Panathinaikos AKTOR threw away the home advantage for which he had been working all season and Vassilis Skoundis recalls the fateful phase of the first match against Maccabi.
Um, African dust wasn’t the only thing covering the festive OAKA yesterday (23/4) night…
I wish this was the only contingency that would mark the first match of the playoffs of Panathinaikos AKTOR against Maccabi, after all, the Greens have been housed for decades in a closed and… airtight hall and not in Kallimarmaro, so that they cannot see in front of them
But come on, in addition to the unwanted visitor from the Sahara desert, Panathinaikos AKTOR also received the raid of the EuroLeague’s most incendiary attack to finally prove that there is no evil that cannot get worse!
Grigonis’ cynical statement
It got worse since the Israelis recorded home advantage and may not yet have the qualifying performance, but they certainly created a condition, which Panathinaikos AKTOR is doomed to overturn.
In any case, as with a generous dose of cynicism, Marius Grigonis commented, “We needed three wins before the match, we want three ttime».
That’s right too!
The sale of the ball
This is indeed correct, unlike the decision of Kostas Sloukas which was completely wrong!
I watched and rewatched the phase that unfolded at the end of the thriller (after Lorenzo Brown’s 87-89 at 35”) and I don’t mean the cheap “sale” of the ball that ended up in the hands of Anthony Cleveland and then in those of Josh Niebo who won the foul from Sluka and with 2/2 shots “wrote” 87-91.
As a mistake I mean the choice of the Thessaloniki guard to pass and not execute himself in a phase that he already has in his repertoire.
One prisoner, then…
The pass to a… ghost!
The second mistake has to do with the continuation of the phase in which he has in mind to pass to a teammate who however looks like a… ghost!
Evil strikes when Slukas, now embarrassed, throws the ball behind him and gifts it to Cleveland, with all that entails.
This sequence reminds me of the old joke in which the question “how many baby elephants fit in one Volkswagen» and usually the answer was different!
The three mistakes were… four!
In this case one might wonder how many mistakes a team can make in 22 seconds.
Counted three which is actually… four!
What is the fourth?
But certainly the fact that after the missed opportunity to equalize or take the lead, the hosts took too long to call the foul and stop the clock: in fact, they let ten seconds pass until the moment Slukas himself sent to the shooting line Josh Nimbo…
Let’s now unravel the tangle of the sequence of the phase which turned out to be fatal…
When Slukas decides to act and takes the screen changer on himself, he is overcome by his altruism (given that he had already achieved a record 13 assists in the midst of his raging creative energy) and attempts to pass rather than execute himself. ..
Sluka’s non-shooting and non-passing
He passes from the left side and while there is room to shoot with a board (as Panagiotis Giannakis used to do in such cases) he starts looking for the pass…
At the same time, Maccabi’s defensive operation is in a state of confusion hence Josh Nimbo’s reluctance to provide help or stay where he was…
Slukas having decided (wrongly in my humble opinion) not to shoot is looking for a player on the weak side for a preferably corner 3 and that could be Juancho Hernangomet…
Come on, the Spanish forward didn’t shoot in the corner, but thinking that Slukas would shoot, he stayed inside the racket in order to claim the offensive rebound if and when his teammate misses!
The coconut block and the outbreak
Without a teammate in the corner or at 45 degrees, Slukas from the moment he didn’t shoot, he didn’t even have the option of passing and as can happen to any player in the world, he got something of a… cockblock!
The result;
He throws the ball back and essentially gives it away to Maccabi, with all that implies both in the end of the match and in his own nervous system!
They say two things never go back: the words spoken and the stones thrown…
Whether they bounce back from the lost matches will be seen in due time, as the Greens, who lost home advantage yesterday, can regain it if they draw tomorrow and beat Belgrade in Game 3, like déjà vu from the dramatic 2011-season series. 12.
The dit isjavu in the 2012 series
To refresh the memory, the then six-time European champions, who again had home court advantage, prevailed in Game 1 93-73, but lost Game 2 94-92 and went on a rampage in Tel Aviv, where they grabbed the 65-62 win…
Maccabi tied the game at 2-2 by winning Game 4 78-69 and everything was decided in a thrilling and dramatic Game 5 at OAKA where the Greens, coached by Dimitris Diamantidis, prevailed 86-85 and stamped their ticket to the last trip to in Final 4.
The station her Neratziotissa and Ataman’s tickling!
After his presence in Istanbul, Panathinaikos AKTOR saw ten trains pass by without stopping at his own platform, but he hopes that he will manage to jump into the one that now passes through the adjacent Neratziotissa station!
Otherwise, in addition to the referral of his purification in the future, he will also be looking for a new coach, as Ergin Ataman pointed out, with the obvious aim of tickling the egos of his players and stimulating the entire green organization.
After that, here’s OAKA, here’s Belgrade, here’s the jump (on the train)!
Tags: Slukas nonshooting nonpassing
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