PAOK 1994-1995
SUMMARY
European Championship: 6th in group (out of 8 teams)
Greek Cup:
Regular Season: 3rd (1st: OSFP, 2nd: PAO)
Play-offs: 4th (1st: OSFP, 2nd: PAO, 3rd: Iraklis)
ROSTER
EC GC RS PO TOT GAM PPG %TOT HIGH
Prelevic 233 77 396 197 903 49 18.4 21.6 32
Savic 237 55 397 120 809 55 14.7 19.3 24
Galakteros 141 40 270 41 492 53 9.3 11.8 22
Korfas 111 29 203 73 416 51 8.2 9.9 21
Boudouris 108 29 211 52 400 54 7.4 9.6 18
Bullard -- 13 115 103 231 24 9.6 5.5 21
Yannoulis 44 12 91 29 176 50 3.5 4.2 10
Mamatziolas 64 25 80 -- 169 39 4.3 4.0 15
Rentzias 28 19 75 37 159 54 2.9 3.8 12
Baloyannis 21 9 69 34 133 54 2.5 3.2 15
Mustaf 56 16 60 -- 132 7 18.9 3.2 35
Stojakovic 130 -- -- -- 130 14 9.3 3.1 17
Lampley 14 2 13 -- 29 6 4.8 0.7 13
Tsekos 2 0 3 -- 5 32 0.2 0.1 3
Hristou -- -- 0 -- 0 8 0.0 0.0 0
PAOK 1189 326 1983 686 4184 55 76.1 100.0 106
Berry is replaced by Lampley who is replaced by Mustaf who soon gets injured and
is replaced by Bullard who can not play in the European Championship.
Kotsopoulos, Kouklakis, Takianos, and Valavanithis are released. Stojakovic is
acquired from Red Star Belgrade but can play only in the European Championship.
Hristou is promoted from the junior team.
CAPTAIN
Bane Prelevic in his 7th year with PAOK.
COACHES
Dragan Sakota (18-10 season record) replaces Soulis Markopoulos. Dragan Sakota
resigns after the loss in Portugal and is replaced by his assistant, Sakis Laios
(16-8 season record). Laios' turn comes after the first PO loss to Iraklis in
Alexanthrio and he is replaced by Vaggelis Alexanthris (1-2 season record).
PRESIDENT
Apostolos Ikonomithis for the 2nd straight year.
IMPORTANT GAMES & EVENTS
PAOK signs Lemone Lampley who played very well the previous season for Stefanel
Trieste (for example, he was 19/27 from the field in the 2 finals against PAOK).
But, as claimed later, Lampley is not fully committed to play basketball this
season as he had been planning to dedicate himself to religious studies before
his manager approached him with an offer from PAOK. Or, perhaps, he just
doesn't fit into the team. PAOK fans are furious with his selection, as they
are probably expecting a player as dominating as Berry, and soon force his
release. This move proves eventually a bad one as Lampley's successor, Mustaf,
is a pretty good offensive player but gets soon seriously injured and PAOK can
not replace him in the European Championship. Bullard is a cheap solution for
the Greek Championship and Cup. It takes him some time to adjust, and when he
does he plays pretty well; but his caliber is not enough to assure PAOK even the
3rd place that leads to next season's European Championship. Meanwhile
Stojakovic has been cleared by FIBA to play as Greek, and EOK complies issuing
him the necessary documents. But he is still not allowed to play as Greek in
Greece.
29/ 9/94 70-82 loss to Hapoel in Tel-Aviv and the danger of elimination
from the European Championship is imminent (Boudouris 18).
6/10/94 PAOK struggles to open any substantial lead until the last
minutes when the ejection with 5 fouls of key players for Hapoel
and inspired plays by Rentzias give PAOK an 82-66 win and keep
the dream of a successfull year in the European Championship
alive (Galakteros 14). Lampley has become the black sheep for
PAOK fans who demanded his substitution with Rentzias until
Sakota complied.
9/10/94 PAOK beats Sporting 75-71 in Athens for the Greek Cup and
becomes the favorite to win it all as OSFP and PAO are already
eliminated (Savic 19).
22/10/94 With Lampley scoring 0 points in limited minutes, PAOK is down
22-43 to PAO at halftime before losing 53-64 (Prelevic 16).
27/10/94 Mustaf plays his first game with PAOK in Tel-Aviv and PAOK wins
84-75 at the stretch (Prelevic 24, Mustaf 19). This will be the
only "European" loss for Maccabi in Israel this season! The
future looks deceivingly good for PAOK.
2/11/94 After almost 3 years and 22 straight wins in European
competitions, PAOK loses 80-81 to CSKA Moskow in Alexanthrio
after committing numerous errors and playing very poor defense
(Prelevic 21, Mustaf 20).
