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Panathinaikos had lost 9 of 12 games in the inhospitable home of Baskonia. It’s a bad tradition, it’s true. Only two of them, of course, with a difference of two digits. Never before with more than 20. It happened on Thursday night, the result of his 93-72 and his sixth defeat in his first eight games in the Euroleague. Shock, you will say with reason. With 27-14 of the premises in the fourth period, the painful final in Vitoria seemed to come fatal. Should not. 69-58, from the fifth accurate triple of the demon Vildosa, came with 9’31”΄n ‘to go. Long time to activate instincts. But the ‘greens’ never reacted. Unconditional surrender to an opponent who in his three victories so far only once had scored more than 77 points.
Finding 14 above this year’s average, Ivanovic’s team automatically secured the clear lead for victory, knowing in advance that they have the fourth most efficient defense of the tournament (75.3 points) and would therefore push with force for error. Especially a Panathinaikos who came from the 19 lost balls in Valencia. The Vovora players didn’t make as many mistakes. The 14, however, were above what they are used to doing in their games so far (12.1). Worst; The hosts took advantage of them one by one and found 29 points, 15 in surprise.
The developed creation of the ‘greens’ could bring some balance. However, they fell behind again and did not escape the barrier of 16. Sand-Ross shared 6 final passes and Nedovic another 5, but so far. The obvious problem was the defense that the whole of the Greek champions could not play in the driving levers of the Baskonia. Henry gave only 12 assists, half of his entire team, when he and three other teammates finished with double-digit points. Peters kept punishing (4/5) as a one-dimensional but effective catch-and-shoot player who makes a living running for three, Gendraitis stole and nailed by surprise and Jackiri missed a complete shot, from the middle. distance (5/6).
Letting the hosts have 71% on two points and almost 50% on 3s was impossible for Panathinaikos either to take advantage of the impetuous 2-10 start or to redeem every good time that once brought them to +1 (31-32 , 14’49 ”) and the other at -1 (50-49, 24’38 ”). In each of these marginal situations a performance gap, lack of concentration and communication followed. Mack did not serve this time, blackmailing some situations, Bohoridis did not find a goal in 5 attempts, Papagiannis tried for three and lost a nail, while Nedovic’s 6 errors gave extra possessions to a Basconia who when he was squeezed found a way out ‘what the ‘greens’ gave him generously.
Ioannis Papapetrou of 17 points could not bear it and claimed in the final that “we play garbage“Yes, he avoided charging staff, because”I can’t target your teammates“but it was very clear when he added that”We have to get together, because this image is not worth it at the club. When we say it 100 times in training and it is not done on the field, there is a problemAnd in fact great, that you have to solve it first internally and then on the court. Not to lose the home game against Bayern.
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