He didn’t clean it up when he could and Olympiacos paid dearly for his mistakes

He lost his own game in Istanbul Olympic!

In a terrific game between two outstanding teams that showcased their attacking talent at the City’s Basketball Development Center, the Red and Whites were defeated in the details by a score 91-89 from Anatolou Ephesus for the 4th matchday of the Euroleague.

Despite the fact that Giorgos Bartzokas’ team started impressively, reaching even at +15 at the end of the first quarter, the Piraeus could not “lock” the match, even paying in the final and three mistakes in a row in his attacks in the last minute of the match. Defensively, Olympiacos had issues and could not show the good face of last Tuesday in the match against Armani, with the Turks shooting with an impressive 12/24 from behind 6.75m!

With this defeat, Olympiacos dropped to 2-2, as Anadolu Efes now has, with the two teams sharing the same record as Panathinaikos AKTOR, Partizan, Real, Maccabi and Bayern!

Leading for Olympiakos was Evan Fournier, with the French ace having his best game with the “red and white”, finishing the game with 20 points (3/5d., 4/6tr.). At 17, the touching stopped for one more match, Shaquille McKissick, also having 5 assists. THE Vezenkov scored 16 points and 6 rebounds, with Tyler Dorsey to be in double figures with 11 points.

For the winners, the unlikely stood out Shane Larkinwith the American guard scoring 24 points (5/7d., 4/7tr.) and 4 assists!

The match:

Starting with Walkup, Fournier, Papanikolaou, Vezenkov and Fal in his starting five, the Olympic he came into the match with… broken brakes, fully imposing his pace from the very first minute. With Fournier scoring the first 5 points and Fal adding 3 more, the Reds led 8-3 at the 3 minute mark. With the defense … chewing irons and Walkup making life difficult for the opposing guards (3 kl. In the quarter), the Piraeus jumped the difference to +13 and 18-5 in 6′, thanks to many and easy baskets in surprise and in the transition. A period in which Vezenkov constantly loaded the opponent’s basket, scoring 8 points!

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With a goal-foul by Schmitz, Anatolou Efes found a score after the hour (8-18), to be followed by five points by the hand of Sasha and Petrusev, increasing the difference for the first time at +15 and 8-23 at 9′. In the last minute, Schmitz with the Turks’ first three-pointer in the match, formed the 11-23 of the quarter.

The scene was different in second periodwhere the home team with a big star on Shane Larkin (14 points in the first quarter), they found an offensive rhythm, spoiling the balance of the “red and white” defense. With the American guard scoring Efes’ first twelve points of the quarter, Tomislav Mijatovic’s lead was reduced to 23-32 at 13′, before Yilmaz added five points of his own to extend the lead (28-32) a minute later. later.

With Shaquille McKissic giving tremendous energy to the offensive part (6 points, 4 assists in the quarter), Olympiacos managed to run a 5-0 run with Peters and Dorsey for 37-28 at 16′. The hosts, however, continued to find solutions behind the 6.75m. (5/8 tr.), closing the gap to the narrowest of margins (41-42), with Dorsey hitting a buzzer beater off a nice McKissick assist, sending both teams to the locker room with score at 41-44.

With Sasha Vezenkov’s shots at the beginning third period, Olympiacos went to +5 and 46-41. Thompson and Osmani reduced to a point (45-46) shortly after, only for Fal and Fournier to come and with five points of their own to send again at +5 (47-52) the Piraeus, while a little later, Sasha wrote 53-47 at 25′. Somewhere there came one terrible three-point crescendo from both teams, with Olympiakos emerging victorious!

And this because in the second half of the period, both exchanged accurate shots from behind 6.75m, with Efes succeeding 4 and Olympiakos 5 three points! A major player for Giorgos Bartzokas’ team was Evan Fournierwho with three three-pointers (13 points in the period) in this period led the Greek team offensively, with Vezenkov and McKissick also scoring one three-pointer each. In fact, the French star of the “red and white” with a three-pointer in “dead time”, he wrote 70-65 in favor of Olympiakos at the end of the season!

Somehow, the guests entered the fourth and final period with a small but significant lead. A lead they maintained until the middle of the quarter, thanks to baskets by Wright, Vildosa and McKissick, for 79-74 and 82-78 at 35′. At that point, a small burst by Efes combined with poor selections by Olympiakos allowed the Turks to go ahead for the first time in the match and take the lead. with 85-82 at 37′. Fournier and Fal answered from the free throw line for 85-86 at 38, with Larkin shortly after making it 87-86 with 1:38 left. In the last minute, Olympiacos did three errors in a row in attack modeas a result of which Efes reached 91-86, before McKissick with a three-pointer at the end formed the final 91-89.

The quarters: 11-23, 41-44, 65-70, 91-89.

See here the statistics of the match.