The extreme but real scenario that can bring Panathinaikos against Fenerbahce

THE Panathinaikos AKTOR after the great victory over Virtus in Bologna it has been done boss for second place in the Euroleague. It is enough to make it 2/2, this Friday in Munich against Bayern and next Thursday against Alba in Berlin.

In this case, the “greens” will face in the playoffs the winner of the play in between the seventh and eighth ranked, which is currently the Maccabi Tel Aviv and Virtus Bolognaas long as the Italian team wins the last matchday in Italy against Baskonia.

There is, however, an extreme scenario, but an actual one, that even if Panathinaikos is second in the regular season, it may have the misfortune to find as an opponent in the playoffs the Fenerbahce. That is, roughly the same as it happened last year with Olympiakos who, as the first team in the regular season, ran into the Polis team and had a lot of difficulty eliminating them. How can this inevitable eventuality be realized?

Fener will drop to seventh place if they lose in the last two matches, inside Efes and outside Olympiacos, but at the same time Maccabi is 2/2, defeating Barcelona outside and Armani Milano in Belgrade. With this difficult but not impossible combination of results, h Fenerbahce will play play in at home against the eighth and if they win they will face the second Panathinaikos.

Certainly, however, the “greens” would prefer as their second opponent one of Maccabi Tel Aviv (who play on the neutral ground of Belgrade without people), Virtus Bologna or Baskonia, compared to the team of Sarunas Jasikevicius and Nick Kalathy .