One of the best games of the season took place at the OAKA with Panathinaikos taking a huge win-tag, defeating Fenerbahce 91-90 as part of the 25th Euroleague match. On 15-10 the Greens went up, at 16-8 the Turks fell.
Centric Nan was a marvelous protagonist for Ergkin Ataman’s team as he was the one who entered during the final period and shot the shot that judge the clover’s victory. The game put out a dismal result for the first three periods.
The first scorer for the winners was Kostas Sloukas with 23 points, with the valuable help of Central Nann who stopped at 17. On the other hand, Nigel Hays-Davis, who was also a fateful failure in Fener’s last shot and making the foul In Nan, he had 21 points and Eric McColum scored 18 points.
The game started with Fener 5-2 and Panathinaikos running an 8-0 part to find +5 (10-5) at 2 ′. The Greens had control of the race, but the Turks did not allow them to escape by managing to equalize to 14-14 at 6 ′. Somewhere there, Ergkin Ataman’s players ran a 10-2 individual to find +8 (24-16) at 9 ′. In the last minute, however, Sarunas Yasikevicius’ team responded with an 8-0 run to close the first period in the draw 24-24.
Panathinaikos entered the second quarter dynamically, fully imposing his pace and running a 13-4 individual to find +9 (37-28) at 15 ′. Fenner reacted and made sure to respond with her own 12-2 individual to get ahead after a long time with 40-39 and 18 ″ on the clock. Central Nan was apt in the last attack and gave the Greens the right to go to the locker room for the respite at +1 (41-40).
The second half started with both teams playing hard defense and falling into mistakes, so the score was low. Fenner, however, ran a 6-0 run to +5 (46-41) at 22 ′.
As time went on, he found his pace, with Panathinaikos again ahead 51-48 at 26 ′, but the Turks making the overthrow and the Greens equalizing 54-54 at 27 ′. The lead changed hands a few more times with Devon Hall scoring from afar and closing the third period at +3 for Fener with 64-61.
In the last quarter, Sarunas Yasikevicius’ team reached +5 (66-61) but Huanzo with five points in line brought the match to the equal (66-66) at 32 ′. With a 9-2 part, Fener went to +6 (75-69), to bring Panathinaikos back the game again with 76-75 at 35 ′ and a new draw (78-78) to make its appearance at 36 ′.
A 5-0 series by Central Nan gave Panathinaikos the lead with +5 (83-78). The match continued to be a derby with the two teams coming in the last minute of the match at 88-88.
A basket of Haze-Davis and two shots of Sluka made 90-90 to judge the match in detail. Hais-Davis missed the shot, Nan ran to surprise and his American Fenner foul with 1.1 ″ on the clock. Nan put the first one, lost the second and Panathinaikos won the final 91-90.
DEMOCTS: 24-24, 41-40, 61-64, 91-90
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