They gasped in the second half against PAOK and Olympiacos took the lead ahead of Kaunas!

He made it 1-0 in the series with PAOK and he goes… to the Final-4 of the Euroleague o Olympic!

A few days before traveling to Kaunas, Lithuania for their big European date with Monaco, the “red and whites” struggled for a half in the SEF against PAOK, but they gassed up in the second half, in which they prevailed by a partial score of 41-20, celebrating finally the comfortable victory with 83-65.

Thessaloniki were better than Olympiakos in the first half, when they had terrible three-point shooting percentages (11/20) and had a 45-42 lead, but then Giorgos Bartzokas’ team chose to rest Slukas, leaving him out of the starting lineup. , has dramatically improved in defense and attack, getting… ahead of the long-awaited Final-4!

Top for the winners are Vezenkov (21 points, 8 rebounds), Lorentzakis (16p.) and Peters (13p.), while for PAOK they stood out Seibert (15p.) and Riley (12 points, 4 assists).

The match

The match started with the guests coming in “hot”, taking a 9-5 lead with 3/3 three-pointers from Franke, Margariti and Riley! PAOK’s strong start seemed to surprise Olympiacos, who needed 5 straight points from Vezenkov to tie the game at 14-14. Walkup and Papanikolaou put together a great alley-oop partnership for 17-16, before Hunts hit an improbable buzzer-beater three-pointer to make it 17-19 in the first period!

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Hunts beat the timer at the start of the second quarter, for PAOK +5 (17-22), while Larentzakis and the active Peters put Olympiakos ahead (25-22). Riley responded immediately with PAOK’s seventh accurate three-pointer (7/14), Polley and Hunts improved the already very high percentage of the guests in three-pointers, for 30-35. Peters tied it again at 35-35 and 40-40, Seibert made it 40-45 with a 3-pointer of his own, before Vezenkov made it 11 to cut it to 42-45 at the half.

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Olympiacos entered the third period with clearly more energy, making consecutive good saves and starting to build a run. Wezenkov and Walkup made it 54-50, Walkup hit a 3-pointer, Fall impressively tipped Riley and the home team with a 21-7 lead escaped with a double-digit difference (63-52).

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PAOK reduced with Seibert and Kaklamanakis for 65-56, but the three-pointers stopped coming in and the offensive solutions decreased. McKissick with a three-pointer and Larentzakis with consecutive points of his own brought Olympiacos to +14 for the first time in the match (72-58), while the difference exceeded all 20 points (79-58), with another three-pointer by the “hot » Larentzakis! In the end, Olympiacos prevailed 83-65, celebrating its 61st (!) consecutive victory in domestic competitions, before facing Monaco for the EuroLeague Final-4. The next game of the series against PAOK is scheduled for 25/5, in Thessaloniki.

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The quarters: 17-19, 42-45, 63-52, 83-65

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