Panathinaikos beat Olympiacos in the third game with 78-67 and took again the lead in the final series. Our team played excellent basketball at the most time of the game and took the very crucial victory that it was 100% fair.
Now Panathinaikos is 40 minutes away for his 10th championship in the last 11 years. Zelimir Obradovic and his players need the victory in SEF to celebrate the championship in Olympiacos “home”.
Vassilis Spanoulis was top scorer with 15 points and Dimitris Diamantidis made one more tremendous appearance.
Score by period: 14-14, 42-42, 54-68, 78-67
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Perperoglou 10(2), Spanoulis 15(1), Jasikevicius 6, Batiste 2, Zizic, Chatzivrettas, Dikoudis, Tsartsaris, Diamantidis 14(1), Winston 9, Tomasevic 9
Olympiacos (Giannakis): Blackney 9, Papamakarios 6(2), Woods 4, Pridezis 8, Teodosic 12(1), Bourousis 4, Tsakalidis Greer 16(2), Vasilopoulos 2, Schortsanitis 5
