POST MATCH THREAD: Panathinaikos - Maccabi Tel Aviv [EuroLeague Regular Season, Round 3]

[u/EuroleagueBot]

Event Date: October 02, 2026 20:15 CET

Stadium: TELEKOM CENTER ATHENS

Attendance: 17003

Referees: GARCIA, JUAN CARLOS; BAENA, ALBERTO; CELIK, HUSEYIN

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TEAM	SCORE
Panathinaikos	90
Maccabi Tel Aviv	67

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TEAM	1	2	3	4
Panathinaikos	25	18	25	22
Maccabi Tel Aviv	10	14	19	24

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Head Coach: OBRADOVIC, ZELJKO

#	Panathinaikos	MIN	PTS	2FG	3FG	FT	OREB	DREB	TREB	AST	STL	TO	BLK	PF	PIR
7	BADIO, BRANCOU	15:17	-	-	0/2	-	-	3	3	2	-	1	-	-	1
32	BONGA, ISAAC	16:30	10	2/3	2/4	-	2	2	4	-	1	1	-	3	7
3	FRANCISCO, SYLVAIN	20:49	11	1/3	1/8	6/8	-	3	3	4	2	2	-	2	9
22	GRANT, JERIAN	15:10	7	2/3	1/2	-	-	2	2	3	1	1	-	1	11
11	HAYES-DAVIS, NIGEL	24:39	13	2/3	3/6	-	1	3	4	4	1	-	-	2	18
0	KALAITZAKIS, PANAGIOTIS	20:26	3	-	1/4	-	-	1	1	4	1	-	-	2	4
26	LESSORT, MATHIAS	20:04	7	3/5	-	1/1	-	3	3	-	-	1	-	1	11
72	MANTZOUKAS, ELEFTHERIOS	22:49	11	1/4	3/4	-	1	1	2	2	-	-	-	2	7
44	MITOGLOU, KONSTANTINOS	16:42	8	3/5	-	2/4	3	5	8	1	1	2	-	-	15
6	MORAITIS, DIMITRIS	4:04	3	-	1/4	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-
17	ROGKAVOPOULOS, NIKOLAOS	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
28	YABUSELE, GUERSCHON	23:30	17	3/5	3/5	2/2	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	16
	Team						5	1	6			2			4
	Totals	40:00	90	17/31	15/39	11/15	12	25	37	22	8	11	1	17	103

Head Coach: KATTASH, ODED

#	Maccabi Tel Aviv	MIN	PTS	2FG	3FG	FT	OREB	DREB	TREB	AST	STL	TO	BLK	PF	PIR
5	BACOT JR., ARMANDO	17:42	6	2/3	0/1	2/2	1	3	4	-	-	1	1	4	6
10	BRISSETT, O'SHAE J	24:27	8	1/2	1/2	3/3	1	3	4	-	-	-	1	1	13
2	CLARK III, JIMMY	22:57	7	2/6	1/3	-	1	2	3	3	1	5	-	2	3
50	COLSON, BONZIE	18:03	2	1/1	0/4	-	1	4	5	-	-	2	-	1	1
3	EBO, AMIT	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1	HOARD, JAYLEN	18:20	2	1/5	0/1	-	1	3	4	-	-	1	-	2	-2
22	LEAF, TJ	18:16	7	2/4	1/2	-	2	3	5	-	-	-	-	1	8
0	LUNDBERG, IFFE	18:01	6	1/1	1/4	1/1	-	3	3	2	-	2	-	3	6
26	MADAR, YAM	15:43	4	1/4	0/3	2/2	-	-	-	4	-	1	-	2	-
11	RAYMAN, WILLIAM	2:21	3	1/1	-	1/2	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	4
9	SORKIN, ROMAN	20:51	13	4/6	1/3	2/2	3	1	4	3	-	1	1	3	16
17	WALLACE, KEATON	23:19	9	3/3	1/5	-	-	3	3	5	-	1	2	1	13
	Team						2	1	3			2			1
	Totals	40:00	67	19/36	6/28	11/12	12	26	38	17	2	16	5	20	69

[u/WhiteKnightRedditor]

NHD returned from injury and immediately dropped an efficient 13/4/4 😤😤

[u/zeralf]

You couldnt tell NHD hasnt played a single game since June. What a player.

[u/DJMiko21]

Pills in the closet, TV open, eyes blessed.

My the whole year be like this

[u/MaybeStephano]

Beautiful. A Panathinaikos you love to watch. Badio and Bodga need to enter the team too but the rest all are looking great, with Obradovic giving them directions even when everything goes well.

[u/DigitalWitness14]

Instinctively when i saw that 7/8 of our opening matches are at home, I got into Ataman mode and thought "i wonder how will we manage to go 4/4 and start doomposting".

Now we are winning by 30 with our third stringers as starters.

[u/Hour-Basis244 → u/DigitalWitness14]

I did not have Kalaitzakis as great value Magic Johnson in my bingo card but that's Zoc for you.

