AEK Betsson played with fire but escaped from Maroussi with Kuzminskas as the leader!

Escape from Maroussi AEK Betsson with a narrow victory!

After an exciting build-up to the game, which was a derby throughout, Union managed to prevail with 83-81 of Amarousiou and to return to positive results after successive defeats by Peristeri and Maccabi Ramat Gan.

Thus, Sakota’s team improved their record to 5-5 and moved up (temporarily, of course) to third place in the standings, while Maroussi fell to 2-8, having one win more than the trailing Colossus.

Leading for the Union o Kuzminskaswho spoke while the ball was on fire and finished the game with 20 points and 6 rebounds, getting significant assists from Hump (18pts, 7 assists) and Hale (12p). On the other hand, for the losers, they stood out Reynolds (20p), Fredrickson (16pts, 6 assists) and Harrell (12p, 9 rib).

The match:



The match started with successive three-pointers from Bryce, Keane and with AEK leading 7-3 and 11-7. THE Reynolds with a three-pointer he came close to the point (10-11) for Maroussi, but o Netzipoglou answered immediately and Union went on a 7-0 run for its biggest lead (10-17). Maroussi were having a lot of trouble in their attacks and the visitors found themselves at +9 (12-21) for the first time, Reynolds and Fredrickson reduced to 18-21before the Flionis and Hale form 18-26 of the first period.

The second quarter started with Marousi reducing to 20-25 with his foul basket Harrell and Kin’s layup, but AEK continued to find solutions offensively, escaping again with 9 (29-38). However, the home team found a rhythm with its protagonists Reynolds and Kin they went on a 13-4 run, tying the score at 42-42, while ending the period with a 26-17 advantage, taking their first lead of the game (44-42) just before the end of the first half.

As both teams returned from the locker room, AEK Betsson regained the lead 44-48 thanks to baskets by Hale and Humpwhile the derby continued, with Kuzminskas streak of points for 50-55. However, Marusi continued to find the answers with big 3-pointers by Fridriksson, who cut it to 57-59 and 59-62, before giving his team the lead as well, reaching 16 personal points and shaping the 63-62 of the third period.

The derbara continued in the fourth period, with Tanoulis to put Maroussi ahead with 65-62, before the KuzminskasHale and Kouseloglou put AEK ahead with 72-67. However, Marousi remained very much in contention for victory, with the Harrell to make it 73-74 with a three-pointer and then score with a layup for 75-74, before AEK went on a 6-0 run to go up 80-75. Somewhere there he took action Kuzminskaswho put AEK ahead (77-82) with his big baskets, o Nikolaidis reduced to 81-82 with 14” to go and o Hale made a wrong pass, but o Kin he missed and Flionis made the final 81-83 with one of his shots.

The quarters: 18-16, 44-43, 63-62, 81-83

The match statistics