It was not enough
3rd Day TOP-16
Stadium: Palasports Mens Sana
Tickets: 6.000
Panathinaikos tried in Siena but he couldn’t make it and defeated with 84-75. This was the second loss of Panathinaikos in phase of TOP-16, and from now on the European champion must continue only with victories.
The Italian team was shooting excellent from the line of three points (14/25) and that was the “key” that gave her the result. From the other hand Panathinaikos didn’t have in a good shape most of his players. Batiste, Diamantidis and Jasikevicious gave their best but at the end that was not enough. Top scorer of the game was Thordon who had 23 points.
Panathinaikos began well the game (3-9), but in the next minutes the Italians took the lead and the control of the game (22-19 at the end of the first period).
In the second period Siena was ahead with 39-32 but with baskets from Jasikevicious made the score 43-40 in the halftime.
Same game and in the second half, where the Italian team scored all the time from the line of the three point and made the 53-42. Our team didn’t stop playing and with Batiste and Diamantidis approached again (65-59), but three minutes before the end Siena took again a 10 points lead and took the victor.
Scores by period: 22-19, 43-40, 65-59, 84-75
Siena (Pianigianni): McIntyre 13(4), Ilievski 8, Eze 6, Carraretto, Sato 11(1), Thornton 23(3), Lavrinonvic 7(1), Ress 3(1), Diener 3(1), Romero, Stonerook 10(3)
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Spanoulis 4(1), Becirovic 6, Batiste 20, Zizic 6, Hativrettas, Dikoudis 2, Diamantidis 17(3), Winston 4, Jasikevicious 16(2)
