Eurobasket.com All-Greek A1 League Awards 2008-2009 - Jun 6, 2009
Player of the Year - Vassilis Spanoulis (193-G-82) of Panathinaikos Athens Guard of the Year - Vassilis Spanoulis (193-G-82) of Panathinaikos Athens Forward of the Year - Jarod Stevenson (200-F-75) of Costa Cafe Marousi Center of the Year - Nikola Pekovic (210-C-86) of Panathinaikos Athens Most Improved Player of the Year - Manolis Papamakarios (190-G-80) of Panellinios Athens Bosman Player of the Year - Nikola Pekovic (210-C-86) of Panathinaikos Athens Import Player of the Year - Mike Batiste (203-F-77) of Panathinaikos Athens Domestic Player of the Year - Vassilis Spanoulis (193-G-82) of Panathinaikos Athens Defensive Player of the Year - Dimitris Diamantidis (196-G-80) of Panathinaikos Athens Co-Coach of the Year - Zeljko Obradovic of Panathinaikos and Soulis Markopoulos of Marousi 1st Team Vassilis Spanoulis (193-G-82) of Panathinaikos Athens Lynn Greer (186-G-79) of Olympiakos S.F.P. Pireus Jarod Stevenson (200-F-75) of Costa Cafe Marousi Giannis Bourousis (212-C-83) of Olympiakos S.F.P. Pireus Nikola Pekovic (210-C-86) of Panathinaikos Athens 2nd Team Sarunas Jasikevicius (192-G-76) of Panathinaikos Athens Andrew Nicholas (191-G-81) of Panathinaikos Athens Prodromos Nikolaidis (201-F-78) of AS Trikalla 2000 Loukas Mavrokefalides (207-C-84) of Costa Cafe Marousi Mike Batiste (203-F-77) of Panathinaikos Athens Honorable Mention Konstantinos Charalampidis (189-G-76) of Costa Cafe Marousi Anthony Grundy (189-G-79) of Panellinios Athens Steven Smith (203-F-83) of VAP Kolossos Kostas Kaimakoglou (206-C/F-83) of Costa Cafe Marousi Andrew Betts (216-C-77) of Aris Thessaloniki Aaron Miles (186-G-83) of Panionios ON Telecoms Athens All-Imports Team Aaron Miles (186-G-83) of Panionios ON Telecoms Athens Lynn Greer (186-G-79) of Olympiakos S.F.P. Pireus Jarod Stevenson (200-F-75) of Costa Cafe Marousi Mike Batiste (203-F-77) of Panathinaikos Athens Torin Francis (210-F-83) of AEL 1964 Larissa All-Domestic Players Team Vassilis Spanoulis (193-G-82) of Panathinaikos Athens Konstantinos Charalampidis (189-G-76) of Costa Cafe Marousi Prodromos Nikolaidis (201-F-78) of AS Trikalla 2000 Giannis Bourousis (212-C-83) of Olympiakos S.F.P. Pireus Andreas Glyniadakis (215-C-81) of Costa Cafe Marousi All-Bosmans Team Sarunas Jasikevicius (192-G-76) of Panathinaikos Athens Keydren Clark (173-G-84) of Aris Thessaloniki Istvan Nemeth (190-G-79) of Vive Menorca (ESP) Jurica Golemac (209-F-77) of Lottomatica Virtus Roma (ITA) Nikola Pekovic (210-C-86) of Panathinaikos Athens All-Defensive Team Marios Batis (188-G-80) of Olimpia Athienitis Larissa Dimitris Diamantidis (196-G-80) of Panathinaikos Athens Josh Childress (203-G/F-83) of Olympiakos S.F.P. Pireus Torin Francis (210-F-83) of AEL 1964 Larissa Antanas Kavaliauskas (208-C-84) of Kavala/Panorama PANATHINAIKOS IS THE CHAMPION!!! - Jun 1, 2009 Panathinaikos Athens beat Olympiakos 94-81 and succeded the triple crown for a second time in the last 3 years. Panathinaikos Athens was much better in the game and especially in the fourht and most crucial period, Dimitris Diamantidis (196-G-80) was amazing and helped his team-mates to succed once mroe agaisnt Yannakis Reds. He scored, he rebound, he assist, he steal and he blocked three times his opponents. If a player from Panathinaikos Athens should nominated MVP this is definetely Dimitris Diamantidis not because he scored 9 points but he was a real leader in the court with many jobs shown in the court and with many other not like the amazing defence over the NBAer Childress to let him without a point in the game other than his 8 free throws. The Triple Corwn is a fact and Zeljko Obradovic is the best Head Coach in Europe for another time. There is a huge number of records broken this seazon but mostly from Alvertis Fragiskos in his last period in action. The Greek Forward has an amazing record of titles which will not be broken for many years to come. Greek All-Star Game 2009
