2020-21Regular SeasonRound 20
Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul 100
Panathinaikos OPAP Athens 74
January 15, 2021 CET: 18:00
Local time: 20:00 ULKER SPORTS AND EVENT HALL

Fenerbahce blasts off to rout Panathinaikos

Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul never trailed en route to a 100-74 win over visiting Panathinaikos OPAP Athens to extend its winning streak to five games on Friday night. It's the biggest win ever over the Greens lifted Fenerbahce's record to 10-10 while Panathinaikos dropped to 6-13. Fenerbahce assumed control with an 18-0 run to finish the first quarter with a 19-point lead. Panathinaikos used its 12 offensive rebounds to stay in the game, but Fenerbahce held a 48-34 halftime lead then knocked down 5 triples in the third quarter to extend the lead to 24 points and never looked back. Marko Guduric paced Fenerbahce with 18 points, while Lorenzo Brown and Edgaras Ulanovas scored 15 apiece. Nando De Colo and Jan Vesely each added 12 points. Aaron White scored 13 points for Panathinaikos, while Konstantinos Mitoglou had 12, Howard Sant-Roos and Georgios Papagiannis 10 each. Panathinaikos pulled down a team-record 21 offensive rebounds, but still lost by 26 points.

The teams traded baskets early on with Vesely and De Colo striking for the hosts while Sant-Roos and Papagiannis scored inside for Panathinaikos. Sant-Roos and Ulanovas hit dueling before Sant-Roos landed another at 13-12. Vesely then battled for a three-point play and a put-back to spark Fenerbahce's run. Ulanovas scored inside and Jarell Eddie outside before Guduric strung together 6 points, capping an 18-0 run to end the first quarter 31-12. The Greens got it going in the second quarter, with Shelvin Mack taking it to the rim and White hitting a triple and a pair of dunks to make it 33-24. De Colo snapped Fenerbahce's 2-12 run with a three-pointer before Ahmet Duverioglu and Papagiannis exchanged dunks. A triple from Brown and a three-point play from De Colo would soon give Fenerbahce a 48-34 halftime advantage.

Ben Bentil opened the second half with a three-pointer for the Greens that Vesely matched with a dunk-plus-free throw. Nemanja Nedovic scored his sole field goal on a fastbreak layup at 52-40. Back-to-back threes from Dysawn Pierre and Brown forced a Panathinaikos timeout, after which Ulanovas buried a corner triple to make it 63-44 midway through the third quarter. Papagiannis's alley-oop dunk was answered by 2 triples from Guduric at 74-50. The Greens scored the last 5 points of the third quarter, with Zach Auguste beating the buzzer with a dunk, and Mitoglou added a pair of buckets to cut it to 77-59 early in the fourth. Melih Mahmutoglu hit a triple for the hosts, but Marcus Foster hit 2 for the visitors. However, Brown, Guduric and Mahmutoglu each hit from deep before Ulanovas made it 100-70 entering the final minute to cap a big offensive night for Fenerbahce.

Century mark

Fenerbahce scored 100 points for the first time this season, besting its previous season-high of 96, set three days ago in a win over Baskonia. After going 18 games without scoring more than 86 points, Fenerbahce has now scored 96 and 100 points in back-to-back games.

Record quarter

Fenerbahce ended the first quarter on an 18-0 run, which turned a 13-12 scoreboard into a 31-12 lead. That 19-point margin matched the largest difference in any quarter for Fenerbahce this century, tying its effort from earlier this season when Fenerbahce won the first quarter against FC Bayern Munich by 19 points. In that game, however, Fenerbahce ended up losing.

New head coach

Oded Kattash took over Panathinaikos bench this week and met the team in Istanbul to coach his 10th EuroLeague game, and first since December 2007 when he was on Maccabi Tel Aviv's bench. A EuroLeague champion as a player with the Greens in 2000, he now has a 6-4 career coaching record.

Vesely milestone

The last EuroLeague MVP Jan Vesely entered the game 8 points shy of a 2,500 milestone, and surpassed it with a baseline jumper with 2:30 left in the second quarter. With 12 points in this game, he moved into 17th place on the all-time scoring chart.

Next up

Next week in Round 21, Panathinaikos will be at home to welcome Khimki Moscow Region on Thursday, while Fenerbahce travels to the Russian capital to face CSKA Moscow on Friday.

