At… idle Olympiacos Prometheus ahead of Barcelona

One… training ahead of the playoffs with Barcelona did the Olympic!

Without increasing their… speed, the “red and white” won 80-69 him Prometheusfor his 4th matchday Stoiximan Basket League Top 6.

Leading for the Piraeus was Moses Wright with 21 points, while another 17p. added the Alec Peters. Very positive return to action for him Philip Petrushev, who had 6 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks. The only negative for his team Giorgos Bartzokas were the 21 errors.

From the Patrinos, stood out George Pope and Hunter Hale with 14 p. and 13p. respectively.

In the 23-3 now Olympiakos’ record, while on the other hand Prometheus fell to 15-10.

The match

Olympiacos starts with Fall, Peters, Papanikolaou, Kanan and Walkup, while on the other hand Prometheus starts with Stephens, Reynolds, Hale, Hamilton and Cowan. The “red and whites” were better from the beginning, who with Fal and Peters as forwards had an early lead, reaching +7 (11-4), in the 5th minute. Cowan and Hamilton aggressively kept the Patrinos (13-9) until the 7th minute, as from that point onwards, the Piraeus had full control and with baskets in the open court they closed the first period with a 7-0 run and in +11 (20-9).

The second five of Olympiakos (Wright, Petrusev, Larentzaki, Williams-Goss and Larentzaki) entered the second period with many easy mistakes, with Hale on the other hand taking… forward and bringing the match to a point (25-24), in the first three minutes. The “red and white” responded with Larentzakis and Mitrou-Long, going to +6 (33-27), with Stephens and Koniaris pushing Prometheus on a 6-0 run to equalize (33-33), at 16′. However, the Piraeus took full control of the match and with Williams-Goss, Wright and Petrusev escaped to +8 (42-34), with which they also went to the locker room (44-36).

Without a good pace and with mistakes on both sides, the second half began, with Olympiakos going to +10 (48-38) and Reynolds reducing (48-42), at 24′. However, from that point on, the “red and white” skyrocketed their… turns, where through their defense they “blocked” the Patrinos and with the trio of Kanan, Peters and Petrusev closed the third period with individual scores of 14-2 and at +18 (62-44).

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Olympiacos maintained its double-digit difference, but Pope’s three-pointers did not allow it to grow any further (65-53), until the 32nd minute. With Wright’s basket, the “red and whites” went to +15 (68-53), but the easy mistakes began, which Prometheus took advantage of, making Hale and Coffey a 9-0 series (68-62), until the 35th minute. With Wright leading the way, the Piraeus once again escaped to a double-digit distance (75-65) and with it they completed the match, taking the victory with the final 80-69.

The quarters: 20-9, 44-36, 62-44, 80-69

See here the match statistics

Watch the film of the match here