Winning Premiere for AEK in a match-advertising against Colossus that was judged in the last second!

With the… right to this year’s Stoiximan GBL on Saturday afternoon (04/10) the AEK!

After a big battle in Rhodes and the closed of Kallithea, which was judged in the final and the last second, his team Dragan Sakota got the thriller and victory with Colossus’ 87-85 At the premiere of the Greek Championship and started this year’s career.

After a highly competitive first half, the “yellow -blacks” dominated the third period, even reaching to +12 At the beginning of the fourth. However, the hosts returned, went ahead with three points and claimed the victory to the final, with the “Union” reaching the pink card, three days before their premiere at the Basketball Champions Leaguethanks to its large defenses and calmness from the line of shots in the finale. Colossus missed a huge opportunity In 0.5 seconds to send the game to the extension, With Gudwin putting 1/3 shots.

Top for the winners was the Bartley With 18 points, 4 rebounds and equal assists, with Kuzminskas (16p), Flion (13p, 3rd) and Gray (11p, 3p) adding valuable help. For the Rhodes, the Bag – He was injured shortly before the finale- and Galvanini with 17 and 13 points respectively.

The match:

Taking advantage of the sluggish start of AEKthe Colossus He entered the game more dynamically and thanks to his good defense and the pluralism in the attack, preceded by 9-1 in three minutes. The “Union”, which was late to find a rhythm as its first in -line basket came after 3:10 minutes of match, replied with one impressive 10-0 For overtaking and 11-9 in 5 minutes.

After several gathering errors and bad choices in the attack, the hosts were connected to the opposing basket after nearly 4 minutes with his three -pointer Chrysikopoulos For 12-11 at 7 ‘. Since then, the lead has changed three times hands by the end of the period, with the Kuzminsca make the difference and score 7 gathered points in the last minute For 18-22 of the quarter.

The second period started with Galvanini, Lekavitsius and Ryan to exchange baskets (22-24) before Katsivelis With five personal points for the guests up the difference for the first time at +5 and 31-26 in the 13th minute. Coach Carasco’s team reacted and with a 9-4 series in the next three minutes, brought the match to the draw and 35-35 at 17 ‘.

At that point and up to the finale of the period, the two groups They raised vertical turns in their attack. Initially, Dragan Sakota’s team with five points of Flioni and a three -pointer by Charalampopoulos went for the first time to +6 (37-43) In the 18 ‘, with the islanders responding with a quick series by hand, Petropoulos and Koloveros passing forward 44-43 a minute later. Silva’s basket after his own offensive rebound, sent the teams to the locker room with AEK preceding with a score of 45-44.

As in the first quarter, so in the third, the colossus entered the parquet and thanks to his pressure on the ball forced AEK to make three mistakes. At the same time, a two -pointer by Gudwin and two three -pointers by Gaudlock and Petropoulos, sent the Rodites At +5 and 52-47 In the 22nd minute. ‘Union’ replied with the same currencyafter two -pointers by Bartley and one by Charalampopoulos, not only reduced the difference, but passed forward and With 56-54 three minutes later!

In fact, thanks to their good defense, the guests were able to keep Colossus at zero for nearly 4 minutes of race, so they even preceded it. with +9 (54-63) In the 27th minute. Despite the home side’s efforts to reduce the difference in the finale, Kuzminskas and Lekavitsius maintained the score at the same level, with the “Union” closing the period ahead with score 68-60.

With Katsivelis and Gaudlock exchanging from a two-point one and Lekavitsius following a good shot behind 6.75m, AEK led with +11 (62-73) and a little later with 12 points for 77-65 in the 33rd minute. However, Colossus not only did not give up, but he reacted! With Galvanini to score 5 points and the experienced Bag to take the baton and score 7 consecutive points with large baskets (!), The “Knights” reduced to the minimum value the difference for 78-77 in the 36th minute!

With Silva to be eliminated with Discaliphey for Galvanini’s spoonfulColossus shortly afterwards overtook the scoring with Gudwin’s junior basket, before it was +3 (84-80) at 38 ‘with Galvanini’s three-point! AEK leader Dimitris Fliouis brought the match to two shots and a two-way (84-84) at 74 ” before the final. Gray then put the “Union” in a driver with 2/2 shots for 86-84 in the 41 ”, before his team made a critical defense and Bartley with 1/2 shots wrote 87-84 in 9 seconds before the end. In the 0.5 ”, however, Gray foul on Gudwin’s three -pointer, who, although he had the opportunity to send the extension, failed to two shots, writing thus writing. The final 87-85.

The quarters: 18-22, 44-45, 60-68, 85-87.

See the statistics of the race here.