Basketball
The straight line in the cardiogram of Panathinaikos and the one-day contract
Panathinaikos entered the Audi Dome with sub-zero psychology and body language that referred to a straight line on a cardiogram. Alexandros Trigas writes.
A week after Olympiakos crashed in OAKA, Panathinaikos had a match – an opportunity to show they can close the bracket right away and write a new course in the rest of the EuroLeague. The one with Bayern Munich in the Audi Dome. But nothing in practice. Again. Again at this year’s event, what was presented on the floor was appalling to say the least.
Complete lack of cooperation (7 assists from 8 errors), zero communication on defense, passivity, lack of coordination on the field. At a competitive level. Because in addition to these, questions that have nothing to do with tactics prove to be much more serious. After all, no one needed to be familiar with the “green reality” or what is happening within the organization. The body language upon entering the floor of the Audi Dome said a lot about the atmosphere.
Selfishness went for a walk
It doesn’t seem really difficult for anyone to accept that none of the Panathinaikos players can show their anger on the parquet floor. Not at the expense of the whole, but with a view to protecting it. what do we mean To show his bruised ego and play a tougher (personal) defense, to show he can’t settle for another loss, with another match reduced to a cover role and to see how the opponent repeatedly exposes him.
In many cases, the first thing a coach uses to fix a problematic situation is the battered egos of their players. At least from what they have. In this case, however, the darkness into which everyone within Panathinaikos has been plunged seems so deep that it does not allow them to look in the mirror and confront the problem.
Because – bad lies – each of the participants in this year’s promotion bears (more or less depending on the occasion) the responsibility for what appears on the floor.
The Lost Faith
Really, is there anyone on the team who believes in what has been created this year? It could be answered that the specific question is rhetorical in nature. Quite simply because everyone shows with their image/attitude that they do not surround the building with faith and trust. Bank-to-ground communication – it seems – has been so lacking for quite some time that there is not the slightest reason to change things (for the better) when things start to go wrong.
The facial changes aimed at by Dejan Radonić appear to be more of a necessary evil than a solution to the problem. Because if you get in, you can’t pull the cart out of the mud. Of the one in which Panathinaikos has been “stuck” in recent weeks and – in many cases – presented a picture of dissolution.
You know, it doesn’t take a game ending in -30 or -40 to show the problem. There are several moments/images within forty minutes that lead to this conclusion.
Low post defense and the second pass
The game against Bayern showed the mental weakness of the whole game in several phases. On the one hand, the complete inconsistency in the defense at the low post (Augustin Rubit repeatedly exposed everyone with “his” phases), from the first to the last minute. On the other hand, the manifestation of ball possession with the main characteristics of persistence in dribbling and stability.
So much so that at team level, Panathinaikos often conveys the image of a team that doesn’t work every day. If you don’t train, you don’t follow the same thing on the ground. Because the topic now encompasses the whole (beyond each individual).
Obviously Marius Grigonis is not a bad player. Obviously Mateusz Ponitka is not enough. Obviously George Papagiannis is not small for this level.
Only somewhere on the road the direction was lost.
The one-day contract
The size of the club doesn’t (sic) allow the problem to be prolonged much longer. OAKA does not “raise” such things. The change (it is necessary) can be done with or without some of those in the Audi Dome on Thursday evening January 5th. And if in the first phase no one seems to have understood the message from the derby with Olympiacos (both sporting and spiritual), it is clear that now everyone will be judged, every day that passes (although this has already been hinted at). within the organization).
What does that mean; The ‘one-day contract’ mentioned by Rick Pitino in his first tenure as Panathinaikos coach will be worn by everyone from now on.
The question is whether they are ready and willing at the club to make difficult decisions (competitive and financial) in order to change the existing situation. Because Panathinaikos (with the existing technical staff enjoying management’s full confidence) seems doomed to demolish and build from an almost zero mid-season base.
Not the most proven, but perhaps the only way to limit the damage.
Source: sport 24
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True, his team was left without a victory.
Over the past year, fans have become accustomed to news about records coming from overseas. Until recently, their main supplier was hockey player Alexander Ovechkin. But in the 2025/26 season, successes in the NBA were added to the achievements of our athletes in the NHL. This became possible thanks to the play of Yegor Demin, who again played a great match the day before with the Brooklyn Nets.
