THE Nikola Milutinov caught him Milos Teodosic at the top of his list of foreigners Olympiakou with most league appearances. In yesterday’s victory over Peristeriou bwin, the Serbian center reached 132 appearances with Piraeus and in the first game of the finals he will have the lead all by himself.
“Milou”, who yesterday had 18 points and 11 rebounds, entered the 20 of the “red and white” scorers in the professional championship reaching 978 and surpassed Panagiotis Vassilopoulos who had 972.
With the 11 rebounds he had, he moved up one place in this historical list of Olympiakos to become the His 7th rebounder. He reached 667 and surpassed Milan Tomic who had 659. But he does not have time to go higher through this season, since Dimitris Papanikolaou who is in 6th place, counted 854 rebounds with the red and white in the seven years 1995-2002.
The Serb noted the Olympiakos’ 8th double-digit rebound performance in this year’s Stoiximan Basket League, having three of them himself. He had 21 in the away game against Karditsa Japan for the 10th and 15 rebounds in the home game against Kolossos H Hotels Collection for the 14th.
Having 18 points and 11 rebounds, Nikola Milutinov scored the 5th double-double of this year’s playoffs and his 3rd staff of the season after those of the regular season games with Karditsa Japan outside and Kolossos H Hotels Collection. It was also the 7th for Olympiakos in this year’s Stoiximan Basket League.
The passer Papanikolaou in a career record
THE Kostas Papanikolaou he was part of the trio that stood out in Olympiakos’ victory along with Milutinov and Peters, missing the double-double by one assist. The nine final passes However, they set a new career record in the Stoiximan Basket League. The greatest achievement of his previous 319 games in the Championship, was the eight assists he distributed in the home game of the 24th game of the 2018-19 Championship against PAOK mateco.
Papanikolaou equaled the second-highest performance this year among Olympiakos players after nine assists each this year by Nigel Williams-Goss (out with AEK Betsson for the regular season), Naz Mitrou-Long (inside Lavrio Megabolt for the regular season) and Thomas Walkup (with Prometheus for the Top6). However, the record is held by Mustafa Fal from the away game against PAOK mateco, with the 11 assists he had.
The international forward posted just his 6th 9+ assist performance of the season, to go along with zero error performance. This is also the best relative combination by an Olympiakos player since the previous one was the one Alec Peters had in Rhodes (7 assists / 0 mistakes).
Moreover, “Pap” became the third Olympiakos player to score two-digit “economy” number having 9 assists, 1 steal, no fouls and going without a cap. Also on this list are Mustafa Fal with +10 against PAOK mateco (11 assists + 1 steal + 1 block – 3 errors) and Nigel Williams-Goss also with +10 in the away game with AEK Betsson (9 assists + 1 steal + 0 interceptions – 0 turnovers).
Even the captain of Olympiakos came in yesterday and… formally in the top 25 steals of the Stoiximan Basket League, “breaking” the triple tie for 25th place on the list. Stealing the ball once, he reached 285 and thus surpassed Nikos Oikonomou and Kostas Charalambidis who each had 284.
Even for Olympiakos…
*THE Alec Peters he had 8/8 shots and “wrote” the top three, so far, “red and white” performances of the season after he had 8/8 in the Top6 premiere against Aris Midea while he scored 9/9 shots in the away game of the 13th matchday with AEK Betsson.
But most impressive is his overall performance in the Stoiximan Basket League. Going into his second season at it, the American is still shooting in single digits, shooting an impressive 92.8% after going 116/125 in 60 games.
The American with his 20 points – it was his 8th “20” of the season – moved up one place in the list of foreign scorers of Olympiakos and is now 11th. He hit 723, surpassing Lynn Greer’s 717 from 2007-09.
Alec Peters had 3/3 two-pointers and with them his 3rd “20” combined with absolute accuracy on the two-point shots. It is a list that has a total of 12 such performances in this year’s Stoiximan Basket League.
*The “barrier” of 100 rebounds was broken through his 42nd appearance in the Greek Championship, the Nigel Williams-Goss.
*With a negative season record for Olympiakos, he left Peristeri Shaquille McKissick. The American had -5 in the ranking, a performance that is worse than those scored by Naz Mitrou-Long in the Top 6 match in Rhodes and Kostas Papanikolaou in the 1st semi-final with Peristeri bwin, both having -4.
The “red and white” 14-0 and 35 points
Olympiacos entered the game impressively, recording three performances that stand out from the relevant lists of this year’s Stoiximan Basket League…
*The game started with 0-14 which was recorded on the electronic scoreboard after 2:35 minutes of action. This is the second best start of the season after Karditsa Japan entered their home game against Apollon Carna for the 4th matchday of the play out with 20-0.
*Scored 35 points in the first quarter, tied for 3rd best performance of the season. Until yesterday, only Prometheus had 35+ points in a quarter. Olympiacos surpassed the performance of 33 points it also had in the first period of its home game against Apollon Carna.
*The +22 first period (13-35) is tied for the third-highest margin this season. This is also a record for this year’s Olympiakos, who scored 31-11 in the third period of their match against Kolossos H Hotels Collection for the 5th matchday of the Top 6.
*For the third time this year, the “red and white” reached a performance of 20+ points from surprises. They had 20 after the 29 of the home match against PAOK mateco and the 21 of the away match against Lavrio Megabolt.
Source: Sport Fm
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