Bayern’s castle fell and Panathinaikos came close to the top!

She snapped her home run streak Bayern and Panathinaikos came close to the top!

The “greens” faced plenty of difficulties for 37 minutes in Munich, but eventually managed to celebrate the victory with 80-69 thanks to a burst in the last three minutes of the match, forcing the Bavarians to their first home defeat in this year’s EuroLeague, after their 8-game winning streak!

Thus, Panathinaikos took its third consecutive victory and improved its record in 11-7coming one victory away from the top, while at the same time putting Bayern (also 11-7) under him, which he had also beaten in OAKA for the first round of the regular season!

The first scorer for the “greens” was Nanwho finished the game with 27 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists, while key players were also Mitoglou (15pts, 9 rebs), Grant (14p, all in the second half and Sloukas (11 points, 8 assists). A positive debut for him Gabrielwho had an impressive defensive presence with 5 (!) blocks, while scoring 6 points and collecting 8 rebounds.

On the other hand, for Bayern, he stood out Obst with 19 points and 6/11 three-pointers, while her two top scorers, Booker (14p with 0/3 three-pointers and was ejected 6 minutes before the end) and Edwards (11p with 4/16 shots and plenty of wrong choices) did not have a good night ).

The match:

Ataman started the game with Kalaitzakis, Brown, Nunn, Ernagometh and Yurtseven, not having Lessor and Grigonis available, while Herbert chose Edwards, Weiler-Bubb, Gifai, Voigtman and Booker for his starting five.

The match started with Panathinaikos entering “cold” offensively, with 0/2 two-pointers and 0/4 three-pointers in the first three minutes, giving Bayern the right to achieve 9 unanswered points and with Edwards to hit three shots he took from Ernagometh’s foul. Juancho “broke the pomegranate” for the “greens” and Nan reduced to 9-4, while o Sloukas with Panathinaikos’ first three-pointer of the night, he “wrote” the score to 11-7. However, Ataman’s team continued to lack concentration offensively and went without a basket for more than 3 game minutes, with Bayern leading by +9 (16-7), after a technical penalty by Juancho. In the last minutes of the first period, Panathinaikos made a short run of 6-0, while the Bavarians were off target with 0/7 three-pointers, getting closer to “shooting distance” (16-13).

The second period began with Gabriel scoring his first basket in the Panathinaikos jersey with a follow-up shot, putting his team in front for the first time in the match (16-17). The “greens” improved dramatically in defense and attack, found a rhythm and with Nan-Gabriel providing energy and spectacle, they made an impressive 17-4 run, escaping with a double-digit difference (20-30), while Sloukas reached early on 6 assists. However, from that point on in the game, Panathinaikos “frozen” out offensively, putting up just 2 points in the last 5:45 of the second period, making just 1/12 three-pointers and allowing Bayern to go on an impressive 16-2 run, going into the locker room with a four-point lead (36-32).

At the beginning of the third period o Nan scored five quick points with a three-pointer and a floater, giving Panathinaikos the lead again (36-37), with Obst to hit his third three-pointer, for 43-41 in favor of the Bavarians. Nan reached 18 personal points to tie the game at 43-43, while the two teams continued to go hand in hand in the score, while the “hot” Obst hit from 9 meters and in front of defense for 49-48. Absentee until that point Grantscored 7 consecutive points in a two-minute span to put Panathinaikos at +4 (51-55), while Gifai formed the 53-55 at the end of the third quarter.

Entering the fourth period, o Voigtman hit a three-pointer for 56-55, while a little later Nan with his big three-pointer put Panathinaikos at +3 (58-61), before Sloukas form with shots the 58-63. THE Grant scored three for 61-66 to reach 11 personal points in the second half, but Voigtman and Obst with threes of their own put Bayern back in front 67-66, but Grant continued to be pivotal for the “green”, scoring with three points for 67-69, before the Mitoglou and Sloukas let those from afar also hit, for +8 (67-75) of Panathinaikos with remaining for the final! Somehow, the “greens” never looked back, with them Mitoglou, Sluka and Nan for those to score with three points, before the final comes 69-80!

The quarters: 16-13, 36-32, 53-55, 69-80

The match statistics

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