If the Russian does not slow down, then in the future, like Ovechkin, he has every chance to go down in the history of North American sports.
On the way to a dream
Russian representation in the NBA has always been more modest than in the NHL. And even with certain achievements, and Timofey Mozgov and Alexander Kaun, by the way, became league champions, the thought does not arise to compare the successes of Russian hockey players and basketball players overseas. How many American basketball fans now remember Sergei Monya, Yaroslav Korolev, Pavel Podkolzin?
Only Andrei Kirilenko stands out from the general background – the Russian forward played in the NBA for quite a long time. I even once went to an all-star game, where I played side by side with people like Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki, Yao Ming, Allen Iverson. But how many star matches did our hockey players have overseas?
With all due respect to the AK-47 game, he still does not reach the level of a North American basketball legend. Time will tell whether Yegor Demin, who powerfully broke into the NBA at the age of 19, will be able to write his name into history. But for now, the Brooklyn Nets basketball player is doing everything possible to make his dream come true.
Prolific newcomer
Kirilenko was selected by the Utah Jazz in the first round of the NBA draft as the 24th pick, and Brooklyn took Demin eighth. But these were still advances, which have so far been fully justified. The newcomer regularly appears on the court, and with the exception of the first couple of weeks of the season, in the starting lineup. At the same time, Egor is not just serving his number: in the last six matches he scored at least 14 points, in two cases he reached the 20 point mark.
In the next regular season game, the first basketball player in the league with the letter “e” on his uniform scored 23 points in the match against Golden State. Demin managed not only to repeat his best result, but also set a Brooklyn record for three-pointers among newcomers – seven accurate hits from behind the arc. True, the Russian team still lost with a score of 107:120, but in the context of the personal success of our basketball player overseas, this is a secondary issue.
Of course, to achieve sporting greatness, Egor needs to spend more than one season at this level, but at least a dozen and a half. Demin, with 275 points in the NBA, did not even reach the results of Sergei Karasev (287), although he can do this in the next game. And then new landmarks will appear: Viktor Khryapa (643), Alexey Shved (1349), Timofey Mozgov (3072) and, of course, Andrey Kirilenko (9431). When the Russian surpasses the results of the AK-47, then we can talk about an established star in the NBA. In the meantime, we can only wish our basketball player not to lower his demands on himself and avoid serious injuries.
Source: Sportbox
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Basketball
Vembanyama’s double-double did not help San Antonio avoid defeat from Cleveland in the NBA match
San Antonio lost to Cleveland in a home game of the NBA regular season.
The meeting ended with a score of 113:101 (25:26, 24:29, 27:23, 37:23) in favor of the guests. The most productive player of the match was Cleveland basketball player Jarrett Allen, who scored 27 points. For San Antonio, Victor Vembanyama scored a double-double with 26 points and 14 rebounds.
Cleveland (18 wins/16 losses) is in eighth position in the Eastern Conference standings. San Antonio (23/9) is second in the West.
Results of other matches of the game day:
“Washington” — “Phoenix” — 101:115
“Charlotte” — “Milwaukee” — 113:123
“Toronto” – “Orlando” – 107:106
“Miami” — “Denver” — 147:123
“Chicago” – “Minnesota” – 101:136
“Houston” — “Indiana” — 126:119
“New Orleans” — “New York” — 125:130
“Oklahoma City” — “Atlanta” — 140:129
Portland – Dallas – 125:122
Source: Sportbox
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Russian basketball player Egor Demin set a Brooklyn record among newcomers for the number of three-pointers made in one match, the club’s press service reports.
In the NBA regular season match, Brooklyn lost to Golden State with a score of 107:120. Demin made 7 three-point shots, which is a club record among newcomers.
In total, Demin scored 23 points in the match, the Russian repeated his personal record for scoring in the NBA – he had previously scored 23 points in the November match with Philadelphia (103:115).
Brooklyn has 10 wins and 20 losses in 30 matches. Demin’s team is 12th in the Eastern Conference standings.
Source: Sportbox
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