Euroleague starts with victories for the Greeks

[InTime Sports]

The biggest ever Euroleague has conscionable started, featuring 20 teams, and the two Greek representatives asserted their authorization from Day 1 arsenic they opened their run with victories connected Tuesday.

Panathinaikos defeated visiting Bayern Munich 87-79 with comparative ease, though the Athens team is acold from acceptable arsenic its manager Ergin Ataman has besides admitted.

The Greens led passim the crippled with varying margins, arsenic they finished the archetypal fractional up by six (47-41) and went further up particularly successful the last 4th of the crippled (79-67).

Their defence near a batch to beryllium desired successful the archetypal half, though astatine this starting of the play it is lone the victory that matters from such games.

Kendrick Nunn was erstwhile again the main antheral for the hosts, chalking up 21 points connected the night, newcomer Nikos Rogavopoulos added 15, while Turkish halfway Omer Yurtseven had a important relation with 14 points.

Olympiakos played a high-scoring crippled successful Spain and won 102-96 against an ambitious Baskonia.

It led 12-0 and 19-4 astatine the start, but the Basques bounced back, took a small pb and pushed the Reds each the way – lone the Greeks had the last accidental successful the past quarter.

NIkola Milutinov had a treble double to amusement (14 rebounds, 12 points) for his prime show astatine the Fernando Buesa Arena, but Sasha Vezenkov bettered him with 24 points and 13 rebounds and Tyler Dorsey made 21.