“Party” with… Isaiah dance and Wright’s dream debut for Olympiakos!

After the mediocre first half, o Olympic hit the… accelerator in second and ahead of him Isaiah Canaan defeated 101-87 her Alba Berlinin SEF.

The “red and white” went to the locker room at -3 (45-58), but the American guard came out … hot and finishing the match with 31 points (making 9/14 three-pointers), paved the way for the pink sheet.

From then on, he introduced himself to the people of Piraeus in the best way Moses Wrightwho in his debut had 15 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks.

For the Germans, the first scorers were Maticek and Snyder with 12 points each.

In the 13-11 Olympiacos, while on the other hand Alba retreated to 5-19.

The match

Olympiacos started with Wright, Peters, Brazdeikis, Kanan and Walkup. After the sluggish first two minutes with continuous mistakes, the “red and white” took… forward with Kanan and Brazdeikis for +6 (7-1), with the American sending them to +7 (12-5), in 4′. Alba reacted with back-to-back three-pointers and reduced to a point (12-11), with Peters responding in the same way (15-11), in the 6th minute. Then Barzoka’s players made a lot of mistakes with Hermanson and Snyder equalizing (17-17), in the 8th minute. In the remaining time, the Piraeus team tightened up defensively and with a three-pointer by Peters, they closed the first period in front (20-17).

At the start of the second quarter, Williams-Goss kept Olympiakos aggressive, but Alba found solutions outside the 6.75m. and stayed close (31-29), until 14′. Then, the “red and white” also raised their percentages from the region, with the three-pointers of Larentzakis and Papanikolaou sending them to +7 (40-33), which they maintained until the 15th minute. However, the Germans responded in the same way and with Brown and Maticek finding rhythm, they pushed them to individual scores of 2-13, for +4 (42-46), at 18′. Barzoka’s team cut to within a point on a basket and a foul by Sikma, but Bean almost in exhalation made it 45-48 in the first half.

With Brown’s basket, Alba went to +5 (45-50) at the beginning of the second half, with Olympiakos responding with Brazdeikis, Kanan and Peters and with an 8-0 run, for +3 (53-50). at 22′. The Germans’ answer was a 5-0 (53-55) of their own, with the “red and white” reacting with back-and-forth defenses and baskets in the open court with Kanan and Brazdeikis running individual scores of 15-2, for +11 (68 -57), in the 27th minute. From that point on, the Piraeus were in complete control and with Wright well into the… equation on both sides of the floor, they closed the third period at +17 (78-61).

Wright and Kanan were also unstoppable at the beginning of the fourth period, with Olympiakos throwing the difference +25 (88-63), at 32′. The big difference brought a lot of relaxation to the players of Barzokas, who made easy mistakes and thus Alba found a rhythm from the perimeter and reduced it quite a bit (93-80), until the 37th minute. However, in the last minutes the Piraeus found their concentration and with Wright took complete control again and reached the victory with the final 101-87.

The quarters: 20-17, 45-48, 78-61, 101-87

See the match statistics here

Watch the film of the match here