Great performance by George Papagiannis in the match with Ionikos, as he became the first Greek player of Panathinaikos in the history of the professional league to drop 17 rebounds in a match!
In fact, equaled the top performance for a “clover” player for 23 yearsas 17 “garbage” was collected by Chris Singleton in the 5th final of the playoffs of the 2017-18 season.
Additionally, Big Papa reached 144 caps with the Panathinaikos jersey and climbed to 4th place, overtaking Kostas Tsartsaris.
Analytically:
«George Papagiannis made the difference for Panathinaikos OPAP in his difficult victory over Ionikos with an impressive double-double after he had 20 points and 17 rebounds. His performance in rebounds is equal to the 23-year record for the “greens” in the Stoiximan Basket League after it was scored by Chris Singleton in the fifth final of the playoffs of 2018 (Panathinaikos-Olympiakos 84-70). It is also the highest rebound performance by a Greek player of Panathinaikos OPAP in the professional Championship.
17 rebounds before Papagiannis and Singleton Dino Raja had twice in the 1998-99 season but to find a bigger one we have to go back to November 14, 1998 when the great Croatian dropped 20 rebounds in the home game against Peristeri (81-69).
The historical record of the “greens” still holds Stojan Brankovic who had twice from 21 rebounds, in the away game with the Gymnastic Association of Larissa of the 1993-94 season and in the away game with Sporting of the 1994-95 season.
Papagiannis became the first Greek player of Panathinaikos OPAP who reached 17 rebounds after the previous record was his and was that of 16 that he collected in the home game of the 16th game of the 2018-19 Championship against the Colossus H Hotels.
Fourth blocker in the “green” history
Papagiannis, however, reached a series of individual achievements in the game in Nice, beyond that of 17 rebounds. Most important of all, he became the fourth blocker in the history of Panathinaikos OPAP in the Stoiximan Basket League.
Cutting three shots of Ionian players, Papagiannis reached 144 caps with Panathinaikos OPAP and “climbed” to 4th place in the list after surpassing Costas Tsartsaris who had 142 blocks playing with the greens from 2003 to 2013.
Yet…
* With his 20 points, “Papa” became the 22nd scorer in the history of Panathinaikos OPAP in the professional Championship. He reached 983 and surpassed George Kalaitzis who scored 974 from 1997 to 2006.
* Having 10/15 two points, the international center became the 17th player in the “green” history in the Stoiximan Basket League to reach 300+.
* With 10 rebounds, he became the 12th player in the history of Panathinaikos OPAP to reach 400+.
* With his unique theft, he became the 39th player in the history of the “clover” to reach 50.
Also for Panathinaikos OPAP…
* Leonidas Kaselakis “dressed” λόγω guard due to the current absences of his team and did the job of a guard sharing six assists. With these, he equaled his career record in the Stoiximan Basket League after he scored the same performance in the 14th game of the 2015-16 Championship with Kifissia in the away match against Arkadikos.
* Lefteris Bohoridis reached 50 career blocks in his 239th appearance in the category.
* In his 47th game in the Stoiximan Basket Leage and playing against his former team, Nikos Hougaz reached and exceeded 100 accurate shots. It had 4/4 and now counts 102/137 (74.45%).
* With the nine rebounds he had today, Howard Sand-Ross became the 35th foreigner in the history of Panathinaikos OPAP in the professional Championship that reached 100+.
Hamilton “wrote” the fourth performance of 13+ rebounds of Ionikos
George Papagiannis had a strong opponent in the field of rebounds. It was Daniel Hamilton who finished the game with 13 rebounds. This is the draw of the second best performance in the three-year history of Ionikos in the Stoiximan Basket League, since Jamal Jones also had 13 in the home game with Prometheus in the 2019-20 season.
The record is still held by Loukas Mavrokefalidis and Nikos Hougaz with 14 rebounds from last season and the matches with Iraklis except for Lavrio Megabolt at home respectively.
Otherwise…
* Muhaymin Mustafa finished the game with a career record. He had eight rebounds one more than his previous best performance in which he reached the corresponding game of last season and three times this year.
The Ionian guard at the same time, with his eight points, exceeded 200 points in his 33rd appearance in the Stoiximan Basket League.
* A career record in the category was also set by Joseph Koloveros with the five assists recorded in his statistics after he had four in the first round matches with Aris and the Colossus H Hotels.
* Kevin Langford with his 133rd appearance in the Stoiximan Basket League surpassed Milos Teodosic (Olympiacos), Trevor Bryant (Iraklis, Kolossos, AEK, Maroussi, Panionios) and “caught” in the 36th place of the list of foreign players (T Sporting, AEK, Papagou) “.
Source: Esake.gr
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