League first day highlights

Greek Basketball League first day highlights

Giorgos Bogris and Kenny Gabriel who made a double double. Kenny Gabriel scored 13 points and collected 11 rebounds, while Giorgos Bogris scored 14 points and collected 11 rebounds. Kostas Charalampidis, who scored 26 points for PAOK against Kolossos Rodou. The lowest score from all seven games of the first day was between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos where the two teams scored 100 points in total. On the contrary PAOK and Kolossos Rodou scored 169 points in total. Rethymno Aegean has the player with the highest ranking, Gabe Pruitt with 29, and the fourth highest ranking, Kenny Gabriel with 22. PAOK has Bogris and Charalampidis who were ranked 3rd and 5th. Panionios' Errick McCollum is the player with the second highest ranking and second in points scored.

Apollon Patras wins Ilisiakos for the first day of Greek Basketball League 2013-2014

Apollon Patras hosted and defeated Ilisiakos with 80-65 for the first day of Greek Basketball League 2013-2014. Trepalovac scored the first points of Apollon Patra who ran a 7-0 score before Ilisiakos replied with its own rally at 9-7. First quarter finished with Apollon Patras ahead by 23-16. Apollon scored 4 three points shots in first and had 75% 2-points shots accuracy. Half-time found the host team ahead by 12 points, 47-35. Apollon had 100% accuracy in free throws, 61% in two points shots and 46% in three points shots, which accuracy made the difference since most statistics were balanced. Quarters' scores 26-16, 47-35, 63-49, 80-65.

Apollon Patras: Hill 3, Argyropoulos 8, Kaperonis, Taylor 12(2), Wilson 19(3), Lianos 2, Petrovic 5, Molfetas, Zafiris, Trepalovac 19, Hot 3, Bolds 18(2)
Ilisiakos: Kafkis 10(1), Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 5, Smith, Chatzis 9(1), Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 15(2), Vavatsikos 2, Ioannou 4, Tzougarakis, Mbodji 6, Anderson 14(1).

Panelefsiniakos lost by Panionios for the first day of Greek Basketball League 2013-2014

Panelefsiniakos hosted and lost by Panionios for the first day of the Greek Basketball League 2013-2014. Athanasoulas scored the first points for Panionios with a 3-points shot and Faye replied with the first two points for Panelefsiniakos. First quarter finished with 19-19 score and Faye with Mantzaris having scored 6 points for Panelefsiniakos while for Panionios McCollum, Duvnjak and Kavvadas had 4 points each. McCollum reached 10 points in the second quarter and Panionios was ahead by 25-31. Mantzaris also reached 10 points for Panelefsiniakos and the halftime score was 41-38. In the first half Panelefsiniakos dominated rebounds with 21 (12-9) against 8 of Panionios (5-3). Third quarter was as competitive as the previous one with the teams being in short distance. Panionios collected 11 rebounds, 3 more than in the whole half time. Both teams had poor accuracy in three points, around 25% each, making it a tough game. Third quarter score was 57-56, so both teams entered last quarter from equal basis. In the fourth quarter Panionios ran a 4-0 score and turned the score to 57-60 9 minutes before the end. Batis and Duvnjak gave Panionios a five point lead 4 minutes before the end. Batis and Papamakarios then had a verbal fight so they were both charged with technical foul and then the first scored once more making the score 62-69. Batis was the man for Panionios in the last quarter. Panelefsiniakos tried with three points shots in the end to win the game but 25% accuracy it wasn't that easy. McCollum scored two points, Faye two free throws but then Nikou made a steal 30 seconds before the end and scored a three points shot 15 seconds before the end and the game was still on. Batis scored only one out of two free throws, Nikou also missed one free throw and the last three points shot. After all Panionios defeated Panelefsiniakos by two points, 72-74, in a great game that keep the fans excited till the end. Panionios scoring stability is something to remember with the team scoring 19, 19, 18, 18 points in each quarter. Quarters' scores: 19-19, 41-38, 57-56, 72-74.

Panelefsiniakos: Nikou 14(2), Papamakarios 8(1), Ross 6, Dimakos, Jones 5, Magounis 8 (1),
Faye 12(1), Melissaratos 5, Turner 4, Mantzaris 10, Avramidis.
Panionios: McCollum 23, Stamatis, Motsenigos, Duvnjak 17(1), Milbourne 4, Athanasoulas 6(1),
Batis 10(1), Kavvadas 6, Langford, Michel, Simtsak 8, Saloustros.

Rethymno Aegean wins Ikaros Chalkidas for the first day of Greek Basketball League

