Panathinaikos got to another win at home against Maroussi, prevailing by the final 90-73 for day 4 of the Greek League.
It took no more than a few minutes for Panathinaikos to establish its pace and take control in the clash. Vassilis Spanoulis came off the bench to enhance the team with velocity and solutions at the open field drills, frontcourt connected with backcourt players to produce results and 10-10, minute 5’50’’ score, swooshed to 18-10 at 7’10’’ and further on to 32-17 slightly after second quarter tip-off. Drew Nicholas was next in line to distribute the basketball exquisitely to his guys thus managing to make great use of Nikola Pekovic on the receiving end whilst Dimitris Diamantidis undertook the assignment of upping the ante to +17 at 15’20’’ (39-22).
Maroussi reemerged however in the match-up, road it usually goes down as distinguished by the clover’s technical staff, feisty, in an attempt to exploit anything presented to it by Panathinaikos. It tried to cut the trail, stay close in scoring and achieved its goal up to a certain point. Nevertheless, every time it crept up on its host, the greens always seemed to find the way back to the hoop, score board reading 44-30 as teams headed towards the locker rooms for the break. Numbers bared proof of the home-team superlative as it got better range than its guest but was also in the lead in second string statistics categories, only dark spot the 6 turnovers during the first 20 minutes. As far as Maroussi went it showed disappointing stats in each and every department, actually even including that of free-throws (8/16).
The clover mounted +16, game recommencing (46-30, 20’20’’) but its opponent got to unguarded shots, renewed several offences coming off regained boards hence it got to pick up the slack down to a single figure distance for the first time since 8’50’’, Michalis Pelekkanos sinking a three to 52-43 (24’30’’). A mini 6-0 run flexed the score to 58-43 (27’), as the quarter ended at 66-49. Giorgi Shermadini flushed the ball with dominance immediately as teams returned to the floor for fourth quarter action, cruising Panathinaikos to +19 (68-49, 30’15’’), a pair of three’s by Vspan and disciple Nick Calathes sent the gap into +20 overture (76-55, 33’), Fotsis putting the cherry on top to a +23 edge (78-55, 33’40’’). The image shifted little down the stretch to the game buzzer, Panathinaikos downing Maroussi to 90-73, remaining undefeated up to date, after the curtain of game 4 of the Greek League.
Referees: Spyridonos, Karakatsounis, Mitsopoulos
Quarters: 27-14, 44-30, 66-49, 90-73
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Tepic 7, Spanoulis 10, Perperoglou 7, Batiste 11, Fotsis 6, Golemac, Nicholas 7, Tsartsaris, Diamantidis 12, Pekovic 16, Calathes 8, Shermadini 6
Maroussi (Bartzokas): Milosevic 7, Keys 14, Lukas 2, Pelekanos 9, Batis 3, Homan 11, Mavroidis 4, Calathes P. 15, Nadjfei, Kaimakoglou 8
*Yorgos Bogris, Dimitris Verginis and Sarunas Jasikevicius were not on the official line-up.
