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Andrea Trinkeri responded “don’t wake me up, don’t wake me up” when asked by the reporter about Bayern’s really unexpected 4-1 Euroleague game. He had just preceded the 74-68 against Olympiakos in Munich. It was the first trip for the ‘rojiblancos’ in this strange test and the first defeat after three successes in a row: the great double at OAKA and the home wins over Milan (with reversal) and Maccabi (to zero).
The Greek team has lost to the two teams leading the race. With the structural problems he has, the normal thing would be this 3-2 in 5 games, if those who beat him were not Zalgiris in the premiere and Bayern. Teams that before the first jambol of the year appeared among the ‘weakest’ of 18. If not, certainly among the poorest – in money they spent to ‘build’ until the start of the new season. Only in an unstable tournament, in a tournament where nothing is taken for granted, not even the schedule as there are now many pending matches, the fluidity of the situation carries each team from one extreme to another: from the buzzer skies in the abyss of inappropriate appearance on German soil.
Olympiacos never gained pace. With few exceptions, neither Sloukas nor Spanoulis contributed to the revocation of the treaty. Carrying 6 errors in the statistics of the first period, the ‘rojiblancos’ were constantly stumbling on the court and going through routine phases. Bayern had started with 7/10 at home and 7 final passes, while on the road they had already collected 6 offensive rebounds, finding a marker in second attacks. But this was not the fundamental problem of Piraeus. It was the failure of the offensive plan that did not allow the management of +1 (49-50), in its only advantage. The hosts came forward very quickly, they were liberated (spiritually above all) and they did not lose control again.
Baldwin’s (ex ‘rojiblanco’) midfield shot was detrimental until he got tired and shot a lot, but with Bayern already at +11 (68-57) the chances of returning to Olympiakos had been reduced considerably. George Bartzokas wanted to reward Jenkins for his efforts so far, but finishing the match without Sloukas or Spanoulis had largely chosen how he was going to lose, simplifying the opponent’s job on defense. Especially at a time when Harrison wasn’t on the right mark from the outside and McKissick was rushing unnecessarily to get (and lose) a key long shot, with the score at 72-68. A shot that could come out after an organized attack and not out of a transition situation in 50 seconds to go.
Baldwin took aim at shots he easily beat Martin on the next drive and Andrea Trinkeri was rightly celebrating what interests him most at this stage: the ‘W’ for victory. “Even if we don’t play the way we like to playThe German had pressed the alarm off and Olympiakos had never woken up from lethargy, ending a match with more errors (15) than assists (13) and finished with 21% from triple (6/18). ), also losing the rebound battle (23 vs. 27).
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