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The night at OAKA ended with a suspicion of pride, but the mini counterattack that brought together some of the uncollected is not enough to camouflage the image of bankruptcy.
The Panathinaikos sometimes find the courage to reverse big differences, but not every Saint John day. Not even on January 7.
Better not say whose “hey-” was at OAKA tonight. It is possible that the ancient Russian calendarists were celebrating some kind of Christmas, but it was the Panathinaikos that looked like a yellowish medieval calendar.
The boat was visibly out of control and the players didn’t even have the motivation that the presence of a new coach used to offer. What coach are we talking about?
The unfortunate Costas Charalambidis fell from the sky to make a doomed debut, while the administration’s efforts focused on hiring a man who has never trained in the Euroleague, has a weak record if a decade-old firework is excluded, He doesn’t even know that he will take over and land on an unknown planet.
The last time Odent Katas walked through the green locker room door, Zeljko Obradovic heated up the machine to win four European trophies, Pavlos and Thanasis Giannakopoulos lived and reigned, Frangiskos Albertis was the basketball player from Dixie amoustakos to Hercules and Lefteris Mantzoukas hadn’t even born.
Despite two years, Katas would surpass his father Ioannis Papapetrou in the Greek stadiums.
Charalambidis recruited the automatic pilot of the previous weeks with invisible interventions and obtained exactly the same result: defensive inaction, indifferent glances, non-existent communication, extinguished flame.
The situation worsened tonight, as there was not even hope of the rally and the internal need to protect the “project” of the races. Isn’t that what they say in modern Greek?
The motto after each Zenit basket was not “damn”, but “you’re not bored”. And tomorrow is, after all, the 15thος , τι 17ος , τι 13ος. As I wrote last week (still in Vovora), defeat addiction is a wild thing.
Xavi Pascual, who is not from yesterday, marked from the beginning the soft abdomen of the Greek defense.
Zenit also has a court general (Pangos) in charge of transforming the coach’s plan into action, while Panathinaikos has a hole in the shape of a Cuban instead of the point guard.
When Papagiannis stepped out to the perimeter to help with the scores, his ears were exposed to the mood of a great low-scoring scorer like Gudaitis.
Especially in the phase where Zenit wrote that it became 31-40 (interrupting a mini counterattack by the “greens”), my soul felt sorry for the tall Panathinaikos player.
Hollins’ shot from 7 meters was a great defensive feat, which was thrown into the bin as four teammates fell asleep behind him and let the Lithuanian approach the ball first.
This happened countless times in the game and the last to blame was Papagiannis. Goodaitis hit a bag of points, with opponents reaching for his chin or simply staring at him.
If Panathinaikos had a good defense for three minutes in the first half, it was due to Nedovic’s decision to push Rivers 2-3 times while at a disadvantage.
But the Serbian is not doing well on defense and his good humor quickly faded.
He even starred in the worst moment of the night, when he deliberately committed a (fourth) foul to get out of the game, even offering two shots to Zenit, with the score at 41-64. The sequel proved that the match was not over yet.
Costas Charalambidis managed to shrink the field a bit by recruiting a four-and-a-half tall kamikaze figure (Papapetrou, Kaselaki, Mitoglou, Papagianni), certainly known to Ioannis Papapetrou from his tenure at Olympiakos and Ethniki.
Then, and only then, did Panathinaikos play a kind of defense. The nerve and the philotimes were offered by the hamals: Kaselakis, Bohoridis, Mitoglou of the fourth period.
This element reminds everyone that this year’s Panathinaikos are not lacking for talent, but for tea and soul.
The Giorgos Vovoras replacement was supposed to be a corrective measure, but I’m afraid it’s a mistake. Vovoras was not the problem, but the glue that held the problem parts in place, even if it was lame and with difficulty.
It is not the first time that Panathinaikos has tried to step into the void in winter, but it is the first time that there is no visible net to slow its fall. The landing will not be smooth at all.
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