12 Thodoros Papaloukas (200-G-77, agency: Interperformances) 22 Antonis Fotsis (210-F-81) 18 Giannis Bourousis (212-C-83, agency: FCM) 19 Panagiotis Vasilopoulos (202-F-84, agency: FCM). 8 Stratos Perperoglou (203-G-84) 9 Costas Harisis (211-F/C-79, agency: Elfus-Siegel Management (ESM), college: USC) 10 Dimitrios Tsaldaris (196-F-80) 20 Dimitris Papanikolaou (202-F-77) 6 Vassilis Spanoulis (193-G-82, agency: Beo Basket) 16 Loukas Mavrokefalides (207-C-84) 14 Dimitris Diamantidis (196-G-80) 21 Antreas Gyftakis (183-85) REST OF THE WORLD 7 Sarunas Jasikevicius (192-G-76, college: Maryland) 13 Anthony Grundy (189-G-79, agency: Strategic Sports, college: N.Carolina St.) 20 Mike Batiste (203-F-77, college: Arizona St.) 21 Nikola Pekovic (210-C-86, agency: Beo Basket) 22 Travon Bryant (206-F-83, college: Missouri) 9 Yotam Halperin (196-G-84, agency: Arik Krayn Services) 10 Keydren Clark (173-G-84, college: St.Peter's) 11 Aaron Miles (186-G-83, agency: Octagon, college: Kansas) 12 Andrew Nicholas (191-G-81, college: Maryland) 18 Nikola Vujcic (211-C-78, agency: Interperformances) 14 Lynn Greer (186-G-79, college: Temple) 15 Jannero Pargo (187-G-79, agency: Priority Sports, college: Arkansas) The 17th All Star Game just finished in Xanthi and the result was: Greek Stars - Rest of the World 127-93 In the Basketball celebration which took place in Xanthi the weekend of 14-15th of March, 2009 during the 17th All star game the Hellenic team 'thrashed' the Foreigners with 34 points difference. This was the first victory for the Greek stars after the year 2005. The MVP of the 17th All Star Game was voted the Greek International center, Ioannis Giannis Bourousis (212-C-83, agency: FCM) of Olympiakos Piraeus.The top scorers for the two teams were:Greek Stars: Giannis Bourousis 23 points and 8 rebounds, Thodoros Papaloukas (200-G-77, agency: Interperformances) 18 points and 6 assists and Dimitris Diamantidis (196-G-80) 14 points.Rest of the World: Batiste 17 points and 9 rebounds, Vujcic 10 points. In the Dunk Competition: Will Daniels (203-F-86, college: Rhode Island) of Kavalla beat in the finals Harris of Kolossos Rodou Panathinaikos won the Greek Cup: 80-70 against Olympiacos The third period found Olympiacos ahead almost at all its first 8 minutes due to successive successful baskets from Thodoros Papaloukas (200-G-77, agency: Interperformances) (7 points) and Lynn Greer (186-G-79, college: Temple) mainly, while from the Greens Dimitris Diamantidis (196-G-80) took some attempts and succeeded (7 points). The period ended at 53-53, and after the Greens leaded with 53-51, in a period with a high score, comparing to the previous ones, good basket and much tension inside the field. Panathinaikos managed to improve in its rebounds (25-21) with only one offensive for the Reds. The final period started totally balanced (57-57) 7:10 before its ended, but then Panathinaikos made a quick 6-0 serie with two successive three-pointers from Antonis Fotsis (210-F-81) and Stratos Perperoglou (203-G-84), to take an important lead at this time of the game (6:09 before the end). Olympiacos responded with his 7-0 serie for the 64-63 to relead, 5:07 before the end, and the end of the final was extremely anxious for all the spectators. Dimitris Diamantidis though was there (three successive consecutive 3-point shots) for the 64-72. The whole situation was then very difficult to change and Panathinaikos was finally the winner, at the final Dimitris Diamantidis was voted MVP of the final, with his 16 points but mainly his impreesive appearance at the last period. Olympiakos: Thodoros Papaloukas 13, Pelekanos, Vujcic 4, Milosevic, Giannis Bourousis (212-C-83, agency: