Impressive Olympictook a walk and turns his gaze to the game with Virtus!
The “red and white” prevailed with 85-67 Pigeon bwin at “Andreas Papandreou” for its 19th matchday Stoiximan Basket Leaguein a game they controlled from start to finish and easily cruised to victory.
In the first quarter o Thomas Walkup fell flat and was replaced as a precaution by Giorgos Bartzokas, while Vassilis Spanoulis was sent off with two technical penaltiesfour minutes before the end.
Leader of the race Peters with 19 points and 9 rebounds, while Kanan had 13 and 12 Luntzis, which performed very well. On the other hand, he stood out Mitro Long with 14 points, while Hugaz and Thompson with 10.
Thus, the Piraeus went up to 17-2 and are preparing for the game with Virtus Bologna on Thursday (07/03, 22:00) at SEF, while the Western Suburbs team fell to 12-7 and on Wednesday welcomes Karsijaka (06/03, 19:30) for BCL.
The match:
The Pigeon bwin started the match with Ragland, Love, Kaselakis, Dangubic and Thompson, while Olympic with Walkup, Kanaan, Papanikolaou, Peters and Fal. O Thompson scored the first basket of the game (2-0), with They did to “answer” with a three-pointer (2-3). The home team went ahead with a well-timed three-point shot by Love (5-3), with the “red and whites” going on a 0-6 (5-9) run, and then reached double score (7-14), which led Spanoulis to a timeout. However it didn’t workafter Olympiacos quickly scored four points (7-18), which forced the Greek coach into a new timeout.
THE Hoogaz breathed a sigh of relief with a three-pointer (10-18), with the Piraeus team keeping +10 with Fal (12-22), while Williams scored 14-22 and Peters with a three-pointer he made it 14-25 of the first period. The +11 was also maintained at the beginning of the second quarter (16-27), with the guests constantly having answers to the offensive efforts of Peristeri bwin (18-29).
THE Mitro Long dropped the difference to single digits at 13′ (21-29), while the hosts gnawed the difference to -4 (25-29). Petrusev with a basket and a foul made it 25-32, while Hugaz scored with a three-pointer (28-32), with the guests keeping the difference in their favor with the very good Petrusev (30-36). THE Mitro Long reduced to -3 with a three-pointer (33-36), however, Lountzis with one shot and a three-pointer maintained the difference in favor of Olympiakos (33-40).
Wright and Petrusef provided solutions offensively, which went to +12 for Piraeus (33-45), with the home team reducing the difference to single-digit levels again (37-45), while with Petrusev’s two-pointer and his shots Hoogaz the first half ended, with Olympiakos going to the locker room with a 39-48 advantage.
With his three-pointer They did the third period began (39-51), Thompson reduced with a layup (41-51), while again Kanan provided solutions in the offensive part (41-53). Olympiacos escaped to +15 with them Luntzi and Fal (43-58), with the Greek guard having a very good match (45-60 in the 26th minute). The “red and white” had an excellent defense in the third period and jumped to +20 with Peters’ three-pointer (45-65) and the quarter ended at +22 with Papanikolaou (48-70).
In the last period, Olympic managed the match appropriately, with McKissick in the 33rd minute to make it 48-75. Vassilis Spanoulis with four minutes remaining was sent off with a second technical penaltythe remaining minutes were of a procedural nature and Olympiacos won in the end over Peristeri bwin with 85-67.
The quarters: 14-25, 39-48, 48-70, 67-85
Detailed match statistics here
Source: Sport Fm
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