{"id":481592,"date":"2026-01-30T23:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481592"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:07:12","slug":"sloukas-handles-the-job-late-scare-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sloukas-handles-the-job-late-scare-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloukas handles the job, late scare in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2214\" data-end=\"2657\">Panathinaikos AKTOR wrapped up Round 25 of the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">EuroLeague<\/span><\/span> by edging ASVEL Villeurbanne 79-78 on the road, in a game described more as an obligation than a showcase. <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kostas Sloukas<\/span><\/span> led the way with 26 points, nine assists and a 36 PIR performance, with <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jerian Grant<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Richaun Holmes<\/span><\/span> also highlighted in key roles.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2659\" data-end=\"2967\">The start was shaky for Panathinaikos, falling behind 8-0 early before settling after changes and timely shot-making. The game stayed gritty through the second quarter, but the visitors found enough solutions to take a 35-29 lead into halftime and later created their first double-digit cushion in the third.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2969\" data-end=\"3372\">Late on, Panathinaikos let the margin slip, going from +15 (69-54 with 4:12 left) into a tense finish as ASVEL closed to within one. Still, the Greens held on to improve to 15-10 and now look ahead to hosting <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Real Madrid<\/span><\/span> (Feb. 3) and visiting <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Partizan<\/span><\/span> (Feb. 5); ASVEL dropped to 6-19 and next travels to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Virtus Bologna<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panathinaikos escape Villeurbanne in a low-gloss win, led by their captain\u2019s control and scoring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":481591,"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":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-481592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/G_8YYbhXIAAOPYQ.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481592","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=481592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481592"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481592"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481592"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}