Necipoglou and Goodwin led and Aris defeated AEK in the Basket League derby

Their matches are always great, their rivalry made history so Aris and AEK were sure to put up another great fight on Saturday night (2/4) in Alexandrio. In the end, the home team won (74-64) because they deserved better, in a game of the 15th game of the Basket League in the again full Palace.

Aris rose to 8-7 (6-2 home and 2-5 away) with Homer Netzipoglou doing great work on both sides of the court and Chavez Goodwin destroying his opponents with an impressive double-double. Vassilis Toliopoulos was far from his best but his team worked well and got up in the final minutes thanks to big baskets from Huggins – Mitrou-Long – Note.

AEK fell to 9-6 (5-2 home and 4-4 a) with Ilias Kanzouri’s Tim Frazier losing little and looking to Miles-Mitchell as his most consistent athlete. The yellow-blacks shot poorly from the three, made a lot of mistakes that Aris took advantage of and were rightly defeated as they failed to score in the upset and threw six shots in the trash.

Aris started the match strong, building a 12-point lead early (22-10 at 8′), but AEK quickly leveled the game. She had a good phase in the final of the first period, played more intensively in defense and from within in the second and then looked ready to turn the game around. He didn’t lead until halftime (39-35), but he played as a team, recording 13 assists for 14 turnovers as the home side shot 40% from 2-point range.

Midway through the fourth quarter, AEK made their best effort to turn the match around, but that’s where Huggins, Mitrou-Long and Note scored 70-58 with big baskets to wow their crowd and finally decide the match.

THE REFEREES: Poursanidis, Tziopanos, Karpanos

THE DECADES: 26-19, 39-35, 58-51, 74-64

MARS (Kastritis): Horchler 8 (1/5 3-pointers, 6 rebounds, 2 assists), Goodwin 15 (6/12 2-pointers, 4/8 shots, 19 rebounds in 31 minutes), grade 14 (2 3-pointers , 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals), Netzipoglou 14 (4/4 3 points), Huggins 12 (2 3 pointers, 3 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals), Mitrou-Long 7 (1), Toliopoulos 1 (0/8 shots), Schizas, Fillios, Christidis 2

AEK (Kantzouris): Frazier (3 rebounds, 4 assists), Flionis 6 (2 3-pointers, 4 rebounds, 4 assists), Jankovic 2, Miles 14 (3/4 2-pointers, 2/5 3-pointers, 2/ 3 shots, 4 rebounds, 2 steals), Mitchell 15 (7/12 2-points, 1/6 shots, 10 rebounds, 2 assists), Petropoulos, Xanthopoulos (5 assists), McGriff 6 (4/4 shots), Gondikas 4, Papadakis 2, Williams 9 (1 threes, 6 rebounds, 2 assists), Strelnieks 6 (2/9 shooting)

Mars team stats: 17/42 2-pointers, 10/27 3-pointers, 10/18 shots, 43 rebounds (27 defensive – 16 offensive), 18 assists, 11 steals, 2 blocks, 12 fouls

The team statistics of AEK: 15/33 2-pointers, 7/28 3-pointers, 13/19 shots, 51 rebounds (31 defensive – 20 offensive), 23 assists, 7 steals, 1 block, 18 turnovers

The next games of the two teams: On Matchday 16, Aris will play Apollon in Patras (December 2, 7:15 p.m.), AEK will host Lavrio in Ano Liosia (November 2, 7:15 p.m.).