Lavrio is at idle before the “eternal” derby Olympiacos!

In a strong… training ahead of the derby with Panathinaikos AKTOR in the Euroleague he changed the game with the Laurel The Olympicwho won 84-63 in SEF, for the 18-2 in the Stoiximan Basket League.

The “red and whites” were relaxed in the first half, especially in defense, but in the third quarter they did partial score 26-10 and they essentially “cleaned up” the pink sheet.

Leader for the Piraeus people Alec Peters with 20 points, while others 19p. had o Kostas Papanikolaou. At 1 p.m. he stopped Isaiah Canaanby Mustafa Fal to add 8p. and 7 rebounds as well Naz Mitrou-Long to hand out 9 assists.

From his team Costa Mexawho dropped to 7-13, singled out o Marcus Thornton with 13 points.

The match

Olympiacos started with Fall, Peters, Papanikolaou, Kanan and Mitrou-Long, while on the other hand Lavrio started with Gromovs, Moore, Zara, Thornton and Murato. The “red and white” had more energy in the first three minutes, with Kanan sending them to +5 (10-5) and Murato answering and bringing Lavrio to a point (12-11), in the 5th minute. Then, the Piraeus team put up repeated defenses and, led by Peters, went on an 8-0 run, for +9 (20-11), in the 7th minute. In the last three minutes, the players of Barzokas persisted wrongly outside the 6.75m, with Thornton holding Lavrio (22-15), at the end of the first period.

The sluggish start of Olympiakos was exploited at the beginning of the second quarter by Lavrio and with forwards Thornton and Jackson scored individually 4-12, for the lead (26-27), at 13′. The “red and white” answered with Peters and McKissick, going to +5 (32-27). However, Bartzoka’s players made many cheap mistakes – without pressure – constantly giving easy baskets to the guests, who not only went ahead again but went to +3 (37-40), in the 18th minute. In the remaining time, Kanan returned to the court, who aggressively carried the hosts and with his own terrible buzzer beater three-pointer sent them to the locker room with the lead (44-42).

With more concentration in defense and the protagonists of Fal and Papanikolaou, Olympiacos escaped to +9 (53-44), at the beginning of the second half. Lavrio’s reaction was a three-pointer by Thornton, but the French center took out repeated defenses with blocks and with baskets in the open court by Peters and Papanikolaou, the “red and white” escaped to +13 (60-47), in the 27th minute. Thornton and Moore tried to keep the visitors, but Barzoka’s players had found a rhythm and thus closed the third period at +18 (70-52).

With Papanikolaou still “hot”, Olympiacos went on a 5-0 run in the fourth quarter, initially for +23 (75-52) and then Wright sent them to +24 (78-54), in the 34th minute. From that point on, the game had a procedural nature, with the Piraeus reaching victory with the final 84-63.

The quarters: 22-15, 44-42, 70-52, 84-63

See here the match statistics

Watch the film of the match here