A defensive battle that led to wide swings ended with Panathinaikos holding onto a 59-65 comeback road win over ALBA Berlin in the German capital on Friday. Panathinaikos raised its Group E record to 4-2 and now holds third place exclusively. ALBA fell to 3-3 and shares fourth place with FC Barcelona. ALBA led 41-31 midway through the third quarter but scored only free throws for the next 10 minutes as Panathinaikos used a 4-20 run to eventually take its own double-digit lead, 50-61 on back-to-back corner three-pointers by Antonis Fotsis. ALBA rallied behind 6 points from Alex Renfroe to within 59-62 heading into the final minute, but couldn't complete its own comeback try. Loukas Mavrokefalidis led the winners with 11 points, while Dimitris Diamantidis and Vlantimir Giankovits had 10 each.
Score in each period: 13-13, 29-22, 45-45, 59-65| Time | Pts | 2FG | 3FG | FT | Rebounds | As | St | TO | Blocks | Fouls | |||||
| O | D | T | Fv | Ag | Rv | Cm | |||||||||
| A..J. Slaughter | 8:16 | 3 | 0/0 | 1/3 | 0/0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lefteris Bochoridis | 9:29 | 3 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Vladimir Jankovic | 28:48 | 10 | 2/5 | 1/2 | 3/4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Antonis Fotsis | 27:42 | 9 | 1/2 | 2/5 | 1/2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| DeMarcus Nelson | 26:18 | 6 | 2/9 | 0/2 | 2/4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Loukas Mavrokefalidis | 18:52 | 11 | 4/7 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Dimitris Diamantidis | 28:30 | 10 | 0/5 | 2/2 | 4/4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| James Gist | 22:10 | 5 | 2/3 | 0/1 | 1/4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Esteban Batista | 18:17 | 6 | 2/3 | 0/0 | 2/4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Janis Blums | 11:38 | 2 | 0/0 | 0/2 | 2/2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Totals | 200:0 | 65 | 13/35 | 8/19 | 15/24 | 11 | 16 | 27 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 26 |
| Average | 37.1% | 42.1% | 62.5% | ||||||||||||
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