El Fenerbahce also Sar Jasikevicius He gave the bell and defeated the champion of the last edition, Panathinaikos (82-76)in the semifinals of the Final Four of the Euroleague. The Turks were superior throughout the game and proved to be more team than their rival, weighed by the excess of individualities and the bad performance of their great Kendrick Nunn star.
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Alignments
| (22+16+17+27): Colson (3), Hayes (7), Birch (2), Hall (18), Guduric (3) |
| (14+19+15+28): Osman (22), Gabriel (4), Nunn (19), Grant (15), Grant (2), Yurtseven (2). |
The intensity with which the Fenerbahce also Jasikevicius It was unmatched. Those of Jasikevicius exploited their best weapons in the beginning: the rebound and the outer shots. From the line of three, Devon Hall put your team ahead, while Kendrick Nunn He had not yet touched the ball in the game.
While the Ottomans added three, Panathinaikos had a hard time scoring. It was then that he jumped to the Lessort track, that reappeared in a Euroleague match several months later, under a great ovation of the Greek fans. With him on the track they were looking for more actions in the area, although Fenerbahçe's defense did not grant easily.
Saras Jasikevicius, with Nicolo Melli / AP
Biberovic He joined the party in the second quarter and He scored two triples in a rowplacing your team 13 points above (31-18). Nunn still did not appear for the Greeks, with several errors from the triple and even some very unusual loss in him. Panathinaikos needed a lighthouse in attack and nobody appeared. Individualities after individualities ending in bad shots and counterattacks for the Turks.
In the absence of little for rest, The MVP of the season appeared. Nunn began to score, even if it was from the free kick, and Fenerbahçe was more erratic from the triple. The Turks followed their approach to the letter, although they saw how the advantage was getting smaller until they ended at the five points to the break. 38-33.
Juancho Hernangómez with the ball during the game / AP
In the second part, it was Panathinaikos who started with greater intensity. Even so, at any time in the third quarter it was enough to match or anticipate on the scoreboard. Fenerbahçe took up to three minutes to score, but defended well enough to stay above in the game. The Greeks, by Nunn's hand, came to be at a single point.
PANATHINAIKOS, behind the whole game
Equality reigned in the third quarter, but in the last minutes the Turks were especially successful, With a McCollum inspired by the triple that scored 9 points And the difference increased to seven points when the horn sounded. There were only ten minutes left and those of Saras had gone ahead practically the entire game.
Fenerbahçe's bench was fundamental to support any attempt to come back from the Greeks. Melli y McCollum They scored incessantly and counteracted lA great performance by Osmanwhich led his team in the last minutes. And more taking into account that Kendrick Nunn was eliminated In the absence of five minutes to the end of the game. He was technical for protesting that decision.
A 6-0 partial threatened those of Jasikevicius in the absence of three to the end. Panathinaikos began to create it, but Fenerbahçe ended again with the possibilities of the Greeks based on triples. In the absence of a minute, those of Ataman lowered their arms and saw the comeback impossible. A Triple of Biberovic sentenced the game. Fenerbahçe is in the Euroleague final.
