AEK beat Aries Trikala for Basket League twenty third day

AEK hosted and beat Aries Trikala for Basket League Greece 2014-2015 twenty third day. AEK honoured Giorgos Amerikanos and debuted the NBA style replicas. This celebration atmosphere did not help the team focus on defence and Aries Trikala finished the first quarter leading the score. Dragan Sakota did not let his players loose and AEK allowed Trikala only 16 points in the second quarter. Mixed debut for coach Kostas Papazoglou with a good first half. Another double double for Pops Mensah-Bonsu with 15 points, 17 rebounds and 8 fouls drawn. Malik Hairston had 21 points and 5 assists, Dusan Sakota had 16 points and 8 assists, Tomas Delininkaitis had 13 points. For Trikala Slaven Cupkovic had 17 points and 7 rebounds, Brian Tracey had 11 points and 8 rebounds, Justin Ingram had 12 points and 7 assists, Steve Panos had 14 points in 17 minutes. A good game with 15 total turnovers, 8 for AEK and 7 for Trikala. Visitors had 4/21 three pointers, while AEK had 12/25.
Quarters' scores: 24-28, 50-44, 75-56, 96-73

AEK (Dragan Sakota): Wilbekin 3 (1), Papantoniou, Delininkaitis 13 (4), Sakota 16 (3), Kaselakis 2, Polytarchou 2, Hairston 21 (3), Sarikopoulos 7, Athinaiou 5, Milosevic 5, Mensah-Bonsu 15, English 7 (1).
Aries Trikala (Papazoglou): Ingram 12 (2), Nikolopoulos, Tracey 11, Harris 13, Cupkovic 17 (2), Panos 14, Spanos, Matalon, Varytimiadis, Houhoumis, Alexander 6, Linqvist.