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Although he was still at στην Barcelona at the start of the match, where he was tied at -16, Olympiakos managed to make the surprise and with a Printezis basket at 3.2 ” before the end, to get the victory (81-79) against him Red Star and go up to 7-5.
A historic night for Vassilis Spanoulis, who was very good with 14 points, but at the same time with this offensive harvest he surpassed Juan Carlo Navarro’s total of 4,321 points in the Euroleague and the Champions Cup and is now chasing the mythical Nikos Galis, who completed the with 4,894 points in European competitions.
From there and beyond, Giorgos Bartzokas’s team had other protagonists, in addition to the substitute captain “savior” who was also the top scorer with 16 points. Sloukas with 12 points. and 7 assists, Harrison, who had the same points but with his own series of 3s in the third period “woke up” for the sake of his teammates.
Finally, a great performance from Larentzakis, who made tremendous defenses over Lloyd, but also had 11 points. with critical points. The only thing that went very wrong on the night, Olympiakos was in the field of errors, where they had 20 against only 8 of the hosts.
The Red Star, who fell to 4-9, highlighted O’Bryant with 16 points. Walden and Lloyd had 13 points. each, with the second heavy artillery of the Serbs to have 1/7 triples, indicative of the excellent “reading” in it.
The match
Olympiacos started the game with Ellis, Jean-Charles, Papanikolaou, Jenkins and Slouka. Only the first two defenses were made by Piraeus in the match, since then they did not want to play … defense, while only Sloukas scored points in attack. The result was that the Red Star “heated up” outside 6.75 m. and with triples to go to 14-5, in the first five minutes. Then the easy mistakes were added by the Bartzoka players, with the hosts feeling increasingly comfortable on the court, where whoever came from the bench did their … part, with O ‘Bryant and Davidovac shooting the difference to +16 (30-14 ), at 9 ‘. In the last minute, Sloukas’ basket made a lousy 30-16.
Printezis and Harrison reduced to -11 (32-21) at the start of the second period, but some mistakes again gave the Serbs a chance to escape to +14 (37-23). With the appetizing Spanoulis, the difference was reduced to -10 (37-27) in the 15 ‘, but despite the good defense, the rojiblanco attack was stagnant, due to errors and thus the score remained the same during the two minutes following. From minute 17, the game began to “come alive”. This is because, with Spanoulis and McKissick, the Piraeus team ran down the court and found rhythm in attack. On the other hand, however, the locals took advantage of their offensive rebounds and thus maintained a safe distance (45-35), with the captain’s two shots at the end to form 45-37 in the first half.
With Printezis and Sloukas, Olympiakos found a marker in attack early in the second half, but Lloyd started to warm up and so the Red Star stayed at +8 (50-42), until the 22nd minute. There, however, Harrison began to take the lead and with three consecutive triples he started the counterattack for the total overthrow of the Piraeus team, which with Ellis took the lead (52-54), in the 26th minute. From that point on, the game got more difficult and he got more in touch, with both teams scoring mostly on shots and the lead constantly changing. However, with a triple by Larentzakis in the last attack, Bartzokas’s team took the lead (62-61) in the third period.
Larentzakis, who had been “drafted” in the last minutes of the third quarter, continued the good defenses in the fourth, where with his own triple and Spanoulis-Printezis, Olympiacos went to +9 (61-70), in 33 ‘. However, the continuation was not proportional, with the Red Star obtaining many offensive rebounds and approaching the point (69-70). There came another triple from “Larry” and a shot from Martin to +5 (69-74), with the return of the Serbs (74-76), in 36 ‘. Then the “rojiblancos” fell into a series of offensive fouls, with Lloyd and O’Bryant ahead of Estrella Roja (78-76), in the 39 ‘. Printezis brought the game to a draw (78-78), with Spanoulis making 1/2 shots at 8.6 ” before the end, for 78-79. O ‘Bryant (79-79) did the same with the captain in 6.8’ ‘, with Printezis in the last attack hitting the basket and missing, missing the shot, but Olympiakos taking the victory with the final 79-81!
The ten minutes: 30-16, 45-37, 61-62, 79-81
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