Euro League
Olympiacos with heart, stubbornness, defense and Slouka can take it without giving everything to his people
Sloukas scored three points, Vezenkov turned SEF into a bouzouki player and Pantelis Diamantopoulos writes about hearts, players and a team much wronged by Covid laws and the absence of their own people from the stands.
Too bad people don’t enjoy nights like this. And I’ll start whining – and I’ll end like this – because it’s a shame and unfair that everything has relaxed and thousands of people are allowed into the stadiums. Depriving Olympiacos of its world. And deprive people of the opportunity to experience what we have all seen. Sloukas to “kill” Efes and Sasha Vezenkov to make the stadium… Bouzouki store!
Sasha went crazy and started turning the plates. The team found a click ahead of a home loss. Everything went into detail. Suddenly the ball was in McKissick’s hands and everyone said “No, he”. Luckily the ball then went into the hands of whoever is ok and if they lose it you will sleep peacefully. And he didn’t lose it. From the corner and up and down a field. And he’d made sure to show his whims early on. Read …
The… bread and cheese from Kostas
Expected and yet logical, the mood of the team was to transfer the game to Fal. Plais is good but the Frenchman can put him in the basket better. For his part, the German plays high much more easily, which made it difficult for the Olympiacos center to follow. Woookup’s absence from the match put Dorsey and Slouka in the top five from the start.
Costas was “hot”, punishing every daydream of the Turks, who in turn followed the path of quick movement without the ball to find their favorite shot. Ataman even went into battle alongside Larkin, Misic, and Boboa, though he didn’t have any significant of that particular inspiration. The Turkey coach even took a risk, leaving Sigleton on the floor who had two fouls early on. The Olympiacos defense entered well. Think Score was obtained from Sigleton-Simon and Plais. From each of the… artillery (the first was a miss by Misic at 9′.30”) and this gave the Greek team and their thousand friends extra confidence. Efes has corrected its defensive shortcomings from the start and something like that never lets Sloukas go to waste…
Efes and the… train
Such a game and path has a lot, but also special conditions that can assess situations in which one does not understand it. Bartzokas played with Lountzi, Larentzaki, McKissick, Printezis and Martin for a while. He didn’t do it by accident. He knew he wasn’t going to score goals easily, but it was also okay to wear down the Turks, soil them, tire them and… poison them. And since it’s fair to say that “the pace has been cut forward,” the answer is that you can’t go 40 minutes with a character, so there are times when you’re looking for the slightest losses.
For Efes, the problems in the final start with their defense but also with the fact that they look static compared to last year and most of their players wait to shoot rather than create. Many people say that if the Turks make the playoffs they will be able to “close the door” on anyone who succeeds. Agree. It’s just that time goes by and eventually they start to worry about catching the qualifying move. That may have crossed their minds at SEF when they started to lose their feet. They became more methodical, they were left to Misic’s inspirations and so the Serb managed to lead them with calm and confidence to the dressing room for a break after filming the scene.
This is the sport!
Basketball isn’t a one-size-fits-all sport. Even though some people say statistics is a mirror and others such sweet intelligences. There are things in sport that numbers will never find. Turn the earth upside down. Costas Papanikolaou was an example of such a situation in that game. The Greece international did things inside the four lines that weren’t spotted in the stats to uncover them. From additional help, from block-outs, from movement, from momentum to rebounds. That’s what the coaches see, as on the contrary, Moerman gave ataman solutions and kept him at a time when the shorts again didn’t have the field of action they’d like.
Efes held up well with their quality and thus led the match to the end. It was a nice game between two good teams. Olympiakos created excitement in a match full of nerves, tough moments and lots of personal energy. Well, in this part, whoever is the most ruthless wins. Both teams have players like that, they went into overtime, the Turks seemed very capable of getting the double (there is no cafe) and they would have done it if Sloukas hadn’t found a goal. It was a nice game. Everyone deserves a thumbs up for what they’ve done. Both Bartzokas and Ataman and the players. It was intense in the semi-finals… Such is the sport and victory brings Olympiakos a huge psychological gain but also breath for the general classification. We’re talking about a team that has fewer games…
I repeat, he is wronged…
The truth is Olympiacos have been wronged by the Covid conditions. I understand that other teams have been pulling hard, but the Piraeus have learned to go with their world. It’s no coincidence that they went undefeated, nor is it a coincidence that in regulating a thousand people, the extra impetus they’ve received from their audience isn’t there. In the last two minutes, those who were on the field were screaming, but it can’t be compared …
The team is trying and will continue to do so. No connoisseur said he would get home field advantage. The European goal is first of all to qualify for the playoffs and from there we’ll see. The big and difficult games are won by the hearts and the players. On an evening when after a long time all the results “sat”. Olympiacos has both and continues…
Jessica Martinez is an author at Sportish, a publication dedicated to sports news and analysis. She covers various topics related to sports and provides insightful commentary on the latest developments in the world of sports.
Mustafa Fal has delivered a monstrous performance in international matches and Vassilis Skoundis is tackling the problem, inevitably involving the first teacher of the art, Panagiotis Fassoulas.
“The gypsy saw his generation and his heart rejoiced,” says a proverb whose meaning fits the occasion… I mean, the occasion of Fal seeing the other Fal opposite him and enjoying him normally and in accordance with the law!
