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The Panathinaikos (11/20) basketball players from Athens, who are at home, overcome the double week of the Euroleague 86:83 (15:26, 14:20, 20:13, 21:11, 16:13) broke the AX Armani club (20/13) in Milan after extra time.
For Ettore Messina’s troops, this setback can be extremely painful, as their goal is to remain among the top four teams in the regular season and thus have a home-field advantage in the quarterfinals.
The Milan club had no fun with their opponents from the start of the match and by minute 7 they had already built up a solid lead: 20: 6. The difference jumped to 20 points in the second quarter (42:22), but Panathinaikos did not collapse.
After the big jump, the hosts managed to stabilize the situation and cut the deficit to 11 points – 39:50. A little later, the 6: 0 section allowed us to zoom in on the single digit number: 46:55. The guests rebounded and again took the lead by more than 10 points in acceleration of the decisive stage – 63:49.
However, PAO did not give up this time and halved the delay less than 6 minutes before playing: 59:65. Sergio Rodríguez responded with two points (67:59), but Panathinaikos ran 7-0 and reached 66:67. After the last minute, the teams exchanged accurate strikes and after Shavon Shields’ inaccurate shot, the Greeks even had a chance to escape, but Mario Hezonja missed and 14 seconds to go Kevin Punter was forced to stop the free-kick. The American hit only one shot of two and left the opportunity to the hosts, who took advantage of it – M. Hezonja snatched the extra time – 70:70.
What game!@mariohezonja send us to OT with the driving tray.# 7DAYSMagicMoment pic.twitter.com/ptBrgJjLar
– Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) April 1, 2021
In an additional 5 minutes, Panathinaikos already dominated, quickly gaining an 8-point lead (81:73), soon the difference reached 10 points (85:75), but this was not the end, as AX Armani managed to recover and had An opportunity snatched another extra time when Luigi Datome attacked from afar 5 seconds away, but his shot missed the goal and the Greens triumphed.
Panathinaikos: Mario Hezonja 17, Ben Bentilas 16 (6 sec.), Ioannis Papapetrou (3/6 triples, 5 rep.) And Georgios Papagiannis (7 rep.) After 14, Shelvinas Mackas 11 (2/3 triples)), Aaroans White 9 (Revelation 5).
“AX Armani”: Vladimir Micov 15 (3/3 triples), Kevin Punter 13 (2/8 triples), Shavon Shields (5 sec.), Kaleb Tarčewski and Zach LeDay 12 each, Sergio Rodríguez 10 (5 sec., 5 res.) .
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