The first pair of the TOP-8 stage of the Euroleague has been revealed, Jasikevičius and Barcelona have debuted in Gasoli



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Piraeus Olympiacos basketball players (16-18) won the match against the tournament table. The Greek club beat Khimki (4-30) in the Moscow region at 82:75 (24:18, 18:23, 21:14, 19:20) at home.

The Russian club ended the catastrophic 2020-21 Euroleague season in last eighteenth place in the tournament table. Olympiacos, who achieved 16 victories, ended their march one notch below Kaunas Žalgiris in twelfth place.

The Moscow region team, which registered only one legionnaire, Errick McCollum, for this match, remained intrigued until the end of the match thanks to excellent three-point accuracy. Guests noticed more than half (14/26, 54 percent) of the long shots, but made mistakes up to 18 times.

“Olympiacos”: Alexander Vezenkov 20 (rec. 11), Georgios Printezis 14, Octavius ​​Ellis 11 (rec. 7), Vasilis Charalampopoulos, Costa Koufos and Shaquielle McKissic, 10 points each.

“Chimki”: Errick McCollum 17 (7th ed.), Yegor Vialtsev 14, Sergei Karasiov 12 points.

The local Armani celebrated a resounding victory in Milan (21-13). Ettores Messina’s home team crushed Istanbul’s Anadolu Efes (22-12) at home 98:75 (29:19, 20:20, 29:17, 20:19) and secured fourth place in the team’s final standings and a home-court advantage in the quarterfinals.

“Armani”: Shavon Shields 19, Kevin Punter 18, Zach LeDay 15, Vladimir Micov and Jeremy Evans 10 points each.

“Anadolu Efes”: Rodigue Beaubois 15 (5 res.), Chris Singleton 12, Tibor Pleiss 11 points.

In the quarter-final series with up to three victories, the Italian club will face the Bayern (21-13) basketball players from Munich, who entered the Euroleague TOP-8 for the first time, which closed the regular season of the Euroleague by beating Barcelona (24 -10) 72:82 (22: 29, 15:14, 18:17, 17:22).

The Šarūnas Jasikevičius students, who had secured the name of the regular season winners a bit earlier, landed on Munich opponents in both games. The Catalans were not helped by Corey Higgins, Nikola Mirotičius and Pierre Oriola in this match.

The long-awaited second Barça debut was finally introduced by Spanish basketball legend Pau Gasol. The tallest, who left the Catalan team for the NBA in 2001, returned to the Euroleague in 13 minutes after a twenty-year break, scoring 9 points and 4 rebounds.

“FC Barcelona”: Leo Westermann and Leandro Bolmar 12 each, Brandon Davies 11 points.

“Bayern”: Jalen Reynolds 26 (13/17 dvit.), Wade Baldwin 18 (6th ed.), Vladimir Lučičius 14 points.

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