Panathinaikos edged Red Star 69-63 for Euroleague Day 8 and advanced to the Top16. The bad news came from Jonas Maciulis, as he was injured during the game.
Red Star got the lead (0-6, 2'40''), Panathinaikos got quickly back to the game as Mike Batiste scored (9-8, 5'20''). The two teams didn't manage to get a big margin at any point of the game (11-16, 8'26''/17-21, 9'45''/22-21 20'). Green got the a 5 point lead (41-36, 22'). It was then when Jonas Maciulis got injured on the right calf. Red Star got back in the game, they took the lead once more (56-59, 34'20''), but Panathinaikos was better and with Gist and Bramos got all the way to the W (69-63).
Referees: Perez Perez (Spain), Maestre (France), Davidoff (Russia)
Quarters: 20-21,37-34, 52-48, 69-63
Panathinaikos (Pedoulakis): Bramos 8, Curry, 16, Batiste 8, Fotsis, Ukic 4, Lasme 2, Mavrokefalidis 4, Diamantidis 4, Gist 15, Jankovic, Maciulis 8
Red Star (Radonjc): Cvetkovic, Lazic 3, Blazic, Simonovic 2, Marjianovic 8, Radenovic 5, Katic 13, Nelson 16, Jenkins 5, Schilb 10
Mike Batiste: 4th leading scorer in Euroleague
Mike Batiste was three points away from reaching Nikola Vujicic for the fourth place in Euroleague Leading scorers of all times. He surpassed the Croatian by scoring 4 points just in the first period.
