Amazing match in Nice! The fighter Ionicdid the surprise and took the thriller on him PAOK with a score of 74-71thanks to buzzer-beater Diego Capelan’s three-pointer, six seconds before the end of the match!
In a game with a lot of fluctuations in the score, a lot of nerves, but also an interruption… due to a power cut, the Nikaites took an important step to stay, improving their record at 4-11.
Leading for the winners was none other than Chaplain with 16 points, with the 35-year-old guard scoring three three-pointers in the last critical attacks!
For PAOK, who dropped to sixth place in the Basket League with 8-7 recordstood out Franke and Hunts with 22 and 20 points respectively, while the fatality was o Riley (3p., 1/10 shots), who missed at the end of the match.
The match:
THE Ionic came into the game very strongly, making an excellent start on both sides of the floor. After the initial 5-5 in the second minute, the hosts, with Mavrokephalidis, Lacey and Hawkins, ran an impressive 13-0 run in the next four minutes, increasing the difference at +13 and 18-5. The interruption due to drop in current voltage“awakened” his players PAOKwho with consecutive three-pointers by Franke and Riley, gnawed the difference, closing the first quarter at -5 (25-20).
Ionian’s high shooting rates allowed the hosts to maintain a good lead until midway through the second quarter (32-24 at 14′). Afterwards, PAOK improved their defense, with Poley on the other side of the floor to make… a breakthrough with three accurate three-pointers, and the Thessalonians to go to half time with a short header (38-39).
With acquired speed he entered the second half the “Two-Headed of the North”, who went on a quick 11-2 run midway through the third period, took a 53-45 lead. Somewhere there, however, the guests suffered a “blackout”, and combined with the aggressive defense of Ionikos, they received a partial score of 9-0 in the last three minutes of the period, with the home team closing the quarter. at +1 and 54-53.
The derby continued in the last period as well, where the intensity she was big. Typical was the incident between the PAOK coach, Ari Lykogiannisand to the Ionian guard, Vangelis Mantzarisbut also with her entrance of the president of the hosts on the floor!
The two teams went hand in hand in the score until the middle of the quarter (64-64), with Capelan’s two three-pointers in a row putting Ionikos in the lead (70-64 at 38′). PAOK reacted, and with Franke and Hunts not only reduced, but also went ahead (70-71), 38 seconds before the final.
Ionikos, however, had not said his last word, and with his third consecutive three-pointer Diego Capelan in the 6” before the endgot a great win with the final 74-71.
The quarters: 25-20, 38-39, 54-53, 74-71.
See here the statistics of the match.
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