Withstood Amarousiou’s epic counterattack and PAOK got a stressful double!

PAOK was stressed but did the… job in the northern suburbs! His team Massimo Cancellieri beat by score the Maroussi at the Agios Thomas Indoors, achieving her fourth consecutive victory in all competitions and confirming her great improvement.

Somehow, the “two-headed of the north” rose to 3-2 in her standings Stoiximan GBLwith the hosts, who have 5 losing streak in Greece and Europe as a whole, to stay at 1-4 after the first league match with Ilias Zouro in technical leadership.

The first half was quite balanced, with PAOK to have the lead (31-35) but the two teams to be quite competitive. The situation changed in the second half, when the Thessalonians made individual scores 24-17 in the third period and escaped with a double-digit margin.

The Maroussi collapsed and trailed by 23 points midway through the third quarter (53-76). However, Ilias Zouro’s team showed a reaction and tried to make a final counterattack, managing to reduce the score (80-81) with a partial 27-5 in just over three minutes. In fact, after two missed shots by Frank Bartley, o Orpheus Stasinos he managed to execute from behind the center but missed, with PAOK taking the win.

For the winners, he had 16 points Bartley, while from 10 counted the Cedric Henderson, Dimitris Katsivelis and Rocky Cruiser. Jake Forrester and Savar Reynolds helped off the bench with 9 points. On the Amarousi side, 17 points were scored by Cyril Langewein14th Haris Yiannopoulos and 12th Miro Radulitsa.

Maroussi will welcome on Wednesday (06/11) the Sambah for the Europe Cup, while in the next matchday of the championship he will play against Aris in “Alexandreio” (09/11). THE PAOKon the other hand, will be hosted by Porto (06/11) in the same European competition, and then face away from home the Laurel for Stoiximan GBL (09/11).

The quarters: 17-23, 31-35, 48-59, 80-81

Detailed match statistics here