With drivers Vezenkov and Milutinov, Olympiacos passed through Karditsa

Olympiacos did its duty against Karditsa, defeating the local team 77-61 for the 3rd game of the Stoiximan GBL and continued with the absolute in the championship.

Leading for the “red-whites” was Sasha Vezenkovwho scored 20 points. Very good in his reappearance was Nikola Milutinovwho scored 12 points on 6/7 2-point shooting in just 14 minutes of action.

At the same time, for Olympiakos, double figures were Peters with 11 and the excellent Giannoulis Larentzakiswho contributed both executively and creatively (11 points, 4 assists). Obvious once again the problem of Piraeus in rebounds, with the Carditsa to get 12 offensively!

On the contrary, the Watson was very good for Karditsa (16 points), who provided some impressive highlights with his spikes, as well as Lewis with 17 points and 5/10 three-pointers.

The match:

Both o Olympic as well as Carditsa they started the game sluggishly, being quite misguided in their early attacks. Fortunately, the Lewis for the hosts and Sasha Vezenkov for the “red and white” they unstuck their teams from zero, achieving 6 and 8 points respectively for 6-8. In fact, the Bulgarian forward until he was replaced by Peters at the end of the first period, he had managed to succeed 13 of Olympiakos’ 19 points in the first quarter, which ended with his team Giorgos Bartzokas to lead 19-14.

In the second quarter, he took action Milutinovwho returned to competitive action after an absence of 1.5 months, as he was injured at the beginning of September. The Serbian center, who took the place of his compatriot Petrusev in the 12, with Fournier sidelined due to discomfort, he scored 8 points in just under 6 minutes of play in the second quarter and increased the lead for Olympic at 12 (14-26). With Larentzakis being very good in the first half, both executively and creatively (7 points, 4 assists) Olympiacos managed and maintained a 12-15 point lead.

Four minutes before the end of the half, o Watson he succeeded and dropped the difference to single-digit levels (24-32), thanks to impressive nails. However, the guests, thanks mainly to Lorentzakis and their very pressing defense they went to the locker room ahead with 18 points difference (28-46).

The fourth quarter was procedural, with Carditsa to show a good face, but not be able to follow the “red and whites”, when especially they were raising the pace. Her individual score of the 4th quarter was 15-15with George Bartzokas to rest several players ahead Bayern Munich (10/25). On the other hand, Carditsa may have started the season with 3 losses, but had a very demanding trio of games with Panathinaikos, AEK /strong> and Olympic. He has shown good results and he has to show them in the next matches as well.

See detailed match statistics HERE.