Panathinaikos vs Maccabi Tel Aviv Prediction: The guests have lost their star

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The Greeks lost the first game of the series, but at least they finally scored 87 points against the Israelis, which everyone but them has done over the course of the season.

Panathinaikos hit 37-plus percent of their long-range shots on the season. Not once in the games against Maccabi did they confirm that percentage. On the contrary, it only went down. And in the first playoff game, they made nine of 29, even though they averaged a season-high 23 long-range shots. The team always shot more than average from beyond the arc in games against Maccabi, but always hit less than average.

So how did Panathinaikos score 87 points? They scored them by a miracle, hitting 22 of 30 two-pointers. That's over 73 percent.

The Israelis played the game of life. They committed six losses in 40 minutes of play. Can they do it again? Of course they can, but not very soon.

Our guess is that Maccabi's defense won't get any worse on the arc, but in the paint, neither Nibo, much less Rivero, can handle Lessort, who scored exactly half of Pao's 22 two-pointers.

If Ataman tells his men to slug it out again, Pao will lose again. Pao will likely be better at two-point shooting again, and Lessort will score a lot - except for him, there's no one else.

So, Pao has lost three games in a row to the Israelis, two of them on their home court. Can Maccabi, without Baldwin, beat the Greeks in Athens once again? We think they can, but later, not now. And Belosevic is there for a reason.