Week 16: Keravnos beats Etha and Apollon beats APOEL - Jan 28, 2012 (by Chris Mammides)
Keravnos kept his perfect record for another week and after the decisive victory over Intercolege Etha Engomis and whatever it will be the result in the last game against Pizza Express Apollon nothing changes as the Cyprus Head Coach Panagiotis Yiannaras drove his team in the top seat of the regular season [read more]
Keravnos kept his perfect record for another week and after the decisive victory over Intercolege Etha Engomis and whatever it will be the result in the last game against Pizza Express Apollon nothing changes as the Cyprus Head Coach Panagiotis Yiannarasdrove his team in the top seat of the regular season. The Cyprus rookie Head Coach succeeded to achieve something that many other experienced Greek head coaches with much larger budgets couldn't do in the previous seasons
So the results of the games were as follows: Keravnos Strovolou - Intercollege Etha Engomis 74-66 Pizza Express Apollon - CytaVision APOEL 88-77
The games in more details were as follows: Keravnos Strovolou - Intercollege Etha Engomis 74-66 Quarters: 18-20, 43-32, 61-48 and the final 74-66. The visitors of Coach Konstantinidis started the game abit more aggressively and with Darryl Watkins (211-C-84, college: Syracuse) dominating in the paint took the lead forone and only time in the game with the end of the first period with 18-20. From then and on the game had only one protagonist and that wasn't the last season's champions, as Keravnos took over and with an amazing second period and with Marcus Moore (198-G-80, college: Washington St.) in his leading role together with Frazier, Veselovs and Chan took the initiatives and succeeded a 25-12 to end the first half with 43-32. From then and on the home team just kept the leading part which was always ona double digit and ended the third period with 61-48. The first five minutes of the fourth period were awesome for Keravnos and 6 minutes before the end of the game the deficit went up to 18 points 70-52 and Keravnos simply slow down when Etha with Darryl Watkins, Ray and Jackson minimise their loss to just 8 points for the final 74-66 Top scorers: Keravnos: Marcus Moore14 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists in another great game, Frazier 12, Chan 12 and Veselovs 11 Etha: Darryl Watkins 17, Jackson 10, and Ray 11. Pizza Express Apollon - CytaVision APOEL 89-77 Quarters: 18-15, 46-29, 71-54and 89-77 A total domination by Miglinieks team over APOEL from the beginning to the end. APOEL took the lead in teh first period with 8-12 and from the minute (4th) and on was following the score which went as high as 21 points in the second period (40-19). The home team with Troy Gillenwater (205-F-88, college: N.Mexico St.) in a great night and Robinson with Gabrans following had no problem at all against the team of Linos Gavriel. Gillewater was awesome and ended the game with 23 points and 11 rebounds, while Robinson scored 16 and Gabrans 11.
On the other hand, APOEL was the shade of its self and had nothing to do with the team which last week nearly beat the unbeaten Keravnos Strovolou. The key players of the Nicosia team who were very good in the particular game performed lower than the expectations of Coach Gavriel. So the veterans Sims and Mandic tried for the best for APOEL but they were all alone as the newcomer McKay who was the top scorer of his team, a week ago with 23 points remain to just 6 points with negative percentages, while Cuffee stopped at 8 points, so the overall scoring was taken over (partially) by Sims who scored 19 points, followed by Mandic who scored 15 and Radojevic with 11 points and 8 rebounds in his best game since he join forces with APOEL 2 months ago.
Looking the game randomly the team of Coach Miglinieks was much better and more of a team in the court in compare with the team of Coach Gavriel which is obvious that needs more games as a team, in order to be able to compete in the specific level with teams such as Apollon and Keravnos.
