Panathinaikos is to perform in yet another defining game for its stride through the THY Euroleague Top16. The Greens have steered their attention towards the road game versus Real Madrid (March 21, 21.45, ET1) for Top16 Game 12. The clover delegation will be departing for the Spanish capital tomorrow morning (09.15), while tomorrow evening it will be training at the Palacio de los Deportes.
Numbers
Jonas Maciulis remains the only Panathinaikos player to have been present on the team’s starters for all of its Euroleague games played this season.
Argyris Pedoulakis has used 13 different starting teams up to date. Only Maciulis and Mike Bramos have competed in all of Panathinaikos’ games in the league.
Maciulis has made at least one triple in 11-out of-12 of his last Euroleague games, scoring 28-for-68 threes (46.7%) over this time span.
Dimitris Diamantidis remains 3 blocked shots shy of 100 and to become the first ever Euroleague guard to reach such a number. Also, he has drained at least one trifecta in his last 6 Euroleague games and in 10-out of-11 of his last games.
Roko Leni Ukic needs only 5 points to hit 1,000 for Euroleague and 3 good three-pointers in order to hit 100.
Kostas Tsartsaris needs only 4 threes to make 100 in his Euroleague career.
Stephane Lasme still leads Euroleague in blocked shots (2p.g). He has at least one block in his last 4 games and in 8-out of-9 of his last games. He needs only 3 stops to reach 100 in his Euroleague career. He has also made all of his last 11 charity shots attempted.
Sofoklis Schortsanitis has performed his best offensive game with Panathinaikos versus Real Madrid in Spain during regular season, when he tallied 23 points in 19 minutes game time.
“Relations”
Mike Bramos was Jaycee Carroll’s teammate in Gran Canaria for the 2010-11 season.
Martynas Pocius has been teammates with Jonas Maciulis in the Lithuanian national team, when it nailed the bronze medal in the 2010 World Championship held in Turkey.
