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The Zenit team started the game with great success – 23: 9 and it seemed that the end of the confrontation was clear. Olympiakos followed Russia, narrowing the gap to 45:50 in the third quarter.
However, the decisive half of Zenit turned into a tragedy: St. Petersburg basketball players, who could not score points, only saw the hosts walk away, after Vassilio Spanouli’s ten-point section, Olympiakos escaped 70: 61. During the last quarter, the guests scored only 5 points and the hosts even 21.
A. Gudaitis, who returned after injury, scored 3 points (1/2 colonies, 1/1 free throws) in 11 minutes, caught the ball, blocked 2 opponents pitches, provoked 2 fouls, committed a foul and scored 6 utility points. points.
Olympiacos: Vassilis Spanouli 16 (3/4 triples), Alexander Vezenkov and Shaquielle Mckissic 13 each.
Zenit: Kevin Pangos 20 (5/10 triples, 7 res.), Alex Poythress 11, Mateusz Ponitka 10 (11 reps).
The Russian club, which played well mid-season and even climbed to fourth place in the tournament, has recently been on the line of failures and has now won just 2 of eight matches.
On the last day, the Russians landed at Real Madrid 71:75.
Meanwhile, the Greeks had fallen into the pit, falling eight times in a row, only in the last round they broke one of the outsiders in Belgrade “Crvena zvezda” 94:79.
The first match between 75:66 was won by Olympiakos.
