Panathinaikosis heading back home aspiring also to head back to victories in Euroleague with the clash versus Unicaja Malaga. The clover will be hosting the Spanish team on Thursday, January 10 (20.45) for Top16 Game 3. Practice was completed with no absentees since Dimitris Diamantidis and Marcus Banks both participated in part of it.
*Panathinaikos Head Coach, Argyris Pedoulakis’ pre-game Press Conference for the clash versus Unicaja Malaga will be held tomorrow (January 9) at the OAKA indoor arena, at 18.00.
Numbers
This game will be Panathinaikos’ 250th Euroleague game, as far as the league’s current form.
Panathinaikos needs 112 points in order to reach 20,000 in Euroleague, always concerning the league’s current form; a number which Caja Laboral, Barcelona ,Maccabi Tel Aviv and Olympiakos have also reach. Only Panathinaikos and Maccabi Tel Aviv have less participation time in comparison with the other teams, since they were incorporated to Euroleague in 2001.
In all likelihood Kostas Tsartsaris will find himself at second place of the list of players with the most Euroleague participations. He will be shaking-up with Emporio Armani Milano’s Gianluca Basile and his 223 participations. He is also 5 triples shy of 100 drained in the league.
Mike Bramos has made at least one three in his last 7 Euroleague games. Through his last six games he has drilled 15-for-34 (44.1%).
Stephane Lasme leads Euroleague in blocked shots (2.1 p.g.) and offensive rebounds (2.8 p.g.)
Dimitris Diamantidis is expected to find himself, alone at second spot of the list of the all-time Euroleague “burglars”. At the moment he shares the spot with Pablo Prigioni, players having nicked the ball 320 times each. He also needs only 4 blocks in order to become the first Euroleague guard to ever reach 100 in his career.
Relations
One relation to mention, but a special one; James Gist until recently wore the Unicaja Malaga jersey and Andy Panko the Panathinaikos one. The swap amongst the two teams is a Euroleague history milestone.
Also, Jasmin Repesa, Head Coach of Unicaja Malaga, is also the Head Coach of the Croatian national team, captain of which is Roko Leni Ukic.
Unicaja Malaga’s titles
Korac Cup: 2001
Spanish National League: 2006
Spanish National Cup: 2005
History
Panathinaikos – Unicaja Malaga12-4
2011-12 Euroleague 98-77 77-76*
2010-11 Euroleague 82-56 77-61*
2008-09 Euroleague 81-69* 103-95
2006-07 Euroleague 87-72 61-67*
2005-06 Euroleague 79-82* 93-95
2004-05 Euroleague 83-75* 88-69
2003-04 Euroleague 91-67 78-83*
2002-03 Euroleague 77-65 75-69*
Unicaja Malaga’s Euroleague stride this season up to date
Regular Season (8W-2L)
Unicaja Malaga-Maccabi Tel Aviv80-85
Asseco Prokom Gdynia-Unicaja Malaga75-77
Unicaja Malaya-Montepaschi Siena 91-89
Unicaja Malaya-Alba Berlin 67-62
Chalon-Unicaja Malaga78-88
Maccabi Tel Aviv-Unicaja Malaga 62-64
Unicaja Malaya-Asseko Prokom Gdynia 63-48
Montepaschi Siena-Unicaja Malaga91-72
Alba Berlin-Unicaja Malaga 63-74
Unicaja Malaya-Chalon 86-62
Top16 (1W-1L)
Unicaja Malaga-Brose Baskets Bamberg 85-82
Zalgiris Kaunas-Unicaja Malaga75-63
