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It is a team that drives you crazy. You can beat everyone away from home, you can lose to everyone at SEF. It is in the DNA of Olympiacos to live with extreme emotions, of course this season has a lot of paranoia for all the teams in the Euroleague. George Bartzokas said before Friday’s game (12/18) that except for CSKA Moscow, who hopefully count ten consecutive wins with Mike James remembering … Damian Lillard, everyone loses for everyone.
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This does not mean that Piraeus should find excuses for their record, this is the reality, in empty stadiums they will continue to play, the same teams will continue to face each other, but above all they will have the same weaknesses if there are no additions to the squad. And these weaknesses must be camouflaged to look taller. The defeat against Real Madrid was not an absurd result, but surely the 0/2 in the SEF in three days hurts.
LAST IN PERCENTAGE IN THE TRIPONTO
At the moment, after the 15th game of the regular season and the 14 games that they have yielded, Olympiakos is 18th, last in percentage of success in the peripheral shot.
With 115 accurate in 334 3-pointers made, 34.43% is small to make a long-term difference for a team that is fourth on the list of most accurate in two-point shots (56.76%). . When the shots come, Piraeus is a Final Four level team.
Against Valencia and Real they were 15/51, they lost, they fell 7-7 in the standings and they feel that they never achieved the victories in Barcelona and Belgrade.
I WAS NOT AFRAID OF HIM, BUT IT WAS … THE TAVARES
The year will continue in this pattern, we say it over and over again, Olympiacos will make great victories and will have bad nights like last Wednesday with Valencia. Against Real Madrid, however, the outlook was pretty good.
It is a fact that Bartzokas does not have a “dinosaur” to face Tavares and here we are talking about the fact that most of the Euroleague teams face the same problem against the rogue center who is by far the second center of the tournament, that of greater influence. at one point.
He couldn’t easily hit him on the racket, there are not three seconds on the racket like in the NBA, but we still saw many moments in which Piraeus attacked him with stubbornness and determination, either with the collaborations of Spanoulis -Martin and Slouka- . Martin, or with Shaquille McKissick who is not afraid of anyone and is not interested in his statistics.
MISSING A DEFENSE, A SHOT
Olympiakos lacked great defense, Real scored huge triples in both regulation and overtime, Trey Tombkins made critical shots, Laprovitola was unmistakable from the shooting line, Yul pushed his mandarins, a great shot for Piraeus and he lacked a little more luck.
Sloukas took the triple from the corner at the end of the regular season, he did not score, but surely the problem in the triple is there and will continue to exist as long as Aaron Harrison does not find space, hesitate to act and do not do the job for which he was acquired. .
The absence of Printezis may have been very judgmental, perhaps nothing. With Tavares on the racket he wouldn’t have much room to “dance”, Vezenkov seemed more useful in this match because of his ability to execute from a distance, but he was also a bit hesitant, hitting two 3-pointers in 25:18. What a strange coincidence for someone to draw conclusions …
JUDGED AS ONE EIGHT TEAM
Olympiakos aims for the first eight and with this fact it is judged, since it can claim the classification to the Final Four. Bartzokas chooses to trust the players who play well in every game, he wants cooperation basketball, last night of course he had an unsuspecting Papanikolaou who scored 1/6 three points. In the details he lost the game, because of a defense, because of a shot, perhaps because of a coach election, because of a “yes”.
History recorded two defeats in the SEF in three days, history had written two victories away from Greece in three days last week, the important thing now is calm and work for the two games remaining until 2020.
Fenerbahce in Istanbul (12/23) and Khimki in Moscow (12/29) are two missions that will not judge the season, but Olympiacos will have to get at least one victory. Neither the Turks nor the Muscovites are in good shape and a victory is necessary before the January hell that includes seven fights and three diabolical weeks.
Ideally, the Olympiacos with a point guard like Bobois and a tall one like Baskonia’s Yusufa Fal would be a better and much more balanced level. You don’t have them and you won’t find them right away. Bartzokas insists on supporting the material in his hands, he has seen significant improvement in many, but he has also seen some unable to cope at this level.
But because in this Euroleague we have seen everything and we will see even more, calm. The year is great and January will definitely offer a lot of discussion.
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