Euroleague: Aris Thessaloniki: took 5th place (6-8) in Group C, then
took 4th place (1-5) in Group G of Top 16 Olympiakos S.F.P. Pireus: took 3rd place (10-4) in Group A,
then took 2nd place (3-3) in Group E of Top 16, lost to Tau
(ESP) in the Quarterfinals Panathinaikos Athens: took 1st place (11-3) in Group B, then
took 1st place (5-1) in Group F of Top 16, beat CSKA Moscow
93-91 in the Final (!!!) FIBA EuroCup: Maroussi Honda Athens: took 1st place (5-1) in Group F, took
4th place (0-6) in Group J Panionios Forthnet Athens: took 2nd place (4-2) in Group G,
took 2nd place (3-3) in Group K, lost to Akasvayu 1-2 in the
Quarterfinals (!!!) ULEB Cup: AEK Athens: took 6th last place (2-8) in Group A PAOK Marfin Thessaloniki: took 4th place (6-4) in Group D,
lost to Montepaschi Siena (ITA) in the 1/8 Finals FIBA EuroCup Challenge: AEP Olimpiada Patron: took 3rd place (3-3) in Group A
Panathinaikos captain Fragiskos Alvertis with the trophy (Photo: Euroleague)
Panathinaikos won Greek League 2007 (Photo: Sport.GR)
Panathinaikos team thanks to their fans (Photo: Eurobasket)
Play offs: The Triple crown for PAO is a fact !!!
Panathinaikos Vs Olympiakos - Game
five 89-76
The battle of the battles! The fifth game of the Greek play offs. The
European champions against the upcoming force of Gershon's troops.
The atmosphere in OAKA is great! The time is 6.34, Coach
Zeljko Obradovic enter the court, more than 7,000 Green fans made a
standing ovation.
The rosters of the two teams are exactly the same with only one
difference, in the Green roster there is an ex Red player,
Dimitris Papanikolaou (202-F-77) is the new man in the roster maybe
Zoc has something in mind….
The time is 6.45, in less than 6.00 the game is beginning.
The starting five from the two teams are:
Panathinaikos: Becirovic,
Dimitris Diamantidis (196-G-80),
Michael Batiste (203-F-77, college:
Arizona St.),
Ramunas Siskauskas (197-G-78), Tsartsaris
Olympiakos: Penn, Domercant, Acker, Zizic, Stack
The averages before the game for teh two teams in offense are: 76.2 vs.
77.7
The game basket by basket with all the details:
The game begins:The first jamb all and the first offence belongs to
Olympiakos,
Michael Batiste rebound Penn's shot.
Ramunas Siskauskas missed a clear 3pointer.
Michael Batiste scored the first jump shoot, with
Ryan Stack (212-F/C-75, agency:
Interperformances, college:
S.Carolina) answering back. Tsartsaris assist,
Ramunas Siskauskas who scored the 3p, while Acker answered back with
a new 3p, after Penn's assist. The 1st change of the game took place
after Becirovic's second false ball, Hatzivretas took his place 6.53
before the end of the first quarter
The game seems to be really tough as both teams are playing very good
defense.
Michael Batiste 2p. Zizic offensive rebound and 2p. Hatzivretas 3p
after Tsartsaris 2nd assist.
Dimitris Diamantidis block shot.
Dimitris Diamantidis rebound.
Michael Batiste assist and goal foul from Hatzivretas (missed the
ft).
Dimitris Diamantidis block shot on Penn's three pointer. Domercant
two free throws (score 12-9). Block shot by
Dimitris Diamantidis to
Arvydas Macijauskas (192-G-80). Referee's false call - travelling to
Dimitris Diamantidis in an amazing assist of Hatzivretas. Free throw
from Bourousis and 12-10. Acker penetrate and 12-12. 1.37'.
Dimitris Diamantidis stole the ball and score the basket while he
received the foul from
Arvydas Macijauskas. Papanikolaou changed Sisakuskas 1.20 before the
end.
