Panathinaikos won thanks to an unbelievable second half

Panathinaikos Athens managed to put Zalgiris Kaunas’s four-game winning streak to an end thanks to an 89-65 victory at OAKA on Thursday night. Despite the big difference the scoreboard displayed in the end, the game was everything but controlled by the Greens in the first 20 minutes.
But the home team changed everything after the break and signed off on a 37-16 third-quarter score that made everyone at the arena rub their eyes.
Including visiting head coach Kazys Maksvytis: "It was a very strange game. I never lived something like this in my career," he admitted in the press conference. "Even in kids' basketball, where I started my coaching career, I never saw numbers like these."
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He was not the only one that found the game difficult to explain. Panathinaikos center Georgios Papagiannis was still thinking about it right after the final whistle: "Honestly, I don’t know [what happened in the second half]," he said. "[The win] was crazy."
His coach Dejan Radonjic also stressed how uncommon the game had been. "Maybe we can think of how strange it was how we played the first half and how we changed things in the second," he shared with the journalists in the press conference room. "But I’m so happy because of these 20 minutes; the team spirit, the fight, the energy, the body language was really good."