Panathinaikos – Partizan 96-84: Thursday streak win for “greens” despite absences at Euroleague

He continued his awesome Euroleague appearances and “scanned” with Partizan in OAKA for her 20th race, comfortably reaching his fifth streak victory in the event. Although he competed without Grigonis, Lesor, Slouka, Brown and Antetokounbo, Panathinaikos was again unstoppable in the attack, with Nan offering a new show at OAKA and Juancho, Osman and Yurcheven complementing a great “quart” for Erkin Ataman’s team against Partizan in Euroleague. CORVERSE Panathinaikos thus celebrated his 13th victory in 20 games in this year’s Euroleague and approached the top of the rankings, where he threw the Obradovic Serbs at 10-10. The game Panathinaikos entered the game nervously, having significant absentees in his 12th and was found losing 8-2 to Partizan, but with Nan and Grant giving solutions aggressively, he easily managed to reach his own lead. With her defense… she even bites then, Erkin Ataman’s team kept the Serbs at 13 points in the first period, for 23-13 at 10′′. The second quarter began in the same pattern, with Partizan reducing initially, but Panathinaikos reacting with Nan, who became an early “two-digit” for European champions. With a “storm” of tripons at the end of the period however, the score was “executed” before halftime, but Panathinaikos retained his important lead, with Osman and Juancho also being decisive for Ataman’s team. The first 20 minutes of the match was thus completed with a score of 49–38. CORVERSE In the third period, Partizan tried to react and reduced to a one-digit number the difference, restricting Nan with double team, but the American managed to “share” the ball and Panathinaikos found solutions with Juancho and Yurcheven this time, again increasing his progress. The individual score in the 10 minute even found him a winner and the score was closed at 75–63 at 30′′. Panathinaikos however appeared even better in the last period of the race and “extended” the difference even more than 20 points, with Grant also becoming a two-digit and MVP of the race, having 8 assists, with 7 rebounds and two steals. Partizan only managed to “run” a streak in the match finale and when everything had been decided to reduce to the final 96–84. The quarter-minutes: 23-13, 49-38, 75-63, 96-84 The statistics of players Panathinaikos (Ataman): Kalaitzakis 7 (2/2 two-point, 1/2 three-point, 5 rebound), Osman 18 (3/6 two-point, 2/4 three-point, 6/9 shots, 3 rebounds), Papapetrou, Grant 14 (5/5 two-point, 4/4 shots, 7 rebounds, 8 assists), Nan 25 (6/8 two-point, 4/8 three-point, 1/1 shot, 2 rebounds, 4 assists), Gabriel, Ernangometh 15 (1/4 two-point, 3/6 three-point, 4/6 shots, 8 rebounds, 2 assists), Mitoglou, Jürcheven 17 (8/12 two-point, 1/2 shots, 8 rebounds) Partizan (Obradovic): Davis 19 (7/11 two-point, 1/2 three-point, 2/2 shots, 3 rebounds), Lundberg 16 (2/2 two-point, 3/4 three-point, 3/3 shots, 3 rebounds, 7 assists), Carlick Jones 3 (1/3 two-point, 1/2 shots, 1 assist, 1 wrong), Nilikina 3 (1), Washington 1 (0/4 shots, 1/4 shots), Nukitch, Pokusvsky 2 (1/6 shots, 4 rebounds), Brown 23 (8/12 two-points, 2/6 three-points, 1/1 shot), Bonga 7 (1/4 shots, 4/4 shots, 4 rebounds, 2 assists), Mike 4, Tairik Jones 6 (2/8 two-points, 2/2 shots, 8 rebounds, 2 ass, 5 errors)