Although Panathinaikos for second time in the row made a game… derby, at the end took the victory with 84-74. Now Panathinaikos needs one more victory, in the next two games, in order to take the first position in regular season of the championship.
Sarounas Jasikevicius was excellent and ended the game with 28 points and 6 three point shots, and Mike Batiste had 11 point
Our team had the ultimate control in the three first periods and everything was fine. But in the fourth period Panathinaikos relaxed and Panionios took advantage of that.
In the 7th minute Panathinakos had the lead with 19-10 and at the end of the period the score was 24-14. At the next ten minutes Baxter and Newley were very good, Panionios made the 32-29, but Panathinaikos respond at the same time. The score of the halftime was 44-38.
At the second half the “greens” made a run 16-6 and took the lead with 60-44. A few minutes later the score was 64-45 and from that point Panionios started to play basketball and Panathinaikos stopped. With Georgalis scoring all the time Panionios made a comeback and the 69-69 was….reality. But in that point Panathinaikos was very good, played clever and took the victory.
Tickets:-
Score by period: 24-14, 44-38, 67-55, 84-74
Panathinaikos (Obaradovic): Alvertis 2, Perperoglou 5(1), Spanoulis 8(1), Prcacin, Batiste 11, Zizic 6, Chatzivrettas 2, Dikoudis 2, Tsartsaris 8, Diamantidis 10(1), Winstyon 2, Jasikevicius 28(6)
Panionios (Markovic): Xanthopoulos 3(1), Zoroski 13, Georgalis 14(2), Baxter 15, Kalampokis 6, Newley 12(2), Kendall 11, Giannoulis
