“Blocked” Panathinaikos and Olympiakos won the Cup!

Counterattack and… mug for him Olympic!

With a “weapon” their defense in the fourth period, the “red and whites” τον locked the Panathinaikos and defeating him 81-73 won their first Cup after 2011 and their first title after 2016!

The “greens” are better until the end of the third quarter, where they even reached +12 (59-47). However, the Piraeus tightened in the back and with a series of 15-0 in the first 7:30 ” of the fourth and with individual scores totaling 6-23 in the last ten minutes they reached victory.

First scorer for Olympiakos Dorsey with 21 points and great shots in the comeback of his team, with him Vezenkov to be also excellent with 18p. and 13 rebounds. The defensive “keys” in the fourth period, McKissick and Wookup, had from 9π. and 8p. respectively.

From the “greens”, who only scored with free throws in the last periodstood out o Nedovic with 23 points of which 19p. from the first half, with White to have 15p. and the Papagianni to make a double-double with 10p. and 12 rebounds.

The match

Panathinaikos started with Papagiannis, White, Sant-Ross, Nedovic and Bohoridis, while on the other hand, Olympiakos started with Fal, Vezenkov, Papanikolaou, Dorsey and Sloukas. The “greens” took advantage of the nervous start of the “red and whites”, making a series of 7-0 in the first minutes. Then, Piraeus found solutions from the periphery (with Dorsey and Vezenkov), initially taking the lead (9-10) and reaching +3 (12-15), in 7 ‘. In the last minutes, mistakes followed from both sides, but also baskets through the racket, with Bartzokas’s team maintaining its difference at the end of the first period (17-21).

With the zone defense and Nedovic in front, Panathinaikos equalized (22-22), in the first minutes of the second period. Then, the game went to strength and personal actions from Sluka and Nedovic (he had “caught fire”), with both teams being together in the score (37-37), until 17 ‘. From that point on, Bartzokas withdrew Sluka and Vezenkov for “breaths” and the “greens” took advantage of this in the best way. With the “red and whites”‘s bench being from mediocre to bad, Prifti’s players “partyed” in the offensive rebounds with White and having second chances, which he took advantage of and Macon escaped at +6 (43-37), the which they maintained until the end of the first half (45-39).

The same “hot” offensively started Panathinaikos in the second half, with the mind of Olympiacos being completely “damaged”. Apart from the personal actions of Slouka and Dorsey, the “red and whites” did not have anything to oppose, with the “greens” on the other hand coming out with tremendous energy and not only having the reins of the match, but reaching +12 (59- 47), in 24 ‘. Priftis’s players were in complete control of the match and this is because despite the solutions given by Dorsey offensively, Piraeus defended with… eyes (just one team foul) and so the end of the third period found them at +9 (67 -58).

At the beginning of the fourth period, Olympiakos found… pulse through its defense (with Wookup in front) and control of the rebounds and with McKissick giving tremendous energy to the attack, made a series of 12-0 and overtook (67-70), until 35 ‘. In the next two minutes, the score “stuck”, as after the “clover”, the “red and whites” did not manage to score either. The solution was given by Dorsey with a three-pointer, who sent Piraeus to +6 (67-73), in 37 ‘. The first points of Panathinaikos in the fourth period came with the shots of White (69-73), at 2:36 ” before the end. In the remaining time, the players of Bartzokas managed and at the same time maintained their difference (71-77), with the “greens” not finding solutions with the shots inside the child and thus Olympiakos to get the victory with the final 73-81 .

The ten minutes: 17-21, 45-39, 67-58, 73-81

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