Panathinaikos didn’t make it, lost in Beograd from Partizan with 82-73 and didn’t take the ticket for the next phase of Euroleague. The team of Zeliko Obradovic will not have the opportunity to try to take for second time in the row the European title.
The “greens” tried to take the victory but at the end that it didn’t seemed enough.
At the beginning of the match Panathinaikos was very good but the next minutes were different. At the end of the first period Partizan had the lead with 26-17. At the next ten minutes Panathinaikos became better and at the halftime the score was 42-37.
At the second half Panathinaikos changed his defense and at the offence played with 4 short guys in order to have balance and harder defense. Partizan get away with 7 points at 30’, 60-53, Panathinaikos took the lead 66-64 but at the end the Serbians were better ant took the victory and the ticket to the 8 best teams.
Scores by period: 26-17, 42-37, 60-53, 82-73
Partizan (Voujosevic): Palacio 24(3), tepic 10(2), Kecman 16, Borovniak, Tripcovic, Velickovic 11(1), Pekovic 9, Vitkovac 7, Bozic 3(1), Vranes 2
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Perperoglou 4, Spanoulis 11(1), Becirovic 9(1), Batiste 12, Chatzivrettas 2, Dikoudis, Diamantidis 9(2), Winston, Prkacin 4, Jasikevicius 20(2)
