Olympiacos is the cup winner by a difference… in height from Panathinaikos AKTOR!

After a very nervous derby, o Olympic he was… taller than Panathinaikos AKTORprevailing 69-58 in the final of the Final 8, for the third consecutive Cup win and 12th in its history!

With their very good defense, the Piraeus “caged” the “greens”, who they committed 16 errorswhile they “locked” him well Kendrick Nunnwho had just 8 points on 3/10 shooting.

On the other hand, terrific work from the three tall men in his team Giorgos Bartzokaswith Mustafa Fal and Moses Wright to achieve 13 points each, while others 10p. had o Philip Petrushev.

Thus, the Piraeus covered their failure in the region, where they had 5/28 three-pointersbut on the contrary they distributed 24 assistscompared to only 14 of the “clover”.

For his team Ergin Atamanstood out Dino Mitoglou with 16 points and 7 rebounds.

The match

Panathinaikos AKTOR started with Lesor, Mitoglou, Grigonis, Nan and Grant, while Olympiacos started with Fal, Peters, Brazdeikis, Kanan and Walkap. They both had a 4-0 run in the first minutes (4-4), with the “greens” putting up repeated defenses and with baskets in the open court going to +6 (10-4), at 4′. The answer of Piraeus came through the defense and forward Fal for the equalizer (10-10). Lessor temporarily gave the “clover” the lead, with Bartzoka’s team responding again with the French center and Larentzakis, closing in front (12-14) in the first period, where neither of them hit a three-pointer (0/5 the ones and 0/6 the ones)!

With Wright’s basket, Olympiacos went up +4 (12-16) at the beginning of the second quarter, with Panathinaikos AKTOR responding with a 7-0 run led by Mitoglou, for +3 (19-16), at 13′ . The reaction of the “red and whites” was a 5-0 run by Mitrou-Long and Petrusev for their new lead (19-21), with Grant responding accordingly for the “greens” (24-23), at 16′. However, the next few minutes belonged to Barzokas’ team. Through her defense, she forced Ataman’s players into mistakes and with the Fal-Petrushev duo working well, the Piraeus team closed the first half with individual scores of 1-7 and went to the locker room with +5 (25-30).

Nervous and misguided continued both in the first four minutes of the second half, with Olympiakos persisting misguided from the perimeter, but Panathinaikos AKTOR more effective, making partial scores 7-1 for the overtake (32-31). The answer of the “red and white” came with Kanan’s first three-pointer for +3 (34-37), with Mitoglou equalizing (39-39), in the 27th minute. However, the last three minutes once again belonged entirely to Bartzoka’s team. With Ataman’s players making easy mistakes, the Piraeus punished everything with forwards Peters and Fal, closing the third period with an 8-0 streak (39-47).

A little better start from Panathinaikos AKTOR in the fourth quarter, with Slukas reducing (44-49), at 32′. Afterwards, Olympiacos increased the pressure on defense, dominated the rebounds and with the Wright-Petrushev duo scored 2-10 individually, for +13 (46-59), in the 35th minute. Lessor reduced temporarily, with Wright’s basket and foul sending the Piraeus to +14 (48-62), in the 37th minute. In the remaining time Barzokas players played with time, managing and taking the victory with the final 58-69.

The quarters: 12-14, 25-30, 39-47, 58-69

See here the match statistics

Watch the film of the match here