Panathinaikos took a very important victory against Efes Pilsen in Athens with 74-65, and now has in his own hands the first place of his group. Panathinaikos needs to win next week Siena with 10 points and in the last game to take one more victory versus Partizan.
Our team wasn’t good in the first half and Efes took the ultimate control of the rhythm. At the end of the first period the “greens” was behind with 15-20. In the next ten minutes players of Panathinaikos had a lot of problems. Andre Hutson create a big trouble to Zelimir Obradovic but at the end of the halftime the score was 31-38.
At the third period Panathinaikos show some things of his quality. With very hard defense and a lot of patient in offense our team took the control of the rhythm. With three point shot of Chatzivrettas Panathinaikos made the 50-46 (27’) and one minute later score was 54-46. Mike Batiste was in a very good shape and at the end it was the man of the match with his very crucial baskets.
Score by periods: 15-20, 31-38, 54-52, 74-65
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Alvertis, Spanoulis 15, Becirovic 2, Batiste 20, Zizic 2, Chatzivrettas 7(2), Dikoudis 12(1), Diamantidis 11(1), Winston 2, Jasikevicius 3
Efes Pilsen (Blatt): Penn 7(1), Gregory 12(2), Abi 6(1), Pacun, Gonlum 7(1), Kugo 3(1), Hersek, Arslan 9(1), Hutson 21
