The decimated Olympiacos comfortably beat PAOK!

Although he went down with almost half of the team due to the absences, o Olympic he was dominant against a troubled PAOKwhom he comfortably defeated 77-62in SEF.

Thus, the Piraeus went up to 14-2 in the Stoiximan Basket League, while on the other hand the “double-header of the north” retreated to 7-9.

On the eve of the jambol, the Petrusef and Lorentzakis for his team Giorgos Bartzokaswhich did not already count in the Fahl, Milutinovwhile the Sikma and McKissick they do not have the right to participate in the Greek championship. On the match sheet it was stated o Williams-Gossbut he didn’t fight, to protect himself and so the available players were eight!

Top o Peters, who did a double-double with 21 points and 10 rebounds, while from 17p. had the They also did brazdeikis. Another 11p. with 8 rebounds he had Papanikolaou.

The match

Olympiacos started with Tanoulis, Peters, Brazdeikis, Kanan and Walkap, while PAOK started with McNeese, Alston, Schiza, Harrison and Fredrickson. The defenses were the protagonists in the first four minutes (6-5), with Alston and Gilmore taking the “double head of the north” by the… hand and sending him to +6 (6-12), in the 7th minute. In the remaining time, Barzoka’s players tightened up defensively and taking advantage of offensive rebounds, reduced the difference in the basket (12-14) at the end of the first period.

At the beginning of the second quarter, PAOK was the one who took advantage of the offensive rebounds, as a result of which they escaped to +5 (14-19), at 12′. The reaction of Olympiakos came from Papanikolaou, Mitrou-Long, Brazdeikis, Kanan and Luntzis, who with repeated defenses forced the guests to make mistakes with baskets in the open field, they went on a 15-0 run, for +10 (29-19), at 16′. The Thessalonikis responded with Gilmore and Margaritis three-pointers, reducing (34-27) at 18′. There, Peters took… forward outside of 6.75m. with the “red and whites” escaping at +15 (42-27), with Towns’ shots making it 42-29 in the first half.

Kanan and Peters sent Olympiacos to +16 (47-31) at the beginning of the second half, with PAOK responding with Harrison and Gilmore and an 8-0 run (47-39), until the 25th minute. The reaction of the “red and whites” was immediate and came from Kanan, Brazdeikis and Peters and with individual scores of 15-2, they jumped the difference to +21 (62-41) and with this difference they closed the third period (64-43) .

With one shot by Papanikolaou, the Piraeus went to +22 (65-43) at the beginning of the fourth quarter, but they relaxed and PAOK took advantage of it, reducing 65-52), in the 34th minute. After that, the players of Bartzoka pressed the gas again and with back-to-back steals ran into the open field, for +21 (75-54), in the 37th minute. The last minutes were of a procedural nature, with Olympiakos winning the final 77-62.

The quarters: 12-14, 42-29, 64-43, 77-62

See here the match statistics

Watch the film of the match here