So, Apollon is definitely in the second position of the regular season no matter if the Limasol team beats or loses by Keravnos in their in between game, next week, as the defeat suffered in Larnaka by AEK eliminates his mathematical chances for the first position in the regular season, moreover the third team in the league is not yet Intercolelge Etha as there is mathematical chance for the team of AEK Larnakas or even APOEL (in an extreme case scenario) to overcome the points of Intercollege Etha Engomis and 'grab' the third spot . At this stage we have the top two teams of the regular season and we do expect the teams which will be 'grabbing' the 3rd and 4th position between Intercollege Etha Engomis (10-4) Petrolina AEK Larnakas (9-5) and APOEL (7-7). The 6th team in the regular season will be Omonoia Nicosia and from there and on we will expect the teams to finish in the 7th and 8th position (unless a punishment comes from the Cyprus Basketball federation against AEL Limassol, due to Engliski's participation with AEL's jersey without permission) so in that case the regular season will have as 7th team Ydra Asfalistiki ENAD and as 8th Proteas DaNoi AEL. In less than a week we will be able to have a clear picture..
Gillenwater's 23 points and 11 rebounds help Apollon dominate APOEL in Limassol - Jan 28, 2012 (by Nima Siar)
Limassol, CY- Troy Gillenwater's 23 points and 11 rebounds help Apollon to an easy 88-77 victory against APOEL. The loss sends APOEL to their 3rd straight loss while Apollon has won their 4th straight against the Nicosia side in all competitions.Game Stats:Apollon:- Troy Gillenwater 23 pts, 11 reb, 8/18 fg- J. Robinson 16 pts, 4 ast, 6 toAPOEL:- L. Sims 19 pts, 6 reb, 8/16 fg- M [read more]
Limassol, CY- Troy Gillenwater's 23 points and 11 rebounds help Apollon to an easy 88-77 victory against APOEL. The loss sends APOEL to their 3rd straight loss while Apollon has won their 4th straight against the Nicosia side in all competitions.
Game Stats:
Apollon: - Troy Gillenwater 23 pts, 11 reb, 8/18 fg - J. Robinson 16 pts, 4 ast, 6 to
APOEL: - L. Sims 19 pts, 6 reb, 8/16 fg - M. Vukasin 15 pt, 5 reb, 2/5 3pt
Game Notes:
- Apllon outscored APOEL 27-14 on 2nd Chance Points - APOEL 16/26 FT, Apollon 23/28 FT - Apollon led by as many as 21
Game recap and analysis coming soon.
Keravnos wins because of offensive rebounds - Jan 26, 2012 (by Dr. Nasios Orinos)
Good game at Lefkotheo Indoor Arena with two very good teams and Keravnos getting an important victory over Apoel with 72-76.
With Moore and Hatcher hitting a great start Keravnos got an early lead closing the 1st quarter with 18-24. With a very good 2nd quarter (25-16) Apoel made its comeback and closed the half by 43-40.
At the beginning of the 2nd half Keravnos made a 13-0 run closing the 3rd quarter with 59-64 making things difficult for Apoel [read more]
Good game at Lefkotheo Indoor Arena with two very good teams and Keravnos getting an important victory over Apoel with 72-76.
With Moore and Hatcher hitting a great start Keravnos got an early lead closing the 1st quarter with 18-24. With a very good 2nd quarter (25-16) Apoel made its comeback and closed the half by 43-40.
At the beginning of the 2nd half Keravnos made a 13-0 run closing the 3rd quarter with 59-64 making things difficult for Apoel. Game finished 72-74 for Apoel.
Statistically wise Keravnos won because of offensive rebounds. It grabbed 16 offensive rebounds as opposed to 7 of Apoel. This gave Keravnos 9 double scoring chances which in close games like this prove to be important. Shooting wise both teams had close percentages as well as the same amount of turnovers.
Congratulations to both teams for a nice game and to both coaches for proving to us that despite all the problems there is still a bit of basketball for us to watch.
For the winners, Moore and Hatcher had 18 each.
For Apoel, McKay had 23 and the 'Dragon' Sims had 14. Cuffee who was verey good at the 1st half had 13.
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