Panathinaikos lost a 16 point edge and alongside the points of a win at the Glyfada indoor arena, Ikaros Kallitheas to snatch the win by 72-68 in Basket League OPAP game 4.
Panathinaikos was the dominator on court first minutes coming off tip-off. 0-7 (1’26’’) was quite a pleasing sample for the Greens that kept up the pace on forward. Pressure in defense, good three point range behind Diamantidis, Bramos, Panko and Kitchen all going for four consecutive beyond the arc shots, got the score board reading 2-16 (4’). Ikaros got to its second basket from the field only at 6’17’’ (7-18). Argyris Pedoulakis saw his players create a 16 point gap slightly after (7-23, 7’35’’) the home team however starting to seem more aggressive. It was less hesitant at draining shots result being a gradual gap closing to 5 points (29-34, 16’40’’). Last minutes in the first half though were bearing Panathinaikos’ seal once again. A partial 1-8 run sent teams to the locker rooms score resting at 30-42.
Argyris Pedoulakis watched his player step out aggressively for the second half, uping the ante swiftly to 16 points (30-46, 21’26’’). It was unable however to maintain the difference. Ikaros found the way to the basket, continued to take its attempts towards that direction and the result was it in a 7 point time span to run a partial 16-4 and creep up to a 4 point shadow (46-50, 28’30’’), distance at which it closed third quarter (48-52). Last period unraveled as a derby. Ikaros tied (58-58, 34’08’’) and managed to lead (66-65, 37’45’’). Lasme provided Panathinaikos with the lead once more (66-67, 38’). Teams went neck in neck all the way in the clutch, Ikaros Kallitheas to prevail ultimately on the floor, final score 72-68.
Referees: Goumas, Xenikakis, Bikas
Quarters: 13-23, 30-42, 48-52, 72-68
Ikaros K (Priftis): Strnad, Larentzakis, Kyritsis 19, Vrkic 16, White 2, Faye 12, Gibson 15, Giannakidis, Simtsak 8
Panathinaikos (Pedoulakis): Schortsanitis 5, Bramos 10, Panko 9, Maciulis 6, Ukic 8, Lasme 7, Tsartsaris 2, Diamantidis 7, Kitchen 9, Xanthopoulos, Giannopoulos 3, Skordilis 2
Numbers
Today’s game was Panathinaikos’ HEBA League game 600 and game 400 for Dimitris Diamanitdis. He is the 7th player in the history of the HEBA Laegue to reach such a number after Nikos Boudouris, Nikos Chatzis, Fragiskos Alvertis, Giorgos Kalaitzis, Dimitris Papanikolaou and Kostas Tsartsaris. Also, behind his 4 shots from the line in the game he reached 901 in his career.
