Panathinaikos’ negative records and Bacon’s season highs

THE defeat in yesterday’s derby with AEK extended the negative streak for him Panathinaikos and brought back something that was last done 31 years ago. The “greens” reached the three consecutive defeats of the regular season, after they had been preceded by those by PAOK mateco outside Olympiakos at home, for the first time since the 1991-92 season, the last before the creation of the ESAKE Championship.

Then the “greens” with him Zeliko Pavlisevich on their bench, they had been defeated in three consecutive games (17th-19th matchday) by Olympiakos away (69-60), Peristeri at home (78-81) and Aris away (100-81). A year earlier, for the 1990-91 season, Panathinaikos suffered four consecutive regular season defeats, losing to Panionios away (99-96), PAOK at home (74-94), Iraklis away (86-72) ) and Olympiakos away in overtime (110-94). However, it will probably not repeat the same record, since it welcomes Apollon Patras on Sunday.

The three-game losing streak combined with first-round defeats against Aris and Olympiakos away from home took Panathinaikos’ total to five defeats, a number they reached for the first time in 20 years. The last time the Greens had five regular season losses was in 2002-03 when they had a 21-5 record but were ranked No. 1.

However, there was also a positive record for Panathinaikos yesterday. Or rather three. THE Dwayne Bacon made the best of his 13 appearances in the Basket League. He had 24 ranking performance above the one he had in the home game against Ionikos (22). The American also set new individual records for points (22) and rebounds (9) since his previous best performances were those of 21 points he scored in the home game against PAOK mateco and the seven rebounds he had in the home match against Ionikos .