A few days before the very crucial game against Siena for Euroleague, Panathinaikos had a difficult mission in Larisa versus Olympia. Team of Zelimir Obradovic played very good basketball, most time of the game, and took the victory with score 63-83.
Panathinaikos had some difficulties in the first period, where Olympia was in charge, but later on the Greek Champion had the control in offense and in defense.
With King in good shape Larisa was ahead with 19-48 in 10thn minute, but Sarounas Jasikevicious was in a great evening and helped Panathinaikos to take the lead with 23-30 in 14’. With 0-7 run the “greens” mace the score 33-41 in the halftime.
In the next 20 minutes Panathinaikos was…alone in the court. Prcacin was very good and he had the control in the rebounds and in 25’ the score was 40-53. The last 10 minutes nothing changed and the final score 63-83 it was 100% fair.
Scores by period: 19-18, 33-41, 46-59, 63-83
Olympia (Bartzokas): Belser 3(1), Koubouras 2, Kurtovic 3(1), Angelov 9, Tsiaras 8(1), Giannoulakos 2, Batis 9(1), Agigbabu 9, King 18(4).
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Perperoglou 10(1), Spanoulis 9(1), Batiste 6, Zizic 8, Chatzivrettas 2, Dikoudis 9(1), Prcacin 10, Diamantidis 5(1), Winston 8, Jasikevicious 16 (4)
