In the fight for third place in the Kaunas tournament – “Pao” triumphs in extra time / News

The Athens Panathinaikos team took third place in the WE’RE BACK preseason tournament organized by the Euroleague.

Georgios Vovoro students after a tenacious fight during extra time 110: 102 (26:23, 23:20, 19:22, 24:27, 18:10) broke the ALBA basketball players in Berlin.

The winner of the duel was decided at the end of the match. With just over 2 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Niels Giffey reached the semicircle and increased ALBA’s lead to 3 points (89:86). However, Ioannis Papapetrou responded with three points and tied the score – 89:89.

Ben Bentil then hit the colon, and Peyton Siva stabbed a long shot and regained the lead for the German team – 92:91.

ALBA managed to fend off Pao’s attack, and Siva nearly scored the second triple in a row: the arc spat the defender’s shot. With 9.2 seconds left in the quarter, Pao strategist Georgios Vovor called for a minute of rest and lined up for the decisive attack.

At the start of the attack, Papapetrou fouled Thiemann and went to the penalty line. Still, the Greek made only one penalty and tied the score (93:93).

ALBA had little more than 6 seconds left, but the Berliners did not organize a soft attack and the game went into extra time.

During overtime, the initiative was taken over by the Athens team. Marcus Foster hit a double point and scored two straight three points, another long shot was added by Pierre Jackson and Papapetrou scored a foul and Panathinaikos, who scored 11: 0, scored an 8-point lead – 108: 99.

Foster, who had a powerful performance in the ranks, scored 29 points (4/5 dvit., 7/9 trit.), Bounced 3 balls, made 3 assists and scored 29 utility points.

“In the morning, we all agreed that we should reduce the number of mistakes we make. We still have to work on that, because (mistakes) can lead to the end of the match, said Vovor after the win. – I still want to praise the mentality of the players. For the full 45 minutes they fought, shared the ball, played aggressively. Work is the only way to improve your game in the future. “

In the duel with “Žalgiris”, the Athens team made 15 successful passes. The strategist after yesterday’s game said the number is too low. Still, Panathinaikos had 24 assists today.

The specialist said that such increase was due to fast and additional transmissions during the attacks.

“It just came to our notice then.” Žalgiris “played aggressively and we didn’t move the ball fast enough to play the second picnic. Today, the players reacted to this and we attacked as we wanted. We made quick decisions and that allowed us to collect 24 transfers. effective, ”said Pao’s strategist.

Panathinaikos scored 15 of 33 points (46%) in this match. The Greek team hit 3 long shots during extra time alone, allowing for a winning streak. This was also emphasized by ALBA strategist Aito García Renaissance.

“We knew we were going to play extra time because Panathinaikos and I always play extra time. In the last minutes they attacked very well from a distance and as a result they defeated. However, I am not unhappy, because I know that we are not fully prepared and not yet. we have all the players, ”Renaissance said.

ALBA: Johannes Thiemann 21 (Rev 8), Maodo Lo 17 (Rev 6), Niels Giffey and Luke Sikma (Rev 6, Rev 6) – 14, Peyton Siva (Rev 5) and Jayson Granger after the 13.

Panathinaikos: Marcus Foster 29 (7/9 trit.), Ioannis Papapetrou and Nemanja Nedovičius (4 vol.) – 19 each, Zach Auguste 12 (7 p.).

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