It’s time for the playoffs in this year’s Basketball League!
The post season of the Greek league premieres tonight at 19:15 (ΕΟ3, News Bulletin 247, sport-fm.gr), with regular season leader Olympiakos welcoming 8th ranked Aris to SEF.
One week after securing first place in the regular season of the EuroLeague and… sealing their meeting with Fenerbahce for qualification to the Final-4, the “red and white” will face Thessaloniki with the aim of taking the first step towards qualifying for the semi-finals of the Basketball League.
Giorgos Bartzokas’ team finished unbeaten and with an unblemished record 22-0 its course during the regular season of this year’s championship, after it was also victorious at the home of AEK for the last matchday. It enters the playoffs with absolute home advantage for the 15th time in its history, having reached the title in 8 of them. In the competition, he will be left out Isaiah Canaanwho was chosen to be the outsider who will be left out of the playoffs, without Bartzokas having to deal with any injury problems.
On the other hand, Mr Mars finished the regular season with a record 11-11, same as that of Colossus of Rhodes, but staying in 8th place after falling behind in the tie. The “yellow and black” ensured their presence in the playoffs for the second season in a row. They celebrated three victories in the 11 games they played away from home, while they traveled to Piraeus “caught up”, since Giannis Kastritis will have only seven completely ready players at his disposal. Horkler, Huggins, Sanogo, Christidis, You’re tearing up and Havales are dealing with injury problems and did not take part in training on Wednesday (19/4).
Olympiacos won both meetings between the two teams for this season in the league, with 83-68 in Thessaloniki and 89-75 in SEF. At the same time, he also qualified for the match between the two teams in the quarter-final phase of the Cup, winning with 82-51 in the Final-8 of the event.
Symeonidis, Karpanos and Tiganis will be referees for tonight’s match.
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Source: Sport Fm
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