He went on to lose his own match, but he got furious at the end and Olympiacos entered 2024 with the right hand!

Leg kick in the new year with the right, but also a lot of stress for him Olympic!

His team Giorgos Bartzokas was in danger of losing a game of its own after a “dead” five minutes in the fourth quarter was enough to lose a 13-point lead, however, it ran wild in the final and cleaned up Armani Milano with a score of 79-74 at the packed SEF for the 18th matchday of the Euroleague!

The “red and white” controlled the tempo for the longest period of the match, with Mustafa Fal and Nikola Milutinov to dominate both racquets and with Alec Peters taking the lead in the second half, they cruised to their third successive win in the tournament, moving up to 6th in the table with 10-8 record.

The first scorer for the winners was Peters with 16 points, (with the American scoring the last basket of the match), 6 rebounds and 3 assists, with Milutinov adding 13 points and 5 rebounds. As for Fale, the French center once again produced an impressive and full match this year, finishing the night with 12 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 blockaccumulating 28 points in the rating system!

For the Italians, who played the match in a draw despite their significant absences Mirotic, Baron, Law and Shield, Flacantori and Napier stood out with 14 points, while Tonut (13p., 3/5tr.) and Bortolani (11p., 3/4tr.) did a lot of damage from afar.

The match:

THE Olympic started the game with the classic “recipe”, as Walkup, Caanan, Papanikolaou, Peters and Fal were in his starting five, at the same time that the Armani started with Napier, Hall, Meli, Vogtman and Kamagate. With the crowd that filled the SEF pushing the team, the “red and white” entered the match strongly, imposing their pace early on. With two of his three-pointers Walkup and six points of the sovereign Falthe home team led by +8 for 12-4 and shortly after with 15-7 in 6′ with a 3-pointer by Peters.

But somewhere there, the people of Piraeus lost their sanity, falling for many things consecutive errors (6 in the quarter). This resulted in Armani finding easy points with them as well Slacker and Donut to aggressively lead their team, the Italians, closed the quarter in front of the score with short head (18-19) thanks to the second’s buzzer beater three-pointer.

His entrance Giannouli Larentzakis at second period he gave the necessary passion and “spark” that was missing from Olympiakos. With excellent defenses by the Greek guard, Bartzoka’s team found a rhythm and offensively taking the lead again Keeping the Italians low in the score, Olympiacos went on a 7-0 run to overtake and 31-26 at 16′. Period in which Nikola Milutinov dominated under the two baskets.

In fact, a little later, with a great three-pointer by Larentzakis, Olympiacos went at +6 (34-28)with Petrusev and McKissick helping their team in the last two minutes, go to the dressing room in front in the score with 40-35.

As at the start of the match, so also at third quarter, Olympiacos entered the match strongly, imposing its rhythm and controlling the tempo of the match. Playing excellent and pressing defense, the “red and whites” gained rhythm in the front part of the floor as well, moving the ball quickly, constantly finding the extra pass, but also shooting in good conditions.

Adding the three-pointer to his game, Olympiacos was able to quickly increase the difference to double digits, maintaining it relatively comfortably at these levels (54-41) at 25′. With Peters entering the equation of the match, but also Fal-Milutinov not having… an opponent in the racket, the hosts reached up to +15 (61-46) in the 28th minute, with Armani reducing in the last minute, thin for the quarter 63-50.

By Alec Peters to score the first five points of his team and the Isaiah Caanan to add two more in the first three minutes of the fourth and final period, Olympiacos went at +13 and 70-57, showing that he is slowly “cleaning” the match. But somewhere there, something unprecedented happened sedimentation for the “red and whites”, which combined with the… supernatural accuracy of the Italians, things took another turn.

Specifically, within the next four minutes of the game, Armani Milano found three consecutive three-pointers by Bortolani and Tonut, managing to run an individual score 17-4 (!)equating to 74-74 at 37′!

Despite the… numbness on the floor and platform, Williams-Goss declared himself “present” for Olympiacos and with a big three-point shot from Fal’s assist made it 77-74 in the 38th minute. In the next phase, Fal impressively stopped a three-pointer by Bortolani, with the Frenchman “serving” a ready basket to Peters for in 79-74, at 1:14′ before the end! In the remaining time, Armani could not find a basket that would put them back in the match, with the Piraeus taking the pink match sheet with final 79-74!



The quarters: 18-19, 40-35, 60-53, 79-74.

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