Disappointing Olympiakos surrendered to Baskonia!

Defeated twice, he left Vitoria Olympic!

The “red and white” were bad in the second half, they did in total 17 mistakes in the match and they were defeated 80-69 from Baskonia, losing the tie. In the 11-10 now both teams.

The first scorer for Piraeus was They did with 19 points, with Milutinov to double-double with 12p. and 14 rebounds. His best performance with the red and whites was made by Petrusev with 14 points.

He stayed very low Petersby just 2 points, but may have been affected by the inadvertent hit to the face by Papanikolaou in the first part, which temporarily sent him to the locker room.

Among the Basques, the leader was Howard with 21 points and 5/9 three-pointers.

The match

Olympiacos started with Fal, Peters, Papanikolaou, Kanan and Walkap. The “red and whites” started without a good rhythm and with mistakes, who in the first five minutes had scored two three-pointers with Walkup and Kanan, but defensively they were bad and thus Baskonia was at +5 (11-6). However, the sequel belonged to the Piraeus team. Sharply improving her defense she controlled the pace, forcing her own. At the same time, Kanan continued to be very “hot” from the perimeter and with his own three-pointers Barzoka’s players made individual scores 3-11, closing the first period at +3 (14-17).

At the same pace and with a 4-0 run by Petrusev, Olympiacos entered the second quarter, for +7 (14-21). New mistakes followed, as well as an unsportsmanlike foul by Brazdeikis on Rogavopoulos, which “woke up” Baskonia and with Howard’s shots opened up the field even more for her own +7 (31-24), at 16′. Then, the “red and white” reacted with good defenses and the Milutinov-Petrushev duo monopolized the attack, finding an 8-0 run to overtake (31-32), until 19′. However, with a Kochar basket at the end, the Basques went to the locker room in front (33-32).

Despite his cheap mistakes at the beginning of the second half, Olympiacos kept close (43-40) thanks to Kanan, until the 24th minute. However, then the “red and whites” lost the rhythm they had in the attack, with Baskonia responding with Moneke and Kochar for +11 (51-40), in the 27th minute. The Piraeus reacted with some defenses and with Kanan and Williams-Goss they got closer (53-47), but Moneke was an unsolved… problem, while with a three-pointer by Costello in exhalation, the Basques closed the third period at +10 (59-49) .

Olympiacos started the fourth period with unanswerable mistakes, scoring baskets in the open court in Baskonia, for +14 (63-49). The reaction of the “red and white” was two baskets by Fal, but tragic mistakes followed and the Basques responded with a 7-0 run, for +17 (70-53), in the 34th minute. With the Milutinov-Petrushev duo, the Piraeus team reduced the difference to single digits (73-64), but Howard with a 7-0 of his own, took it to +16 (80-64), in the 38th minute. That’s where the match essentially ended, with Olympiakos losing in the final 80-69.

The quarters: 14-17, 33-32, 59-49, 80-69

See here the match statistics

Watch the film of the match here