Panathinaikos offered a festive spectacle against Karditsa!

He took a celebratory walk against the Carditsa the Panathinaikos AKTOR!

Without facing the slightest difficulty, the “greens” dominated throughout the match and offered a spectacle to their approximately 10,000 friends, who gave a strong “attendance” to OAKA, celebrating the comfortable victory with 96-72 and continuing their undefeated (12-0) run in this year’s Stoiximan GBL! On the other hand, Karditsa experienced its second consecutive defeat, falling to 6-6.

Leaders for the winners in the match were Ernagometh (17p, with 15 in the first half), Osman (14π) and Mitoglou (13p), while for the guests they stood out Allen (14p), Hortzler (13p, 6 rib) and Okoro (12p, 10 rib).

Now, Panathinaikos turns its attention to its home match against Virtus Bologna (3/1, 21:15) for the 19th matchday of the Euroleague, while Karditsa will host AEK Betsson in their next game.

The match:

Ataman started the game with Kalaitzakis, Brown, Nunn, Ernagometh and Youtseven, with Grant staying out as a precaution due to discomfort he felt in his leg and Gabriel, Grigonis, Lessor also staying out of the squad. On the other hand, Karditsa had Hortzler, Lewis, Diplaros, Allen and Okoro in their starting five.

The match started with Nan to continue where he left off in Munich, scoring with a three-pointer for 5-2, while Karditsa managed to renew its attacks with offensive rebounds, going ahead 9-7 thanks to a three-pointer from Allen. Nunn provided a superb assist to Brown for 11-9, before scoring again for three for 14-11, then into action Ernagomethscoring with a three-pointer and a layup for 23-14. THE Camberides with a three-pointer and a foul cut it to 23-17, but Juancho was unstoppable for Panathinaikos, finishing the first period with 15 points, 4 rebounds and 2 steals, shaping the 27-20 of the first quarter.

At the start of the second period, Hall reduced the score to 27-22 for Karditsa, with the Ernagometh to reach 17 (!) for 29-22, while Panathinaikos “tied up” its defense and continued to find solutions in the attack, making the first double-digit difference in their favor (35-25) with a shot by Papapetrou, before seeing him Mitoglou to launch with his three-pointer the difference to 15 (40-25)! Karditsa, on the other hand, was unable to find ways to score, having scored only 5 points in the first 7 minutes of the quarter, with Panathinaikos completely dominating and… pulling away (47-25), with an emphatic nailing of Papapetrou! The first half ended with Ataman’s team playing amazing defenses and provide a spectacle to its attacks, winning by a partial score of 29-9 in the second quarter and going to the locker room with 17 assists for only 2 turnovers, ousa ahead with an impressive +27 (56-29)!

The image of the match did not change even in the third period, with Panathinaikos to keep his foot off the gas and with Ataman to open the rotationgiving participation time to Antetokounmpo and Samoturov. Osman made a series of baskets, reaching 14 personal points and making it 61-37, while then Brown “heated up” as well, giving aggressive solutions for 66-43! THE Sloukas restored the difference in favor of the “greens” to +27 (78-51) with consecutive three-pointers, before Hortzler does it 78-54 with a buzzer-beater of his own three-pointer!

The fourth quarter is of a procedural nature, with Okoro to double-double after his improbable alley-oop dunk, earning a standing ovation from the OAKA crowd, while Kalaitzakis with a basket-foul made it 83-60. THE Mitoglou hit for three, shooting the difference to +29 (89-60) for the first time. Somewhere there and with 5 minutes left to the end, Panathinaikos dropped its pace, comfortably reaching the final 96-72.

The quarters: 27-20, 56-29, 78-54, 96-72

The match statistics

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