PAOK defeated Larissa in Pylaia 82-71 more easily than the final result shows for the eighth game of the Basket League and reached 2-5, leaving Thessaly in one victory.
“Dikefalos” was dominant in the first three ten minutes and reached +26 in the third period, but there it relaxed dangerously and gave the right to the players of Fotis Takianos to reduce to -6 without having time for anything more.
Leading for Aris Lykogiannis’ team were Love with 19, Di Leo with 18 and Toliopoulos with 13 points. Vangelis Mantzaris had 7 points in his debut. For Thessaly, Kroumbali stood out with 19, Hudson with 17 and Papantoniou with 15 points.
The match
With an aggressive “crescendo” PAOK found the most solutions at the beginning of the match with Di Leo and Toliopoulos in the Thessalian racket and reached 15-3 with the shots of Jankovic and the good accuracy rates of the “black and whites”. Mantzaris’ three-pointer brought 22-8 and the first ten minutes ended like this for the players of Aris Lykogiannis.
PAOK reached 27-13 at the beginning of the second half with solutions from the periphery and the effort of Thessaly to get closer to the score. Mantzaris’ three-pointer brought 32-17 and with the Americans PAOK kept +15. The peripherals of “Dikefalos” brought +18 and Kroumbali finished the half at 42-26. PAOK had 9/14 two points, 6/17 three points, 6/7 shots and Larissa 20 rebounds during this period.
PAOK continued to find the solutions from the periphery and maintained the +15 to +17 at the beginning of the third period, with Aris Lykogiannis throwing some of his substitutes on the floor. Toliopoulos brought the 48-29, with “Dikefalos” having balanced the rebounds and sharing many assists. With a series of 9-0, PAOK reached 57-31 and 61-36. There, Larissa responded with a series of 8-0 to complete the thirty minutes at 63-46.
Larissa started with a 5-0 streak in the fourth period and reduced to 63-51, but Mantzaris’ three-pointer brought 66-51 and Lav’s 71-56. PAOK reached 19 assists and 32 rebounds and found more solutions than surprises. Led by Kroumbali, Larissa made a series of 7-0 and reduced 75-68 to 1’24 ” before the end in a desperate attempt to “hit” the “sleeping” PAOK. Love made it 77-68 and Hudson made it 77-70. Tsairelis with one shot reduced to 77-71 and Love’s two shots brought 79-71 and Tolioupolos’ basket just practically completed the match, which ended at 82-71.
THE TEN MINUTES: 22-9, 42-26, 63-46, 82-71.
PAOK (Lykogiannis): DiLeo 18 (5/8 three points, 6 rebounds), Kamberidis G. (0/8 three points), Toliopoulos 13 (5/5 two points, 0/4 three points, 3/3 shots, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 errors), Jankovic 7 (1/5 shots, 5/5 shots, 5 rebounds, 4 assists), Ogbeide 12 (5/5 two points, 2/2 shots), Lav 19 (3/5 three points), Kamberidis M., Kamarianos 6 ( 9 rebounds), Mantzaris 7 (5 assists).
LARISSA (Takianos): Hudson 17 (7/12 two points, 0/5 three points, 3/4 shots, 5 rebounds), Kroumbali 19 (6/9 two points, 7/8 shots, 10 rebounds), Tsairelis 10, Zaras 6, Papantoniou 15 (4 / 6 two points, 2/6 three points, 1/2 shots, 5 rebounds), Washington 2, Vissariou, Sachpatzidis, Green, Span 2, Karabelas.
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