He says he said Panathinaikos’ birthday was the day before yesterday (2/2)… He lived to be 114 years old, only his cake was heavy and he has high sugar and cholesterol!

It raises these indicators and does not lower the bar, which has been lowered in the last two years, but rather his status and presence at an event where, traditionally by nature and position, he was cantering on horseback!

In fact – to stay in the birthday mood a little longer – last night (3/2) in Barcelona (86:60 defeat against Barcelona) no cake could be served, but not even the coffee, the rusks and the schnapps that were served at the was offered funeral did not have to give …

With this and that, the crippled loved ones were abandoned, like Nick Kalathis and Saronas Jasikevitsous, not to mention Nikolas Laprovitola, who nearly walked by OAKA’s door in the summer of 2020.

These are the hands down defeats, which is another sad but inevitable imprisonment…

Those have to do with the six-time European champions being trapped and trapped in the bowels of the standings from the start of the season…

The tail and non-demotion!

There is of course the good news: no matter how tough it sounds for a team that proudly boasts six loot on their tally, it’s good again that no team has been relegated from the Euroleague!

Panathinaikos has a guaranteed contract and won’t lose his place in the top inter-club organization but risks finishing last with whatever that might mean for his prestige…

For a long time, the Greens are in the penultimate place, which is euphemistically called 17^thatwith a record of 5-17, while among them they see only Zalgiris (3-17), who is already two games down…

The Demonic #17

Just for fun, this number 17 (referring to the Celtics and Lakers championships, by the way) looks demonic and will haunt them until they play Lyon, but they won’t even exorcise them…

What I mean; Panathinaikos is 17^or in standings, has suffered 17 losses this season and is on a 0-17 losing streak for OAKA!

Certainly he doesn’t have a player wearing the No 17 shirt to provide a framework, but short-lived numerical coincidences aside, his medical condition is truly dramatic and irreversible in terms of his Euroleague progression.

It’s also worse than last year in the sense that he finished 16th in the 2020-21 season with 11-23, ahead of Red Star (10-24) and Khimki (4-30).

The telescope that Terra incognita and the old… Panathinaikos

I won’t go into that for previous seasons: 2020 when the shutters went down she was sixth due to the pandemic with 14-14, 2019 was sixth with 16-14, 2018 was sixth with 4th 19-11 and 2017 was the same in 4th place with 19-11.

Last year he was left out of the nymph for the first time and this year he’s once again seeing the playoff zone through a telescope…

Where the post-season was Cosa Nostra, it’s now become a Terra Incognita! A land now unknown and unexplored…

Of course there is also the second reading as a kind of alternative attitude: to refer to a football comparison that affects him, since the Euroleague does not sit for him, Panathinaikos is forced to become … Panathinaikos and not turn to Lyon, but in Dyo Aorakia!

After all, Ioannis Papapetrou has undergone surgery in this direction, Nemanja Nedovic has not traveled to Barcelona and a more or less conservative treatment is being pursued for Stefan Jovic’s entry…

The…trunk of Priftis

Under the circumstances, and since the specific strategic choice was inevitably made, Dimitris Priftis plays the fakir and tries to prove he’s not an elephant!

Only sometimes does the cheater see his trunk hanging down and feel his nails pierce his feet!

Yesterday, under the weight of the heavy defeat at the Palau Blaugrana, the only reasons why he felt a slight tingle were the presence of George Papagiannis and indirectly but clearly that of Lefteris Mantzoukas.

Looking like a reed in the plain, Big Papa was the only one to look the Catalans in the eye, finishing as the match’s top scorer and even nailing it like he was going to take part in the slam dunk contest of the upcoming NBA All Star Game in Cleveland!

On the forward rushing Ioannina, Priftis gave 14 minutes, which the so-called could not reap as he would have liked: he scored one point, had 1/2 shots and 0/2 three points, got two rebounds and made a steal .

By the way, on the opposite bank, Saras gave half a minute to his own offspring (born July 8, 2003) James Naji, who “scored” four points and two rebounds.

Mantzoukas and (absent yesterday) Neoklis Avdalas could, in the long run, be placed as aliens by Panathinaikos in this losing Euroleague season, but this will be judged in the long run…

Bainakis and Vgeinakis!

I will stay in the Mantzouka case for a while because an incident happened yesterday that affects him but bought another field!

Two minutes and 45 seconds before the end of the game, in the final time-out, Prifti was heard by his wife and daughter in Athens as he was planning to put on a play and shoot mantzoukas, but there were Or Bainakis and Vgeinakis!

Daryl Macon took the ball and hit his head and his hand that was crooked yesterday!

Except for the first period where he was competitive and decent and a blitz in the third ten minutes, otherwise Panathinaikos was thin and became easy prey on the Catalans’ nails.

That’s backed up by some…barking stats: -26 on final score, seven down assists, -14 on rebounds, 17 errors, 60 forced points, one and… only three points in 12 tries and he goes on to say…

Barcelona’s defense and especially the changes in all screens looked like pincers melting Panathinaikos causing suffocation both in moving the ball and executing it, hence the fact that a… Braf at the beginning of the second third arrived to end the game fast, early and shamefully!

Diamantidis, Ukic and Bohoridis

Oh, let’s not forget: that pathetic number on the three-hand (1/12) looks like it’s made out of the coals of a dramatic night in the same stadium, where it was even more pathetic, condemning and fatal…

For Panathinaikos, the hands of the clock will be stopped on April 28, 2013, the closest it has ever been to last decade’s Final Four.

He was struggling with a home disadvantage in the play-off series and while beating the game Palau Blaugrana 66-65 (thanks to Dimitris Diamantidis’ ecstatic three-pointer in Nate Jaguai’s berry to avoid the stream’s misplaced three-pointer to follow Barcelona coach) to crown his qualification in the fifth game …

He couldn’t take it and lost 64-53: He couldn’t take it because he had 1/16 three points!

Then Rocco-Lenny Ukic’s hand was embalmed, yesterday’s Lefteris Bohoridis!

The salvation of the soul

Panathinaikos returns from Barcelona (and) empty-handed and has no choice but to look ahead to where his horizon stretches, now…enclosed by the walls…

The Euroleague now looks like a chore, with an excessive and unbearable strain and with an ordeal that the Greens wanted to end yesterday and in any case an hour earlier than April 8th.

Until then, he will try to salvage his season in the two local competitions, hoping that somehow he will save his soul…

This finally has its meaning, as the song of Alkisti Protopsalti says: “the salvation of the soul is a very big deal, like a leisure trip with a hidden trauma”!