Markopoulos: "Zielona Gora is a strong and structured team"
21/10/2014
PAOK's coach Soulis Markopoulos commented in view of the game against Zielona Gora: " We play our first Eurocup home game against a very strong and well put together team, like Zielona Gora that played the Euroleague last year and was very close to winning its participation in the same competition this year as well. They are a very strong team that plays tough defense and really tries to run and open up its game in the transition. I think that their defeat in the first...
more »Liapis: "Focus, attention and communication"
21/10/2014
Michalis Liapis is gaining playing time from the beginning of this season's official games and questioned about the difficulties PAOK will have to face in order to overcome the obstacle of Zielona Gora he said that : "Zielona Gora is a very good team that was playing the Euroleague last season and aims very high with its participation in the Eurocup. They have experienced players with many years of European competitions experience. They are a team with good ball handlers, good...
more »PAOK BC official Announcement
19/10/2014
In response to a series of web publications during the past few hours, PAOK BC wishes to comment … "We are proud that last summer, following our first five years of cooperation with Soulis Markopoulos, we mutually agreed to add another five years to the already successful collaboration we have had with the top Greek coach. This new five year era has begun with the best of omens and we are confident that with the hard and methodical work of our coach and his associates, our...
more »ARIS - PAOK: 31-33 and discontinuation of the game...
18/10/2014
An inglorious ending for the first game of the season between PAOK and Aris, since it was permanently interrupted, before even the first half was over. 42'' before the end of the first half, the refs put an end to the game when PAOK was leading 33-31, due to objects been thrown on the court floor. Given the fact that the game was delayed for about half an hour before beginning (due the injury of the ref. Mr. Anastopoulos), the officials of the game asked for the gym to vacated and when, as...
more »Pinar Karsiyaka-PAOK: 81-87 in the second overtime
15/10/2014
PAOK made a huge win in Izmir beating Pinar Karsiyaka 87-81 in a heart-stopping game that was decided in the 2nd overtime. PAOK projected great mentality and resilience, coming back from an important deficit in the fourth quarter and practically completely controlling both overtimes and hence only fairly winning the game gaining the applause from the fans of the home team after the end of the game. PAOK gained a 9-5 lead at the beginning of the...
more »Markopoulos: "Huge competitiveness, tough mission"
14/10/2014
Paok's coach, Soulis Markopoulos will be leading the team for yet another Eurocup season, a very strong competition, as he describes it. PAOK's head coach talked about the difficulties of the organization, the high level, as well as about Pinar Karsiyaka, the first team PAOK will be playing against… “We are very happy to participate the Eurocup, a very high standard competition every year, all the more this season that many Euroleague level teams participate as...
more »Langford "A good start with Eurocup"
14/10/2014
Kevin Langford is no Eurocup rookie, since he also played the competition last season with Panionios. He had participated the TOP-16 and that's exactly what he wants to do this season with PAOK as well. Talking about PAOK's participation with the Eurocup, as well as the first game against Karsiyaka, Kevin Langford stressed: "Karsiyaka is a very good and athletic team. It’s the first game of the competition, there are things that we still don’t...
more »PAOK has landed in Izmir...
14/10/2014
PAOK is already in Izmir in view of tomorrow's game against Pinar Karsiyaka for the 1st day of the Eurocup Regular Season. The journey of the team was smooth and without any incidents, with only the pleasant exception of the warm welcome the American players of the team were met with at the Izmir airport and especially Julian Vaughn, who met with a huge crowd waiting at airport and that immediately responded to his greeting them. Tonight at 8 p.m. PAOK will be practicing as...
more »PAOK's practice at the Karsiyaka Arena (pics)
14/10/2014
PAOK got to know the Karsiyaka Arena tonight, after practicing at the same gym where the game against Pinar Karsiyaka is going to take place tomorrow for the 1st day of the Eurocup. All the players are available for Soulis Markopoulos, who started today's session with a video analysis of the opponent at the hotel where the team is staying and continued with ball practice at the Karsiyaka Arena. PAOK will be also practicing tomorrow morning. You can see the photo story of tonight's...
more »To Izmir for the second time around...
13/10/2014
PAOK is leaving for Izmir tomorrow morning, in view of the Wednesday game against Pinar Karsiyaka, for the Eurocup premiere. This is going to be only the second time PAOK is playing in Izmir against Karsiyaka. The first one was 28 years ago, in Septe,ber 1986, when PAOK participated an international tournament Karsiyaka was hosting in its gym. The first and only up game up to now against Karsiyaka was held on September 13, 1986 and was decided at overtime. The regulation ended with...
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