Panathinaikos edged Kolossos Rhodes 102-69 at OAKA, for Basket League OPAP, Round 23. The greens got the positive result by reaching the 100 mark in offense for the first time since November 12th, 2012, against Ilissiakos (101-49).
Panathinaikos got the lead early in the game, through its good defense, getting from 0-2 (20''), to 10-8 (2'50'') and from there to 20-8 (5'30'') using a 10-0 strech. Kolossos tried to make its comeback, cut the margin to 4 points (24-20, 7'45''). The Greens led the game by 9 (35-24, 11'03''), but Kolossos kept fighting only to cut the lead against to 4 points at the half time (49-45).
Jonas Maciulis and Dimitris Diamantidis were the ones to lead to a +15 (62-47, 22'50''). Ramel Curry scored 8 points in a row to lead the game to +18 (74-56, 30'). The American guard was in the zone leading the game to 78-56 (30'45''). Mike Bramos stretched the margin to 23 points (88-65, 35'25''), Nikos Pappas made it a 30 point game (95-65, 37'), while James Gist led to the 100 points (100-69, 38'50''), letting Bramos score the final points of the game (102-69).
Referees: Kaldiris, Tsounas, Simeonidis
Quarters: 28-24, 49-45, 74-56, 102-69
Panathinaikos (Alvertis): Bramos 7, Curry 14, Fotsis 2, Ukic 8, Lasme 18 (7reb, 5 a), Mavrokefalidis 8, Diamantidis 11, Gist 10 (3bs), Pappas 4, Jankovic 8, Maciulis 4, Wright 8
Kolossos R (Koutalianos): Papantoniou 8, Car 6, Matsamas, Georgallis 5, Hopkins, Smith 10, Stephanidis 2, Tsamis 2, Kakaroudis 18, Pantic 19, Danas
Numbers
Stephane Lasme was 1 2pt shot made from reaching 200 in Basket League OPAP and he finished the game with 9/13! He had 18 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists.