Polyfonikos Olympiacos “cleaned” Peristeri bwin and advanced to the semi-finals

His superiority and greater depth in the roster was confirmed by Olympic across the Pigeon bwinwinning comfortably 87-68for the qualification in the semi-final of the Final 8 of the Cup.

Four players of the “red and white” finished the match with double-digit points, with Costas Papanikolaou and Giannouli Larentzakis to be first scorers with 15 points. anyone.

At 2 p.m. with 8 rebounds stopped o Moses Wrightwhile o Thomas Walkup had 7p. and 10 assists. The only “dark” point for Giorgos Bartzokas’ team was the departure of Nigel Williams-Goss, after only 45 minutes of presence on the floor.

From his team Vasilis Spanoulisstood out Joe Ragland with 14 points.

The entirety of it Giorgos Bartzokas will face the winner of the pair in Saturday’s (17/12) semi-final Prometheus Patras-Panionios.

The match

Olympiacos started with Fall, Peters, Papanikolaou, Kanan and Walkup, while Peristeri bwin started with Thompson, Kaselakis, Dangubic, Love and Ragland. The match had a good pace from the start, with Spanoulis’ team entering a little better thanks to an appetizing Ragland, who took them to +4 (8-12), in the 4th minute. Papanikolaou and Peters aggressively kept the Piraeus team, but the Peristerio team maintained their lead (13-16) until the 6th minute. However, in the last minutes the players of Barzoka tightened up defensively, made back-to-back steals and with baskets in the open court they closed the first period with an 8-0 run and +5 (21-16).

With the same logic, Olympiacos entered the second quarter as well, with the steals giving surprises for a 6-0 run (and a total of 14-0) and +11 (27-16), at 12′. Williams scored the first basket of Peristeri bwin, but the “red and whites” were in control through their defense, forcing Spanoulis’ players into many mistakes and with Larentzakis and Petrusev they initially increased the difference to +14 (34-20) and with Wright at +16 (39-23), at 16′. Then, the Peristeriotes reacted and with Renfro and Lov scored individually 1-9, dropping the difference to a single digit value (40-32), at 18′. However, in the last two minutes, the defenses spoke and so the score did not change at the end of the first half.

Dangubic scored the first basket of the second half (40-34), with Olympiakos answering with Papanikolaou, Walkup and Kanan and sending the difference back to +16 (52-36), at 24′. Peristeri bwin responded with three-pointers from Kaselakis and E. Mitrou-Long and dropped the difference to a single digit value (54-45), in the 27th minute. However, the next minutes belonged to the Piraeus, who, taking advantage of the offensive rebounds, found baskets and with a “crazy” three-pointer by Larentzakis, they closed the third period at +15 (62-47).

With a pressing defense, Peristeri bwin entered the fourth period and, forcing Olympiacos into mistakes, again reduced the difference to single digits (66-57), in the first three minutes. The answer of the “red and whites” came from the top with Petrusev and Wright sending them to +18 (75-57), in the 35th minute. From that point onwards, Bartzokas’ players were in control of the match, with Spanoulis’s players having come to terms with the loss and thus Olympiacos taking the victory with the final 87-68.

The quarters: 21-16, 40-32, 62-47, 87-68

See here the match statistics

Watch the film of the match here