Let the necessary recommendations be made…
One of them is Mustafa Fal, who was born in Paris on February 23, 1992, he is French, he plays in his country’s national team, his hat comes from Senegal, he has been looking since he was 2.18. He is in his third season at Olympiacos…
Yusufa and Taco
The other person who competed against him yesterday is Youssoufa Fal, who was born in Dakar on January 12, 1995, is a Senegalese with French nationality, has a height of 2.21 m and is competing in Villerban for the third consecutive time…
There is of course the much wilder Taco Fal, who was also born in Dakar on December 10, 1995, spent three seasons in the NBA, is now sizzling in China and has had his head tickling the feet of God since he was 229 cm tall!
Mustafa, Yusufa and Tako have no relationship or kinship between them: they are synonymous, apart from the coincidence that ensures that they are all three kilometers long!
The triple-double figure in Pylaia
He had attacked the Olympiacos central defender again on the 11th of last month, on the occasion of the triple-double he scored in the game against PAOK in Pylaia, rare in our area, but he wanted to make us laugh for a while as his only goal!
At first he missed Yannis Fileris who treated him properly, but I also have some stitches for his fur!
To say my sin, I laughed and liked Fileris’ pun on… Wrong!
Fasoulas and… Lumidis
In any case, “Pani” was like…Lumidis in the field of coffee roasting, plus he made heads turn with soft nails with his unique and unparalleled skills.
To paraphrase Lumidis’ advertising slogan: in our case it was “Everyone in their own way and Fasoulas in their caps“!
Since the conversation broke out, the experienced PAOK and Olympiacos international center has recorded five triple-doubles with points, rebounds and blocks, which are of course rarer than those that include assists.
He scored the first of these goals on October 15, 1988 (PAOK-Panionios) with 18 points, 18 rebounds and 13 blocks.
Two weeks later he “wrote” the second with 20-18-11 against Apollon Patras, on November 19 he followed the third against Sporting (29-19-15), while in the 1990/91 season he added two more: 18 – 14-10 with Peristeri and 19-12-11 with Iraklis.
Vrankovic’s record and the “wow” with Green
Similar triple feats with plugs have also been achieved by Stojan Vrankovic (who is already the record holder in EuroLeague history with 10 in a Fortitudo Bologna-Cibona Zagreb game) with Panathinaikos, Anthony Cook with PAOK, Mike Smrek with Dafni, PJ Brown with Panionios, Efthymis Renzias with the National Youth Team and Antonis Fotsis with the Greens youth team.
On Friday night in Lyon, Fall broke the bank when he nearly followed in Draymond Green’s footsteps and posted a rare triple-double without scoring in double figures.
He reached the final horn with two points, seven rebounds, seven assists and eight blocks, while the Warriors’ cocky forward did so on February 10, 2017 against the Grizzlies with 11 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 steals and just two points.
From 0.8 to 8
Fal had grabbed 14 rebounds in the game against Red Star while he dished out seven assists in the game against Baskonia, so there is no news here…
The wave was caused by the eight caps, because on the one hand there are a lot of them and on the other hand the so-called do not have a big problem with davtes.
Before the game with Villerban, he had taken 12 shots in 14 games, and suddenly he flashed and thundered from a 0.8 average to eight!
What is the key quality a good blocker should have?
The cap for Moretti, the timing and the caps
Instead of answering, I’ll give the floor to a specialist and expert, none other than Panagiotis Fasoulas, who, among other things, scored the most decisive international match in the history of Olympiacos!
I am referring to the match against Paolo Moretti in the third game of the European Champions Cup playoff series in the 10993/94 season, thanks to which Piraeus qualified for the Final 4 in Tel Aviv.
“Everything is a question of timing“he explained to me when I asked him how he cultivated and developed his art.
“You need to know and understand where, when and how to jump to block the opponent’s shot. In addition to this sense of space and time, speed of movement and long arms also play a role. I did the caps and even covered the ball so we could go straight to attack” explains Fasoulas, who is already drawing the moral lesson of the story…
“Attack requires talent, but defense depends on will.”
The spider web
Last but not least, this desire flowed from the… gums of Fasoula, who went out and trapped his opponents in the spider’s web from which no one could escape.
From his appearance in the early 80s until his retirement in 1999, he reduced defense not only to a science, but to a spectacular spectacle!
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
Matias Lessor received hundreds of interesting messages from friends of Panathinaikos AKTOR about his injury and quickly explained what the situation is.
Matias Lessor’s injury was the only black mark in the game against Armani Milano. For this very reason, the people of Panathinaikos AKTOR didn’t enjoy it as much as they would have liked. At least until they received the results of the sports high school exams.
The day after the game, it became clear that the problem was not serious. However, Matias Lessor explained in detail how he feels after his injury and thanked everyone for their interest.
Matias Lesor’s message in detail:
“Thank you everyone for your lovely messages and your interest. I’m feeling much better. It just hurts, but I’m fine“.
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
End of alert for Matias Lesor at Panathinaikos AKTOR. The French center has a bad back due to the injury and will miss tomorrow’s (December 24th) game against Prometheus in Patras (20:15, ERT3 and LIVE on Sportish), but his tests were clear.
Matias Lesor will play in tomorrow’s (December 24th) away game of Panathinaikos AKTOR against Prometheus (8:15 p.m., 3 a.m. and LIVE from Sportish) on matchday 11 of the Stoiximan Basket League due to the lower back injury he sustained in this game , do not compete Armani Milano. But he escaped the worst.
The French center was tested immediately after the return of the “Greens” from Milan, who were “clean”. In other words, they didn’t show that the bone was broken in the middle – which everyone feared when they saw the Frenchman slaughtered on the ground. But Lesor is still in pain, ruling him out of the game against Prometheus and considered doubtful for next week’s EuroLeague game against Red Star.
With Lesor out, Oleg Balcherovski, Kostas Antetokounmpo and Dinos Mitoglou will fill the center position in the game against Prometheus.
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
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