Storm AEK in Liosia, dragged Prometheus into the first Greek “Civil War” of BCL!

Sovereign AEK Betsson BC He took the Greek … civil war and shouted that he was going for great things in this year’s Basketball Champions League!

By making an excellent second half on both ends of the parquet, Dragan Sakota’s team prevailed with Prometheus’ 97-76 At the “Snel Arena” at the premiere of the “16” of the competition, entering the most impressive way in the group stage!

With the Trinity of Raikuan Gray, Hunter Hale and Homer Necipoglou on a very good night, the “Union” reached the pink card, celebrating for the first time After December 2022 and six unsuccessful results, Victory over the Patriots in all events.

The first scorer for the winners was the Hale with 20 points and 8 assists, with their Netzipoglou (19p) and Gray (18p, 6p, 4s.) Follow in performance. For the whole of Elias Papatheodorou, who fought without Walkers, Williams and Lundzi, the Ivudu and Ris with 20 and 15 points respectively.

The match:

The start of the match was excellent, with the two teams getting into the match very aggressively and quite apt. Exchanging successive ‘hits’ in the first three minutes, AEK Betsson BC and Prometheus They were at 7-7, with the Patrons then exploiting their offensive rebounds and raising the difference in15-9, two minutes later.

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With Netzipoglou and Heil finding a score, the hosts broke off aggressively and reduced to 14-17 in 7 ‘, before Barnando with a three-pointer and Ivudou with two-pointers, they write the +8 (14-22) For the guests. In the last two minutes, Kuzminsca’s entrance has greatly helped the “Union”, with Lithuanian scoring four points and Flion with buzzer beater three -pointers formatting 23-25 ​​of the period.

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Quite different was the scenery in the second quarterwhere the game gained tension, going more in contacts and in Physical Game. As such, both teams were charged with a foul, constantly going to the line of shots. With the shots of Heil and Kuzminskas, as well as the first three-point lead, the “yellow-blacks” overtaken 31-29 at 12 ‘, with Chrysikopoulos and Karagiannidis answering Prometheus and 33-35 three minutes later. Since then, the game has been going point-by-point, with AEK finding its second in the area in the 18 ‘period with Netzipoglou for 40-38, with that point 12 in 15 shots. In the last half of the half, the match opened quite a bit, with both teams finding easy baskets and AEK going to the locker room with the in favor of 47-44.

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Much more closed at rhythm and scoring was the third period, with Prometheus coming out in the start of the quarter and with the baskets of Karagiannidis and Davis diminishing At 49-48 at 24 ‘. At that point came AEK’s racing outburst, which thanks to the two back-to-back trips of Netzipoglou and one by Hale made it 60-52, before Gray with an unlikely nail, wrote for the first time +10 and 62-52 at 27 ‘. Indeed, taking energy from her excellent defense, Dragan Sakota’s team continued to put big shots with Grace and Hale’s buzzer beater to format. 72-56 of the period.

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Something like that, and probably unexpectedly as the match evolved for about 25 minutes, the game not only did not … thriller, but the “Union” entered the Fourth and last period with a very significant difference. In fact, AEK made sure to expand the score, as, thanks to its offensive defense and momentum of the match, it arrived. At +23 and 82-59 at 33 ‘, With Gray having 7 points! In the remaining time, Prometheus, obviously influenced by the way he took the match, could not find answers, with AEK celebrating the victory with the Final 97-76.

The quarters: 23-25, 47-44, 72-56, 97-76.

See the statistics of the race here.