Panathinaikos lost to Ephesus, Grigonis won!

Not even in front of Effects was able to Panathinaikos!

The “greens” in a frozen climate due to the tragedy in Tempi gave the right to the Turkish team to leave with the “double” from OAKA (82-87), staying away from the pink leaves for the fifth consecutive game and falling to 8 -18 in the Euroleague.

THE Panathinaikos he was for the most part of the match behind the score, he was even at -16 and only at the end he managed to get some reaction, without really claiming the victory.

It was not, however, all bad for Christos Serelis’ team, which saw Marius Grigonis play a key role and make his best performance in green, scoring 23 points on 5/7 three-pointers. From then on, Lee who fought until the end had 19 points, while 8 had o Thomas which made a good first part.

For Efes, which rose to 13-13 and continues the hunt for the top eight, it was improbable with 24 points Will Clyburnwhile Bryant had 16, Larkin 13 and 12 with 7 rebounds Zizic.

The match

The two teams started by going point-to-point in the first few minutes, with Ponitka, Kalaitzakis on the one hand and Clyburn, Zizic on the other hand, to make it 8-6, before the Pole wrote 11-8. The match was very slow at this point, and Zizic responded with four points of his own for 11-12, while Grigonis made it 14-12 with a 3-pointer, with Clyburn immediately making it 14-15. The two teams continued hand in hand until the end of the quarter (21-18).

With the start of the second period, Clyburn and Manzoukas traded 3-pointers for 24-21, before a red-hot Grigonis made it 27-23 and Thomas the 32-25. Clyburn and Bryant responded, cutting it to 34-30 for the Turks, who continued to find solutions with Larkin to bring them ahead of the score (34-36). THE Matt Thomas immediately regained Panathinaikos’ lead with a three-pointer (37-36) and two shots (39-36). However, Ataman’s team again responded, closing the half in front thanks to Larkin and Zizic (40-43).

With the good morning of the third period, o Clyburn picked up where he left off and made it 40-46 with a three-pointer before Bryant made it 40-49. The situation became even more difficult for the blocked Panathinaikos, with the Bryant again to make a very difficult three-pointer for the +11 of the Turks (43-54). Panathinaikos found a reaction with Grigonis and Papagianni, down to 8 (48-56), before Lee made a three-pointer for 51-56 and a foul shot for 54-56. Efes recovered +8 with Bobois and Plays (54-62), with the third period ending at 54-64.

At the start of the fourth quarter, a three-pointer of his Singleton brought Ephesus to +13 (54-67) for the first time, before Larkin also brought it to +15 (57-72). The gap slipped even further when Bryant posted a 60-76. Panathinaikos with three points from Lee and Grigonis but also his layup Manjuka dropped to 8 (69-77), closing the gap to 6 with Lee (73-79). Nevertheless, a big basket by Larkin made it 73-81 and somewhere there the match ended, which had a final score of 82-87.

The quarters: 21-18, 40-43, 54-64, 82-87

Detailed match statistics here