Who would bet on the undefeated Olympiakos at SEF… being broken by the Red Star? Who would expect the “Red and Whites” from Belgrade to win 2-0 against the “Red and Whites” from Piraeus? But anything can happen. Whether you expect it or not. The damage to the team isn’t irreparable, but it’s clear that it’s a… hurricane of weird basketball, bad decisions, and bad results.

Everything is explained. And to see the game’s stats will make you judge. Asteras got the rebounds, made fewer mistakes (received 20 points from Olympiakos!), shot smarter. And of course, as you will read below, he threw the necessary “stick” that you always have to throw if you want to educate your opponent and lead him down crooked paths in irritated and manoeuvrable ways.

The Red Star didn’t have much to lose

He. Asteras didn’t have much to lose and that made winning more comfortable for him. Who would ask her to speak for such a defeat? If you remember, they finally won the game in Belgrade when he was considered an underdog at the time. Olympiakos without Papanikolaou-McKissick essentially had to manage the forward’s position. Bartzokas started with Larentzaki, but it was a given that others would get through there, like Vezenkov in a… mini-train of “4”. Something that happened at the beginning of the second period when Jean Charles and Martin entered the front line.

And when Sasha had to rest, we also saw a character with Slouka-Dorsey-Lountzi. The Serbs traditionally wanted to rely on their defense and did it right until the end. Eating 67 points at SEF is very positive. Screen changes, ball pressure and usually full pressing after each successful attempt. They didn’t force themselves to take the lead early in the game, taking advantage of some bad decisions by the Greek team. And especially for them, they kept it even in the moments of red counterattacks.

The guests had variety

It’s also worth noting that the visitors were varied, while Olympiakos… found goals with Fal and Vezenkov passing the ball to him. Sasha was 4/4 before losing the first three points (in the fourth period), he mustn’t blackmail himself with that, but he’s by far the most stable…shooter on the team, even if he’s not a shooter. The variety therefore began to appear with a delay and mainly thanks to an event. Which; Simply to gnaw the gap to the Piraeus team and make the opponent tough, the entry of Sloukas played a role. Costas runs to Olympiakos, opens the field and immediately makes the danger for the “counterpart” even greater when chasing the ball.

He did it with what he put in, Radonic “replied” with more pressure and so the field was both tough and ambiguous throughout the 20 minutes. Sloukas was good then, he was annoyed that in the 19th minute after a peat (I don’t blame him), he was substituted on relatively early in the second half (23rd) because the picture .. carbon too beginning of the game. The Serbs escaped again, but this time not only was the team furious, it also took the… thousand people up front to bring order to the situation. But the fans couldn’t survive the match alone. The team, which seems generally irritated and for some reason ruled out zero, could have painted the nervousness on everyone’s face. They should pay attention to that. nerves hurt…

Olympiacos were bad and lost fairly

The Red Star had managed to largely limit Olympiacos’ action. I’m one of those fanatical advocates that history should be made by those present and that large groups shouldn’t talk about absenteeism. However, I have to mention that two basketball players, who can give up more than 60% of the team’s total energy, were missing and everyone else had to pick up a little bit more. I am of course referring to Papanikolaou-McKissick at a time when Printezis’s experience (very good last month) was of course also lacking. Asteras didn’t do magic things, he can’t do that, but Olympiakos was bad and lost quite a bit. The Serbs also made simple defenses, as without Papanikolaou and McKissick Olympiacos could not have created the slightest crack in the main corridor.

The counterattack was almost non-existent in the end. This is because there was not the slightest methodology for a counterattack. A ball spins in the last five seconds trying to find itself for a shot. You’re not saying that very orthodoxly. Olympiacos is undergoing its own deformation and it’s making a fuss. He has the stomach of Ovelix, simply the most likeable Milk bears sea-white stripes rather than red and white.

Let the reaction come in the bottom gear

Another loss in a row. Where everything went differently, the corona virus spread in the event and made it limp. The team is being searched for the double in OAKA. They all bring out unwarranted nerves. and that makes them worse whether they’re in suits or shorts. What is certain is that the rhythm will be found again, just until then we have to see how many wounds he will have accumulated and, above all, how he will heal them. I don’t rely on the score – yet. I think it’s early and I’ve even emphasized it in the back-to-back wins.

If Bartzokas has anything to do with his staff (if they can), it’s the reaction to the…walk downstairs. Both in the city and in Tel Aviv and at Asteras, as soon as relegation came, all reactions were bad. And whatever good was done was solely a product of personal action. But… partisanship doesn’t win. You must be a team. Defense is a matter of teamwork and appetite. mood and belief, what is it? The character needs to be seen now. After the ongoing… slapping. And one last thing: Olympiacos showed healthy up to the holidays and people loved it. Vezenkov assured that everything is fine, so it remains to turn the story again and with the smile …