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Aris Thessaloniki

2017–18 season
Head coach	Panagiotis Giannakis (until 21 March 2018) Vangelis Angelou (from 22 March 2018)
Basket League	9th
Greek Cup	Semifinals
BCL	Regular Season
Home Away
← 2016–17 2018-19 →

The 2017–18 Aris Thessaloniki B.C. season was the 64th appearance in the top-tier level Greek Basket League for Aris Thessaloniki. The club finished 9th in Regular season. In Greek Basketball Cup Aris Thessaloniki were eliminated by Olympiacos. The team also competed in Basketball Champions League where finished 8th in Group D of Regular season.

During the season the club changed its manager and hired Vangelis Angelou^[1]

#	Name	Nationality	Position(s)	Height	Date of birth (Age)
3	Ivan Maraš		PF / C	2.08 m	(1986-04-20)April 20, 1986 (aged 32)
4	Lefteris Bochoridis		PG / SG	1.96 m	(1994-04-18)April 18, 1994 (aged 24)
5	Panagiotis Kalaitzakis		SG / SF	2.00 m	(1999-01-02)January 2, 1999 (aged 19)
7	Dimitris Flionis		PG / SG	1.90 m	(1997-04-08)April 8, 1997 (aged 21)
9	Michalis Tsairelis		PF / C	2.08 m	(1988-02-23)February 23, 1988 (aged 30)
11	Stelios Poulianitis		PG	1.90 m	(1995-04-03)April 3, 1995 (aged 23)
14	Vassilis Christidis		PF / C	2.08 m	(1998-07-10)July 10, 1998 (aged 19)
16	Spyros Mourtos		SF / SG	1.98 m	(1990-12-05)December 5, 1990 (aged 27)
17	Ioannis Athinaiou		PG / SG	1.94 m	(1988-05-27)May 27, 1988 (aged 30)
18	Omar Prewitt		SG / SF	2.01 m	(1994-09-24)September 24, 1994 (aged 23)
21	Bryce Douvier		PF / SF	2.01 m	(1991-12-01)December 1, 1991 (aged 26)
44	Gary Bell		SG	1.90 m	(1992-10-12)October 12, 1992 (aged 25)

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Greek Basket League	Matchday 1	—	9th	7 October 2017	13 May 2018
Greek Basketball Cup	Quarterfinals	—	Semifinals	4 October 2017	5 November 2017
Basketball Champions League	Regular season	—	8th in Group D	11 October 2017	7 February 2018

Updated to match played 13 May 2018
Source: Competitions

Competition	Record
	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Win %
Greek Basket League	26	10	0	16	1,754	1,869	−115	038.46
Greek Basketball Cup	2	1	0	1	119	119	+0	050.00
Basketball Champions League	14	4	0	10	930	1,039	−109	028.57
Total	42	15	0	27	2,803	3,027	−224	035.71

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	Kymis	26	14	12	2026	2032	−6	40	Advanced to playoffs
8	Kolossos H Hotels	26	11	15	1934	1977	−43	37
9	Aris	26	10	16	1754	1869	−115	36
10	Rethymno Cretan Kings	26	10	16	2047	2136	−89	36
11	Gymnastikos Larissas Faros	26	8	18	1927	2190	−263	34

Opposition	Home score	Away score	Double
AEK Athens	64-62	64-73	128-135
GS Larissas Faros	71-60	76-81	147-141
Kolossos H Hotels	72-86	67-73	139-159
Koroivos	66-68	55-71	121-139
Kymis Seajets	60-73	69-94	129-167
Lavrio DHI	80-69	71-70	151-139
Olympiacos	55-80	66-86	121-166
Panathinaikos Superfoods	70-88	63-84	133-172
Panionios	60-48	87-81	147-129
PAOK	65-66	57-63	122-129
Promitheas Patras	68-64	40-70	108-134
Rethymno Cretan Kings	70-52	73-80	143-132
Trikala Aries	82-63	83-64	165-127

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Beşiktaş Sompo Japan	14	10	4	1111	1030	+81	24	Advance to round of 16
2	ČEZ Nymburk	14	10	4	1152	1100	+52	24
3	Nanterre 92	14	9	5	1149	1091	+58	23
4	Stelmet Zielona Góra	14	6	8	1075	1087	−12	20
5	Sidigas Avellino	14	6	8	1049	1028	+21	20	Transfer to FIBA Europe Cup
6	Oostende	14	6	8	975	1050	−75	20
7	Telekom Baskets Bonn	14	5	9	1079	1095	−16	19
8	Aris Thessaloniki	14	4	10	930	1039	−109	18