23/11/94 PAOK beats Benfica with the poor 74-68 and something is
obviously wrong (Mustaf 17, Stojakovic 16).
27/11/94 PAOK plays OSFP in Alexanthrio and during the warming-up Mustaf
gets seriously injured. PAOK leads at halftime 40-35 but OSFP
cruises during the second half to a 65-74 win (Prelevic 27,
Savic 20).
30/11/94 A big chance to recover in the European Championship is lost as
PAOK loses 81-87 to Olimpia in Liubliana (Prelevic 23, Savic 17,
Stojakovic 17).
8/12/94 PAOK loses again to PAO 63-72, this time for the European
Championship (Prelevic 20).
14/12/94 New defeat at home, this time 57-73 to Real Madrid (Korfas 15).
17/12/94 Hope for something good in the Greek Championship returns as
PAOK beats Panionios 66-63 in Athens, with Rentzias blocking
Hristothoulou at the last seconds (Savic 18, Galakteros 15).
4/ 1/95 The new year starts with a hands-down 70-82 loss to Scavolini in
Pesaro as Prelevic sits out the game with an injury (Savic 21,
Stojakovic 17).
7/ 1/95 PAOK beats Aris 87-79 (Galakteros 22, Korfas 20).
12/ 1/95 PAOK beats Maccabi 79-62 and some hope for advancing to the
pre-semi-finals of the European Championship is generated
(Savic 21, Stojakovic 17).
15/ 1/95 Bullard plays for the first time for PAOK and puts up some good
defensive plays against Berry as PAOK beats Iraklis 67-56
(Galakteros 19).
18/ 1/95 In the do or die game of the season PAOK loses 73-85 to CSKA
in Moskow (Savic 23, Galakteros 17).
26/ 1/95 New humiliating 75-77 loss to Benfica in Portugal (Savic 16,
Galakteros 16). Sakota resigns after the game and is replaced
by Laios who, according to rumors, has been undermining Sakota.
1/ 2/95 PAOK beats 85- 66 Olimpia Liubliana (Prelevic 19, Stojakovic
17).
4/ 2/95 Hope for getting the second place in the regular season all but
disappears as PAOK loses 68-77 to PAO in Alexanthrio without
Bullard who is injured (Prelevic 17, Galakteros 17). Vrankovic
throws back to the fans an object they have thrown on the court,
and a small vendetta opens.
8/ 2/95 PAOK beats PAO 80-70, this time for the European Championship,
as fans pack Alexanthrio and cheer the team to go for a prestige
win (Savic 24, Prelevic 23). Athens press blames PAOK for
reducing PAO's chances to win the home-court advantage.
16/ 2/95 PAOK loses easily 52-69 to Real in Madrid (Savic 14). Prelevic
is apparently displeased and doesn't play well. It will soon
become well known that he, along other players, has not been
paid regularly according to his contract.
22/ 2/95 PAOK beats Scavolini 84-79 and assures one of the 2 top spots
for PAO (Savic 19, Prelevic 18). Athens press waits until the
following day when PAO beats in Spain the indifferent or
probably even willing to lose Real to dwell on the latter win!
The extent of some sports journalists ignorance or hypocrisy is
unbelievable!
1/ 3/95 PAOK loses a big chance to beat OSFP in SEF, as OSFP misses key
players. PAOK has a chance to win but Prelevic turns the ball
over with the score tied 61-61 and Tomic breaks the tie with
less than 2'' to go. PAOK loses 61-63 and now all we can hope
for in the regular season is to maintain the home court
advantage against Iraklis (Prelevic 22).
4/ 3/95 Just a few days after the disappointing loss to OSFP, PAOK plays
BOXSCORE [1] Aris in the semi-final of the Greek Cup. The game is tied at
halftime but PAOK, led by Prelevic, opens a big lead at the
beginning of the second half and cruises to a relaxing 80-63 win
(Prelevic 29).
5/ 3/95 One day later Panionios does not pose any serious threat to
BOXSCORE [2] PAOK. Prelevic is not alone this time as Savic plays well and
PAOK wins (Prelevic 27, Savic 21). In a disappointing
year circumstances have led the team to the 4th Greek title in
team's history, and only 2nd Cup after the well renowned 1984
final when PAOK players cut their hair short as a sign of unity
and determination before beating Aris 74-70.
17/ 4/95 Having survived many close games during the regular season and
maintained the home-court advantage against Iraklis, PAOK faces
another big obstacle in the way to next year's European
Championship: Aris puts up a good fight, and PAOK wins but with
difficulty 84-82 (Prelevic 32).
19/ 4/95 With Prelevic's financial problems overshadowing the game, PAOK
leads Aris 43-35 at halftime. But at the second half bad
officiating and White's good game force PAOK to a 73-84 loss
(Savic 21). PAOK fans are furious and their acts lead to a 2
game suspension of our home-court, later reduced to 1 game.
