Sweeping Prometheus from… jambol!
The Patrinos entered with the “gas” pressed and easily defeated her Carditsa with a score of 87-75, making it 2/2 at Basketball League and leaving Thessaly without a win after two matches.
His team Elias Papatheodorou had an unimaginable first quarter, escaping with 27 points (37-10) having 5/9 three-pointers and 7/14 two-pointers in that time! From then on, Karditsa made an honorable effort, however the lead was too big to overturn.
The leader of the match was Anthony Cowan, who had 15 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. Excellent with 13 points and 8 rebounds o Haime Etsenike, while Chrysikopoulos had 13 points and Antonis Koniaris had 11. Chris Coffey was excellent with 8 points and 14 rebounds.
The match
With Etsenike and Chrysikopoulos to start “hot”, o Prometheus entered the match very well and quickly took a 10-4 lead, which quickly turned into 16-4 with Kuruks to join the… dance. The hosts were unstoppable in the first period, with their lead steadily increasing against a helpless Karditsa, until it reached the final 37-10!
The Thessaly they tried at the beginning of the second period to get into the spirit of the match a little more and they reduced with him Smith in 37-16. Still, the gap was already too great, and it continued to grow with the until then… inactive Hunter Hale to get in the mood for 46-20. Karditsa was unable to mount any significant response, and the half ended with a score of 48-26.
The same situation continued in the second half as well Chrysikopoulos and Koniaris they increased the difference again to +26 (58-32). From then on, the Patrinos relaxed too much, as a result of Carditsa to gradually find a rhythm and start to eat away at their lead. The protagonists in this period were Seibert and Buchanan, helping Thessalians to get closer to 14 (64-50), before the final 66-50 of the third period.
O Prometheus entered the fourth period with the goal of… erasing any doubt as to his impending victory, which he accomplished thanks to Etsenike and Reynolds, which brought back +19 (73-54), while Kawan once again increased the gap over 20 (78-57). Diplaros and Smith reduced the score to 16 again (78-62), but it was too late for Karditsa to get back into the game, despite her honorable efforts. With a terrible Diplaros, Karditsa’s disadvantage was again reduced to 14 (82-68), however, there was not enough time and Prometheus took a comfortable victory.
The quarters: 37-10, 48-26, 66-50, 87-75
Detailed match statistics here
Source: Sport Fm
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