Opposition	Home score	Away score	Double
Sidigas Avellino	59-56	66-79	125-135
Beşiktaş Sompo Japan	65-72	61-83	126-155
Telekom Baskets Bonn	69-75	59-76	128-151
Nanterre 92	70-62	63-91	133-153
ČEZ Nymburk	65-71	70-99	135-170
Oostende	66-70	67-69	133-139
Stelmet Zielona Góra	70-64	80-72	150-136

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#	Player	GP	PTS	PPG	TR	RPG	DR	OR	AST	APG	STL	SPG	BLK	BPG
3	Ivan Maraš	21	207	9.86	117	5.57	76	41	22	1.05	23	1.10	7	0.33
4	Lefteris Bochoridis	27	306	11.33	112	4.15	84	28	84	3.11	28	1.04	10	0.37
5	Panagiotis Kalaitzakis	9	6	0.67	3	0.33	2	1	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
7	Dimitris Flionis	42	181	4.31	84	2.00	64	20	50	1.19	35	0.83	1	0.02
9	Michalis Tsairelis	38	341	8.97	120	3.16	70	50	39	1.03	18	0.47	8	0.21
11	Stelios Poulianitis	34	81	2.38	44	1.29	30	14	29	0.85	10	0.29	2	0.06
14	Vassilis Christidis	34	53	1.56	38	1.12	24	14	6	0.18	9	0.26	6	0.18
16	Spyros Mourtos	42	132	3.14	123	2.93	78	45	37	0.88	30	0.71	10	0.24
17	Ioannis Athinaiou	34	305	8.97	92	2.71	77	15	107	3.15	22	0.65	0	0.00
18	Omar Prewitt	20	120	6.00	54	2.70	45	9	22	1.10	9	0.45	0	0.00
31	Bryce Douvier	17	88	5.18	79	4.65	55	24	8	0.47	5	0.29	0	0.00
44	Gary Bell Jr.	41	323	7.88	105	2.56	74	31	57	1.39	35	0.85	2	0.05
-	Kwame Vaughn	13	124	9.54	27	2.08	21	6	23	1.77	11	0.85	0	0.00
-	Brent Petway	13	45	3.46	42	3.23	26	16	5	0.38	9	0.69	6	0.46
-	Demetris Morant	9	18	2.00	18	2.00	10	8	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
-	Keith Benson	20	171	8.55	98	4.90	66	32	5	0.25	4	0.20	19	0.95
-	Kyle Weaver	21	94	4.48	72	3.43	62	10	32	1.52	16	0.76	3	0.14
-	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	25	208	8.32	144	5.76	116	28	53	2.12	23	0.92	22	0.88
	Team				78		48	30
	Team Totals	42	2803	66.74	1450	34.52	1028	422	579	13.79	287	6.83	96	2.29

#	Player	GP	FTA	FTM	FT%	2PM	2PA	2P%	3PM	3PA	3P%
3	Ivan Maraš	21	35	60	58.33	74	137	54.01	8	37	21.62
4	Lefteris Bochoridis	27	61	96	63.54	67	139	48.20	37	114	32.46
5	Panagiotis Kalaitzakis	9	0	0	0.00	3	7	42.86	0	0	0.00
7	Dimitris Flionis	42	33	43	76.64	35	78	44.87	26	87	29.89
9	Michalis Tsairelis	38	73	108	67.59	110	206	53.40	16	57	28.07
11	Stelios Poulianitis	34	14	18	77.78	17	34	50.00	11	29	37.93
14	Vassilis Christidis	34	13	23	56.52	20	46	43.88	0	4	0.00
16	Spyros Mourtos	42	22	34	64.71	52	106	49.06	2	19	10.53
17	Ioannis Athinaiou	34	72	93	77.42	40	105	38.10	51	172	29.65
18	Omar Prewitt	20	28	38	73.68	16	56	28.57	20	58	34.48
31	Bryce Douvier	17	13	13	100.00	27	59	45.76	7	36	19.44
44	Gary Bell Jr.	41	45	62	72.58	64	155	41.29	50	161	31.06
-	Kwame Vaughn	13	34	39	87.18	27	63	42.86	12	44	27.27
-	Brent Petway	13	3	10	30.00	9	24	37.50	8	26	30.77
-	Demetris Morant	9	4	6	66.67	7	14	50.00	0	0	0.00
-	Keith Benson	20	33	52	63.46	66	136	48.53	2	5	40.00
-	Kyle Weaver	21	24	32	75.00	23	56	41.07	8	29	27.59
-	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	25	25	37	67.57	54	124	43.55	25	61	40.98
	Team Totals	42	532	764	69.63	711	1545	46.02	283	939	30.14

