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The phrase “defeat as victory” tends to become a joke in Internet folklore, but I find it difficult to find a better cliché to describe what happened tonight at Panathinaikos.
He lost the match, but he gained in stature. He was defeated by Real, but he knows that he can beat a team of Real capacity.
The “cursed” of the night are many and bitter, however, intangible benefits must be placed in the palanquin, those that do not appear in the ranking.
What is really better for low-looking rebuild, rebuild, and look Panathinaikos? Ends 10ος instead of 13ος Or play a few rounds with the heavy hitters in the ring?
Personally, I think it is more useful to score points for your son in view of his future return to the upper floors, than to collect spores from here and there, in a desperate ranking.
Although his fatigue costs him after tomorrow’s game with Alba, his courage in the face-to-face with Real Madrid may seem more useful on the long road to the future.
Unless you think that 2020-21 Panathinaikos still has a chance of excellence in the Euroleague, so let’s all climb to the clouds together to dream …
The distance from defeat to victory, against the golden “queen”, I repeat, was a lost rebound, with little Yul as the perpetrator 14 seconds before the end of regular time.
Senior Panathinaikos players got together to displace Tavares and the astute Real captain took the opportunity to equalize.
There had been 7 unsuccessful attempts from 6m75: three by Panathinaikos (Nedovic and Sant-Roos), four by Real’s biggest.
The “greens” had another chance to clean the cluster without the torture of extensions, but they sealed them superbly.
Nedovic appears to have been charged with a bait role on the last possession against a defensive monster named Taylor, but his teammates were intimidated and the system never started.
This “broken play” finally crushed Panathinaikos, who did not take advantage again, despite their spectacular start in the first overtime (73-68).
Lasso retired the veterans and handed the reins to newcomer Abalde, who had his birthday (literally and figuratively) and let us know why Real is refusing to find a replacement for Cabazzo.
The Spanish international guard was the key man in the extra ten minutes. And he won the winning basket, with a boldness reminiscent of the good times of Navarro.
However, Panathinaikos had to make a series of fuzzy mistakes in second overtime to hit the mat.
Three wasted possessions with tow misses (Bohoridis, Papapetrou, Nedovic), three unnecessary fouls that sent the opponent to the line (Bohoridis bis, Papapetrou), a headlong shot from the Serb, uh, that was it.
The tank was emptied shortly before the thread, before a team that has quality and experience in all the lengths and widths of its bench.
Kozer, who played just 6.5 minutes, would be irreplaceable in Panathinaikos, as in Laprovitola, so we are not going far.
Or would a Taylor fall in the “clover”, so that Papapetrou, who tonight exceeded 44 minutes of participation, take a breather?
Giorgos Vovoras did not deserve to be defeated from the duel with the experienced, crowned and endowed with a plethora of Pablo Lasso jewels.
The defensive plan that kept the Real machine at 68 points was proven, but justified, especially when it was embellished by a complex defense that started from a zone and ended in a man to man.
Lasso was forced to extract the oil from his high basics, as a result of which he lost them early and reached the home stretch without them.
Tavares was poorly recruited with a lung injury from 41 minutes of participation, but with a weapon his invincible boy. In contrast, the initially invincible Randolph disappeared after the third period.
Of course, the excess effort also hurt Panathinaikos himself, from the moment the rotation “closed” and was limited to 5-6 brave men.
Especially the loss of Saint-Ross with 5the A foul early in the first overtime unleashed the Panathinaikos defense, over which they felt invulnerable.
Real’s full recovery began immediately after the Cuban’s expulsion, with a triple by Tombkins at 75-71.
Before that, the Spanish had thrown 10 bricks in a row from 6.75 m., As if they wanted to imitate the stoning with which the Panathinaikos started the night (0/9).
The “greens” were admired for their method and perseverance in trying to keep Tavares away from the Spanish scandal.
When the Cape Verde dinosaur fell behind and shot Papagiannis, Papagiannis took it without the slightest hesitation.
At one point, in fact, the tall Panathinaikos fired five consecutive peripheral shots in successive occupations, all of which were added to his repertoire this year.
If Mitoglou had helped him a bit with 1-2 three points earlier, the game could have taken a different form.
When Tavares dared to go out and score again, Papagiannis sank into the Spanish basket like a torpedo and finished the phases with nails, with his teammates coordinating perfectly (four times, if I measured correctly).
Concentrated and agile in his reflexes, George Papagiannis has become one more player this year. And I’m not talking about how hard he nails the ball. He always had it.
Nemanja Nedovic was slow to warm up, but perked up when Lasso assigned his mark to Elder-Yul and scored 23 points after the halftime break.
It would be excessive and arrogant to praise him for his scattered mistakes, while playing red.
Bentil’s 9 points against immature Garouba in the second period was further proof that Panathinaikos had read the game perfectly, with players and coach coordinated on the same wavelength.
Papapetrou remains irreplaceable, as he does almost all the work well, visible and invisible. His mistake at 82-82 will haunt him for a long time, but again, it is absurd to demand flawless runs from players who lift so much weight.
Or should we ask for a change for Lefteris Bohoridis’ defensive losses to the aphrodisiac Abalde?
The Northern Helladic point guard came in from the edge of the bench to play two overtime after the loss of Sant-Roos, Mac. He started with a boy basket and didn’t panic for a moment.
His two well-targeted shots in the end of the first overtime and the offensive foul that immediately beat Yul, of whom so many have been defeated, were his personal gallon.
This particular defense would be envied by Diamantidis, while previous shots would hardly be scored by Kalathis.
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