Dimitris Diamantidis scored the free throw. Zizic scored 2 free
throws. Papamakarios changed Domercant. Acker three pointer brought
Olympiakos in front of the score 15-16, Papanikolaou answered back with
another 3p. Score in 1st quarter 18-16.
2nd quarter:
Starting five from the two teams:
Becirovic,
Dimitris Diamantidis, Papanikolaou., Tsartsaris and
Dejan Tomasevic (208-F/C-73).
Vassilopoulos, Papamakarios, Penn, Acker and Bouroussis Dimitris Diamantidis blocks Penn, Tsartsaris rebounds and
scores.Vasilopoulos answered back.
Dimitris Diamantidis scored the 3pointer while once more the referee
saw 2 fouls and charged both Becirovic and Papamakarios on one foul
each. Penn scored 3pointer and Papanikolaou answered back with the same
way. Bouroussis's offensive rebound and a 3pointer and Papanikolaou's
basket (in Bourousis's face) made the score 26-24. The game became
amazingly fast, the two coaches didn't asked any time out yet.
Olympiakos made a fast 5-0 (Harisis 3p, Domercant 2) and is in front
with 28-29. Papanikolaou 2p, Harissis's offensive rebound and 2p.
Vujanic goal-foul (Bourousis), Zizic 2p, Frankie's 2 FT, Acker's
penetration and lay-up. Vujanic's 1 FT brought the Greens in the leading
position. Koukoulekidis called a technical foul on Vujanic for
theatrenism. Zizic scored both free throws and on the next offence
Vasilopoulos scored the 3pointer.
Michael Batiste 2 pointer. Tsartsaris 2 pointer. Tsartsaris dunk 2p.
Vasilopoulos 3pointer. Becirovic 3pointer. Zavlanos called a foul on a
clear block from Tsartsaris on Domercant, the Bosnian missed the first
1p.34.3' 45-44. Koukoulekidis called a second technical foul on the
assistant coach Dimitris Itoudis with the ball being on Panathinaikos.
Arvydas Macijauskas scored both the free throws. 6.5 seconds before
the end of the first half. 45-46.
3rd quarter: Ramunas Siskauskas, Becirovic, Alvertis,
Dimitris Diamantidis and
Michael Batiste.
Vasilopoulos, Penn, Stack, Papamakarios, Acker
Frankie scores a 3pointer (out of 3) and
Michael Batiste's 2p (in front of Bourousis in zero time) Bourousis
2p, Frankie 3pointer (out of 2),
Michael Batiste new airball from 3pointer. Made the score 5.10
before the end 53-48. Vasilopoulos scored the one free throw. Gershon
changed his defence. Beci 0/2 threes. 3.45' Big Sofo enter the court.
Michael Batiste scored 2 free throws. Big Sofo immediately got the
call from Zavlanos, Big Sofo lost both free throws. Tsartsaris scored
both free throws.
Arvydas Macijauskas scored three free throws and made the score
57-52, 3.03' before the end of the third quarter.
Dejan Tomasevic scored both free throws and
Arvydas Macijauskas answered with a new three pointer. Tsartsaris
scored a lay up. Koukoulekidis called another foul (which wasn't) this
time was an offensive from Tsartsaris to Vasilopoulos. Zizic scored an
easy lay up,
Dimitris Diamantidis scored a lay up and Gershon took a technical.
Ramunas Siskauskas scored both frees.
Ramunas Siskauskas scored one of the two free throws but
Michael Batiste grabbed the rebound and received the foul, he then
scored both free throws. While Koukoulekidis never called an obvious
foul from Vasilopoulos to
Michael Batiste. 68-57.
4th quarter:
Hatzivretas, Dikoudis, Beci,
Ramunas Siskauskas,
Michael Batiste
Zizic, Penn,
Arvydas Macijauskas, Vasilopoulos, Acker.