25/ 4/95 PAOK defeats Aris 76-69 and advances to the semi-finals
(Prelevic 23, Bullard 19). Unsubstantiated rumors in
Thessaloniki have White been bribed by PAOK!
28/ 4/95 PAOK gets crushed 69-92 by PAO (Savic 21).
30/ 4/95 In another prestige effort, as the first semi-final showed that
we can't beat PAO in Athens, PAOK goes to OT before losing
again to PAO 75-77 (Prelevic 32).
5/ 5/95 PAOK loses to Iraklis in Alexanthrio 77-86 and the home-court
advantage is also lost (Prelevic 21, Bullard 20). Laios is
replaced by Alexanthris.
7/ 5/95 PAOK beats 76-67 Iraklis in Ivanofio and hope returns (Prelevic
23).
9/ 5/95 In a finale reminiscent of the previous season loss in
Peristeri, PAOK blows in the last seconds a big lead and loses
75-76 to Iraklis, after Asteriathis, an ex-PAOK player, and
Holopoulos hit successive 3-pointers (Prelevic 22).
11/ 5/95 PAOK seems to have overcome the devastating loss and leads
Iraklis 40-34 at halftime. But at the second half PAOK does not
play well and the game goes to OT. Iraklis' players hit some
crucial shots and never look back. PAOK loses 81-90 and with
this the chance to play in next season's European Championship
(Prelevic 27, Korfas 18). Only Prelevic and Korfas -in his last
game with PAOK, at least for a while- have given a big effort.
Berry celebrates and dedicates the win to Ikonomithis for
accusing him of interfering with Markopoulos' decisions during
last season's Greek Cup semi-final against Iraklis.
Ikonomithis, claiming big financial problems, made some bad decisions in the
selection of Berry's replacement. Most players were not paid on time, and all
this destroyed the chemistry of the team. Galakteros was dissatisfied with the
loss of playing time to Stojakovic in European games but still had a much better
year than his first one. But it was the loss of Mustaf to injury that was the
crucial blow to this year's efforts. Nevertheless, chances are that even if
this had not happened, PAOK would not have done anything spectacular, but
probably we could have won the 3rd place leading to next years's European
Championship. Besides winning the Greek Cup, the only other good outcome from
this year was the promising game and longer playing time of Rentzias and
Yannoulis, although many people argued they should have played even more. At
the end of the season financial problems led Ikonomithis to release Korfas -who
didn't have a good year, probably affected by the death of his father the
previous summer and by the team's financial problems- to PAO and Galakteros to
OSFP. Korfas complained that he deserved better treatment from PAOK after all
these years, and he was definitely right. Players like Korfas should never be
released from a team at this stage of their career, unless it's their own wish.
Galakteros was a very good player, but he never managed to fit well in the team.
Therefore, given the financial problems and the expected clearance of Stojakovic
to play as Greek in Greece during the summer, this trade seemed a reasonable
move, the problem being that it strengthened even more one of our big
competitors, OSFP. The end of the trade season found PAOK in a transition
state, hoping to get in the future bigger contributions from the team's young
national team level talent of Rentzias, Yannoulis, and Stojakovic, as well as
from the good foreign players that would be presumably acquired with the money
saved by trading Korfas and Galakteros.
