In a match that turned into a thriller, Apollon Patras beat PAOK (95-91) and went up to 4-4.
Vetoulas’s team had 17/35 three-pointers (!) and their main protagonists were Chalbouris (25 points, 6 assists), Coleman (20 points) and Diplaro (12 points, 6 assists), with the latter achieving 4/4 shots in the final shaping the final score.
On the other, Thessaloniki fell to 2-6 and remain without an away win in the Stoiximan Basket League. DiLeo (24 points, 10 rebounds) and Lov stood out for the visitors, although the latter proved fatal, after making a mistake in the last attack of his team.
The match
The hosts came in more read and focused on the game, as a result of which they gain a small lead (8-2 in 3 ‘). PAOK reacted with Dileo giving solutions (10-10 in 5 ‘), but somewhere there began the storm of accurate shots by Vetoulas’s players, who scored 5 three-pointers in the second half of the first period and escaped with +7 (27- 20).
The aggressive crescendo of Apollo continued in the 2nd half: with Coleman entering the equation, it reached +12 (34-22 in 13 ‘), while the Thessalonians were looking for their footprints. With consecutive three-pointers from Davis and Chalbouri, the Achaeans closed the half with “air” of 16 points (53-37) and while they had 12/19 three-pointers in this period!
The 3rd quarter had a completely different form, after Vetoula’s players fell silent aggressively. On the other hand, PAOK tightened defensively and found solutions in DiLeo, with the consequence of returning to the match. With a partial score of 17-1, Lykogiannis’s team was from -21 (65-44 in 23 ‘) to -5 (66-61 in 27’). The 3rd period ended with the hosts at +6 (74-68), but the momentum of the match had completely changed.
As expected, the 4th period turned into a derby. The guests turned the game around and went ahead (80-83 in 36 ‘), with Mantzaris and Ogbeide taking action. With Lov’s layup, they reached +4 (85-89 in 38 ‘), but somewhere there came the reaction of the Achaeans.
With three-pointers by Davis and Diplaros, Apollon reversed the situation (91-89 in 39 ‘), but Christodoulou equalized again. Two shots by Diplaros in the 6 seconds before the end brought Vetula’s team to +2 (93-91) and followed by Lov’s mistake, which fell into an unsportsmanlike foul, which resulted in two more accurate shots for the final 95- 91.
The quarters: 27-20, 53-37, 74-68, 95-91.
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