James and Diallo’s Monaco took the SEF derbara and “landed” Olympiacos abruptly

He was defeated in the derbara of the SEF by the ultrasonic Monaco and saw his winning streak come to an abrupt end o Olympic.

In a terrific game of tension, passion, dramatic finale and plenty of… aroma of playoffs, the “red and white” lost in the details with a score 92-87 from the team of Vassilis Spanoulis for the 7th matchday of the Euroleague and fell to 4-3.

With the “red and white” at -10 in the middle of the last period, o Tyler Dorsey with a magical appearance and 15 points in the fourth quarter, fought for a legendary upset, however, the Monegasques with their Mike James and Alpha Diallo in an amazing night, got the pink card.

It was characteristic that the Piraeus in the last seconds – before the match was decided in the roulette of shots – they had two chances to tie the game with four-pointers by Fournier and Ward. The first scorer of the champions of Greece, who on Friday (31/10) welcome the pioneer, Hapoel Tel Aviv, was Dorsey with 23 points and 5 rebounds, with Vezenkov (17p., 6r.) and Milutinov (14p., 8r.) to follow in performance.

For Monaco, who on Friday plays with PanathinaikosDiallo had 27 points on 11/13 from the field and 2/2 shooting, with James finishing the game with double-double of 23 points and 10 assists.

The match:

THE Olympicwho started with Walkup, Dorsey, Fournier, Vezenkov and Milutinov in his starting five, entered the floor somewhat sluggishly, as he missed five consecutive shots and committed two turnovers. OR Monaco he took advantage of it and speared Diallo ahead of him with 8-1 in three minutes. The Red and White’s first field goal came nearly 4 minutes after Walkup’s dunk, with Fournier, Vezenkov and Milutinov connecting on the opposing basket and to write 9-8 in 6′.

His team Vasilis Spanoulis took the lead again with baskets by Tice, Blossomgame and Diallo (11-14), to follow some excellent defense by the home team, who thanks to 4 points by Dorsey, a nice drive by Nilikina again overtook for 17-16 in the 9th minute. In fact, the terrible defense of Ward in the final against Mirotic, gave an extra attack to the Piraeus, who found a terrible buzzer beater three-pointer by Vezenkov from 8 meters to close the period at +4 and 20-16, with the first accurate shot behind 6.75m. after six misses.

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Quite a tough game took place in second periodwith both teams often going to the line of shots. With him Shaquille McKissick coming off the bench with his well-known “spirt” and explosiveness and offering valuable offensive solutions in transition, Giorgos Bartzokas’ team reached for the first time at +8 and 30-22 at the 14th minute.

Somewhere in there, however, the visitors turned up the gears, improved their defense and with maestro in creation and attack Mike James (6 assists in the half), ran a partial score of 13-3 and overtook for 35-33 in the 18th minute. During this time, Olympiacos scored only with Doda Hall’s goal-foul. Two shots by Milutinov tied the match, to be followed by Papanikolaou’s second “red-and-white” three-pointer of the night (2/14 in the 20th minute), with James in the final reaching the layup undisturbed and sending the two teams in the locker room with the score at 38-37.

The scene was quite different in third quarter, since both teams have dramatically improved their image on the front of the court. With him Nikola Milutinov to dominate the… airwaves and score 10 of Olympiakos’ 13 points (!), the home team maintained – even marginally – the lead (51-49) in the 25th minute, the moment when for Monaco James and Diallo were carrying aggressively.

In fact, the experienced American guard… then caught fire and with 8 points and two assists, he led the Principality’s team on a 15-3 run for +10 of the visitors and 64-54 in the 29th minute. Despite the shock, the Piraeus gathered the situation with two points by Vezenkov and two long mid-range shots by Dorsey, reducing to 64-60 in the quarter.

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The derby continued in fourth and final periodwhere Monaco found big threes with Strazel and Okobo, with Hall responding with three impressive nails for 66-72 in the 33rd minute. Despite the points of Dorsey and Ward, the Monegasques found a way to keep the upper hand in the score and with Diallo and James they even went to +9 and 79-70 at 36′.

A minute later, the guests reached +10 (74-84), showing that they were clearing the match. But Dorsey (15 points in the quarter!) took it upon himself and with six points, Olympiacos cut to 86-84 and 89-86 in the last 15 seconds. There, the “red and whites” had two chances with Fournier and Ward’s three-pointers to tie the game, but both missed. Somehow the game was decided in the shootout, with Monaco taking the win with the final 92-87.

The quarters: 20-16, 38-37, 60-64, 87-92.

See here the statistics of the match.