Panathinaikos traveled to Larisa to play against AEL and had to targets to his mind. First of all the victory that would gave to our team the first position and the home advantage in the play offs. The second target was the good basketball. And after 40 minutes Panathinaikos achieved both his goals. The “greens” beat AEL with 77-107 , one game before the end of the regular season of the championship and took the home advantage in the play offs until the finals. In the same time Zelimir Obradovic is totally happy with his players because the played good, fast, concentrate and mature. Panathinaikos had problems only in the first period…Dimitris Diamantidis was top scorer for our team wit 21 points, and Billy Keys was top scorer o the game with 33 points.
Tsartsaris and Spanoulis were “hot” in the beginning, with the team of Larisa scoring from…everywhere. Panathinaikos was trying to play good defense but AEL had always the solution. At the end of the first period Panathinaikos was ahead 27-29, and after 31-31 in the 13th minute the “greens” scored 12 points in the row and at the halftime score was 43-58.
In the second half Panathianikos was magnificent and had the ultimate control of the game, despite the fact that Keys was unstoppable. At whole second half our team had the lead with +20 points, and at 33’ score was 62-93.
Score by period: 27-29, 43-58, 59-82, 77-107
AEL (Kalafatakis): Kiriakopoulos 2, Keys 33(6), Papanikolopoulos 4, Papachristos 6(1), Aggelakopoulos 6, Kolokas 2, Klimavicius 10(2), Karavanas, Ceranic 14
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Alvertis 2, Perperoglou 2, Spanoulis 15(1), Becirovic 6, Batiste 6, Zizic 5, Chatzivrettas 11(1), Dikoudis 7, Tsartsaris 11(3), Diamntidis 21(2), Winston 12(2), Jasikevicius 79(1)
