“Steel” in Nice Panathinaikos!

In a game that for about 35 ‘was a derby, the Panathinaikos who played without Makon, Papapetrou, Jovic and Nedovic, “escaped” from the headquarters of the hard-nosed Ionian (68-61) for the 16th game of the Stoiximan Basket League and remained at the top of the standings!

A big protagonist for the guests was George Papagiannis that broke with 20 points and 17 rebounds (!), while Daniel made a huge appearance for the guests Hamilton with 21 points and 13 rebounds.



The match

After consecutive lost attacks, Ionikos with Kolovero and Hamilton responded to Papagiannis and White (6-5), who then gave a +3 lead to Panathinaikos (6-9). The specific players of the “greens” did not find supporters in the attack and continued alone, with Hamilton equalizing at the end of the first period (15-15).

Hugaz’s 18-19 was quickly converted to 23-19 by Mustafa and forced Prifti to call a timeout. Papagiannis fought alone (29-27) against the hosts who could easily find baskets, and managed to send the difference to +8 (35-27). The “clover” reacted and equalized with Hougaz and Papagianni (35-35), for Hamilton to come and send Ionikos to the locker room with +3 (38-35).

As was the case for most of the match, so at the beginning of the third quarter Papagiannis was fighting alone and Gondikas-Hamilton opened the αλ gap at +7 (48-41). Panathinaikos approached with Kaselaki and Bohoridis and within a short period of time, Mantzoukas equalized (52-52). Hamilton with 2/2 scored 54-52, but Mantzoukas gave his team the lead (54-55).

Mantzoukas and Sant Ross entered dynamically (56-61), but Ionikos did not sit idly by, bringing the match level with the amazing Hamilton (61-61). White’s five points gave calm to Panathinaikos (61-66) and Papagiannis’ nailing made the final 61-68.

The ten minutes: 15-15, 38-35, 54-55, 61-68

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