Rethymno Aegean wins Ikaros Chalkidas for the first day of Greek Basketball League 2013-2014. Rethymno started the game with a 9-0 rally since Ikaros started with 0/3 shoots. First quarter finished with score 25-15 and Hurtt having scored 12 points already. In the second quarter Ikaros Chalkidas ran a 2-7 rally but Rethymno was successful in 7/17 three points shots. First half ended with score 45-34 with Hurtt scoring 15 points and Pruitt and Gabriel 9 points each. For Ikaros Chalkidas Borovnjak finished first half with 10 points.Then it was time for Darrin Govens to score and equalize the score 55-55 for the first time in 25' and then Ivan Aska scored for the first time Ikaros was ahead in score with 56-57. Third quarter ended with Rethymno Aegean again ahead in score but by just three points 62-59. Ikaros was following in score in the last quarter but could not change much so Rethymno Aegean starts the Basketball League 2013-2014 with a victory against Ikaros Chalkidas by 82-77. Kenny Gabriel had a double double for Rethymno, scoring 13 points and collecting 11 rebounds. Quarters' scores: 25-15, 45-43, 62-59, 82-77.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 21(4), Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 2, Aggelopoulos 11(3), Pruitt 20(1), Kalampokis, Kanonidis 4, Latovic 5(1), Kwame 5, Arbet 1, Gabriel 13.
Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad 3(1), Govens 16(5), Papanikolopoulos 3(1), Aska 11, Manolopoulos 3(1), Sutton 6, Gagaloudis 9(2), Spanos, Borovnjak 16, Beck 10(2), Mpempis.

A2 Greece first day results

 A2 Greece second league

First day results

OFI - AEK 56-78

Agia Paraskevi - Filathlitikos 86-77

Ermis Lagada - Korivos 64-68

Kavala - Iraklis 61-49

Ikaroi Serron - Psyhiko 62-82

Arkadikos - Lavrio 63-73

Pagrati - Philippos 73-67

Nea Kifisia wins Aries Trikala for the first day of Greek Basketball League

Aries Trikala lost by Nea Kifisia for the first day of Greek Basketball League 2013-2014. The newly promoted Nea Kifisia win by 69-64 in Trikala. Great game for Liakopoulos who scored 19 points, collected 7 rebounds and gave 7 assists. For Trikala Chris Evans led the score with 15 points. Quarters' scores 22-21, 33-38, 47-46, 64-69.

Aries Trikala: Evans 19, Perunisic , Ewing 5, Giannakidis 3, Kommatos 3 (1), Granger 12, Deligiannis 12, Fountas, Nikolopoulos, Georgakis, Mutakabbir, Petrović 10(2).
Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević10(3), Liakopoulos 15(1), Crocker 2, Kompodietas 3(1), Sioutis, Psathas 1,
Garrett 6, Petrodimopoulos 4, Woods 8 , Tsaldaris 12(2), Barlos 5(2)

Aris wins KAOD for the first day of Greek Basketball League

Aris wins KAOD in Drama with 66-58 for the first day of the Greek Basketball League 2013-2014. KAOD started the game more prepared than Aris with Chrisikopoulos in a great day but Aris defense tightened in the last quarter. Quarters' scores 18-17, 33-28, 45-48, 58-66.

KAOD: Saftsakis 3, Covic 6, Jones 2,  Polk 8, Vaughn 8, Marković 5, Spyridonidis 4, Bavcic 7, Zaras 2, Benas, Chrisikopoulos 13
Aris: Bochoridis 9, Pelekanos 15, Gikas 11, Tsakaleris 10, Asimakopoulos 2, Poulianitis, Charisis 5, Vezenkov 7, Mourtos 7, Athinaiou.

Greek basketball league 2013-2014 first day

 Greek basketball league OPAP 2013-2014 first day arrived and this weekend the action will begin. The big match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos will take place on Monday without fans. Panathinaikos and Olympiacos had easy games for the Greek cup but both of teams have some injured players that they cannot count on. The first game of the new season will be hosted in Thessaloniki where PAOK BC will host Kolossos Rodou. PAOK has hosted the team from Rodos 7 times and won all of them. On the same time Aries Trikala will host AE Nea Kifisia and KAOD will host Aris BC in Drama. Aris BC won the big rival PAOK for the Greek cup and has already won KAOD in friendly game during preparation. On Sunday Rethymno Aegean will host Ikaros Chalkidas, Apollon Patras will host Ilisiakos and Panelefsiniakos will host Panionios. Rethymno Aegean and Ikaros Chalkidas have played a friendly game where the team from Crete won. Ilisiakos hosted and won Apollon Patras for the Greek cup, but this time the host team is Apollon and the game for the league. Apollon Patras had some difficulties in the beginning of the previous season and this will be a risky premiere. Panionios will play against Panelefsiniakos for the first time in this season with the team from Nea Smyrni to have a better team while Panelefsiniakos has signed some good players like Papamakarios and Raley Ross.

Saturday 12/10/2013

18:00 PAOK - Kolossos Rodou 88-81

18:00 Aries Trikala - AE Nea Kifisia 64-69

18:00 KAOD - Aris 58-66

Sunday 13/10/2013

16:00 Rethymno Aegean - Ikaros Chalkidas 82-77

18:00 Panelefsiniakos - Panionios  72-74

19:00 Apollon Patras - Ilisiakos 80-65

Monday 14/10/2013

19:15 Olympiacos - Panathinaikos 55-45

Olympiacos will host Panathinaikos without fans in Greek Basketball League Premiere

Olympiacos will host Panathinaikos in the first day of the Greek Basketball League OPAP 2013-2014.

Olympiacos carries a penalty from last season finals so the Euroleague champions will host Greek champions without fans.

Greek Basketball League OPAP 2013-2014 day one

KAOD - Aris

Aries Trikala - AE Nea Kifisia

Panelefsiniakos - Panionios

Olympiacos - Panathinaikos

Apollon Patras - Ilisiakos

Rethymno Aegean - Ikaros Chalkidas

PAOK - Kolossos Rodou