The 4th quarter begun with 2 free throws froma technical to Gershon,
Beci scored, Zizic answered back with a jump shot. Becirovic scored
within the paint. Koukoulekidis called a foul on
Michael Batiste over
Arvydas Macijauskas. Acker scored the 1 free throws he took from
Vujanic.
Ramunas Siskauskas got a foul from Big Sofo and scored both of them.
Acker Dunk, Penn stole the ball and Bourousis made a new dunk. 74-64,
6.35' before the end. Bourousis new dunk brought the score in only 8
points. Olympiakos made a 6-0 in less than a minute.
Dejan Tomasevic scored in the paint. Big Sofo took his fourth foul
on
Dimitris Diamantidis (Gershon used his twin towers for more than 5
minutes). Harissis scored the two free throws he got. Vasilopoulos
fouled out (on Tsartsaris) 3.47' before the end. Tsartsaris scored only
the seconf free throw. Penn scored with a lay up making the score 77-70.
Arvydas Macijauskas lay up made the score 77-72 while the two free
throws of Harissis cored the second making the score 77-73.
Ramunas Siskauskas 3 pointer was in while his country fellow
Arvydas Macijauskas missed it. Becirovic got the foul and scored
both of them. Penn scored only the first free throw. Score 82-74, 1.44'
before the end.
Michael Batiste grabbed another offensive rebound and took the foul
while he scored in the second free throw.
Arvydas Macijauskas tried to penetrate but he done nothing while
Papanikolaou took the rebound and the foul from Bourousis and scored the
first while the second was a Green Rebound.
Ramunas Siskauskas took the foul from Papamakarios and scored both
of them, score was 87-74 with less than 30 seconds to go. Harissis
scored the last red basket.
And the cherry on the pie was an amazing 360 degrees from Mike
Michael Batiste. Final score 89-76. The Triple Crown is REALITY.
MVP of the game was Dimitris
Dimitris Diamantidis but there is no doubt that Papanikolaou was
amazing and a true passionated player, he came out of nowhere and scored
12 points inthe final and most crucial game of the seazon!!
Greek Cup: The first title for 2007 is Green !!!
Zeliko Obradovic's team won the cup in a game which finished a couple of
hours ago. The islanders of Rethymno were brave enough to "fight" the
game for at least one quarter upon the game finished with 18-24. After
that though, Kostas Tsartsaris and his team mates took the game
seriously and fullfill one of the greates victories ever, in the Greek
history of the Cup, (after the fourty points difference which Aris had
against the team of Panellinios during 80's0 the final score of the game
was 48-87 and the 39 points of the difference is the second higer ever.
The 48 points which Rethymno scored is the lower ever score in a cup's
final (after Iraklis 50 against Olympiakos in the 90's).
The game was a Basketball celebration and teh nearly 13,000 fans had a
really great time in the court. Panathinaikos won it's tenth cup title
and is rank first among the Greek teams who has a double digit in cup
titles, followed by Aris with 9.
MVP was voted Kostas Tsartsaris (the second consecutive time after last
years cup final against Maroussi) the Greek power forward was also the
top scorer of the game with 14 points in 19 minutes.
OPAP 15th All star Game: Rest of the World - Greek stars 99-87
The fifteenth OPAP All star game came to an end last
night, the Lamia's hosts were magnificent, they gave their best and they
succeed to create one of the most successful all star games in the short
history of all star games in Greece. Everything was perfect, the
atmosphere, the management of the basketball celebration even the
players consisting of, this celebration, gave their best self in the
superb show. The team “rest of the world†beat the team “Greek starsâ€Â
but who cares anyway!!!!
The show was there, in Lamia all the players, Greeks and foreigners,
stars and “anti-stars†prove for one more time that basketball is just a
game and that is the way that everyone has to see and feel it. Never the
less, the show was really amazing and the players came in the court with
lots and lots of mood to enjoy the game and generate the necessary
efficiency in order to make glamorous the whole picture. And they did
it!