FCM) 10, Halperin 3, Lynn Greer 11, Jannero Pargo (187-G-79, agency: Priority Sports, college: Arkansas) 7, Panagiotis Vasilopoulos (202-F-84, agency: FCM) 8, Schortsianitis 3, Giorgos Printezis (206-F-85, agency: FCM) 9, Erceg 2 Panathinaikos: Vassilis Spanoulis (193-G-82, agency: Beo Basket) 9, Stratos Perperoglou 9, Mike Batiste (203-F-77, college: Arizona St.) 12, Antonis Fotsis 13, Chatzivrettas, Nicholas 6, Tsartsaris, Dimitris Diamantidis 16, Nikola Pekovic (210-C-86, agency: Beo Basket) 5, Sarunas Jasikevicius (192-G-76, college: Maryland) 10 Eurobasket.com is at Helleniko's hall in order to attend the Greek cup final between the two bigger teams of the Greek championship this season. Unfortunately the game will be attended only by 2.000 spectators, since the possibility of violence between the 'fans' of the two teams is still big and thus the police and the Greek Federation decided to the referred number of spectators (in fact only 1.200 will be the fans of the two teams, the rest are invited to the final). Up to the last moment's news, Panathinaikos have no problems to face while Olympiacos still has Josh Childress (203-G/F-83, college: Stanford) out of games (he will probably return from USA next week) and Jannero Pargo (187-G-79, agency: Priority Sports, college: Arkansas) faced some problems during last week but he is finally between the 12 players of Panagiotis Yannakis . Some violence has appeared an hour before the game between the police and the fans of Panathinaikos, but now, 35 minutes before the beginning everything is ok and all of us here wait for the big game to start. We will keep everybody informed about everything happens here. Greek cup Final: Olympiacos - Panathinaikos LIVE: 1st half 30-32 The game started with an early 9-2 from Pananthinaikos at a time in which Olympiacos couldn't manage to score inside the field (the two points coming from free throws) while Vujcic had two fouls even from the very first 1:24. After Thodoros Papaloukas (200-G-77, agency: Interperformances) entered the game, Olympiacos was significantly improved both at offense and defence to end the period at 3 points behind (13-16). At this period, Pananthinaikos dominated at the game and the difference at the score could have been even bigger if its turnovers were less (4-3 the final number at this period for the turnovers) as well as the offensive rebounds for the Reds (5 at this period). At the second period, the serie of Olympiacos extended up to 15-4 (from 6-15 to 21-19) with the Reds coming ahead for the first time with a 3-point shot from Jannero Pargo (187-G-79, agency: Priority Sports, college: Arkansas). Sarunas Jasikevicius (192-G-76, college: Maryland) gave a breath to his team but generally the game has been balanced (22-22). At that time, and after Olympiacos' 24-22, the Greens made a 9-0 serie (to 24-31), getting advantage of Jannero Pargo's two successive turnovers and Mike Batiste (203-F-77, college: Arizona St.)'s excellent performance. Olympiacos answered with a 4-0, to 28-31, due to the offensive rebounds, before the final 30-32 for this first half. Briefly, the Reds managed to be near at the score due to their 9 offensive rebounds (3 for Panathinaikos and 20-14 totally), and despite their 7 turnovers since the Greens had 6. Certainly, Olympiacos was very bad out of the 3-point line (2/11) but this was outbalanced since Panathinaikos had 7/12 free throws. Olympiacos: Thodoros Papaloukas 4, Giannis Bourousis (212-C-83, agency: FCM) 8, Jannero Pargo 7, Panagiotis Vasilopoulos (202-F-84, agency: FCM) 4 Panathinaikos: Mike Batiste 10, Sarunas Jasikevicius 6, Antonis Fotsis (210-F-81) 5, Nikola Pekovic (210-C-86, agency: Beo Basket) 5 Semifinals: MAROUSI COSTA CO 72-76 PANATHINAIKOS OLYMPIACOS 84-79 PANIONIOS |
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