Act three and last in its series Prometheus by Marsfor the first round of the Stoiximan Basket League playoffs!
The two teams will compete tonight (20:15, ERT3, News Bulletin 247) in “Dimitris Tofalos” of Patras with the aim of victory which will give them and qualification to the semi-finals of this year’s championship, where Panathinaikos AKTOR, Olympiacos and Peristeri are already waiting bwin.
The hosts got the series off to a perfect start, celebrating a comfortable home win with 79-60while last Monday (20/5) they battled it out in Thessaloniki, coming back from -26 (68-42) in the fourth period and leading the match to overtime, but were ultimately defeated by 89-85. They once again showed a “refuse to lose” mentality this year, but they lost in the details and now they need to perform better and take advantage of the home advantage to get the qualification. In the competitions, Ilias Papatheodorou is expected to cut from his dozen as the seventh foreigner one of Coffee and Stephens.
On the other hand, Mr Mars he comes to tonight’s match with an elevated mentality, a result of his victory in Alexandrio a few days ago. He put on an impressive performance for three quarters, recalling the very good game persona he displayed mostly in the first half of the season, but collapsed in the fourth quarter when he saw Prometheus go on a 31-8 scoring run to tie the game at 76-76. However, in overtime the Thessalonikians showed character and got the victory they needed to tie the series and stay alive in the hunt for qualification, with De Souza (23p, 12 rebs) and Harrell (16p) leading the way. Tonight, Kastritis is expected to leave him out of the lineup Reed.
The referees of the match will be Tsimbouris, Katrachouras and Tsonos, while this will be the sixth meeting of the two teams for this season, with Prometheus having defeated four of them.
Source: Sport Fm
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