Olympiacos: Negative performance of 129 games in attack

With a negative performance in the attack, one of the worst in its history, it was accompanied by defeat of Olympiakos by Panathinaikos (54-66).

The performance of 54 points is the home team’s lowest in these derbies for the regular season since 2001-02. Then he was defeated 52-62. At the same time, the 54 points that Olympiacos was left with are also a new negative record overall for this year’s Stoiximan Basket League as the previous one was the 61 scored by Karditsa Japoniki in her game against Aris Midea.

In addition, Olympiacos scored the lowest attacking performance of his last 129 Championship games. The lowest was on June 11, 2017 when he scored 51 points for the 5th playoff final, losing the title to Panathinaikos (51-66).

This performance was mainly a result of the home team’s lack of productivity in the second half, when they scored 23 points which is their second lowest performance of the season. They were only above the one Karditsa Yaponiki had in the second half of the match with Aris Midea (22).

Through the statistics of the “red and white” stands out, in a negative way, their percentage in shots. They finished the game with 4/16 and this 25% is a new negative season record since the previous one was the 46.66% with which Apollon Carna performed last Saturday against Kolossos H Hotels (7/15).

In addition, this 25% of Olympiakos equals the negative record of the last seven years in the Stoiximan Basket League. PAOK mateco had the same with 1/4 shots against him for the 24th matchday of the 2018-19 Championship. To find a percentage lower than what the “red and white” had yesterday, we should go back to the 10th matchday of the 2016-17 Championship when Kymi performed with 16.66% in her away game against Aris Midea, having 2/12 shots.

Olympiacos equaled this year’s lowest ranking performance by staying at 50, just as Kolossos H Hotels did against it. At the same time, he equaled the negative season record with his two players having double-digit points performance, which was done twice by Peristeri bwin and once by Kolossos H Hotels and AEK Betsson.

Papanikolaou is 5th in accurate two-pointers in the history of Olympiakos

Kostas Papanikolaou reached a special achievement through the derby, after entering the top five of Olympiakos’ historical list in accurate two-pointers, during the years of the professional Championship. The captain of Olympiakos had 2/4 two-pointers, reached 519 on target and climbed to the 5th place on the list after surpassing Zarko Paspali who had 518 in the two years 1992-94.

Even on an individual level…

*Yorgos Bartzokas reached three remarkable achievements, two with a positive and one with a negative connotation. Coaching Olympiakos for the 136th time in the framework of the Stoiximan Basket League, he reached Giannis Sfairopoulos in the 3rd place of the relevant list. He surpassed him in regular season matches after reaching 101, while the Thessaloniki coach had 100 such games on the “red and white” bench.

For Bartzokas on the other hand, yesterday’s loss was the 100th in his career in the Stoiximan Basket League. This came in his 312th game in it.

*Tomas Walkup dished out three assists, making him the 11th player in Olympiakos history to reach 300. On the other hand, the Olympiakos guard equaled a season-low with six fouls. It is also about his negative record in the Stoiximan Basket League after he had five errors in the 2nd quarter-final of last year’s playoffs against Aris Midea.

*Isaiah Kanaan and Alec Peters reached 50 accurate three-pointers in the same games with Olympiacos in the division. The first even overcame them. So this particular list lists 44 players.

At the same time, Kanaan reached and exceeded 200 points in the Greek Championship, but he also did something extremely rare for his standards. He missed a… shot. The American shot once yesterday from the foul line and missed, which was just the second time in the 21 shots he has taken since last season in the Greek Championship.

*Mustafa Fal, with the six rebounds he had in the derby, moved up two places in the list of Olympiacos’ foreign rebounders. The Frenchman surpassed Kyle Hines who had 286 rebounds in the two years 2011-13 and “caught” in 12th place and 290 rebounds of Andria Zizic (2005-07).