The wrong way!
TOP-16 Day 1st
Stadium: “ABDI IPEKCI”
Tickets: 5000
Panathinaikos began with the…wrong way his games in TOP-16. Efes Pilsen beat European Champion with 74-64 and made a very crucial step to her goal. Panathinaikos didn’t approach his real potentials in any time of the game, with Sarunas Jasikevicius and Mike Batiste scoring 12 points apiece. For the Turkish team Drew Nikolas scored 29 points (23 of the in the first half), Andre Hutson added 10 points and Kerem Gonlum had 9 points and 7 rebounds.
Panathinaikos started well the game and took the lead, 8-16, and at the end of the first period the score was 17-21. At the next ten minutes Efes Pilsen took the ultimate control of the game, made 16-4 run and at the half time was in charge by 46-35.
In the second half the Greek team tried to strike back but unfortunately nothing changed. With 8 points from Ermal Kugo Efes made the 65-48 and the final 74-64 was totally normal.
Score by period: 17-21, 46-35, 63-48, 74-64
Efes Pilsen (Blatt): Nicholas 29(5), Penn 3(1), Woods 7, Gregory 2, Gonlum 9(1), Wright, Kugo 8, Arslan 6, Hutson 10
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Alvertis 2, Spanoulis 10(1), Becirovic 6, Batiste 12, Zizic 4, Hatzivrettas 6(2), Dikoudis 7(1), Diamantidis 5(1), Winston, Jasikevicius 12
