Season 2013-14 - First 4 games

The new season find Anemos in the League Romande de Basket Corporatif (LRBC) and with several changes in the lineup. The first scorer of last year, Vaggelis, has sparse participation, and the second scorer of the team from last year, Carlos, stopped for this season. Nevertheless, even through this rough patch, Anemos is working hard to progress and make a stronger team. Unfortunately, coach Thanos had some minor problems but we wish him to get well and to return fast in the court.

In the first 4 games of the season Anemos has 2 wins and 2 losses:
ANEMOS - Nestlé : 46 - 102
Droogs - ANEMOS : 56 - 65
ANEMOS - BlackSheeps : 52 - 65
LausAngeles - ANEMOS : 27 - 59

In these first 4 games, Francesco is leading scorer with 16.3 ppg, while Tassos gives depth to the front line with 8.5 ppg. Arion and Pantelis help a lot during the game both in defense and in the organization on of the attack, as Vassilis, Goran, Manos, Ludo, Kostis, while Greg offers many points - 9.7 ppg - in a few minutes. Stay tuned for more news!

Anemos - Eclepens 66-54

The last game of the season in the home of Anemos was an expected victory in front of the largest and most enthusiastic audience of the season! Fans of Anemos came from all over the city, along with friends and families from various players. Regarding the game itself, Anemos did not start well an trailed for the entire first period before the end of it with 15-17. In the second quarter Anemos played better but at the half time the visitors were still ahead 34-35. In the second half Anemos was much more concentrated in the defense, and by outsccoring Eclepens 32-19 a relaxed victory was achieved with 66-54. Francesco contributed 16 points (3 3-pointers), Vaggelis 15 points and a lot of rebounds, Carlos 12, Tassos 8, Kostas A 5 (with 1 3-pointer), Pantelis 4, and Nikos, Sakis and Vassilis each one contributed 2 points. This game concluded a season with a total record 8-13 (6-4 in the last 10 games) and Anemos finished in the 6th position. Fans of Anemos were hoping for the 5th position but a suprise victory of Eclepens in Prilly (40-48), kept Anemos in 6th position, while Eclepens clinched the 5th.

Now that the season is finished it is time to thank all Anemos members and discuss some highlights. Vaggelis was the top scorer with 21.1 PPG (190 in 9 games). Tassos scored the most accumulated points, with 237 points in 20 games (11.9 PPG). Francesco made a huge comeback with 101 points in the last part of the season in 6 games (16.8 PPG), while Carlos contributed in the basket with a lot of fights, rebounds, blocks and 177 points in 12 games (14.8 PPG). And of course the team would not be here without the support and the organization of Greg, the coaching of Thanos, and every other member of the team.

DEL Basket - Anemos 81-61

A good game for Anemos against DEL Basket from Denges - the strongest team of the league - ended with a defeat with 81-61. While DEL Basket is clearly a better team, Anemos fought using defense as the main weapon, which was indeed very successful for parts of the game. After a slow-start in the first quarter (8-1 in the first few minutes) with Vaggelis still in the bench to get in to the game fresh, Anemos started scoring, albeit, without decreasing the margine ending in 25-9 for the first quarter. In the second quarter Anemos starting pressing a lot in the defense with a very strong 3-2 zone (with Pantelis covering a lot of space with a lot of running) while in the offense, Francesco and Vaggelis were in a good day and managed to score a lot of points despite the very aggressive defense of DEL. The quarter ended with partial score 11-15, with Anemos behind 12 points in the HT mark. The beginning of the third quarter was also slow and this was the key for the defeat. DEL started strong but the referees did 3 consecutive easy mistakes favoring DEL which eventually increased the margin up to 27 points (63-36). In the last quarter Anemos started playing better defense and Tassos started scoring as well which helped to cut down the deficit to 20 points with a 18-25 partial score the last 10 minutes of the game. This was the last away game for Anemos, for which Vaggelis scored 27 points, Francesco 23, Tassos 8, Kostas A 2 and Pantelis 1, while Dimitris, Thanos, Kostas L, Vassilis and Manos participated and Sakis was the scorekeeper.

Anemos - La Tour 72-48

Anemos huge win against La Tour with 72-48 was mostly based on amazing defense for the biggest part of the  game keeping the opponents to only 48 points. Coach Thanos read the opponent and decided an immensely successful 3-2 zone. But this was not the end of the story, Coach Thanos asked for a lot of passes in the offense to find the free players which helped Anemos to be very effective in offense as well, with Francesco scoring 31 points with 7 three-pointers! Vaggelis added (a bit less than his usual) 17 points with a lot of work in the paint and many offensive rebounds and second attacks. Pantelis contributed 10 points with amazing defense, Manos added 7 points with some good shots in the beginning of the game, Kostas scored 3 points and offered good passing and organizing of the offense. Last but not least Tasos and Grigoris scored 2 points each contributing a lot in defense, rebounds and in organizing the offense as well. The details are as usual available here.

Anemos - Romanel 2 80-67

A very good game by Anemos with good offense and defense (except from the last few minutes that the team relaxed a bit). The stats of the game can be found here.

Prilly 2 - Lausanne 70-46

Tough loss for Anemos. Nevertheless the team spirit can be shown in the photos and video below!

Photos from the game

Video from warm-up and the beginning of the game

Romanel 2 - Anemos 54-42

A tough loss for Anemos at Romanel 54-42. The defense of Romanel was very strong and Anemos struggled to have successful offenses.

Vaggelis was the best scorer with 17 points with Sakis and Tassos making 6 each, Kostas 5, Pantelis 4 and Greg and Nikos 2 each.