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With an excellent performance at the “Palau Blaugrana”, Olympiacos returned in the most deafening way to the victories in the Euroleague.
More specifically, Bartzoka’s team managed to knock out Barcelona and, approaching 100 points (96-88 the score) against the best defense in the league, got a huge “double” in the postponed match of the 9th game.
With this pink card, the ‘rojiblancos’ improved their psychology, after the two consecutive defeats of Baskonia and CSKA, while now they have a 6-5 record.
The race
Olympiacos got off to a dream start to the game. Piraeus, putting energy on the court, playing excellent defense and shooting in bursts from 6.75, led 12-0, keeping the hosts… smoke-free in the first 3.5 minutes of the match.
In the end, the first basket of the Catalans came from Mirotic, who reduced it to 3-12 with a triple, to be followed by two consecutive triples from Jenkins, who made it 4-18 in favor of the Greek team, unmistakable from 6.75.
Then the hosts tried to react and at the end of the quarter, with a series of 6-0, they reduced the difference to the single digits, placing 17-26 in 10 ‘.
In the second ten minutes, the Yassikevitsios players improved their performance, took advantage of the defensive weaknesses that Olympiakos presented and reduced it to 32-37 with a Davis dive.
McKissick then took matters into his own hands and with personal points in the open field kept his team ahead of the score (34-39 in 15 ‘), while Martin did an excellent job in … painting, looking into the eyes the first line of the hosts and closing the first half with nine points.
McKissick, who did an incredible job both in defense and attack, kept stealing from Olympiakos and with a triple made it 45-38 in favor of Piraeus.
However, the hosts in the last minutes of the second half found solutions on the scoreboard and managed to reduce to four points before going to the dressing room, with 47-51 being the score for the first half.
In the third ten minutes, Peraiotes tightened the defense and showing a great improvement in this part made life difficult for the Catalans, in their attempt to score.
The ‘rojiblancos’ from the hand of Slouka of the charity line reached the difference to +10 (50-60), while with a triple from Papanikolaou they went ahead with 13 points.
Then the hosts tried to gnaw the difference, however Vezenkov with a triple gave encouragement to his team (61-70), with Olympiakos finally closing the quarter at +9 (63-72).
Details in a bit …
Quarters: 17-26, 47-51, 63-72, 88-96
