Olympiacos “bent” in the end and Barcelona tied it

With the… tie, he left Barcelona Olympic.

The “red and white” ran out of power in the fourth period of Game 2, knowing the defeat 77-69 from Barcelonawhich she did 1-1 in a row.

The Piraeus “paid” for the bad start in the match, but at the same time the many missed defensive rebounds (15 offensively the Catalans), the errors (19) and the failure outside of 6.75m. with 8/27 3-pointers.

First scorer for his team Giorgos Bartzokas was the Alec Peters with 20 points.

Among the “blaugrana”, the leader was Jabari Parker with 24 points.

Now, the series is transferred to SEF for the next two matches Holy Tuesday (30/4, 21:30) and Holy Thursday (2/5, 19:45).

The match

Olympiacos started with Fal, Sikma, Peters, Kanan and Walkap. With Laprovitola coming in “hot”, Barcelona led 7-2 in the first two minutes, with Peters responding for the “red and white” lead (7-8), in the 4th minute. However, the sequel was disastrous for the Piraeus team. Barzoka’s players persisted wrongly outside the 6.75m, while on the other hand the lost defensive rebounds gave opportunities to Parker and Hernangometh, sending the Catalans to +11 (23-12), at 8′. Peters hit a basket with the … force, but Yokoubaitis and Parker sent the home team to +13 (27-14), at the end of the first period.

Olympiacos entered the defense more focused and with a 6-0 run reduced the difference to single digits (27-20) at the beginning of the second quarter. Satoranski’s three-pointer sent Barcelona back to +10 (30-20), with the “red and whites” responding with defenses and baskets in the open court with McKissick, reducing even more (34-30) at 15′. Then, the Piraeus made easy mistakes with Kalinics and Veseli making a 7-0 run and sending the home team to +11 (41-30), at 17′. However, in the last two minutes the players of Barzoka found a rhythm and closed the first half with partial scores of 2-7 (43-37).

Olympiacos entered the second half sluggishly and Barcelona found a 5-0 run, for +11 (48-37), in the first two minutes. Then, the “red and whites” made a reaction and with Peters and Williams-Gos brought the match to the basket (52-50), in the 25th minute. Parker cut off the streak of Piraeus, but the answer was immediate with the hungry Williams-Goss for the lead (54-55), at 27′. Baskets followed on both sides with the lead constantly changing hands, but a mistake by McKissick and a basket by Hernangomet sent the Catalans to +3 (60-57) at the end of the third period.

At the beginning of the fourth period, Kannan and Williams-Goss were charged with four fouls each and retired to the bench, but Petrusev brought the match to a point (60-59). Bad choices and mistakes in the attack by Olympiakos followed, with Abrines and Parker finding back-to-back three-pointers and sending Barcelona to +12 (76-64), in the 36th minute. The “red and white” reacted with Peters and reduced (76-69) in the 38th minute. However, that was the end of Piraeus, losing 77-69.

The quarters: 27-14, 43-37, 60-57, 77-69

See here the match statistics

Watch the film of the match here