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After the first 15 minutes, PAO woke up from a horrific bad spell. Siena didn't do much except play punk defence, and this paid dividends to an extent, but later on PAO's quality did all the talking, and once more, Nick Kalathis had an amazing game and was key to PAO's scoring when 3D wasn't on par today, still catching up from his bad bout of gastroenteritis before. Fotsis shot the lights out today, doing some of the things that he knows best. Batiste had good intentions, but nullifying 3D's 3p shot by pulling the rim, smacking Zisis in the face (how intentional or not was that? especially after he has a habit of squashing opponents' heads into the floorboards, given his history), giving
Jankunas a 4p shot, he was overall playing pretty badly, he seemed mostly like a bag of nerves. Perperoglou was also turning over the ball a lot today, I didn't see the stats, but I counted at least 4-5 mostly childish errors from his side. Sato played hard in the beginning of the game, probably wanting to answer back to his old teammates' punk tactics, however in the second half he was hardly anywhere to be seen. A small rotation of PAO players was seen today, but according to the final's tempo, Obradovic may need to get quality minutes out of all 12 players this time.
McCalleb showed why he's a name to be talked about, he has a drive like David Rivers, just I'm not sure if he's as accurate as Rivers was when it is time for a drive. Stonerook was rather mediocre, Rakovic was very strong, but quite inflexible at the same time. Zisis was playing well in the beginning of the game, but after he got smacked by Batiste, he didn't really make a come-back. Lavrinovic was a catastrophic failure, whereas
Jankunas was perhaps Siena's most stable player the whole game with solid shooting.
I was really unimpressed by Siena's punk tactics game. What was even more mystifying was when they reached their team fouls in a quarter, they would continue to flagrant foul! <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Like an old habit that can't be shaken off. If this team wants to get to a Euroleague final, they better start lining their pockets with more cash to attract some serious star quality players. Siena had an amazing journey and got lucky that they came across a star-studded team of Oly with a 'brain here today, brain gone tomorrow' mentality. For me, Siena is not a team of worthy quality to be between the four best teams of the Euroleague this season.
Congratulations to Maccabi for also making it to the final, that request for the final to be moved to an earlier hour was indeed done for good purpose, since they are playing in the final <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Eidson, Pnini, Pargo, and Sofo sliced and diced Real who didn't seem to enjoy any advantage of playing on Spanish soil <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> At least that dipshit GM (or whatever) Sanchez won't be talking bollocks any more of Real bringing home another undisputed title. Idiot.
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You mean KaukÄnas?
DD LOL.
LavrinoviÄ wasn't bad. At the start he led his team but later he got into the foul trouble and that probably was the key victory for Panathinaikos. And even last foul of LavrinoviÄ was absolutely nonsense.
Other game was way more interesting for me and I'm happy that MTA won. <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Good luck for Chuck and others in the final. <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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