Panathinaikos beat PAOK for Greek League Play Offs semi-finals

Panathinaikos hosted and beat PAOK for Greek League Play Offs semi-finals. PAOK started as good as in the first game and was leading the score in the first half. In the 15th minute PAOK had a lead of 12 points, 20-32. In the first half Panathinaikos had only 1/13 three pointers and was following PAOK. In the third quarter Panathinaikos counter attacked and took the lead in score until the end of the game. In the second half Panathinaikos had 7/13 three pointers. For Panathinaikos James Gist had 17 points, 7 rebounds and 4 steals while Dimitris Diamantidis had 17 points, 4 assists and Roko Leni Ukić had 15 points and 5 assists. For PAOK DJ Cooper made a double double with 16 points, 12 assists, 3 steals and 2 rebounds! Kostas Charalampidis scored 17 points and  Mark Payne scored another 15 points. Panathinaikos made two tights victories against PAOK and now the third game will be held in Thessaloniki. If PAOK keeps playing in this tempo and speed we maybe see a defeat for Panathinaikos in the semi-finals after many years of clean sweeps.
Quarters' scores: 15-18, 31-37, 56-53, 83-77.

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 7, Curry 2, Fotsis 2, Ukic 15, Lasme 6, Mavrokefalidis 6, Diamantidis 17, Gist 17, Pappas 2, Giankovits 1, Maciulis 8.
PAOK: Payne 15, Cooper 16, Charalampidis 17, Tsochlas 1, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 10, Dedas 6, Margaritis 3, Kalles, Bogris 9, Kaselakis, Liapis.