Incorrigible Olympiakos and in Munich, a crushing defeat by Bayern and the 30-year-old Edwards

He paid for the same mistakes again and suffered his third away defeat in this year’s Euroleague Olympic!

As in the Istanbul game against Anadolu Efes, so tonight in Munich, the “red and white” they lost a game of their own, in which they were not able to maintain, but also to preserve the +12 at the beginning of the third period, eventually losing with 84-80 by Bayern at the “SAP Garden Arena” for the 5th matchday of the competition.

OR lack of concentration at critical points, but also the many – even if they were of short duration – offensive “blackouts” that had the effect of affecting the defensive part as well, were enough for the whole Giorgos Bartzokas, to allow the Bavarians to get comfortable and play at their own pace, with Piraeus now falling at 2-3.

Great “damage” to Olympiakos was done by Carsen Edwardswho, although he was only 2/9 from 3-point range, finished the match with 30 points, while, with Devin Booker adding another 20 and Babb 10 points and 9 assists.

For the Piraeus, who now go to the derby with Panathinaikos with a bad mentality, the Sasha Vezenkov he had 16 points and 7 assists, but also two missed 3-pointers in the final seconds, when the score was at 82-80. THE Dorsey added another 12 points and 10 o Wrightwith Fournier to stay at just 4 points on 1/7 shooting. He did not compete at all Nikola Milutinov.

The match:

THE Olympicwho started in his starting five of Walkup, Fournier, Papanikolaou, Wezenkov and Fal, entered the match quite strongly and with the French center dominating the racket, he led with 6-2 at 2′. Then, the Bayern she opened up the pace of the match, bringing it more to her liking. Somehow, with Obst, Edwards and Feigdman all scoring, the home team went on a 9-0 run to 11-6 at 4′. Gradually, the “red and white” equalized the match with them as well Vezenkov and Fal to perform from his assist Papanikolaouthey managed to cut it to 13-12 at 7′, before the leader with a three-pointer wrote the 15-15 a little later. In fact, with Sasha’s 8th point and Papanikolaou’s two-pointer, the guests went ahead for 19-18 in the 9th minute, with Booker in the finale writing the 20-19 of the first period.

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With a two-pointer by Napier that made it 23-19, it started second quarterwith Luka Vildosato take Olympiakos by the hand and with five personal points and an assist to Wright, to give the visitors the lead again (24-26) at 12′. For the next four minutes, the defenses, but also the missed shots, dominated the floor of the “SAP Garden Arena”, with the Bavarians coming out victorious and leading by 32-28 at 16′. Somewhere there, came the “outbreak” of Piraeus in defense and attack! Peters’ 3-pointers, Dorsey and Wildosa pulled ahead 39-32, before Wright and Peters finished the impressive 15-0 streak (!)with Giorgos Bartzokas’ team closing the half at +11 and 43-32!

Somewhat nervous and certainly without the necessary concentration was her start third period for Olympiakos. And this because the people of Piraeus fell into 4 mistakes in the first 3.5 minutes of the quarter, when in the first half he had just three. Nevertheless, thanks to the two three-pointers in a row by Papanikolaou and Vezenkov, the Greek team kept the double-digit difference for 49-37. But somewhere there, Bayern found an attacking rhythm with their duo Babs and Edwards ran a fast 10-0 run for 49-47 at 25′. With Walkup’s first basket in the match, Olympiacos took a deep breath (47-52), with Fournier writing the 54-49 at 26′. But the Germans continued to feel comfortable offensively, and with Booker taking over, they not only cut back, but took a 55-54 lead a minute later. With seven accurate shots in the last three minutes by Vezenkov and Fournier, Olympiacos managed to regain the lead and close the quarter at +2 for 61-59.

With him Moses Wright to forcefully enter the fourth and final periodOlympiacos led 65-61. Edwards’ first three-pointer of the game and another two-pointer by him put Bayern up 66-65 at 32′, before the Dorsey and McKissick with two big three-pointers send again at +5 (66-71) the “red and white” in the 33rd minute! However, the continuation was not similar for Bartzoka’s team, since his players they lost their concentration on defense and offense, resulting in the Bavarians finding easy points and going on a 9-0 run in their favor 75-71 at 36′. In fact, a little later, they also reached +7 (79-72), with Walkup and Dorsey’s three-pointers in a span of just 7 seconds, putting Olympiakos at bay again (79-78) in the 38th minute!

Napier made it 82-78 with a big three-pointer, only for Fal to answer with a nail (82-80) in the next phase. In the last minute, the “red and white” had two chances to win, but in both times Vezenkov missed a three-pointer to tie. So Edwards with 11 minutes to go shaped it final 84-80 from the firing line

The quarters: 20-19, 32-43, 59-61, 84-80.

See here the statistics of the match.