PAOK destroyed Porto and made it “2 on 2”.

With seriousness in three of the four quarters, o PAOK won comfortably 89-70 Porto in the “palace” for the second matchday of the FIBA ​​Europe Cup and made “2 on 2” in the fifth group of the competition, rising to the first place of the group and hoping to maintain it throughout the first phase, leaving the “dragons” at 1-1.

The “doubleheader” reached +13 in the second period, Porto overturned the situation and took the lead with +1, but PAOK responded with several runs and reached double-digit differences before the final +19.

The leaders for Massimo Cancellieri’s team were Bartley with 18, Forrester with 15, Reynolds with 14 and Henderson with 12 points, while for the “dragons” Landis with 17, Omlind with 14 and Douglas with 12 points stood out.

The match

Porto led 3-0 in the “asleep” PAOK’s defense, but Forrester “awakened” the “two-headed” and helped the “black and white” 7-3 with his correct choices in the Portuguese basket. With a 7-0 run with Bartley’s outbursts in the opponent’s basket, PAOK reached 14-6 and, with aggressive polyphony by his Americans, at 18-9 and 20-11. Henderson’s 3-pointer made it 23-11 and Bartley’s 26-13, but errors by Massimo Cancellieri’s players then helped Porto go on a 5-0 run to cut it to 23-18 at the end of the first period.

With Delgado’s personal run at the start of the second period, Porto went down 26-23 and Omlind’s 3-pointer cut it to 28-26, but Forrester’s personal 4-0 brought +6. The American forward he did whatever he wanted aggressively for the “double-headed” and brought +8, but the mistakes of the Chancellor’s players constantly put the Iberians in the game, but the offensive versatility found by the “double-headed” gave him a 7-0 run and the +13. Porto responded with a 4-0 run for -9 and Bartley’s 3-pointer with a 5-0 run for 46-39 at halftime. PAOK had 16/28 two-pointers, 4/6 three-pointers and 21 rebounds and Porto had 9/20 two-pointers, 12/17 shots and 14 rebounds.

With a 5-0 run at the start of the third period, PAOK reached +8, but Porto’s perimeter shots brought a 7-0 run and 51-50. Landis’ three-pointer in PAOK’s 4-0 run brought the tie initially and the consecutive shots of the American ace of the Dragons from outside the 6.75 gave +1 to the poor regional defense of the home team. Katsivelis had taken action offensively for the Thessalonians at that time and brought +2 and with another three-pointer made it 68-63 at the end of the quarter.

OR failure of both at the start of the fourth period it was 68-64 for Porto. There, the accuracy of the free throws conceded by the Portuguese and the Americans gave a 5-0 run in the “doubleheader” for +9. A 7-0 run with Bartley as the protagonist brought +14 for PAOK, who now maintained +11 with +13 in shooting accuracy. A 6-0 run by the Americans made it 87-70 for the “doubleheader” with 59 minutes to go and the match ended at 89-70.

The quarters: 23-18, 446-39, 68-63, 89-70

The statistics