Last updated: 13 May 2018
Source: Sum of the Below Tables

#	Player	GP	PTS	PPG	TR	RPG	DR	OR	AST	APG	STL	SPG	BLK	BPG
3	Ivan Maraš	16	144	9.00	92	5.75	59	33	19	1.19	17	1.06	7	0.44
4	Lefteris Bochoridis	19	211	11.63	90	4.47	68	22	59	3.11	19	1.00	6	0.32
5	Panagiotis Kalaitzakis	4	4	1.00	1	0.25	1	0	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
7	Dimitris Flionis	26	129	4.96	58	2.23	42	16	31	1.19	19	0.73	1	0.04
9	Michalis Tsairelis	25	234	9.36	66	2.64	42	24	26	1.04	10	0.40	7	0.28
11	Stelios Poulianitis	22	68	3.09	36	1.64	24	12	25	1.14	8	0.36	2	0.09
14	Vassilis Christidis	20	29	1.45	20	1.00	12	8	3	0.15	5	0.25	4	0.20
16	Spyros Mourtos	26	93	3.58	83	3.19	54	29	31	1.19	25	0.96	7	0.27
17	Ioannis Athinaiou	22	207	9.41	54	2.45	46	8	64	2.91	16	0.73	0	0.00
18	Omar Prewitt	15	82	5.47	44	2.93	38	6	14	0.93	6	0.40	0	0.00
31	Bryce Douvier	14	66	4.71	52	3.71	34	18	6	0.43	5	0.36	0	0.00
44	Gary Bell Jr.	25	172	6.88	63	2.52	42	21	36	1.44	19	0.76	0	0.00
-	Kwame Vaughn	5	44	8.80	6	1.20	5	1	5	1.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
-	Brent Petway	6	18	3.00	16	2.67	8	8	4	0.67	2	0.33	2	0.33
-	Demetris Morant	6	16	2.67	14	2.33	8	6	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
-	Keith Benson	9	93	10.33	53	5.89	30	23	1	0.11	3	0.33	12	1.33
-	Kyle Weaver	10	40	4.00	38	3.80	33	5	16	1.60	7	0.70	1	0.10
-	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	12	94	7.83	70	5.83	56	14	22	1.83	14	1.17	9	0.75
	Team Totals	26	1754	67.46	856	33.92	602	254	362	13.92	175	6.73	58	2.23

#	Player	GP	FTA	FTM	FT%	2PM	2PA	2P%	3PM	3PA	3P%
3	Ivan Maraš	16	22	41	53.66	58	98	59.18	2	24	8.33
4	Lefteris Bochoridis	19	37	65	56.92	53	111	47.75	26	87	29.89
5	Panagiotis Kalaitzakis	4	0	0	0.00	2	5	40.00	0	0	0.00
7	Dimitris Flionis	26	26	33	78.79	23	48	47.92	19	58	32.76
9	Michalis Tsairelis	25	44	65	67.69	77	139	55.40	12	41	29.27
11	Stelios Poulianitis	22	14	18	77.78	12	23	52.17	10	21	47.62
14	Vassilis Christidis	20	7	14	50.00	11	27	40.74	0	4	0.00
16	Spyros Mourtos	26	12	18	66.67	39	77	50.65	1	15	6.67
17	Ioannis Athinaiou	22	57	71	80.28	27	62	43.55	32	110	29.09
18	Omar Prewitt	15	21	28	75.00	11	35	31.43	13	41	31.71
31	Bryce Douvier	14	13	13	100.00	19	41	46.34	5	29	17.24
44	Gary Bell Jr.	25	27	39	69.23	35	87	40.23	25	93	26.88
-	Kwame Vaughn	5	13	16	81.25	11	22	50.00	3	14	21.43
-	Brent Petway	6	1	5	20.00	4	9	44.44	3	7	42.86
-	Demetris Morant	6	4	6	66.67	6	10	60.00	0	0	0.00
-	Keith Benson	9	16	30	53.33	37	68	54.41	1	3	33.33
-	Kyle Weaver	10	13	18	72.22	9	26	34.62	3	13	23.08
-	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	12	11	15	73.33	25	59	42.37	11	31	35.48
	Team Totals	26	338	495	68.28	459	947	48.57	166	591	28.09

