2024-03-23 11:59:44
The 22nd game of the Basket League will continue tomorrow with three matches, which will bring down the curtain on the regular season. The first will take place in Rhodes where Kolossos will welcome Marousi (17:00-ERT Sports 1). Kolossos (7th, 8-13) is waiting for today’s match between AEK and Peristeri in the first phase. If “Enos” is defeated, Rhodes will need a win against Maroussi and a defeat of PAOK in their game tomorrow in Karditsa to be in the Top 6. However, with a defeat, the “seamen” may even find themselves in 10th place. Kouros Segura’s team counts five consecutive victories in Rhodes and with them it reached 7-3 as the home team. If they beat Amarousiou, they won’t break their three-game regular season home streak for the third consecutive season. That’s because he had a 9-3 record the year before last and 9-2 last year.
Maroussi (10o, 7-14) comes from the home defeat against AEK and it is certain that it will close the regular season with a better record away from its stadium than the one it had on it (4-6 against 3- 8). For Nikos Vetoula’s team, there is even a scenario of the 7th place, which they will occupy with a victory in Rhodes, if they are defeated by P.A.O.K. and Lavrio in their games against Karditsa Japoniki and Aris respectively.
THE PREHISTORY
In 2005, history began to be written between the two teams in the Basket League and since then they have met 15 times. Maroussi has a lead of one win with the seats playing a primary role. This is because 10 of the 15 games were decided in favor of the home team. The last time the two teams met in Rhodes was 12 years ago, on March 14, 2012. Kolossos, with Vassilis Fragias on the bench, defeated Amarousiou – with Nikos Linardos at the “helm” – by 86 -62 (Panos 16, Hopson 14 – Nikolaidis 22, Akepsmaidis 16).
THE FIRST ROUND GAME
What happened in the first round: After a balanced first period (16-16), Maroussi dominated, to a point, in the December 23 game, even leading by 22 points (50-28 at 22′) but not ” lock’ the win. This is because Kolossos managed to become threatening, 2.5 minutes before the end, reducing to five (79-74). The home team, however, kept the victory that came with a score of 85-74.
For Marousi, Haris Yiannopoulos had 25 points, 8 rebounds and 5/12 with which he even reached 400 in the Basket League. The contribution of Isaiah Briscoe was also valuable, reaching a double-double (20p, 10as). For Kolossos, Andrew Goudlock (19p, 4/7s, 3/7tr) and Simi Sitou (11p, 8p) were the best.
In summary the numbers of this pair…
IN TOTAL
Colossus of Rhodes – Marousi 8-7
WITH GIPEDUCHUS THE COLLOSSUS
Colossus of Rhodes – Marousi 4-3
BIGGEST DIFFERENCE IN RHODES MATCHES
2011-12: Colossus of Rhodes – Marousi 86-62
HIGHER POINT PERFORMANCE
2008-09: Colossos of Rhodes- Maroussi 81-77 (Steven Smith had 29 for Colossos)
COLLOSSOS OF RHODES
*Luka Brajkovic is 18 points away from 300. It’s a number reached by 32 players in Colossus history
*Andrew Goudlock “caught” Hunter Hale atop the list of all-time 20+ point scorers after reaching eight.
*Luka Brajkovic has three performances of 20+ points and 10+ rebounds, the most in this year’s Basket League.
*London Perantes has two of three 12 assists/foul rates in this year’s Basket League. The guard of the Rhodes team had 14 assists and 2 errors in the premiere against Peristeri, 12 assists and no errors in the match of the 2nd game against Lavrio.
*In their five-game home win streak, the Colossus have not fallen below 88 points and averaged 97.6 points on offense. In all of these, he even “built” differences of 20-31 points, while he did not find himself behind by a difference of more than four.
*The Rhodes team made 33.33% of the 2-pointers in last week’s match against Prometheus. She thus has two of the six lowest performances of this year’s championship, having also recorded the lowest, with 29.26% (12/41) of her match in Karditsa.
MAROUSI
*Shaqur Juston is 16 points away from 600 and 12 rebounds away from 400. In 57 games in the Basket League, the American forward has 584 points (10.24 avg.) and 388 rebounds (6.8 avg.).
*Playing in 11 of Amarousi’s 21 games, Robert Woodard managed to become, in absolute numbers, 3rd in rebounds (80), 4th in steals (16) and 1st in blocks (7) among the “yellow and black” players.
*Glen Causey had 15 points on 1/9 3-pointers in his first three games with the Marucci and scored 38 points on 6/19 3-pointers in the last three.
*Maroussi is the team with the most double-doubles in this year’s Basket League. He has 11 such performances by five different players with Shakur Juston having the most (5).
*Marousi executes with 56.4% of the two-pointers, having the third, highest percentage in this year’s Basket League, behind only Olympiakos and Panathinaikos.
*The “yellow and black” had five points from their opponent’s mistakes in the game against Aris and nine in the match against AEK. It is the first time this year that they have had single-digit performances in two consecutive games.