Panathinaikos won the Greek Cup: 80-70 against Olympiacos

The third period found Olympiacos ahead almost at all its first 8 minutes due to successive successful baskets from Thodoros Papaloukas (200-G-77, agency: Interperformances) (7 points) and Lynn Greer (186-G-79, college: Temple) mainly, while from the Greens Dimitris Diamantidis (196-G-80) took some attempts and succeeded (7 points). The period ended at 53-53, and after the Greens leaded with 53-51, in a period with a high score, comparing to the previous ones, good basket and much tension inside the field. Panathinaikos managed to improve in its rebounds (25-21) with only one offensive for the Reds.
The final period started totally balanced (57-57) 7:10 before its ended, but then Panathinaikos made a quick 6-0 serie with two successive three-pointers from Antonis Fotsis (210-F-81) and Stratos Perperoglou (203-G-84), to take an important lead at this time of the game (6:09 before the end). Olympiacos responded with his 7-0 serie for the 64-63 to relead, 5:07 before the end, and the end of the final was extremely anxious for all the spectators. Dimitris Diamantidis though was there (three successive consecutive 3-point shots) for the 64-72. The whole situation was then very difficult to change and Panathinaikos was finally the winner, at the final
Dimitris Diamantidis was voted MVP of the final, with his 16 points but mainly his impreesive appearance at the last period.

Olympiakos: Thodoros Papaloukas 13, Pelekanos, Vujcic 4, Milosevic, Giannis Bourousis (212-C-83, agency: FCM) 10, Halperin 3, Lynn Greer 11, Jannero Pargo (187-G-79, agency: Priority Sports, college: Arkansas) 7, Panagiotis Vasilopoulos (202-F-84, agency: FCM) 8, Schortsianitis 3, Giorgos Printezis (206-F-85, agency: FCM) 9, Erceg 2

Panathinaikos: Vassilis Spanoulis (193-G-82, agency: Beo Basket) 9, Stratos Perperoglou 9, Mike Batiste (203-F-77, college: Arizona St.) 12, Antonis Fotsis 13, Chatzivrettas, Nicholas 6, Tsartsaris, Dimitris Diamantidis 16, Nikola Pekovic (210-C-86, agency: Beo Basket) 5, Sarunas Jasikevicius 10.