Last updated: 13 May 2018
Source: ESAKE

#	Player	GP	PTS	PPG	TR	RPG	DR	OR	AST	APG	STL	SPG	BLK	BPG
7	Dimitris Flionis	2	3	1.50	5	2.50	4	1	0	0.00	1	0.50	0	0.00
9	Michalis Tsairelis	2	8	4.00	11	5.50	7	4	1	0.50	1	0.50	0	0.00
11	Stelios Poulianitis	1	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
14	Vassilis Christidis	1	2	2.00	5	5.00	3	2	1	1.00	1	1.00	0	0.00
16	Spyros Mourtos	2	3	1.50	3	1.50	3	0	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
17	Ioannis Athinaiou	2	10	5.00	8	4.00	7	1	7	3.50	1	0.50	0	0.00
44	Gary Bell Jr.	2	15	7.50	5	2.50	4	1	2	1.00	2	1.00	2	1.00
-	Kwame Vaughn	2	25	12.50	5	2.50	4	1	7	3.50	4	2.00	0	0.00
-	Brent Petway	2	5	2.50	5	2.50	3	2	0	0.00	1	0.50	1	0.50
-	Keith Benson	2	21	10.50	9	4.50	5	4	1	0.50	0	0.00	2	1.00
-	Kyle Weaver	2	11	5.50	8	4.00	8	0	3	1.50	3	1.50	1	0.50
-	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	2	16	8.00	15	7.50	10	5	3	1.50	1	0.50	2	1.00
	Team				9		6	3
	Team Totals	2	119	59.50	88	44.00	64	24	25	12.50	15	7.50	8	4.00

#	Player	GP	FTA	FTM	FT%	2PM	2PA	2P%	3PM	3PA	3P%
7	Dimitris Flionis	2	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.00	1	5	20.00
9	Michalis Tsairelis	2	2	4	50.00	3	7	42.86	0	1	0.00
11	Stelios Poulianitis	1	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00
14	Vassilis Christidis	1	2	2	100.00	0	2	0.00	0	0	0.00
16	Spyros Mourtos	2	1	2	50.00	1	3	33.33	0	1	0.00
17	Ioannis Athinaiou	2	1	4	25.00	3	6	50.00	1	11	9.09
44	Gary Bell Jr.	2	1	1	100.00	4	8	50.00	2	6	33.33
-	Kwame Vaughn	2	5	6	83.33	4	11	36.36	4	10	40.00
-	Brent Petway	2	0	0	0.00	1	3	33.33	1	3	33.33
-	Keith Benson	2	6	6	100.00	6	19	31.58	1	1	100.00
-	Kyle Weaver	2	4	6	66.67	2	9	22.22	1	4	25.00
-	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	2	5	8	62.50	4	9	44.44	1	5	20.00
	Team Totals	2	27	39	69.23	28	78	35.9	12	47	25.53

