In the worst way possible the Euroleague’s latest “devil -week” was completed Olympic.
In a game extremely closed throughout its duration, the “reds” bent in the finale essentially by their failure, losing to the crowded chef with score 80-77 From Monaco to the 32nd competition of the competition.
With 14 lost shots (19/33, 57.6%) and a total of 4 apt three -pointers in 20 attempts (20%), George Bardzokas’ team reunited with her image, knowing her knowing her Third consecutive defeat Her Euroleague after those with Red Star and Villerban.
Something that had to happen for the first time to Piraeus here and For more than three years and specifically from January 2022! After and this result, Olympiacos fell to 22-10 and if tomorrow (28/03) the Fenerbahce Defeat Basconia in Turkey, then, all the “reds” will fall from the top after many races!
Top for the winners was the Mike James With 11 points and 12 assists, with Blosomagim and Zaites giving valuable solutions with 18 and 11 points respectively. For Olympiacos, the Vezenkov (21p, 6p) and Peters (15p, 4p).
The match:
Quite balanced was the start of the match, with the Olympic Preceive with a quick 4-0 in the first minute and Monaco to exploit two hosts’ mistakes for the 7-5 in 4 minutes. A nail of Fal and the first basket of Vezenkov In the game, they wrote 9-9 a minute later, before Tasis with his own 5-0 series and James’ two-pointer, the guests preceded with 9-16 at 7 ‘.
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The entry of Queen In the parquet, it gave energy to the “reds” and through aggressive rebounds, however, this was not able to translate it into a racing superiority, since 0/6 of the period behind 6.75m. It was … prohibitive. At the same time, the Blossom He did damage to the home side’s defense with seven gathered points, with Gokos and Vezenkov diminishing for the 15-23 of the quarter.
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With an ally of his offensive defense, his team George Bardzoka Keep the Monegasks without a basket for 4 minutes In the second quarterin which Lee’s three-point three-point lead and three points of Lee, reduced to 21-23. Dialo and Zaita “offensive” the guests (21-27) with the Peters and McKisik equalizing to 27-27 at 16 ‘. Despite the bad rates in the three -point (1/9) and shots (12/19) in the first half, the “reds” managed to significantly improve their performance on both sides of the parquet in the last period of the period and with their front -time Vezenkov and Lee, they managed to go In the locker room ahead with the score at 37-35. A period in which the defense took perfectly, holding Monaco at just 12 points (22-12 in the individual score).
Identical was the stage and in the third quarter With that of the first half, as the game was extremely closed with terrible battles on all the backs and lengths of the parquet. Olympiacos entered the match with Papanikolaou’s three -pointer, with Vezenkov and Fournier with his first basket on the night writing 46-44 at 25 ‘with Monaco finding – albeit difficult – aggressive solutions. Somewhere there, came a ‘red -white’ outburstwith the excellent Papanikolaou and Goku having a two -point one before Sasha’s three -pointer to the secondary surprise to It makes it 53-44 at 26 ‘and lift the chef on the leg!
In fact, a little later, a Peters’ three -pointer first uploaded the difference to two-digit value (56-46),with Tarpey and James responding with two back-to-back triples for 56-52 at 28 ‘. In the finale, the action took action Bakery And with two of his own personal attacks he wrote 60-54, before Tarpey with two shots and Blosomgim in the same way after a foul by the French superstar in 1 second, they format 60-58 of the period.
The … thriller continued and In the fourth and last quarterwhere the Principality’s team entered with a quick 5-0 for the 60-63, with McKisik with a two-point but also … 1/3 shots to equals (63-63) at 32 ‘. With Okobo and Blosomgim taking the guests on their backs, Monaco led 71-67 two minutes later, with Peters and Vezenkov re-reducing Pontus (72-73) at 36 ‘. Somewhere in there, however, the Piraeus failure, both on the shots and in the shots, cost very much, with Vezenkov being the only one to score for Olympiacos, at a time when Monaco with Zaite and James even escaped at +6 (73-79). final 80-77.
The quarters: 15-23, 37-35, 60-58, 77-80.
See the statistics of the race here.
Source: Sport Fm
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