THE Panathinaikos suffered the away defeat with her hands down from her Barcelona, leaving with the heavy 86-60 from “Palau Blaugrana”.
The “greens” lost touch with the game from the beginning of the second period, accepting an individual 28-10 … Everything went wrong for the “clover”, on a night where the best players were missing, he shot with bad percentages from the three-pointer, while the most important of all, he made many mistakes …
The coach of the podium records on www.sportfm.gr everything that judged the match…
Mistakes, mistakes … mistakes: From the very beginning of the match, Panathinaikos fell to many and effortless mistakes, which continued throughout the match, thus ending the match with 17. It is indicative that in the first possession of the match Bohoridis made a wrong pass, with the “greens” reaching the five in the first four minutes, closing the first half with 13 …
If nothing else, in a home like Barcelona where in order to leave with a positive result you have to be infallible and focused to the maximum, Panathinaikos came out on the floor spiritually unprepared and without a clear mind. Certainly the significant absences of his two leaders, Nemanja Nedovic and Ioannis Papapetrou, “Hurt” the whole of Dimitris Priftis, depriving him of two valuable solutions that, among other things, offer calm and confidence to the team.
The … switch fell in the second period: The players of Dimitris Priftis may not have had a good first period offensively – one-dimensional game focusing on Papagiannis – however defensively they played hard, took out energy, remaining close to the score (17-15).
In the second ten minutes, however, he came the … total collapse for the “clover”, both in defense and attack. The “blaugrana” had two explosive three minutes, initially with a 13-2 streak and Exum starring, and then at the end with an unanswered 13-0, in which Hayes had ten points.
Panathinaikos in turn not only could not limit the Spaniards, on the contrary succeeded just ten points, the six of which came from shots by Meikon and Papagiannis and two shots inside the field …
Tragic percentages behind 6.75 meters: Another element that played an important role and led Panathinaikos to this heavy defeat was the … tragic percentages of the “greens” behind 6.75 meters.
The players of Dimitris Priftis scored just one three-pointer in 12 attempts, which translates to a percentage of … 8.3%. It is noteworthy that the only goal came in the first minute of the match by Lefteris Bohoridis. Since then, he missed eleven consecutive three-pointers, several of which were free …
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