Marko Guduric - Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul - EB20
Friday, January 15, 2021
Euroleague.net
Referees: LAMONICA, LUIGI; PEREZ, EMILIO; VILIUS, GYTIS
Attendance: 200
By Quarter1234
Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul31172626
Panathinaikos OPAP Athens12222119
End of Quarter1234
Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul314874100
Panathinaikos OPAP Athens12345574
Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
2 HAMILTON, JOHNNY 2:48   0/1                         -1
4 BROWN, LORENZO 24:13 15 3/5 3/4   1   1 5 3 2   1 3 1 16
5 PEREZ, ALEX 3:52   0/1       1 1 2   3   1 2   -4
8 GUDURIC, MARKO 23:52 18 4/4 3/4 1/2   2 2 4 2 2     3 1 20
10 MAHMUTOGLU, MELIH 18:03 8   2/3 2/2   1 1     2       1 7
19 DE COLO, NANDO 25:09 12 3/8 1/2 3/3   1 1 5   2   1 3 5 11
21 PIERRE, DYSHAWN 19:40 5 1/1 1/2     3 3 1   2 3   2 2 9
24 VESELY, JAN 25:32 12 5/8   2/2 3 4 7 1   1     1 3 18
31 EDDIE, JARELL 16:28 6 0/1 2/5     3 3   1 1 2   3   4
35 MUHAMMED, ALI DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
44 DUVERIOGLU, AHMET 20:38 9 3/3   3/4 2 3 5 4   2     5 4 14
92 ULANOVAS, EDGARAS 19:45 15 2/2 3/4 2/3 1 1 2 2   1       2 18
Team           1 2 3               3
Totals 200:00 100 21/34 15/24 13/16 8 21 29 24 6 18 5 3 22 19 115
        61.8% 62.5% 81.3%
Head coach: KOKOSKOV, IGOR
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
Panathinaikos OPAP Athens
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
0 MACK, SHELVIN 16:10 6 3/6 0/4     1 1 2   2     1 2 1
6 PAPAGIANNIS, GEORGIOS 17:55 10 5/7     1 1 2 2   2 1   2 1 10
7 BOCHORIDIS, ELEFTHERIOS 17:54 2 1/2 0/2 0/2 1 3 4 4 1 5   1 2 3 1
8 AUGUSTE, ZACH 8:35 3 1/3   1/4 3   3   1     2   4 4
14 KASELAKIS, LEONIDAS 14:36   0/1 0/1   2   2           1   -1
16 KALAITZAKIS, GEORGIOS 6:36                   1     1   -2
17 FOSTER, MARCUS FRANKLEE 8:41 7   2/3 1/2         1 1 1   1 1 6
26 NEDOVIC, NEMANJA 24:30 6 1/5 0/4 4/4 1 1 2 6 3 1     2 3 9
30 WHITE, AARON 26:59 13 3/6 1/1 4/5 3 1 4 2 2 1   1 3 4 16
44 MITOGLOU, KONSTANTINOS 25:12 12 4/10 0/3 4/4 3 4 7   1 1 1   2 2 11
50 BENTIL, BEN 15:19 5 1/3 1/2   1 1 2 3 1 1   1 2   4
74 SANT-ROOS, HOWARD 17:33 10 1/1 2/3 2/2 2   2 3 1 1     2 2 14
Team           4 2 6     1         5
Totals 200:00 74 20/44 6/23 16/23 21 14 35 22 11 17 3 5 19 22 78
        45.5% 26.1% 69.6%
Head coach: KATTASH, ODED

Head Coaches

KOKOSKOV, IGOR
Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul
"I think it was completely a team effort and the credit goes to all the guys who played tonight, and who are on the bench, too. I think we are showing the will to sacrifice for each other, and whatever the teams needs, the guys are willing to do. The energy was there, and defense is something that we are trying to find as our identity of our team. We still want an up-tempo game, but we need defensive stops. One thing we fixed in the second half is defensive rebounds. I am not saying it was perfect, but it was better. We have to complete a play and rebound, so we can run. That was our Achilles heel for the whole season. We need a force to break the paint, we have to gain the lane for us to put pressure on the rim, and then to be unselfish and move the ball. The game of basketball is very simple, but we need a force to get in the paint, to put pressure on the rim. They were switching a lot. I think we made solid decisions to go inside, to attack their mismatches, and also be willing to move the ball to the weak side. Again, play unselfishly, be connected, and the stats are showing the way we are playing right now."
KATTASH, ODED
Panathinaikos OPAP Athens
"It was a really bad game, obviously, if you look at the score. A really bad result for us, but personally it felt even worse. In the last two days, I tried to catch up with the team system. It is tough to do it in two days. It was not only a tough loss but it was a hard feeling for me that I could not make a big impact and help my players. We need to find some time, find some good practices and we will be ok. The only thing I told the players, we need to keep our heads up, to keep fighting no matter what, no matter the situation, and I think we will be ok. We need to take care of our body language, stay together. It is tough to talk about the game basketball-wise because we could not impact the game. We let them play, it was too easy, they scored well. They are in good shape now. We will be better. We need to find time, keep our heads up, and I am sure we will be better in the future."

Players

GUDURIC, MARKO
Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul
"First of all, defensively, we did a really good job in stopping Nemanja Nedovic; he is their first option. Offensively, we were just sharing the ball, playing unselfish basketball, and this is how we need to keep playing. This is great, it feels good. Fenerbahce is supposed to win games and this is why we are here. We just need to keep working hard, build this chemistry. Right now, things are going really well and I am happy for it."
VESELY, JAN
Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul
"It feels great. We've finally got the rhythm now, and everybody feels good on the court. On offense and defense, it feels great. We just have to continue like this. There was a problem in the first half [holding our big margin]. That is something that we have had from the beginning of the season, and were losing games like that. Even against Bayern, up 20, we lost a game. We knew that to win the games we have to play for 40 minutes, or at least for most of the minutes we have to play concentrated on defense, and that's what we are doing. We are helping each other, we are talking on defense, and it is a team effort."
WHITE, AARON
Panathinaikos OPAP Athens
"We entered well to the game, but then we could not follow Fener. You know the situation with the arrival of the new coach. But we must continue to work and improve. We were hurt by our turnovers. Every time we had the momentum, they ... pulled us back. The new coach knows what situation we are in and he has the confidence he needs. I like something about him."
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