Lidia Stoupel

Reporter Intern

No one can be compared to him. Panathinaikos defeated Olympiakos with 80 to 70 on the Eliniko stadium and rose up the cup of Greece – the first title for the season and this way it added one more glorious page to its big history. The green ones took their 12^th Greek Championship cup and the 46^th title and are continuing on their road to success.

Of course yesterday’s final had a name and this was Dimitris Diamandidis. Yesterday he became the captain of Panathinaikos and managed to score nine points in two minutes. He paralyzed Olympiakos completely with another eight rebounds. This was one phenomenal appearance of one of the biggest Greek basketball starts.

Diamandidis flipped the score from 64-63 for Olympiakos to 72-64 for Panathinaikos and this way he resolved the final and sent his co-players to the 12^th sky – as many as actually their cups are. He was the player who helped Panathinaikos to defeat Olympiakos with five points in one very hard moment in the third part of the game.

Diamandidis was running to the basket, scoring all the time and giving courage to him teammates. During the fourth part of the game he reached his aim – they got the cup. Panathinaikos proved that it can get out of hard situations and it can set its own terms on the court. The difference between the two teams is that Panathinaikos proved it can win titles. The green ones celebrated the victory with all their fans, who were at the stadium cheering.