Panathinaikos kept its winning streak in the Euroleague championship as it went for victory number 2 . At its first home game of the season it downed CSKA Moscow by final score 74-60 in a very exciting matchup, home-team appearing in front of a full house fans stands. Panathinaikos and CSKA shared out the game in the first half of the battle. The Russians went for a better après tip-off presentation to get up by 5 (2-7, 3’10’’). Opposing rivals went neck-in-neck at rebounding (10-10) but misfortune to the basket in the green camp was the element that deprived it the opportunity to escape its guest, even though turnovers were kept at a zero status. Its stats were 1/8 in threes’ and 4/10 in twos’ in the first quarter if the encounter, home team having led twice by a single point (13-12 at 9’30’’ and 15-14 at 10’). Dusko Voujosevic watched as his team climbed to +4 an edge (17-21, 12’30’’), enforcing attempts in defense to close every possible lane towards the bucket. Panathinaikos got to certain solutions through defense, attempted to run thus getting to a 6-0 streak to lead on court (23-21, 14’). The game reigns swapped hands 5 times in the last 5 minutes before teams headed towards the locker rooms for the break hand in hand score wise (31-31). The clover made its own siege after 25’ when it managed to break away by 8 praise to stifling backcourt performance, board control and better range. Stratos Perperoglou marked 53-45 at 28’10’’ thanks to a partial 11-1 (42-44, 25’20’’). Zeljko Obradovic had slightly earlier called off for the first time in the clash from the bench at 23’15’’-Mike Batiste having been charged with his third personal foul- Aleks Maric, whilst at 27’04’’ Kostas Kaimakoglou got a bit of action under his feet. Two minutes later the aforementioned flexed the score to 58-47, sending the gap to an 11 point standard. Score and margin in which third quarter rested. It was Drew Nicholas draining a pair of triples in 1’30’’earlier who had aided in upping the ante in his team’s best interest. The game was far but ended. 60-49 (30’45’’) score formed by Mike Batiste, swooshed to 60-55 (33’30’’). Nicholas unleashed another jumper from his artillery to bring scoring value to his team (62-55, 34’55’’), Maric nicked the ball and made 64-55 off a fast-break, Sato copied his actions to 66-55 (37’), Nicholas closing a perfect circle with a trifecta to 69-55, 37’20’’). Dimitris Diamantidis was awarded an unsportsmanlike foul to form 71-55 with a couple of free throws (37’53’’), essentially sealing the win, encounter ultimately concluding at final score 74-60.
Referees: Mitjana (ESP), Chiari (ITA), Latisevs (LAT)
Quarters: 15-14, 31-31, 58-47, 74-60
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Tepic, Maric 4, Perperoglou 8, Batiste 6, Fotsis 4, Sato 17, Nicholas 18, Tsartsaris, Diamantidis 10, Vougioukas 3, Calathes 2, Kaimakoglou 2
CSKA Moscow (Voujosevic): Kurbanov, Bykov 2, Smodis 9, Siskauskas 3, Holden 5, Vorontsevich 5, Langdon 9, Marjanovic 5, Shved, Sokolov 2, Gordon 20