TEAM STATS
EC GC RS PO TOT GAM PPG
PAOK 1189 326 1983 686 4184 55 76.1
Opponents 1194 238 1793 723 3948 55 71.8
Offense - Defense = Differential
4184 - 3948 = 236 in 55 games + 2 OTs ---> 75.73 - 71.46 = 4.27 pp 40 minutes
Home Neutral Away Total
European Champ. 6- 2 1- 7 7- 9
Greek Cup 1- 0 2-0 1- 0 4- 0
Regular Season 11- 2 10- 3 21- 5
Play-off 2- 3 1- 3 3- 6
20- 7 2-0 13-13 35-20
GAME RESULTS
Home Away
* European Championship
Hapoel Tel-Aviv 70- 82
Hapoel Tel-Aviv 82- 66
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Maccabi Tel-Aviv 84- 75
CSKA Moskow 80- 81
Benfica 74 -68
Olimpia Liubliana 81- 87
PAO 63- 72
Real Madrid 57- 73
Scavolini Pesaro 70- 82
Maccabi Tel-Aviv 79- 62
CSKA Moskow 73- 85
Benfica 75- 77
Olimpia Liubliana 85- 66
PAO 80- 70
Real Madrid 52- 69
Scavolini Pesaro 84- 79
* Greek Cup
Sporting 75- 71
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Kronos 99- 51
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Aris (Lamia) 80- 63
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Panionios (Lamia) 72- 53
* Regular Season
Apollon 74- 67
AEK 86 -68
PAO 53- 64
Ampelokipi 106- 84
Thafni 92- 66
Larisa 80- 75
OSFP 65- 74
Peristeri 54- 52
Sporting 85- 66
Panionios 66- 63
Pagkrati 78- 66
Aris 87- 79
Iraklis 67- 56
Apollon 80- 61
AEK 92- 81
PAO 68- 77
Ampelokipi 84- 81
Thafni 89- 68
Larisa 62- 56
OSFP 61- 63
Peristeri 69- 68
Sporting 87- 68
Panionios 80- 75
Pagkrati 79- 70
Aris 83- 77
Iraklis 56- 68
* Play-offs
Aris 84- 82
Aris 73- 84
Aris 76- 69
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PAO 69- 92
PAO 66- 66
75- 77
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Iraklis 77- 86
Iraklis 76- 67
Iraklis 75- 76
Iraklis 75- 75
81- 90
BOXSCORES & GAME PROFILES
[1] 4/ 3/95 in Lamia: PAOK-Aris 80-63 (37-37)
Officials: Voreathis, Rallis
P 1 2 3 TR DR OR A S B TO MIN
PAOK 80 16/24 17/35 10/23 32 20 12 14 4 6 10 200
Prelevic 29 2/ 5 6/ 9 5/ 8 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 32
Mamatziolas 11 6/ 6 1/ 1 1/ 3 3 2 1 1 0 0 2 15
Galakteros 10 1/ 2 3/ 5 1/ 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 25
Korfas 8 3/ 4 1/ 3 1/ 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 20
Boudouris 7 2/ 2 1/ 2 1/ 4 5 5 0 2 1 0 0 26
Bullard 7 0/ 0 2/ 4 1/ 2 4 0 4 2 0 3 2 26
Savic 6 2/ 5 2/ 6 0/ 1 9 6 3 4 1 0 3 30
Rentzias 2 0/ 0 1/ 5 0/ 0 6 2 4 0 0 3 0 18
Baloyannis 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Tsekos 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 4
Aris 63 21/25 15/37 4/12 28 21 7 3 5 2 11 200
White 24 10/10 4/12 2/ 3 4 3 1 2 0 0 1 36
King 17 5/ 5 6/ 8 0/ 3 9 8 1 0 2 1 1 35
Lipirithis 7 3/ 6 2/ 3 0/ 0 4 2 2 0 1 1 2 33
Aggelithis 4 2/ 2 1/ 4 0/ 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 3 26
Misounov 4 0/ 0 2/ 5 0/ 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 2 16
Vourtzooumis 3 0/ 0 0/ 2 1/ 3 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 17
Paralikas 3 0/ 0 0/ 0 1/ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Liathelis 1 1/ 2 0/ 2 0/ 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 25
Moraitov 0 0/ 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
Pournaras 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7
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[2] 5/ 3/95 in Lamia:
Officials: Rallis, Koukoulekithis
P 1 2 3 TR DR OR A S B TO MIN
PAOK 72 20/23 17/31 6/11 29 27 2 10 3 2 9 200
Prelevic 27 9/ 9 3/ 6 4/ 6 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 37
Savic 21 7/ 9 7/12 0/ 0 9 8 1 1 2 0 4 39
Bullard 6 0/ 0 3/ 3 0/ 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 14
Korfas 5 0/ 0 1/ 1 1/ 1 2 2 0 4 0 0 1 24
Boudouris 3 3/ 4 0/ 0 0/ 1 3 3 0 2 1 0 2 22
Mamatziolas 3 0/ 0 0/ 0 1/ 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3
Yannoulis 3 1/ 1 1/ 2 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Galakteros 2 0/ 0 1/ 4 0/ 1 4 4 0 1 0 1 0 31
Rentzias 2 0/ 0 1/ 3 0/ 0 6 5 1 0 0 0 1 24
Baloyannis 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Panionios 53 7/16 20/42 2/13 28 19 9 7 1 4 8 200
Mays 16 4/ 6 6/13 0/ 4 2 1 1 3 0 1 2 40
Bailey 12 0/ 0 6/14 0/ 0 7 7 0 0 0 2 1 38
Karagoutis 9 1/ 2 4/ 7 0/ 2 8 2 6 1 0 0 1 31
Aggelou 6 0/ 0 0/ 1 2/ 4 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 31
Hristothoulou 5 1/ 5 2/ 5 0/ 3 5 4 1 3 0 1 1 36
Yelic 5 1/ 1 2/ 2 0/ 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 5
Boswanas 0 0/ 2 0/ 0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Kikilias 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 6
Kalaitzis 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Tsopis 0
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