Amazing matsara in Alexandrio with the Maroussi and basketball fans to smile at the finale!
Despite the fact that it was still at +14 in the middle of the third period, the team of Ilias Zouros had to withstand his great counterattack Marsin the fourth and final quarter, getting a great win with score 74-72 for the 6th round of the Stoiximan GBL!
The game turned into a… rodeo in the final, with the lead changing hands a total of six times in the last four minutes! The three-pointer of Andas 30” before the final for the guests 69-71, but also the 3/4 shots of Yiannopoulos a little later proved to be decisive, with Vassilis Toliopoulos, however, missing in “dead time” on a three-pointer of victory!
Leading for the winners was Adams with 20 points, with the Radulitsa and Reynolds to add 15 and 14 points respectively. For Aris, who saw their winning streak of three games interrupted, stood out Toliopoulos with 22 points and 7 assists.
The match:
With two baskets by Banks and one by Toliopoulos, o Mars led 6-3 in the first two minutes of the match. However, the continuation of the first period belonged entirely to Maroussiwhich thanks to Radulica and Reynolds, got the upper hand in the score for 15-8 in the 5th minute. In fact, thanks to their excellent defense, the visitors ran a partial score of 9-3 in the next four minutes to the +13 (11-24)before Woodbury hit a three-pointer in the final seconds of the period, reduce to 14-24 for the Thessalonians.
The team of Yannis Kastritis found two more three-pointers by Toliopoulos and Bohorides, as a result of which they “gnawed” the difference even more at the beginning of the second quarter (20-27 at 13′). A little later, the Greek guard and Hatzidakis, even reduced to 4 (24-28), before Marousi made a reaction and, with the protagonists of Radulitsa and Adams, went to the locker room with a lead 9 points (32-41)!
The aggressive blocking of Mars continued in its beginnings third periodwith Marousi taking advantage of it and reaching at +14 (34-48) in the 25th minute. Somewhere there, the hosts flipped a switch, and led by Toliopoulos and Bohorides, they went on an impressive 11-0 run in less than two minutes, reducing at 45-48! Despite the points of Tanoulis, with which Maroussi got away offensively, the momentum was clearly on the side of the “yellows”, with the quarter ending with minimum value of difference (53-54)!
Naturally, the fourth and final period it turned into… blood and sand between the two teams! And this because the team of Ilias Zouros may have gone to +6 (54-60) in the 34th minute, however Aris, with a quick burst, overtook the score for the first time since the beginning of the match for 62-60 in the 36th ‘! Since then, the two teams have traded back-to-back blows, with the lead changing hands a total of six times. With a three-pointer by Adams 30 seconds before the end, Marousi made it 69-71, to be followed by shots by Yiannopoulos and 69-73 19” before the final. A huge three-pointer by Woodbury put Aris back in the match (72-73), with Yiannopoulos hitting 1/2 shots (72-74) with ten seconds left. It was Toliopoulos who took charge of the home side’s final attack, with the ball not doing him any favors on the difficult three-pointer he attempted, resulting in Maroussi getting a huge victory in Alexandria (72-74)!
The quarters: 14-24, 32-41, 53-54, 72-74.
See here the statistics of the match.
Source: Sport Fm
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