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It s a pity! The 35-year-old former Rockets forward line is actually Antetokounmpo s best partner in the Greek team?

9:40pm, 8 September 2025【Basketball】

In the previous 1/8 final of the Men's Basketball European Championship, the Greek team narrowly defeated Israel 84-79 after a hard battle and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals. After this game, Greece will compete with Lithuania, which eliminated Latvia, for a top four spot, while Israel will be eliminated with some regrets.

In this game, the performance of the Greek starting veteran Kostas Papanikolaou was considered to be fair. Costas played 26 minutes and 12 seconds in the game, made 3 of 7 shots and 2 of 6 shots from outside the three-point line, scored 8 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal, and had 2 turnovers and 1 foul, with a plus-negative value of -1. Papanicoulau's performance on the offensive end is also quite standard. With few shots, he also got some points, which provided some help and support to the team. Not only that, Papanicoulau can also show his value in passing and supporting, and his performance on the defensive end is also a sloppy level. Overall, Papanicou has performed well, and he has provided some support and help to Giannis Antetokounmpo and made some contributions to the team's victory.

Since the start of the European Championship, Papanicou Laou has played 6 games in total, with averaging 24.6 minutes per game, averaging 7.2 points, 5 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 0.7 steals and 0.3 blocks, and 1.5 turnovers and 1.7 fouls. His shooting percentage is 44.1%, three-point shooting percentage is 37.5%, and free throw shooting percentage is 66.7%, and his plus-negative value is +9.3. Papanicoulau has maintained good offensive efficiency on the offensive end. He can also provide certain help and support on the offensive end. He also has certain passing ability and support ability. Of course, his performance on the defensive end is indeed not ideal, and he is indeed incapable of providing more help and support to the team on the defensive end. But the problem is that Papanicou still seems to be a player with a relatively stable overall performance in Greece, which is a bit speechless.

Papanikolau was born in July 1990. He is 35 years old, 203cm tall and weighs 102kg. He is the 48th pick in the second round of the New York Knicks in the 2012 NBA Draft. In the NBA, Papanicolau has played for the Houston Rockets and the Denver Nuggets, but he has not performed particularly well. After returning to the European arena, Papanicoulau's performance was actually quite good and could still have a certain effect. In fact, as he grows older, Papanicou's performance has declined significantly, but the problem is that he is still a reliable player and he can still be a starting position in the Greek team. In this state, Papanicoulau turned out to be the best assistant around Giannis, which sounds really a bit regrettable.