Olympiacos wins Ilisiakos for Greek cup quarterfinals

Olympiacos played its first official game in Greece, after two victories for the Intercontinental Cup in Brazil. Ilisiakos have eliminated Agia Paraskevi, Ikaros Chalkidas and Apollon Patras for the Greek Cup.Vassilis Spanoulis missed the last training before the game due to a flu and wasn't included in the 12 players for Olympiacos in this match. Besides Spanoulis, Mavroeidis, Begić, Law and Christodoulou were not available for Olympiacos in this game. For Ilisiakos Chatzis and DJ Stephens were not available, which was a great disadvantage for the team. The game started with a delay since the General Secretary of Sports have not allowed spectators in the pitch, although Ilisiakos has only allowed season card holders to enter. Starting five for Olympiacos were Mantzaris, Perperoglou, Lojeski, Petway and Dunston. Petway scored the first points of Olympiacos in Greece for the new season. Dunston and Petway dominated the court in the first quarter with impressive dunks who contributed to the score (12-33) and the show. Ilisiakos seemed unable to follow the score without Chatzis and Stephens, so Olympiacos' coach gave the chance to young players like Agravanis to play. First half ended with 29-47. Olympiacos tried a lot of young players like Katsivelis and Papapetrou in the third quarter but the difference remained around 20 points. Final score in the game was 54-85 with Olympiacos being the fourth team qualifying in the semifinals of the Greek Cup. Quarters' scores: 12-33, 29-47, 43-62, 54-85

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 5, Fakopoulos 2, Antonakis 3, Smith 3(1), Anderson 16(2), Zoumpos 2, Dorkofikis 2, Mbodji 11, Vavatsikos 4, Ioannou 4, Tzougarakis 2.

Olympiacos: Petway 12(2), Agravanis 6,  Dunston 8, Perperoglou 9, Papapetrou 5, Sloukas 10,
Katsivelis 6, Simons 6, Lojeski 17(2) , Printezis, Mantzaris 6.

Aris defeats PAOK for Greek Cup quarterfinals

Leonidas Kaselakis scored the first official points of PAOK BC for this season but his team lost by Aris for the Greek Cup quarterfinals with 63-71. Starting five for PAOK were DJ Cooper, Payne, Kaselakis, Tsairelis and Bogris. Starting five for Aris were Bochoridis, Athinaiou, Pelekanos, Vezenkov and Charisis. PAOK was ahead in score with 2-3 points until 17th minute when Bochoridis scored a three points shot and made the score 25-26. The halftime finished with Aris leading the score by just two points 32-34. DJ Cooper and Mark Payne were the only players who played quality basketball in the first half. In the third quarter PAOK started a small counter attack with Bogris that made the score 43-40 but Aris replied with a 6-0 rally and finished the third quarter with score 47-50. Fourth quarter didn't change much with both teams failing to score for 2.5 minutes. Aris started the season with winning and eliminating PAOK from Greek cup, great victory. Aris won PAOK for the Greek Cup after 1990's final. For Aris all ten players who played scored and for PAOK Margaritis tried but his 23 points were not enough. Quarters' scores: 16-15, 32-34, 47-50,63-71.

PAOK: Payne 5, DJ Cooper 7, Kaselakis 5 (1), Tsairelis 11 (1), Bogris 7, Margaritis 23, Tsochlas 2, Charalampidis 3 (1), Dedas, Vucicevic, Liapis.
Aris: Bochoridis 15 (1), Pelekanos 16 (2), Athinaiou 17, Vezenkov 2, Charisis 4, Gikas 2, Tsakaleris 5, Asimakopoulos 5 (1), Mourtos 3, Poulianitis 2.

Panionios wins Kolossos Rodou for Greek Cup quarterfinals

Panionios wins Kolossos Rodou with 82-65 for the Greek Cup quarterfinals. First quarter finished with Panionios leading the score by 10 points (27-17) and by the halftime Panionios has increased the difference to 17 points (48-31). Panionios controlled the game and eliminated Kolossos Rodou from the Greek cup.
A productive game for Panionios foreign players McCollum, Duvnjak and Milbourne that scored 56 points.

Quarters' scores: 27-17, 48-31, 62-52, 82-65.

Panionios: McCollum 22(1), Stamatis, Motsenigos, Duvnjak 15(1), Milbourne 19(1), Athanasoulas 9(1), Mpatis 3(1), Kavvadas 10, Langford, Michel, Simtsak 2, Saloustros 2.
Kolossos Rodou VAP: Papantoniou 11(1), Ram 2, Matsamas, Georgallis 5, Smith 12, Stefanidis, 
Simpson 11, Koukoulas 2, Tsamis 5, Pruitt 2, Osbi 15, Danas.

Panathinaikos wins Rethymno Aegean for Greek cup quarterfinals

 Panathinaikos had won Rethymno Aegean a week ago for Petros Oikonomakis friendly tournament, and doubled his victories against AGOR in the first official game for the season. Panathinaikos eliminated Rethymno Aegean by winning it with 83-52 and qualified to the semi-finals of the Greek Cup.

Panathinaikos starting five were Pappas, Diamantidis, Mačiulis, Gist and Lasme. Rethymno Aegean started with a 4-0 score but then Panathinaikos' captain Diamantidis led the team to 8-22 before being replaced by Vladimir Giankovits. Then Rethymno managed to close the difference in first quarter at 13-24. Second quarter started with Panathinaikos ruling the court which led to double score 15-30 but finished with Rethymno Aegean counter attacking and score 32-40. In the third quarter it was Curry's time to score and keep the score in distance which at the end was 41-64. Fourth quarter was not different and the final score 52-83 was result of a dunk from Vladimir Giaknovits. Quarters' scores were 13-24, 32-40, 41-64, 52-83.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 18(3), Kallinikidis 3(1), Koumpouras, Aggelopoulos 4(1), Pruitt 8, Arbet, Kalampokis 2, Kanonidis, Sinis, Gabriel 17(1), Latovic, Kwame
Panathinaikos: Giankovits 4, Maciulis 8(2), Bramos 9(1), Curry 7(1), Batiste 4, Fotsis 6, Skordilis,
Lasme 8, Diamandidis 13(3), Gist 13, Pappas 11(1)

Greek cup quarterfinals schedule

Greek cup quarterfinals schedule (updated with scores)

Rethymno Aegeaun - Panathinaikos 52-83
Panionios - Kolossos Rodou  82-65
PAOK - Aris 63-71
Ilisiakos - Olympiacos 54-85

(pre-games report)

Panathinaikos defeated Rethymno in the recent Petros Oikonomakis tournament, but this will be the first official game for the Greek champions. PAOK versus Aris will be the highlight of the cup's quarterfinals with PAOK to have a light advantage, like Panionios against Kolossos Rodou. Olympiacos will have no problem against Ilisiakos in the first game for the season in Greece after the Euroleague back to back champions won the Intercontinental Cup.