Rest of the world showed their “disposition†from the early beginning of
the game, they started with better perspectives and took an early lead
forcing their opponents to follow them from the beginning to the end. In
a run and gun game, they were no defenses and not really strategic
schemes from the quartet of coaches Gershon and Mazzon against Obradovic
and Pilafidis. MVP was voted Andre Hatson while the top scorer was the
3D (Dimitris Diamantidis (196-G-80)) with 18 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 1
steal in 22 minutes!!! The quarters were: 32-17, 57-34, 71-64, and
99-87.
The scorers from both the teams were:
REST OF THE WORLD: Parker 7 (1), Scales 4, Acker 10, Becirovic 13 (3),
Siskauskas 8 (2), Massey 8, Clark 9 (1), Walsh 10 (2), Wilkinson 2,
Winston 6, Stack 6, Hatson 16.
GREEK STARS: Alvertis, Diamantidis 8 (4), Papamakarios 3 (1),
Perperoglou 8, Printezis 7 (1), Bourousis 10 (1), Iliadis 9 (1),
Dikoudis 8, Tsartsaris 4, Vasilopoulos 2, Kalabokis 8, Schortsianitis
10.
The winner in the dunk contest was Giorgos Printezis even though
everybody agrees that it was unfair on behalf of the committee as the
fans believed that Kennedy Winston had to win the contest.
In the three point contest, Sani Becirovic was the winner as he scored
the last (two points) shot from the arc and beat at the final his
opponent, Alex Scales (17 vs.16)
OPAP All star game in Lamia, youth: North Vs South 87-83
The 15th All star game begun with the new generation of the Hellenic
Basketball, the youth teams of North and South prove to be "equal"
partners with the men's teams, giving a spectacular basketball show to
the 5000 baskeball fans who joined the basketball celebration in the
Halkiopouleion court of Lamia (the home court of Ionikos Lamias). The
team of South consisting of
Theodoros Tsiotras (198-G-87), Mourtos, Mihaloglou, Sakelariou,
Dusan Sakota (209-F-86), Vasilopoulos, Liberopoulos, Sigkounas,
Noeas, Lolas and Sarikopoulos beat at the end the team of North
consisting of Pasalidis,
Sotiris Manolopoulos (208-F-87, agency:
FCM),
Dimitris Verginis (179-G-87, agency:
FCM), Matalon, Giannopoulos, Traianos, Goulas, Trihopoulos,
Gaios Skordilis (206-C-87), Neofitidis, Vlasopoulos and
Dimitris Karadolamis (204-F-87).
The first half belonged to the team of North as they made the last three
minutes an amazing 14-4 and ended the half time with a 44-40 showing to
the team of South (which was the favorite from the beggining) that they
had to try more to win the game. The second half though was balanced
between the two teams with Petros Noeas and
Dimitris Verginis to combete as on who would have been the final
winner. At the end they both won, as Petros Noeas's team won the game
and
Dimitris Verginis voted as the MVP of the All Star game.
The points were as follows:
North: Pasalidis 9,
Sotiris Manolopoulos 12 (1),
Dimitris Verginis 16 (1),
Marios Matalon (188-G-89) 7, Giannopoulos 1,
Dimitris Karadolamis 11 (1), Vasileiou 7 (1), Traianos 2,
Trihopoulos 4,
Gaios Skordilis 4, Neofitidis 10.
South:
Theodoros Tsiotras 2, Mourtos 3 (1), Mihaloglou 4, Sakelariou 5,
Dusan Sakota 16 (3), Sakelarakis 2, Vasilopoulos 18 (2), Christos
Limberopoulos 10, Sigkounas 4, Noeas 13 (1), Sarikopoulos 10
In the Three point contest
Fotis Vasilopoulos (187-G-86) made the back to back (last year in
Larissa won the contest) and won at the finals the talented player of
Makedonikos
Dimitris Karadolamis with 13-11
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