Keravnos Strovolou is the Champion for the 2007-2008 season!!
It is now fact,
Keravnos Strovolou is the
champion of the Cyprus league for the first time in seven years (their
last title coming during the 2000-2001 season).
Keravnos Strovolou beat
Aspis Apoel Nicosia 71-66 in a game which finished just some minutes
ago, and won the title!! The Cypriot captain,
Giorgos Anastasiadis (194-G/F-77) was the MVP of the game and proved
once more why he is considered to be the top Cypriot player of the past
decade, even though some doubted him this season. Eurobasket.com,
though, was always on the site of the captain of Strovolos and Cyprus NT
and has criticized the 'basketball experts' who doubted the jewel of
Cyprus Basketball.
In regards to the game now, it was a real derby, as expected and as
all the games between these two teams have been over the last two
decades.
Keravnos Strovolou took an early lead and never
lost it until the end. The two teams under the pressure of the game and
its importance started the game quite nervously. During the first
quarter, Keravnos took a lead of 10 points at 17-7.
Aspis Apoel Nicosia's top performer Jo-Jo Garcia (who was very good,
as he has been in all of the games against Keravnos while wearing the
Apoel jersey) then cut the deficit to 5, with a personal 5-0 run. The
top player in this first quarter was Bryant Smith, who scored 6 points.
During the second half, Keravnos had some serious problems as two of
their starters and important tools,
Aleksandar Radojevic (220-C-76, college:
Barton County CC) and Hart, were called for their third personal
foul just 14 and 16 minutes into the game. This was when Apoel made its
comeback (especially after
Aleksandar Radojevic's third foul, as he was amazing in his
defending duties up until that time). The score became 27-25 and then
38-31 at the half. In the 2nd half,
Giorgos Anastasiadis took over. In the third quarter there was only
one team on the court, and that team was Keravnos Strovolou. The
Strovolos team, with a very strong defence and very good peripheral
game, took the initiatives and took what would become the largest lead
of the game, at 11 points, 47-36, with 3:23 left in the 3rd quarter.
Aspis Apoel Nicosia reacted and cut the Keravnos lead to 51-43 at
the end of the third quarter.
The fourth and most crucial quarter, Aspis Apoel Nicosia tried to take the control of the game, and the
yellow players of Yiangoullis managed to do so and cut the deficit down
to two points. However,
Giorgos Anastasiadis took his gun and with his passion and spirit
like a real captain a difficult time showed his guts, and like all the
games between Strovolos against Apoel, lead his team to a great victory,
71-66, and a title for Strovolos and
Paris Papaellinas 's team.
The points for the two teams were as follows:
Keravnos Strovolou: Yiannas 3, Anastasiadis 13, Smith 17, Hart 7,
Damjanovic 10, Radojevic 4, Trisokkas 14, kosanovic 3.
Aspis Apoel: Van Dorpe 3, Pantouris 13, Garcia 20, Radunovic 4,
Hansen 5, Miseta 3, Jones 7, Wheller 11 Statements At the end of the game the MVP of the game,
Giorgos Anastasiadis, stated that the Cypriot players were the key
to the success and won the title, as Keravnos during the seazon had many
difficulties with the foreigners and especially the American players,
due to injuries.
Eurobasket.com, congratulates the winning team of Keravnos Strovolou
and wishes all the best to the European games of the coming season.
Eurobasket.com All-Cyprus League Awards 2007-08
All-Cyprus League 1st Team
Anastasiadis
Aleksic
Garcia
Lee
Radunovic
Player of the Year:Giorgos Anastasiadis (194-G/F-77) (194-G/F-77) of Keravnos Strovolou Guard of the Year:Giorgos Anastasiadis of Keravnos Strovolou Forward of the Year:Milutin Aleksic (202-F-82) of Proteas EKA AEL Center of the Year:Joseph Garcia (206-C-75) of Aspis Apoel Newcomer of the Year:Alexis Liatsos (200-F-80) of Proteas EKA AEL Most Improved Player of the Year:Grigoris Pantouris (190-G/F-82) of Aspis Apoel Bosman Player of the Year:Milutin Aleksic of Proteas EKA AEL Import Player of the Year:Bryant Smith (196-G/F-77) of Keravnos Strovolou Domestic Player of the Year:Giorgos Anastasiadis of Keravnos Strovolou Defensive Player of the Year:Panagiotis Trisokkas (206-C-80) of Keravnos Strovolou Coach of the Year:Kyriakos Yiangoulis of Aspis Apoel
AEL Limassol won the Super Cup !
Proteas EKA AEL beat Keravnos at the "Spyros Kyprianou" arena on Friday
(19/10) evening to win the Cyprus Super Cup for a third year in a row.
The game, which opened the 2007-08 season, featured AEL dominating from
the beginning and taking a well deserved victory.
The Limassol team led at halftime 36-27, but Keravnos with Radojevic
tried to react and managed to drop the margin to four points, 37-33
(21'51''). But AEL regained the top hand and shot the difference to 19
points (59-40) with less than a minute to the end of the third quarter.
The biggest lead for the reigning champions came in mid-fourth quarter
when they recorded a 25 point lead, 70-45. The final score 76-58 means
that AEL gets to keep the trophy for another year. Milutin Aleksic (202-F-82) was the MVP of the game. The Serbian
captain of AEL scored 20 points and gathered 4 rebounds in 29 minutes.
For Keravnos Radojevic was the top scorer with 12 points. Quarters: 18-13, 36-27, 57-42, 76-58. Proteas EKA AEL (Igors Miglinieks): Liatsos 5 (1), Cuic
17 (2), Souchu 5 (1), Aleksic 20 (3), Randle 11, Perentos 2, Palalas 5
(1), Dedushkin 5, Ilunga 2, Kozomara, Woodward 4. Keravnos (Vassilis Fragias): Giannas 4, Vidakovic 6,
Vukadinov 8 (1), Anastasiadis 8 (1), Henderson 10 (1), Damjanovic 5,
Trisokkas 3 (1), Kosanovic 2, Radojevic 12.
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