Baskonia-Olympiakos: Second chance in Spain

His… trip to Spain continues o Olympicwho faces her Baskonia at the “Fernando Buesa Arena” for its 21st matchday Euroleague (21:30, NovaSports Prime, sport-fm.gr, News Bulletin 247),

The “red and white” have a record of 11-9 and come from the battle against the Barcelonawhere they made a great effort until the finale, however in the end they did not manage to leave with the great “double” from the difficult for everyone “Palau Blaugrana”. The face his team showed anyway Giorgos Bartzokas was convincing, so she can be optimistic that a similar performance will lead her to victory in Vitoria.

On the other hand, his very negative performance is certainly not a positive “omen”. Olympiakou this year against the Spanish teams. The Piraeus have 5 defeats in as many matches against teams from the Iberian country, while in the first round Baskonia managed to beat them in the SEF with the winning basket Cody Miller-McIntyre. A lot has changed since then, however, in the playing face of the Bartzokas team, the main one being… the complete “arsenal” available to the Greek technician.

Indeed, Mr Olympic is in Spain with a mission of 13 players namely: Walkup, Goss, Mitrou-Long, Kanaan, Brazdeikis, McKissick, Larentzaki, Papanikolaou, Peters, Sikma, Petrusef, Fall, Milutinov. It remains to be seen who will be “cut” this time from the roster of the match. In Barcelona, ​​the “lot” sat on Naz Mitrou-Long.

On the other hand, the Basques they are not a formidable opponent, but they remain terribly predictable and dangerous. THE Baskonia is one win behind him Olympic, with a 10-10 record, and shows a pretty shaky face, which is reflected in her split record. Vitoria’s team is capable of the best and the worst, however lately… they are leaning towards second, as they have just 2 wins in their last 7 matches. Even her home record (5-5) is anything but impressive.

In the previous game of the “devil’s week”, Dusko Ivanovic’s team was defeated with a score of 93-83 by Monacoagain showing his classic defensive tendencies, which he will be asked to exploit Olympic. Despite the final difference, however, Baskonia were in the game until the final minutes in Monte Carlo, so this shows that they are by no means to be underestimated. Of course, its top player and most dangerous is Marcus Howardwho… complimented her with 33 points Monaco.

The game for the 21st matchday will be managed by Fernando Rocha (Portugal), Piotr Pastusiak (Poland) and Kristaps Konstantinovs (Latvia).