PAOK defeat in Polis, but may still be second

The opportunity to embrace the first place of the fifth group, which implies a direct qualification to the “16” of the BCL, was lost by PAOK. Aris Lykogiannis’s team lost to 87-75 in Istanbul from Galatasaray, who took the lead in the group.

Now the “Bicep of the North” is called to defeat Igokea on December 22 in Palataki, in order to be second and have a home advantage in the play in. On the contrary, in case of defeat and, if at the same time Nimburg wins in the Czech Republic the indifferent Galata, PAOK will be left out of the sequel.

Facing the absences of Carter, Griffin and Jankovic, PAOK lost to Galatasaray at “Sinan Erdem” 75-87 for the fifth game of the fifth group of the BCL, but with a victory over Igokea in the last game qualifies in the “16” .

“Dikefalos” received a “storm” of three-pointers and the -8 in the 20th minute turned into +21 at the beginning of the fourth period, having no solutions in scoring.

Leading the “chim bombs” were Parcel with 20, Bost, Kabatsha with 16 and Triple with 13 points. For the “black and whites”, Jones stood out with 15 and Love with 12 points.

The match

PAOK found the solutions in the racket and reached the lead with Love and they managed to find the solutions, since they could not find a target from the peripheral shots. Love “detached” PAOK and brought it to 10-12, but that is where the problems in the periphery started and Galata with an 8-0 series reached 18-12 with two consecutive three-pointers. Toliopoulos reduced to 20-17, but the consecutive three-pointers of the Turks brought 28-20 and 6/8 from the line of 6.76 for the “chim bomb” and finally the first ten minutes ended at 28-22.

Galata started accurately from the periphery and reached 6/10 in the first minutes of the second half, with Love trying to keep “Dikefalos” aggressively in scoring and reducing to -5. Triple with the consecutive three-pointers brought 40-28 in the bad defense of Aris Lykogiannis, especially in the painted. PAOK could not find solutions with the three-pointers, but they were getting the rebounds, but they could not get close to the Turkish racket and Bost made it 44-28.

“Dikefalos” with a series of 4-0 reduced to 44-33 and at 48-35 a series of 5-0 of the “black and whites” brought 48-40 at the end of the first half. Galata finished with 9/16 three points and 19 rebounds and PAOK with 11/20 two points and 12 rebounds.

Galata reached 51-40 at the beginning of the third period and the difference was between +9 and +12 during this period. Triple brought 59-45 for the “chim bomb” and at 60-47 a 5-0 series of PAOK reduced to 60-52. Galata reached 64-52 and the score remained there for a long time, with Blacksir making it 66-52, with the “chim bom” having improved its percentages in two points and having spoiled them in three points, having almost the same rebounds, assists and both very few errors. However, in the last minutes, Kampatsa started to “shoot” and with two of his own from the three three-pointers, we reached 76-58 at the end of the thirty minutes.

Ulumbai brought 79-58 at the start of the fourth period and the match went to +18 and +20, with Aris Lykogiannis’s players thinking more slowly about the derby with Aris on Saturday. Toliopoulos reduced to 80-63 and with a new series of 6-0 with his youth PAOK reduced to 83-69. Kravis brought 85-69 and the match ended at 87-75.

Ten minutes: 28-22, 48-40, 76-58, 87-75

See here the statistics of the match

Galatasaray (Memnun): Bost 16 (4/11 three points, 8 assists, 4 errors, 2 steals), Triple 13 (3/8 three points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists), Kampatza 16 (5/5 two points, 2/4 three points, 6 rebounds), Akun – Parcel 20 (3/6 two points, 4/8 three points, 2/2 shots, 6 rebounds), Kravis 7, Onzel, Arar 2, Ulubai 3 (1), Blaxiar 7 (5 rebounds), Koksal 3.

PAOK (Lykogiannis): Christodoulou 9 (1), Kamarianos 4, DiLeo 10 (3/7 three points, 4 assists), Jones 15 (3/6 two points, 2/2 three points, 3/4 shots, 8 rebounds), Toliopoulos 9 (2/4 three points , 6 assists), Lav 12 (4 assists, 5 errors), Kamberidis M., Mantzaris 5 (1), Roumoglou 3 (1), Kamberidis G. (0/3 three points), Ogbeide 8 (2/8 two points, 4 / 6 shots, 5 rebounds)

The ranking in the 5th Group:

Galatasaray 4-1

Igokea 2-3

Nimburg 2-3

PAOK 2-3