Terrible Colossus and problematic AEK Betssonin the match that opened the curtain of the 17th matchday in the Stoiximan Basket League!
The Rhodesians performed their best performance this year and celebrated an impressive victory with the emphatic 103-80against a Union who were defeated by the state with a disheartening display for their friends, showing that they need a lot of work heading into the finale of this season!
Kolossos, which was firmly in absolute control of the match and even led by a difference of 31 (!) points, managed to cover the difference of 19 points (93-74) by which it had been defeated in Ano Liosia for the first round of the championship, going up to 7-10 and throwing AEK out of the top six!
Leading for the triumphant ones Godlock (26p), Brajkovic (22p, 12 rib), Poley (17π) and Parents (15p), while from the… shipwreck of the AEK was rescued Tillmanwho finished the match with 26 points and 7 rebounds.
The match
With Perantes, Utomi, Petropoulos, Polei and Brajkovic, Kouros Segura started the game, while Ilias Zouros chose Knight, Netzipoglou, McRae, Agravanis and Tilman for his starting five, not having available the injured Kuzminskas, Flionis and the… escaped Langston Hall.
The match was ambiguous in its first minutes, with AEK leading 7-6 and with Netzipoglou having scored 5 of its points. However, he quickly committed his second personal foul and retired to the bench, while Kolossos took the lead (10-9) with Brajkovic reaching 6 points. Utomi hit the first 3-pointer of the game to make it 15-11, while the home team continued to exploit the Union’s weaknesses, escaping +7 for the first time (23-16). Knight made a three-pointer for his team (23-19), but the Colossus had the momentum and 7 offensive rebounds, ending the first period with a 27-19 lead!
The second quarter started with Randle hitting a difficult basket and with Knight cutting it to 29-24. The hosts, however, maintained their small lead by continuing to hurt AEK near the basket (22 of their 33 points came from the paint), while Gaudlock “heated up” in the last minutes of the first half, scoring 9 straight points and blowing the difference in favor of Kolossos for the first time in double digits (42-32)., and then he made a 9-4 run, ideally closing the first half of the match (51-36).
The picture of the game did not change in the third period either, with the Colossos maintaining complete control. Tillman cut it to 51-38 with an impressive follow-up nail, but Brajkovic answered immediately for 53-38. Perantes with a step back three-pointer made it 59-42, while the unlikely Goudlock hit again for a three (4/5), reaching 20 personal points and jumping the difference in favor of the Colossus to +20 (64-44)! Brajkovic reached 18, making it 66-47, while AEK, among other things, also missed shots (14/22), allowing Kolossos to catch his scoring average, a full ten minutes before the final. , with the imposing 80-55 with which the two teams entered the “final stretch”.
More in a while…
The quarters: 27-19, 51-36, 80-55, 103-80
Source: Sport Fm
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