Panathinaikos made the first step, beat Olympia with 74-55 and took the first victory in the series with Olympia. Our team played good basketball, most time of the game, and pleased the 3.000 fans that were in the stadium. Vassilis Spanoulis was top scorer for his team with 13 points.
Panathinaikos was excellent from the beginning and in the 12th minute our team had the lead with 22-12 and Zelimir Obradovic had used all of his players. The score of the halftime was 35-26, with Diamantidis playing very good defense in King, and the player of Larisa couldn’t find how to reach the basket.
In the second half nothing changed and our team took the victory in an easy way, with 74-55.
Score by period: 19-10, 35-26, 52-44, 74-55
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Alvertis 1, Perperoglou 5(1), Spanoulis 13(1), Becirovic 2, Batiste 11, Zizic 11, Chatzivrettas 3(1), Dikoudis 4, Tsartsaris 10, Diamantidis 5(1), Winston 7, Jasikevicius 2
Olympia (Bartzokas): Belser 14(2), Koubouras 2, Angelov 11(1), Tsiaras 4, Giannoulakos 8, Batis 5, King 11(1) Gizogiannis
