Ergin Ataman’s Panathinaikos is the first finalist of this EuroLeague 2024 Final Four. The Greek team capitalised on the initial 12-0 lead, resisted the Turkish comeback with their defence, and returned to a last act where they had been missing since the 2011 title.<\/p>\n
Bitterness for Fenerbahce, who started badly but had several chances to overtake in the final third quarter. However, Wilbekin’s terrible performance stopped Jasikevicius’ attack.<\/p>\n
Ataman gets his fourth final since 2019. 73-57 the final, 17-7 in the fourth quarter. For the Greeks 17+10 from Lessort, 14 from Nunn and 13 from Grant. In Fener 14 of Hayes-Davis, 10 of Guduric and Sestina, 2 for Wilbekin with 1\/10 from the field.<\/p>\n
STARTING FIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n Panathinaikos<\/strong>: Jerian Grant, Kendrick Nunn, Ioannis Papapetrou, Dinos Mitoglou, Mathias Lessort<\/p>\n Fenerbahce<\/strong>: Nick Calathes, Scottie Wilbekin, Nigel Hayes-Davis, Dyshawn Pierre, Johnathan Motley<\/p>\n Game starting half an hour late due to riots outside the Berlin arena.<\/p>\n FIRST QUARTER<\/strong><\/p>\n 5 in a row by Grant, Panathinaikos 10-0 after 4′ of play, Jasikevicius puts in Sanli for Motley but there’s no escape. Mitoglou dunks the 12-0 that drives Berlin crazy, timeout terribly late by the Lithuanian coach at 5.48. Guduric comes in, but Wilbekin goes air-ball and finally at 4.47 Hayes-Davis finds the first Turkish basket (12-2). 22-13 at the end of the first quarter, 5 for Grant and Sanli.<\/p>\n SECOND QUARTER<\/strong><\/p>\n Fener starts 7-0 and takes a 24-0 lead with 7:30 left. The Turkish defense raises its level, Nunn in transition breaks the Greek diet. Fener goes back to 34-29 with triples, then Lessort takes the lead with a basket and a stoppage. Guduric makes a steal at 1.35 for 36-31, Hayes-Davis makes the free throws for 36-33 at 1.02. The same wing makes it 38-36 at 10″, and that’s the end of the half. 8 for Nunn, 12 for Davis himself.<\/p>\n THIRD QUARTER<\/strong><\/p>\n At 3.37 Davis’ triple and Dorsey’s basket make it 51-50. The Turks miss several chances to hook up, Kalaitzakis makes a meaningless triple in the final and it’s 56-50. 13 for Grant, 12+7 for Lessort, 14 by Hayes-Davis. Wilbekin 2 with 1\/7 from the field.<\/p>\n FOURTH QUARTER<\/strong><\/p>\n Lessort’s steal, a foul on Kalaitzakis, Pana goes back to defending, conceding shots at the end of the possession only to Calathes, and at 8.20 it’s 60-50. Sestina breaks the diet at 8′, but Fener is too confused in attack, and especially Wilbekin is not a factor. Guduric has to go alone, and then Pana’s defence recovers and Nunn starts in transition with a basket and foul to make it 65-52. It’s the key phase. Race decided, Calathes has a contact with Papagiannis sanctioned as unsportsmanlike, after 7′ it’s 14-5 the partial… 70-55 with 2′ to play is the maximum advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ergin Ataman’s Panathinaikos is the first finalist of this EuroLeague 2024 Final Four<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":389345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[899,2629],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-389346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","tag-fenerbahce-en","tag-panathinaikos-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/GOXOuXBW8AA41EM.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389346"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=389346"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=389346"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=389346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}