Panathinaikos remained perfect at home in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague against Zalgiris Kaunas by putting together a strong defensive showing in a 77-58 victory in Top 16 Group E. Panathinaikos improved to 2-1 in the group and extended its all-time home winning streak against Zalgiris to nine games. Nikos Pappas led the way off the bench for the Greens with 14 points. James Gist had 13 more, Esteban Batista, Vlantimir Giankovits and A.J. Slaughter all scored 11 and Antonis Fotsis chipped in 10 points. Zalgiris dropped to 1-2 in Group E as the team made just 34 percent of its shots in the game. Will Cherry had 13 points and 4 rebounds and Edgaras Ulanovas scored 10 points in the loss with James Anderson being limited to 5 points on 5 shots.
Score in each period: 24-16, 46-33, 63-42, 77-58| Time | Pts | 2FG | 3FG | FT | Rebounds | As | St | TO | Blocks | Fouls | |||||
| O | D | T | Fv | Ag | Rv | Cm | |||||||||
| Vassilis Charalampopoulos | 3:6 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A..J. Slaughter | 18:31 | 11 | 1/3 | 3/5 | 0/0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Vladimir Jankovic | 22:50 | 11 | 4/5 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Antonis Fotsis | 31:39 | 10 | 2/2 | 1/3 | 3/4 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeMarcus Nelson | 17:11 | 0 | 0/4 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Nikos Pappas | 19:12 | 14 | 4/6 | 0/1 | 6/6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Loukas Mavrokefalidis | 1:11 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Dimitris Diamantidis | 25:52 | 7 | 0/2 | 2/4 | 1/2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| James Gist | 23:10 | 13 | 4/6 | 1/2 | 2/2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Esteban Batista | 21:44 | 11 | 5/11 | 0/0 | 1/2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| George Diamantakos | 2:17 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Janis Blums | 13:18 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Totals | 200:1 | 77 | 20/40 | 8/18 | 13/16 | 7 | 33 | 40 | 19 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 19 |
| Average | 50.0% | 44.4% | 81.3% | ||||||||||||
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