Panathinaikos forces the fifth game of the Greek final after an agonizing victory in double overtime (93-86)

There will be a fifth and final round in the Greek league finals. He Panathinaikos managed to tie the series (2-2) by beating the Olympiacos by a tight 93-86 in a match of enormous tension that required two overtimes to be resolved. With this result, the winner of the Hellenic championship will be decided in a single match in the Pavilion of Peace and Friendshipfiefdom of the Piraeus team.

He Panathinaikos He faced this decisive commitment with significant losses, as he could not count on Kostas due to injury. SloukasCedi Osman nor Nikos Rogkavopoulos. For his part, the Olympiacos recovered Tyler for his rotation Dorseyrecovered from tendonitis.

The outcome of regulation time was an exercise in nervous imprecision, with both teams completely denied facing the basket during the last minute and 44 seconds. He Olympiacos He had possession to become champion on the horn, but Sasha Vezenkov He missed a triple that would have certified the title for the visitors.

In the first extension the parity remained unchanged. Two free throws from Dinos Mitoglou With 37 seconds left they put the score on the scoreboard. He Panathinaikos had an opportunity to close the match, but Vassilis Toliopoulos He missed the decisive three-pointer in the final moments of the first overtime.

It was in the second overtime when TJ’s figure appeared Shorts. The American base with a Macedonian passport assumed offensive responsibility for the Panathinaikos scoring seven consecutive points to open a key gap on the scoreboard. Toliopoulos culminated the offensive with two free throws and a decisive triple that sealed the local victory and unleashed madness in the stands.

On the local side, Kendrick Nunn He led the scoring with 23 points, supported by the 13 points of ShortsNigel’s 12 Hayes-Davis and the 11 of his own Toliopoulos. In the ranks of Olympiacos, Evan’s offensive effort Fournier (29 points), escorted by Thomas Walkup (19 points) and Sasha Vezenkov (14 points), was insufficient to avoid the final tiebreaker match.