[u/Minimum-Arachnid3880]

Well, like I said - best team in europe rn and it's not even close.

[u/ObsoleteCreation]

Insane hustle, for 40:00

[u/Zeus_aegiochos]

Maccabi always gave us trouble with Ataman on the bench, and we're still missing 5 very important players. Is Maccabi so much worse this season, or are we so much better?

[u/fjbinks]

I hate Pana but I hate Israeli teams more than anything else. Good job guys and honestly Panathinaikos looks super scary

[u/KeyMark4056]

never seen panata with bigger energy in my life

I am curious what will happend when Nunn comes back. Will Pana get even bettero or will he bring this team down? He has some negative energy in him that brings team down when its not his day. Maybe Zeljko will keep him under control, Ataman did not done that

But rn best team in Europe

[u/KostasN77 → u/KeyMark4056]

Haters are wishing for Nunn to come back and ruin the team

We are wishing for Nunn to come back and make us unstoppable!

But I'm wishing for Fall to return even more, I'm so tired of seeing Mitoglou at 5

[u/KeyMark4056 → u/KostasN77]

i am not. I am just being realistic. When its not his day, his negative energy influence everyone on the team. You just cant accept the truth

We saw that multiple times last season. But its different when your coach is Zeljko Obradovic

[u/KostasN77 → u/KeyMark4056]

You said it all with your last sentence. No need to say anything else

It's not Ataman on the bench anymore. Everything is different than last year

[u/KeyMark4056 → u/KostasN77]

I mean i was just realistic. Thats it, no hard feelings for Nunn

[u/heavymod10 → u/KeyMark4056]

PAOK beat them last week.It's just that Euroleague is filled with a lot of trash teams and nobody wants to admit it.

[u/yianni1229 → u/heavymod10]

Wow PAOK beat us without our two best players and our captain. Crazy stuff.

[u/heavymod10 → u/yianni1229]

And those players were missing in those 3 EL games, the same games that made the OP call PAO the best team in Europe right now. So yeah PAOK beat the same team that thrashes those piss poor Euroleague teams, thanks for proving my point 

[u/yianni1229 → u/heavymod10]

NHD played today actually so no, it wasnt the first 3 games.

[u/TNT_GR → u/heavymod10]

PAOK invested a lot and would have won a lot of EL teams this year. In addition Super cup is not important enough to see the real picture, coaches are still trying stuff especially new teams.

[u/y0u_re_wr0ng → u/heavymod10]

You should also factor in that this is a new team, new players, new coach, new stuff, etc, the game that PAOK won was the third game of PAO with this new team so it's natural if they're not that persistent this early on in the season and especially when key role players are out due to injuries.

[u/ConcentrateLanky7576 → u/y0u_re_wr0ng]

No, the game that PAOK won was about the level of an exhibition. In fact, below that. Obradovic didn’t even care in his talk after the game.

But, delusions aside, there are a lot of games and the team will slow down at some point. The notable thing is that last year those games would be a struggle and the opponent would score 90 points. Without Nunn, NHD, and sloukas these games were lost, it’s huge progress.

[u/ConcentrateLanky7576 → u/heavymod10]

Delusional

[u/Equal-ExplorerNutron → u/ConcentrateLanky7576]

PAOK owners say they will have 60 millions budget next year which is double of some teams in Euroleague, he has a point 

[u/ConcentrateLanky7576 → u/Equal-ExplorerNutron]

What they say they will have and what they have now is not the same thing. For now they would struggle with the “trash” teams (like Maccabi lmao)

[u/WhiteKnightRedditor → u/heavymod10]

We were playing without our 2 best players

[u/Cour4ge]

The match was absolute trash but the TV Monaco's shoutcaster was so bitter and funny

[u/ContributionUsed4868 → u/Cour4ge]

Trash for maccabi fans?

[u/Cour4ge → u/ContributionUsed4868]

Even more for them yes. I mean the pana played fine but they had a lot of garbage time too but macabbi 6/28 at 3 pts lmao. At some point they didn't even care they were throwing the ball at 20 seconds on the clock

[u/KostasN77 → u/Cour4ge]

We enjoyed it! But I understand it wasn't so enjoyable for our opponents ;)

[u/Cour4ge → u/KostasN77]

I don't understand the downvote neither the comments. I'm not for macabbi and I'm all in for Pana but this match had lot of garbage time. There is nothing wrong to say it.

[u/puzzledpanther → u/Cour4ge]

Maybe you should articulate yor thoughts better than just saying "The match was absolute trash"... but even after you explained your silly thought a bit better, it still wasn't a "absolute trash" game, not even close.

You deserve every downvote you get for talking shit in such a petty way.

[u/KostasN77 → u/Cour4ge]

Sorry for not entertaining you but that wasn't our purpose. Our purpose is to win atp, and we've done it emphatically

We Pao fans are super happy.