In the warmth of his home after three consecutive away games, he returns tonight for the Euroleague Olympic. The “red and whites” are facing (21:30, bwinΣΠΟΡ FM 94,6, sportfm.gr and Novasports Prime) the Bayern Munichfor the 15th race, aiming to return to victories.
After the defeat in Belgrade by the Red Star, the team of George Bartzokas is in record 9-5 and faces the Bavarians, who are among the main competitors for a place in the playoffs. The German team, with four wins in the last five Euroleague games, has reached balanced record 7-7 and is looking for a big away win to get into the octave orbit for good. Her psychology is at an even better level, as she prevailed on Sunday for the Alba championship in Berlin and comes with aspirations to force Olympiakos in its first defeat at SEF, after seven victories in an equal number of games this year.
Her experienced and smart coach Andrea Trinkieri, has made a team with more experience this year, as the roster is dominated by the former “red and whites”, Othello Hunter, Augustin Rubit, Desson Thomas and Darwin Hilliard (s.s. will be absent today due to injury). At the same time a few days ago it was acquired the former Panathinaikos forward, KC Rivers, who will most likely make his debut tonight. Among the Bavarians, of course, the Serbian forward, Vladimir Luτσιi., Stands out, while the guards are dominated by Corey Walden, Wheeler-Bubb and the very good shooter, Andreas Obst.
In addition to attention to the front line (s.s. Mustafa Fal is now in a much better condition after the sprain), Olympiakos should control the rhythm and not be hurt by the miss matches that the guest is frantically looking for in her game. The defenses of the two teams have the same effectiveness so far (accept 74.9 points average), and the hosts should take advantage of the fact that creatively with 13.6 assists per game, Bayern is the second worst in this category in the tournament.
Referees of the match are Matthew Boltauser (Slovenia), Emilio Perez (Spain) and Robert Viklicki (Czech Republic).
In a level delivery, the two teams have met eight times so far since the 2013/14 season in the Euroleague, with Olympiakos having six wins and Bayern two. In fact, in the four games that have been played on Greek soil, the “red and whites” count the absolute with an equal number of victories.
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