Excellent… ten got Olympic!
The “red and whites” started impressively in the “devil week”, where with a “weapon” their defense, they crushed 83-60 the Bayern Munich, for 8/8 at SEF and 10-5.
Excellent basketball for 34 minutes by the team of Piraeus, with the difference being shot and over 30 points and in fact with a bad percentage outside the 6.75m., where they measured 6/21 three points.
Top o Vezenkov with 16 points and 9 rebounds, with Larentzakis having 15 points, Wokap 13 points. and Dorsey another 10p.
From the Bavarians, who retreated to 7-8, stood out o Rubit with 10p. and in fact he was the only double-digit figure.
The match
Olympiakos started with Fal, Vezenkov, Papanikolaou, Dorsey and Wokap. Piraeus made an excellent start, as with their tough defense they forced Bayern to make mistakes and with Vezenkov and Dorsey in the open field, they went to 10-0, in the first four minutes. The Germans were holding on aggressively with Yaramaz, but Bartzokas’s players continued the same and escaped at +12 (18-6), in 6 ‘. Then, the “red and whites” still did not have shots outside the 6.75m, but with the correct… feeding of Martin in the last minutes, they closed the first period at +16 (26-10).
With Thomas in front, Bayern reduced the distance (30-17), at the beginning of the second half. However, Olympiakos θε came together quickly, as it tightened its defense again and dominating the racket, shot the difference to +22 (41-19), in 16 ‘. The formidable defense of Bartzoka’s players had blocked for good the guests, who scored mainly with Luτσιiτς’s shots. On the other hand, they continued their extremely highly “read” game in the “painted” and with Fal taking the… baguette, they went to the locker room with +25 (49-24).
Without imagination, Olympiakos entered the second half of the attack, with the result that it could not be connected with the basket and with Rubit, Bayern reduced (51-29), in 23 ‘. However, Piraeus reacted leveling and through their formidable defense made steals, finding points in the open field, as a result of which they shot the difference to +34 (65-31), in 29 ‘. In the remaining time, Bartzokas’s players let go of the gas, with the guests forming the 65-37 of the third period.
With the three-pointers of Larentzakis, Olympiakos escaped again at +34 (71-37), at the beginning of the fourth period. Then, however, the “red and whites” relaxed too much, making many mistakes and losing a lot of defensive rebounds, with Hunter breaking και and Bayern with a series of three-pointers making a partial score of 3-19 (74-56), at 36 ‘ . However, in the last minutes, the “red and whites” got serious again and took the victory with the final 83-60.
MVP: Whoever stepped on the floor of SEF put his little stone in the victory of Olympiacos. Clearly the MVP was the. Defense, who blocked Trinkieri’s formed team and kept it at just 63 points.
The number that made the difference: The three-pointers did not go well for the “red and whites”, who did not have one in the first half, while they finished the match with the low 6/21. However, what made the difference was the excellent 75.8% in two points, with 25/33.
The ten minutes: 26-10, 49-24, 65-37, 83-60
See here the film of the match
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