What do the numbers say about Panathinaikos-Olympiakos? The victory of the “green” over the “red and white” it was also combined by various interesting statistics.
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*Christos Serelis, who celebrated the first victory of his career against Olympiakos, completed 211 games on the benches of the division and with them he entered the 25th of the relevant list of first-team players (from 1963-64). For this to happen he surpassed the late Kostas Politis who counted 210 matches.
*Dimitris Agravanis made the only cap for Panathinaikos in yesterday’s match, but it had a special, statistical value. The international forward with it became the 47th in the history of the professional Championship to reach 100.
*Panagiotis Kalaitzakis, with the six points he scored, exceeded 200 in his 54th appearance in the Basket League. The Panathinaikos guard had 2/3 three-pointers yesterday, while before this match he was 1/13 in the playoffs, 12/72 overall in this year’s Championship and 12/85 in his career in the Basket League.
Lee in the 20 foreign “thieves” of Panathinaikos
Paris Lee continued to “climb” the lists of foreign players who wore the jersey of Panathinaikos in the Basket League…
*With his 12 points he reached 320 and was alone in 50th place, leaving behind Ramunas Sisauskas who had 308 in the 2006-07 Championship season.
*Having 3/7 three-pointers, he reached 56 hits in the Championship and with them Howard Saint-Roch in 20th place on the relative list of “green” foreigners. The Cuban, however, needed two seasons (2020-22) to reach this number.
*By stealing the ball three times, he entered the top 20 of foreign “thieves” of Panathinaikos. He reached 55 steals and moved up to 19th after passing Arian Komazets (1992-93) and Jonas Maciulis (2012-14) who each had 53 steals.
On a team level…
*Panathinaikos, despite its victory, equaled its negative records in the season with 22 defensive and 29 total rebounds. He had 22 defensive tackles three more times while a total of 29 was recorded in his statistics and in the Championship premiere with Aris.
*It was the 11th match of this year’s Championship in which the winner did not have a higher ranking than the loser (67-70). It was the second time this year, that Panathinaikos reached victory although it had a lower coefficient in the evaluation system since the same thing happened in its away game against Lavrio Megabolt. At that time they had prevailed with 86-84 even though they had -8 in the ranking compared to the winning team (97-89).
*In addition to ending Olympiakos’ 51-game winning streak in the Championship and the 14-0 record the “red and white” had against them in all competitions, Panathinaikos scored its first home victory in the “eternal” derby after that of the 6th game of the 2018-19 Championship, on November 18, 2018, when he won 79-70 (Pappas 24, Langford 11 – LeDay 20, Printezis 11p, 9p).
In relation to the history of the finals…
*After the first two games of the series, the home team’s winning percentage in playoff finals history is 77.42%. The hosts count 96 and the visitors 27 victories in 30 series of finals.
*The 1-1 tie occurred for the 20th time in all 30 Basketball League Finals series. The previous 19 completed as follows…
3-1 6 times: 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2016, 2021.
3-2 10 times: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018.
1-3 1 time: 1993.
2-3 2 times: 1999, 2017.
*With the eight points it had in the second period, Panathinaikos scored the 7th performance of eight or fewer points in its history in the playoff finals and since 2001 when the games were divided into four quarters.
Fal 6th Olympiakos center with 100+ assists in the Basket League
Mustafa Fal helped Olympiakos creatively in another game with three assists. With these, the French international became the 40th player in total and the 18th foreigner in the history of the “red and whites” in the professional Championship to reach 100 assists.
In fact, Fal became just the 6th center in the history of Olympiakos in the Basket League, who reached a triple-digit number of assists. This list is as follows…
Dragan Tarlac 185 assists in 8 seasons (17th)
Giannis Bourousis 168 assists in 5 seasons (18th)
Nikola Milutinov 119 assists in 4 seasons (31st)
Nikola Vujicic 118 assists in 2 seasons (32nd)
Panagiotis Fasoulas 101 assists in 6 seasons (39th)
Mustafa Fal 100 assists in 2 seasons (40th)
Walkup with a career record and in the top 20 of Olympiakos’ “three-pointers”.
Thomas Walkup was limited to 18:56 minutes due to his ejection early in the second half, but still managed to set a Basket League career high with 14 points. In his previous 59 appearances, the Olympiakos guard had 13 points in the 1st final of this year’s playoffs and also in the match of the 13th game of last year’s Championship against Kolossos H Hotels in Rhodes.
At the same time, Walkap with the two accurate three-pointers he had (2/4) entered the top 20 foreign “three-pointers” of Olympiakos during the years of the professional Championship. He reached 48 and joined them in 19th place on the relevant list with Arian Komazets (1998-99) and the late Alphonso Ford (2001-02).
Even on an individual level…
*Kostas Papanikolaou, who didn’t leave the floor for even a second, kept Olympiakos to the end in claiming the victory and had a “full” statistic, including the seven assists with which he equaled his individual record for the season since he had as many in the 2nd semi-final with PAOK mateco. He was one assist away from his career record.
The captain of Olympiakos also entered… typically in the top 60 of the list of players with the most games in the Basket League. He reached 291 and surpassed Michalis Kakiouzis who retired with 290.
With the 15 points he had, Papanikolaou exceeded 2,100 in the category while at the same time reaching 800+ executed two-pointers. It counts 510/805 (63.35%).
At the same time, the international forward reached 30 games in the final series of the Basket League with a perfectly balanced record since he now has 15 wins and 15 losses.
*By stealing the ball once, Shaquille McKissick became the 16th foreigner in Olympiacos professional League history to reach 50 steals.
*Giannoulis Larentzakis entered the list of players who had 6+ missed three-pointers in this year’s Championship for the second time, a list in which no other Olympiakos player has been found. The international guard had 1/7 yesterday while he had the same performance in the home match against Prometheus for the 18th game.
At the team level, Olympiacos was forced into three negative season records for the Basket League…
*With the 65 points he scored after the previous one was the 68 he had again against Panathinaikos, in the home game of the regular season.
*With 15 assists since his previous negative record was the 20 he also had in the home derby of the regular season against Panathinaikos.
*With the 70 he “wrote” in the ranking since his previous lowest performance was the 75 points he had again in the regular season derby in SEF.
Source: Sport Fm
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