{"id":496104,"date":"2026-05-08T22:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=496104"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:28:44","slug":"valencia-strikes-again-as-oaka-falls-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/valencia-strikes-again-as-oaka-falls-once-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia strikes again as OAKA falls once more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1884\" data-end=\"2175\"><strong data-start=\"1884\" data-end=\"1896\">Valencia<\/strong> opened the game at full speed, with Taylor, Sako and especially <strong data-start=\"1961\" data-end=\"1977\">Jean Montero<\/strong> building an early 6-14 lead.<br data-start=\"2006\" data-end=\"2009\" \/>Pedro Martinez\u2019s team moved the ball well, ran in transition and closed the first quarter up 25-14, while Panathinaikos failed to convert several second-chance looks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2177\" data-end=\"2477\">The visitors pushed the margin to +15 in the second quarter, but <strong data-start=\"2242\" data-end=\"2256\">Cedi Osman<\/strong> kept Panathinaikos alive and brought the home side back to 37-44 at halftime.<br data-start=\"2334\" data-end=\"2337\" \/>The comeback continued after the break, as Osman and <strong data-start=\"2390\" data-end=\"2407\">Kendrick Nunn<\/strong> helped the Greens take the lead at 49-48, sending OAKA into a frenzy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2479\" data-end=\"2824\">Valencia, however, never lost control. Thompson and Montero answered from deep, Pradilla added key baskets and the taronja rebuilt a two-possession lead in the fourth quarter.<br data-start=\"2654\" data-end=\"2657\" \/>At 77-86 with 68 seconds left it looked over, but the final minute had everything, including a doubtful episode that made the loss even more painful for Panathinaikos.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2826\" data-end=\"2990\">Valencia eventually held on 86-83, taking another road win and forcing the series back home for Game 5.<br data-start=\"2929\" data-end=\"2932\" \/><strong data-start=\"2932\" data-end=\"2943\">Montero<\/strong> was the clear MVP with 29 points and a 45 PIR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valencia won again at OAKA and sent the series back to the Roig Arena for Game 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":496102,"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-496104","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\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-08-at-22.15.25.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496104","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=496104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496104"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=496104"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=496104"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=496104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}