Last updated: 5 November 2017
Source: sportsdata.gr & sportsdata.gr

#	Player	GP	PTS	PPG	TR	RPG	DR	OR	AST	APG	STL	SPG	BLK	BPG
3	Ivan Maraš	5	63	12.60	25	5.00	17	8	3	0.60	6	1.2	0	0.00
4	Lefteris Bochoridis	8	85	10.63	22	2.75	16	6	25	3.13	9	1.13	4	0.50
5	Panagiotis Kalaitzakis	5	2	0.40	2	0.40	1	1	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
7	Dimitris Flionis	14	49	3.50	21	1.5	18	3	19	1.36	15	1.07	0	0.00
9	Michalis Tsairelis	11	99	9.00	43	3.91	21	22	12	1.09	7	0.64	1	0.09
11	Stelios Poulianitis	11	13	1.18	8	0.73	6	2	4	0.36	2	0.18	0	0.00
14	Vassilis Christidis	13	22	1.69	13	1.00	9	4	2	0.15	3	0.23	2	0.15
16	Spyros Mourtos	14	36	2.57	37	2.64	21	16	6	0.43	5	0.36	3	0.21
17	Ioannis Athinaiou	10	88	8.80	30	3.00	24	6	36	3.60	5	0.50	0	0.00
18	Omar Prewitt	5	38	7.60	10	2.00	7	3	8	1.60	3	0.60	0	0.00
31	Bryce Douvier	3	22	7.33	27	9.00	21	6	2	0.67	0	0.00	0	0.00
44	Gary Bell Jr.	14	136	9.71	37	2.64	28	9	19	1.36	14	1.00	0	0.00
-	Kwame Vaughn	6	55	9.17	16	2.67	12	4	11	1.83	7	1.17	0	0.00
-	Brent Petway	5	22	4.40	21	4.20	15	6	1	0.20	6	1.20	3	0.60
-	Demetris Morant	3	2	0.67	4	1.33	2	2	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
-	Keith Benson	9	57	6.33	36	4.00	31	5	3	0.33	1	0.11	5	0.56
-	Kyle Weaver	9	43	4.78	26	2.89	21	5	13	1.44	6	0.67	1	0.11
-	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	11	98	8.91	59	5.36	50	9	28	2.55	8	0.73	11	1.00
	Team				69		42	27
	Team Totals	14	930	66.43	506	36.14	362	144	192	13.71	97	6.93	30	2.14

#	Player	GP	FTA	FTM	FT%	2PM	2PA	2P%	3PM	3PA	3P%
3	Ivan Maraš	5	13	19	68.42	16	39	41.03	6	13	46.15
4	Lefteris Bochoridis	8	24	31	77.42	14	28	50.00	11	27	40.74
5	Panagiotis Kalaitzakis	2	0	0	0.00	1	2	50.00	0	0	0.00
7	Dimitris Flionis	14	7	10	70.00	12	29	41.38	6	24	25.00
9	Michalis Tsairelis	11	27	39	69.23	30	60	50.00	4	15	26.67
11	Stelios Poulianitis	11	0	0	0.00	5	11	45.45	1	8	12.50
14	Vassilis Christidis	13	4	7	57.14	9	17	52.94	0	0	0.00
16	Spyros Mourtos	14	9	14	64.29	12	26	46.15	1	3	33.33
17	Ioannis Athinaiou	10	14	18	77.78	10	37	27.03	18	51	35.29
18	Omar Prewitt	5	7	10	70.00	5	21	23.81	7	17	41.18
31	Bryce Douvier	3	0	0	0.00	8	18	44.44	2	7	28.57
44	Gary Bell Jr.	14	17	22	77.27	25	60	41.67	23	62	37.10
-	Kwame Vaughn	6	16	17	94.12	12	30	40.00	5	20	25.00
-	Brent Petway	5	2	5	40.00	4	12	33.33	4	16	25.00
-	Demetris Morant	3	0	0	0.00	1	4	25.00	0	0	0.00
-	Keith Benson	9	11	16	68.75	23	49	46.94	0	1	0.00
-	Kyle Weaver	9	7	8	87.50	12	21	57.14	4	12	33.33
-	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	11	9	14	64.29	25	56	44.64	13	25	52.00
	Team Totals	14	167	230	72.61	224	520	43.08	105	301	34.88

Last updated: 7 February 2018
Source: BCL

#	Player	1st Statistical Category		2nd Statistical Category		Opponent	Competition	Date
1	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	Points	12	Rebounds	10	PAOK	Greek Cup	4 October 2017
2	Keith Benson	Points	16	Rebounds	10	Promitheas Patras	Basket League	2 December 2017
3	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos (2)	Points	17	Rebounds	11	ČEZ Basketball Nymburk	Basketball Champions League	19 December 2017
4	Bryce Douvier	Points	14	Rebounds	10	Koroivos	Basket League	28 January 2018
5	Ioannis Athinaiou	Points	12	Assists	12	Lavrio Megabolt	Basket League	14 February 2018
6	Ivan Maraš	Points	12	Rebounds	11	GS Larissas Faros	Basket League	17 March 2018
7	Ivan Maraš (2)	Points	18	Rebounds	12	Trikala Aries	Basket League	14 April 2018
8	Lefteris Bochoridis	Points	12	Assists	10	Kolossos H Hotels	Basket League	13 May 2018