Flashes in the third period were enough for Panathinaikos to impose their rhythm and … snatch a “ticket” from the fighting Peristeri to the finals of the A1 men’s/basket league.

The Greens beat Vassilis Spanoulis’ team 81-67 in Game 5 at OAKA to make it 3-2 in the playoff semi-final series.

In the final, the wards of Christos Serelis will play with home advantage against Olympiacos, who wiped out the series with PAOK, while Peristeri will compete for third place with Thessaloniki.

Clover returned to the court after the break (41-39) focused and determined to finish the series and achieved this with relative ease.

The Greens cut off Peristeri’s ball circulation with their defense, they found a rhythm with 6.75 hands of Grigonis, Ponitka, Agravanis and with Papaiannis doing the necessary damage near the basket, they first ran 12-0 for 53-39 in the 25th minute , without losing the duration in defense and attack, ended the period with a personal score of 23-9 (64-48 on the 30th), clipping … Peristeri’s wings.

Freed from stress in the… epilogue of the match, the wards of Christos Serelis brought the difference to +20 points and did not feel… the breath of the guests until the very end of the match.

The first scorer of the winners was Marius Grigonis with 16 points and 4/5 three-pointers, while Dimitris Agravanis stopped at 15. Of the dove of 15 errors, Sylvain Francisco tried with 16 points

PANATINAIKOS (Christos Serelis): Lee 8 (1), Williams, Grigonis 16 (4), Mantsoukas 7 (2), Gudaitis 13, P. Kalaitsakis 5, Papagyannis 4, Bohorides, Agravanis 15 (1), Pappas, Ponitka 13 ( 1).

PERISTERI (Vassilis Spanoulis): Bilan 12, Francisco 16 (3), Poulianitis 6, Denmon 4, Kaselakis 6 (1), Coleman 10 (2), Moraitis 3 (1), Radanov 1, Hamer 9, Persidis, Zugris.