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Tyler Polley set an individual season record with his 21 points in the game – it was his 50th in the division – after the previous one was the 19 he had in the home match against Peristeri. This is the American’s second best performance in the Basket League after he had 23 last year as a PAOK player in the away match of the regular season against Olympiakos. Polley’s 21 points join a small list of the Rhodes team, since this was only the 3rd time a Kolossos player scored “20 points” in a match at OAKA against Panathinaikos. Before Poley they still did that…
*TJ Stark had 25 points in last season’s regular season game (77-67).
*Adrian Penland had a game-high 24 points in 2005-06 (112-66).
Otherwise for the Colossus of Rhodes
*London Perantes had six assists with which he reached 110. Thus he surpassed Malcolm Griffin who had 104 and “caught” Antonis Asimakopoulos who wore the team’s shirt in the five years 2007-12 in the 14th place on the list of passers of the Pomegranates .
*Iosif Koloveros, with his five points, reached 400 in his 51st appearance in the Basket League.
*Andreas Petropoulos finished the game with 0/6 shooting from the field. It was the 15th missed field goal performance in at least six attempts for this year’s Basketball League. Paul Jorgensen also had 0/6 shots in the home game against Aris.
The guard of the Rhodes team finished the game having -7 in the ranking and equaling the third worst performance this year.
*Simi Sitou, having 5/10 shots, became the first Kolossos player in the season to have at least 5 missed shots from the foul line.
THE 900 VICTORIES OF PANATHINAIKO
A special, statistically speaking, afternoon was for Panathinaikos, since with its victory over Kolossos, it became the first team to reach 900 in the Basket League. It took the Greens 1,079 games to reach 900 wins, a winning percentage of an impressive 83.41%. This feat was achieved through 703 regular season wins and 197 playoff wins, including those that came on paper. ». The “steps” towards the achievement of 900 victories of Panathinaikos in the Basket League…
100th win – 1995-96: Ampelokipoi-Panathinaikos 79-93 (Floros 22, Stamatis 18 – Wilkins 40, Albertis 21)
200th win – 1999-00: Panathinaikos-Panionios 82-65 (Rebratsa 18, Rogers 17 – Jed 15, Sioutis 11)
300th win – 2003-04: Panathinaikos-Olympiakos 76-60 (Hatzivrettas 18, Albertis 16 – Gorens 14, Tomics 11)
400th win – 2006-07: Panathinaikos-Panhellenios 107-77 (Papanikolou 18, Diamantidis 13 – Goldwire 20)
500th win – 1st quarter-final playoff 2009-10: Panathinaikos-Panionios 92-57 (Tepich 17, Batiste 12 – Borovniak 12, Zoroski 11)
600th win – 2013-14: Trikala-Panathinaikos 68-88 (Granger 23, Matalon 11 – Yankovic 17, Pappas 15)
700th win – 2016-17: Trikala-Panathinaikos 77-82 (Barlow 28, Houghton 11 – James 17, Feldein 13)
800th win – 2019-20: Panathinaikos-Lavrio 105-74 (Papapetrou 25, Mitoglou 11 – Allman 15, Diem 13)
900th win – 2023-24: Panathinaikos- Kolossos 96-73 (Mitoglou 13, Slukas 11, Papapetrou 11 – Polei 21, Sitou 19).
In personal level…
*Ioannis Papapetrou was one of five Panathinaikos players who reached double-digit points in the game. He had 11 and with them he “climbed” a place in the historical list of scorers of the “green” in the Basket League. The international forward reached 1,130 points and moved up to 21st place on the list, after surpassing Stratos Perperoglou who had 1,121 points in the five years 2007-12.
*From the hands of Dinos Mitoglou, four of Panathinaikos’ 26 assists left, a performance that is also an individual season record since the international forward had three at home against PAOK and Peristeri. However, it is not a career record since he had two out of five assists, once in the 2018-19 season (away with Kolossos) and once in the 2020-21 season (in the 3rd playoff final with Lavrio).
*Panagiotis Kalaitzakis made his 50th appearance with the “greens” in the professional league. The international guard became the 70th to reach that number of games.
* Marius Grigonis became the second Panathinaikos player in this year’s Basket League to combine 75%+ on three-pointers with a zero foul performance. The Lithuanian had 3/4 as did Gerian Grant in the away game against Lavrio.
*Alexander Balcherovski went 0-of-3 for his 10th of the season, going 0-0 on at least three attempts from the foul line. The Pole has one more appearance on this list after he had 0/4 shots in the away game against Maroussi.