The Surne Bilbao players knew that it was not going to be easy, that they would have to overcome high and low on the hot track of the Salonica Paok, but they knew how to assimilate it from the beginning. They went to rest winning by ten points, but also suffered suffering in the final minutes, when he pressed the Greek team pushed by his hobby, while the 150 Bilbao displaced to Salonica did what they could, and in the end they prevented the premises from reaching the necessary distance to take the Europe Cup, or at least to force the extension. He lost the Basque team (84-82), but he really won. It is the first national or international title, in the history of the men in black the year of their silver weddings.
Frey and Pantzar, with 17 points each, were fundamental for the final marker. They did not get nervous when they looked at the Greek basket. Triple from Frey to a minute for the end of the game, made the sufflé of the Paok descend. Nor to Zoran Dragic, a titan under the boards, who took two fundamental rebounds in the final minute, to cause laughes and avoid the takeoff of the Greeks, his pulse trembled.
Two minutes from the outcome, the Greeks tied the tie. They had done it several times, but only on one occasion they managed to get ahead, four minutes from the end of the last quarter. It was the most delicate moment of the party for the men of Jaume Ponsarnau, who, however, surpassed when the Greek pavilion began to go crazy. The Bilbao won at the break by ten points, but the advantage began to decline, until at the beginning of the last partial, the advantage was two points for the Greeks. At rough and brakes, the decisive time ran, but Bilbao was more whole and knew how to manage the difference to celebrate on a hostile court, its first title.
