The Colossus “doubled” Mars!

With a dominant fourth quarter, o Colossus defeated 96-90 him Marsfor going 2/2 against him in this year’s Basket League.

In the 10-10 the Rhodians went up, while on the other hand the “yellows” retreated to 10-11.

Leaders for the “seafarers” were Smith and Dixon with 28 p. and 20p. respectively, while others 13p. Hatzidakis had.

From the Thessaloniki team, stood out Toliopoulos and Note with 20p. and 17p. respectively.

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The match

Aris entered with a better pace, who went 2-8 in the first minutes. Then, Kolossos pressed and managed to get closer to the point (13-14), in the 7th minute. However, Goodwin and Toliopoulos kept the “yellows” in front, who closed the first period at +3 (15-18).

The picture of the match was the same in the second quarter, as the visitors maintained their lead (27-30) until the 16th minute. But then the Rhodians stepped on the gas and with Dixon and Smith as their protagonists they made individual scores of 14-2 until the end of the first half, going to the locker room with +9 (41-32).

With Note and Toliopoulos as forwards, Aris equalized (45-45) in the first four minutes of the second half. From that point on, there was a big derby with an exchange of… baskets and the score at the end of the third quarter was 58-58.

With Smith and Dixon taking…fire outside the 6.75m. the Colossus entered the fourth period “furious”. Initially, the Rhodes team went to +8 (74-66) and then Moreira sent them to +13 (81-68), in the 35th minute. Aris responded with Mitrou-Long and Toliopoulos, reducing the difference to single digits (85-78), in the 37th minute. In the last minutes, the “yellows” were pushing for the reversal, but the home team kept their lead firmly and thus reached the victory with the final 96-90.

The quarters: 15-18, 41-32, 58-58, 96-90

See the match statistics here