“Cleaned” PAOK and advance to third place Peristeri bwin

Clearly superior for the longest duration of the match, Peristeri bwin defeated PAOK 81-64 in “Palataki” in the second “small” final of the Basket League and made it 2-0 in the series, wanting another victory to take the third position of this year’s championship and the two teams to meet again at “Andreas Papandreou” next Saturday.

The players of Vassilis Spanoulis had the lead for most of the match, the “double-header” came close to -2 and equalized, but in the third and fourth period the many series of the “blue and yellow” brought +17.

Leaders of the winners were Moraitis, Denmon with 17, Bilan with 14 and Francisco with 13 points.

For the Thessalonians, Franke stood out with 16 points.

The match

Peristeri bwin started with more aggressive solutions inside the opponent’s racket, while the PAOK players had difficulty getting close to the opponent’s racket. Little by little, the mistakes of Vassilis Spanoulis’ players and their hasty choices gave the “two-headed” the opportunity to find solutions with the regional players and Margaritis and, with a 6-0 run, to lead 11-5. There, the “black and white” started making mistakes and gave the “blue and yellow” the opportunity to make a 6-0 run and tie the game. At 17-13, Kaklamanakis with seven personal points and impressive efforts under the Peristeriotes basket brought +9 initially and 24-17 at the end of the first period.

At the beginning of the second period, the two teams only managed to score from shots, but then PAOK found many surprises from the guests’ mistakes and, with Hunts and Kaklamanakis as protagonists, reached 28-20 and 30-23 . There, the bad defense of the “double-headed” in the racket brought 6-0 and 30-29 for Peristeri bwin.

At 32-29, the amazing defense of the players of Vassilis Spanoulis on the pick and roll did not let the “black and white” score and the many mistakes gave the “blue and yellow” the opportunity to make a 12-0 run with Denmon and Kaselakis and the score became 32-41, to end the half at 33-41.

Moraitis’ three-pointer made it 33-44 at the start of the third period, but PAOK responded with a 6-0 run to make it 38-44. Peristeri made its own 4-0 run to 38-48, but Saloustros took the situation in his hands aggressively and helped the players of Fotis Takianos, with the support of Riley, reducing to -2. With the offensive “aflogistia” then on both sides, the quarter ended at 52-56.

Moraitis brought +8 for Peristeri bwin at the start of the fourth period, but consecutive mistakes by Peristeri bwin guards and steals by Fotis Takianos brought it 57-61. Moraitis continued his “crescendo” from 6.75 and the home team’s successive missed shots began to “tilt the tide” towards Peristeri bwin, who led 68-57 and 72-60 with a new 4-0 run, with PAOK has reached 15 mistakes.

Denmon’s three-pointer brought +15 and essentially ended the match in the last two minutes, with the difference going to +15 to +17 and the matches ending at 81-64 for the “blue and yellow”.

The quarters: 24-17, 33-41, 52-56, 64-81

The statistics