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GAME Notes: Panathinaikos vs. Zalgiris

GAME Notes: Panathinaikos vs. Zalgiris

2023-24

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Panathinaikos (3-4) will aim to prove that last week's powerful win in Berlin could be the start of something special as its welcomes a struggling Zalgiris (3-4), which has lost three in a row.

Dinos Mitoglou has been the key player for Panathinaikos, averaging 16 points and 6 rebounds in more than 30 minutes on the floor. This week he faces a versatile paint protector in Rolands Smits, who averages 5.3 rebounds and also poses a scoring threat with an average of 13.3 points. Smits has made at least one three-pointer in each of his last six games. The hosts are entering a run of three consecutive games in Athens and will look to make that count against a Zalgiris team that has claimed two of its three wins on the road.

Regular Season

Round 8 of 34

game Zalgiris Kaunas vs Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens

Regular Season

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Zalgiris KaunasZAL

Overview

- Panathinaikos guard Marius Grigonis went through the Zalgiris youth system and played there professionally for three seasons, from 2018 to 2021.

- Zalgiris guard Lukas Lekavicius played for Panathinaikos for two seasons, from 2017 to 2019, and helped the team to a pair of EuroLeague Playoff appearances and two Greek League titles. He was a teammate of Ioannis Papapetrou.

- Grigonis and Lekavicius have been teammates on the Lithuanian national team and played there under current Zalgiris head coach Kazys Maksvytis at EuroBasket 2022.

- Lekavicius set his career-high with 4 steals for Zalgiris against Panathinaikos in November 2015.

- Zalgiris guard Keenan Evans recorded a career-best 4 steals playing for Maccabi against Panathinaikos in March 2022.

- Panathinaikos forward Panagiotis Kalaitzakis and Zalgiris guard Dovydas Giedraitis were teammates at Lietkabelis Panevezys last season.

- Zalgiris forward Edgaras Ulanovas scored a career-high 22 points against Panathinaikos in March 2022.

- Ulanovas grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds against Panathinaikos in December 2017.

- Panathinaikos center Mathias Lessort had a career-high 3 blocks playing for Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade against Zalgiris in October 2022.

- Panathinaikos forward Ioannis Papapetrou had a career-high 3 blocks playing for Olympiacos Piraeus against Zalgiris in December 2016.

- Last season, Panathinaikos guard Luca Vildoza had a career-high 27 points playing for Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade in a home game against Zalgiris and tied a career-best with 5 steals in the game in Kaunas.

- Vildoza had a career-high 5 steals playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against Zalgiris in January 2021.

- Panathinaikos guard Kostas Sloukas delivered a career-high 11 assists playing for Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul in an 82-68 win over Zalgiris in October 2016.

- Sloukas collected a career-best 4 steals playing for Fenerbahce against Zalgiris in April 2019.

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