The coach of the podium: Olympiacos forgot the… recipe in the locker room

Olympiacos introduced two people in Madrid and thus met the 75-67 defeat by Realwhile losing the opportunity for a big “double”.

Almost perfect the first half of the “red and whites”, but the second was not the same, with the “queen” on the one hand dominating the rebounds and on the other hand putting all the big shots, something that the Piraeus did not do.

The coach of the podium records on www.sportfm.gr everything that judged the match…

First of all, Olympiacos was betrayed by its defense: In the first half, everything went perfectly for the team of Piraeus, due to the excellent defense. Real had completely lost their minds in the attack, Bartzoka’s players were in control of the rebounds and so their liabilities after the first 20 minutes were only 24 points. However, Olympiacos did not do such a thing in the second half of the match. On the contrary, the -mainly personal- defense relaxed, Tavares… threshed in the “painted” and so Lasso’s team achieved a total of 51 points and specifically 26 points. in the third quarter and 25p. in the fourth.

Big difference in rebounds and the “scarecrow” Tavares: Thomas Hertel may have been Real Madrid’s top scorer, but Eddie Tavares was the guarantor of the comeback in the beginning and the victory in the end for the “queen”. The giant from Cape Verde increased his performance in the second half and was the “scarecrow” for Lasso’s team, as a result of which he pushed the Piraeus team out and since they were not effective from the periphery, they blocked aggressively. At the same time, on the other side of the floor, he was the one who put his hand and either took the offensive rebound, or pushed the ball to his teammates for the second and third chances. Thus, Real fatally collected a total of 42 rebounds, of which 14 offensive, with the “red and whites” on the other hand collecting 27 and only 3 offensive.

The details that made the difference: Despite Real’s rise in the second half, Olympiacos seemed to withstand the. Vibrations, with the score at 65-65, at 3:19 ” before the end. There, however, the “red and whites”… were afraid of the attack and paid for it. In this period until the end, the team of Piraeus had a missed nailing of Fal and a mistake by him in the same phase, after an offensive rebound. With the score at 67-65 at 1:00 ” before the end, Wookup made an airball in a three-pointer from the corner, with Rudy scoring in the next attack from 7.5 meters and making it 70-65. Olympiakos’s last chance to claim the victory – albeit with the few chances it had – was Dorsey’s shot from outside the 6.75m, but even that was misplaced, with Yul ending the match with a three-pointer. 73-65.

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