“Blackout” at the end and defeat for Olympiakos in Barcelona

Through his defense o Olympic came back from -15 (69-54) in Barcelona, ​​but in the final minutes was “betrayed” by its attack and experienced defeat 86-78 from Barcelona.

About four minutes before the end, the “red and white” brought the match to three points (79-76), but the shots – mainly by Peters and Kanan – did not find a target, with the Kalinic and Satoransky to… sign the victory of the Catalans.

Thus, the Piraeus retreated to 11-9while on the other hand the “Blaugrana” went to 14-6.

The first scorer for Barzoka’s team was Peters with 22 points, while o Williams-Goss add another 12p.

On the other hand, the Catalans finished the match with 11/25 three-pointers, but also with 11 offensive rebounds. The leader was Parker with 21 points followed by Hernangomet with 16 p.

The match

Olympiacos started with Fal, Peters, Papanikolaou, Kanan and Walkap. After the familiar and balanced first two minutes (5-5), Parker became unsolvable… a problem with his peripheral shots for the “red and white” defense, as a result of which Barcelona went to +11 (18-7), at 5′ . Then, the Piraeus reacted through their defense, but also the activation of Peters and Kanan offensively, reducing the difference to three points (23-20), in the 8th minute. However, in the last two minutes Barzoka’s players did not make good decisions on both sides of the floor, with the “Blaugrana” going on a 4-0 run, for +7 (27-20) at the end of the first period.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Olympiacos had a rhythm offensively with Williams-Goss and Lorentzakis, but the many missed defensive rebounds gave Barcelona the opportunity to maintain their lead (33-26) until the 14th minute. Then the “red and whites” became tougher in defense, cutting off the pace of the hosts, who scored mostly with shots. On the other hand, Williams-Goss and Brazdeikis were very hungry offensively, with the Piraeus team constantly gnawing away at the distance and even going ahead (40-41), at 19′. However, she was… pressed by another missed rebound in the remaining time and thus Parra sent the Catalans to the locker room with +3 (44-41).

A bad start from Olympiakos in the second half, as Barcelona entered “hot” from the periphery and with individual scores of 10-4, initially escaped to +9 (54-45), while with Kalinic’s three-pointer it went back to +11 (58 -47), in the 24th minute. Fal and Walkap temporarily “unstuck” Piraeus with a 5-0 of their own (58-52). However, back-to-back “cheap” mistakes followed that gave points in the open field to the Catalans, who with Hernangometh and Parker, escaped to +15 (69-54), in the 27th minute. With two good defenses, the “red and white” found a 5-0 again (69-59), but they had no follow-up and so the home team led by Hernangomet closed the third period at +12 (75-63).

With a Yokoubaitis basket at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Barcelona escaped to +14 (77-63). Immediately, there followed excellent defenses by Olympiakos, who forced the Catalans into unanswerable mistakes and forwards in the Williams-Goss attack, and McKissick responded with a 10-0 run (77-73), until the 34th minute. Parker temporarily unstuck the home team, with the “red and white” responding with Kanan and reducing (79-76), in the 36th minute. In the next two minutes, both had missed attacks, with Hernangometh’s shots, from a missed defensive rebound, breaking the … pomegranate and Canaan reducing again (81-78). However, in the final two minutes, Barzoka’s men found neither Peters nor Kanan on target, with Kalinic-Satoranski making it 5-0 for Barcelona and giving them the final 86-78 win.

The quarters: 27-20, 44-41, 75-63, 86-78

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