Greek Basket League 2008–09

Greek Basket League 2008-09 season
League Greek Basket League
Sport Basketball
Duration October 4, 2008 - May 10, 2009
TV partner/s ANT1, ERT, Nova Sports
Regular Season
Greek Basket League seasons
← 2007–08

2009-10 →

The Greek Basket League 2008–09 season was the 69th season of the Greek Basket League, the highest professional basketball league in Greece. The 182-game regular season (26 games for each of the 14 teams) began on Saturday, October 4, 2008, and will end on Sunday, May 10, 2009.[1]

Contents

Regular season

Standings

Pos Team Total Home Away
Pts Pld W L F A D W L W L
1 Olympiacos 51 26 25 1 2229 1826 +403 13 0 12 1
2 Panathinaikos 48 26 22 4 2277 1797 +480 13 0 9 4
3 Aris 45 26 19 7 1883 1775 +108 11 2 8 5
4 Maroussi 43 26 17 9 2035 1921 +114 9 4 8 5
5 Panellinios 43 26 17 9 2037 1888 +149 10 3 7 6
6 Panionios 42 26 16 10 1948 1931 +17 10 3 6 7
7 PAOK 38 26 12 14 2005 1991 +14 9 4 3 10
8 Kolossos Rodou 38 26 12 14 1900 1988 -88 8 5 4 9
9 AEK Athens 37 26 11 15 1896 1998 -102 8 5 3 10
10 Kavala 35 26 9 17 1765 1948 -183 7 6 2 11
11 Olympia Larissa 34 26 8 18 1769 1907 -138 5 8 3 10
12 Trikala 32 26 6 20 1901 2115 -214 5 8 1 12
13 Egaleo 32 26 6 20 1793 2035 -242 4 9 2 11
14 AEL 28 26 2 24 1833 2151 -318 2 11 0 13

Pts=Points, Pld=Matches played, W=Matches won, L=Matches lost, F=Points for, A=Points against, D=Points difference

Qualification to League Playoffs
Relegation to HEBA A2

Results

Results as of December 19, 2008[1]

AEK AEL ARI EGA KAV KOL MAR OLL OLY PAO PGS PAN PAOK TRI
AEK Athens 71-57 78-59 72-70 59-72 85-87
AEL 63-62 69-76 72-90 73-71
Aris 77-61 75-57 72-53 83-73 70-64 87-76
Egaleo 72-77 72-81 65-90 81-96
Kavala
Kolossos Rodou 66-92
Maroussi 66-72 82-67
Olympia Larissa 66-82 67-66
Olympiacos 74-57
Panathinaikos 102-58 82-54
Panellinios 82-60
Panionios
PAOK 60-74 76-80
Trikala 66-77

Stat leaders

Stats current as of December 19, 2008[1]

Points

# Name Team Points
1 Steven Smith Kolossos Rodou 189
2 Anthony Grundy Panellinios 179
3 Kostas Vassiliadis PAOK 163
4 Torin Francis AEL 156
5 Josh Childress Olympiacos 155

Rebounds

# Name Team Rebounds
1 Torin Francis AEL 94
2 K'Zell Wesson PAOK 77
3 Chris Massie Trikala 72
4 Spencer Nelson Aris 71
5 Travon Bryant AEK Athens 70

Assists

# Name Team Assists
1 William Avery Trikala 39
2 Anthony Grundy Panellinios 37
3 Theodoros Papaloukas Olympiacos 36
4 Dimitris Diamantidis Panathinaikos 35
5 Giorgos Apostolidis AEK Athens 34

Steals

# Name Team Steals
1 Aaron Miles Panionios 20
2 Anthony Grundy Panellinios 18
3 Giorgos Kalaitzis Panellinios 16
4 D.J. Thompson AEK Athens 15
5 Manolis Papamakarios Panellinios 15

Blocks

# Name Team Blocks
1 Torin Francis AEL 12
2 Antonis Fotsis Panathinaikos 11
3 Chris Massie Trikala 10
4 Josh Childress Olympiacos 10
5 Travon Bryant AEK Athens 9

Playoffs

This is the outlook for the 2009 Α1 playoffs. Teams in italics have home advantage. Teams in bold advance to the next round. Numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's original playoffs seeding. Numbers to the right indicate the score of each game.

  Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
                                               
  1  Olympiacos 84 86  
8  Kolossos Rodou 61 76  
  1  Olympiacos 102 93 81  
  4  Maroussi 80 78 67  
4  Maroussi 82 93
  5  Panellinios 77 57  
    1  Olympiacos 67 64 74 81
  2  Panathinaikos 69 91 70 94
  2  Panathinaikos 97 82  
7  PAOK 54 78  
  2  Panathinaikos 84 66 71
  3  Aris 80 53 69     Euroleague Match
3  Aris 75 79
  6  Panionios 74 75     3  Aris 90 78 82 70 72
  4  Maroussi 86 85 57 72 76

Final standings

Pos Team
1 Panathinaikos
2 Olympiacos
3 Maroussi
4 Aris
5 Panellinios
6 Panionios
7 PAOK
8 Kolossos Rodou
9 AEK Athens
10 Kavala
11 Olympia Larissa
12 Trikala
13 Egaleo
14 AEL
Euroleague
Relegation to HEBA A2
Greek Basket League 2008-09
Champions

Panathinaikos
30th Title

References

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