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Kendrick Nan and Juancho Hernangometh had to make big baskets in the fourth period, for Panathinaikos to leave Rhodes the winner (91-84), in a match where the Colossus did things and miracles.
The Panathinaikos AKTOR passed through Rhodes with a thousand efforts on Sunday afternoon (17/11). The Greens had no way of stopping Andrew Goudlock for three periods, gave the Colossus 29 points from 20 of their own and narrowly missed Stoiximan GBL Round 7 and suffered their first league defeat of the year.
Finally, finding some big baskets in the fourth period, the clover prevailed 91-84 against the team of Giorgos Sigalas, who played an excellent match, but dropped to 1-6 and remained at the bottom of the standings.
Omer Yurtseven led the winners with 20 points and 6 rebounds, but it was Kendrick Nunn who stole the show with 19 points (4/6 2-pointers, 3/7 3-pointers, 2/2 shots), 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 errors in 33’25” that he played. He scored 10 of them in the last period. In the same period, Juancho Hernangomet scored 7 of his 15 points, who also collected 9 rebounds in 32′ of participation.
From the home team’s side, Goudlock, who offered, was convincing 25 points (5/6 two-pointers, 5/8 three-pointers), while London Perantes and Paulius Danusevicius also had a great match.
29-10 points from opponent errors, 36-42 points on the racket, 5-11 second-chance points, 10-17 points on surprise, 24-35 points from substitutes.
The fight
Kolossos was in a double-score (10-5) after 4’30”, with four assists for four baskets. At the end of the quarter the two teams were tied (22-22, 10′), with Nan and Yurtseven they have 9 points each and Goudalock 8.
The second quarter belonged to the Rhodesians, who went to the locker room with a lead of 6 points (47-41, 20′), having found 18 points from the 11 errors of the greens. Meanwhile, Goudlock was up to 15 points, leading the Colossus effort.
Running a partial 12-5 until 24′, Panathinaikos overtook 52-53, but the Colossus continued to find solutions, especially with Goudlock who reached 23 points, to enter the fourth period with a lead of one basket (67- 65, 30′).
With two three-pointers by Perantes, Sigala’s team was +8 (75-67, 31′). Nan responded with two three-pointers of his own (75-73, 32′). Danusevicius also hit from behind 6.75m (78-73), but Panathinaikos equalized with Yurtseven and Osman (78-78, 34’16”). Two shots by Tsairelis followed (80-78), but also five points in a row from Hernangometh for 80-83 (35’46”). Yurtseven and Hernangomet gave the shamrock a 7-point cushion (80-87) with 54″ to go and that’s where the result was decided.
THE REFEREES: Theonas, Milapidis, Kapsiochas
THE DECADES: 22-22, 47-41, 67-65, 84-91
COLOSSUS (Sigalas): Goudlock 25 (5/6 two-pointers, 5/8 three-pointers, 3 rebounds), Tsairelis 6 (2 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 mistakes), Billis 3 (1/5 three-pointers), Perantes 12 (2/6 two-pointers , 3/7 3-pointers, 0.2 shots, 6 assists), Danusevicius 13 (2/3 2-pointers, 3/6 3-pointers, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 turnovers), Nelson 3, Slaftsakis 4 (4 rebounds, 2 assists), Koloveros , Okoro 4 (3 steals), Petropoulos 3 (1), Hadjinikolas (2 assists, 1 steal, 1 error), Galvanini 10 (0/3 three-pointers, 4 rebounds, 3 steals, 2 errors)
PANTHENAIC AKTOR (Ataman): Kalaitzakis 3, Brown 14 (4/5 3-pointers, 4 assists, 2 turnovers), Nan 19 (4/6 2-pointers, 3/7 3-pointers, 2/2 shots, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 turnovers), Mitoglou, Yurtseven 20 (7/9 2-pointers, 1/1 3-pointer, 3/4 shots, 6 rebounds, 2 errors), Slukas 2 (4 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals, 4 errors), Osman 9 (1/3 3-pointers , 2 rebounds, 1 assist), Papapetrou 4 (2 rebounds), Lessor 5 (3 rebounds, 2 turnovers), Hernangomet 15 (2/4 3-pointers, 9 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals, 2 turnovers)
Colossus’ team stats: 18/34 2-pointers, 13/31 3-pointers, 9/14 shots, 24 rebounds (18 defensive – 6 offensive), 19 assists, 10 turnovers, 12 steals
The team statistics of Panathinaikos AKTOR: 21/30 2-pointers, 11/24 3-pointers, 16/22 shots, 37 rebounds (30 defensive – 7 offensive), 17 assists, 20 turnovers, 7 steals, 4 blocks
The next matches of the two teams: In the 8th matchday, which will take place after the break for the national team matches, Kolossos will go to Patras to play against Prometheus (11/30, 20:15), while Panathinaikos AKTOR will welcome Marousi in OAKA (1/12, 17:15).
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