One more. There will be another party, an extra between the Panathinaikos and the Anadolu Efes. The fifth and final encounter of a tie between two European basketball giants that have not stopped by beating brutally throughout their rooms and that have been stolen from each one at a foreign house.
It will be next Tuesday (8:45 p.m.) Greecein Athensin a Oak that will be hell to support a champion of Europa that is between the back and the wall due to the ability to the survival of the Turks, who bent their rival in Basketball Development Center of Istanbul (85-82).
A triumph cooked over low heat … because there was no other way to cook it. He Efeswith the need for flag after his last defeat, he controlled the track in the first quarter (21-18) and maintained his leadership to rest (38-33). Without great performance of Shane Larkinwere Elijah Bryant (19 points at the end) and Ercan Osmani (15) Those who guided the Anadolu.
But the PAO I was still there. He never left. The clearest example was at the beginning of the third quarter: the Ottomans reached the maximum, a +10 (45-35) after a triple of Bryant, which lasted just two minutes. Sloukas, Osman, Nunn and two triples followed by Juancho Hernangome They matched the contest again.
The Spanish was again immeasurable. Despite its rapid problem with the faults, the wing-pole knew how to end up with 15 goals (3 of 4 from the triple), 7 rebounds and 3 assists for 18 of valuation.
In the absence of two minutes, 71-70 for the Efes. Four triples later (two per team, one of them from Juancho) and with 30 seconds just ahead, nothing had changed: 77-76. And there, the PAO He decided to stop playing. Bad decisions in attack and some defensive fragility allowed the Turks, with 4 goals almost followed by Roland Smithtake the encounter … while Ergin Ataman He made his own.
The coach of the Greek team began to gesture towards the stands, who sang him (‘take a break’), at the time a clear unsportsmanlike Osman After grabbing the shirt of Dozier. Once the greetinghe left what was his court without the game having ended. The previous one of the fifth duel has already begun.
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