Euro League
The “Spanish” Olympiakos attacked Tavares and defeated him
The three-in-three for Olympiakos came with a big double in Madrid and Yannis Fileris writes about how the red-whites squandered Real’s greatest defensive weapon, Eddie Tavares. First 3-0 since 2017, first wins in Madrid and Barcelona in the only Euroleague championship
These are. Third consecutive win for Olympiakos in the EuroLeague, the second in Spain. If he repeats that in Vitoria on Friday, he only has to declare his participation in the Endesa League. He also manages to play in the Copa Del Rey!
After Barcelona, it was Real’s turn to submit to the in-form ‘red and white’ who have been sending messages about their potential this year, even though we’re still at the start of the season so nothing very important has been decided. On the other hand, however, Olympiacos are minimizing their losses by playing a very difficult schedule and thus slowly building the course in this year’s Euroleague route.
It’s the first time since the 2017/18 season that Olympiacos have started three straight wins (back then they had two home and one away games), while also beating Real in Madrid from the same period. The Piraeus have had four straight defeats against a side that didn’t suit them, largely at the mercy of the terrible and terrible Eddie Tavares.
But full-time came and Olympiacos not only feared the outstanding center of the Madrilenians, but struck where it should be the real strength of their defense. To Tavares!
Real’s racquet has been a minefield in recent games, either in the EuroLeague or in the Spanish league. Typical are the 43% inner children of their opponents.
Well, Olympiakos finished the game with 63% and from the start insisted on playing without fear against Tavares, citing his deterioration from fouls. Either because of Fal looking Real’s center in the eye anyway, or because the other two big ones, who also didn’t hesitate to attack (more boloboi, much less black), ended the pick and roll, Barzoka’s tactics revolved around neutralize the hosts’ defensive superweapon.
The use of Shaquille McKissic in the basic formation on the “3” position also had this meaning, because the American made several attempts with a drive, in front of Tavares, won two fouls (even making the basket) from the foursome out overall, boosted by high of real. If “Sack” didn’t finish with 2/5 shots, he would deal even more damage to “Queen”.
Tavares, with the exception of an early-game interception at Vezhenkov, never became the scarecrow that would thwart subsequent attempts at close-range threats from Olympiakos.
Even the last basket with Sluka’s wonderful fake on Tavares was noticed and definitely underscores the unique sense of space and time that the National Guard’s absolute basketball spirit has. Another winner’s basket, until next in the career of the 32-year-old ace, who appears to be overcoming any struggles with his injury and leading his team with championship…
Vezhenkov here, there and a little further
At the same time, Sasha Vezenkov finished another match with a double-double and is in full swing to be named Player of the (First) Month of this year’s EuroLeague. Despite missing slightly from distance (2/7tr), he just missed a two (8/9), scoring 23 points and racking up 12 rebounds in 32:45 of participation.
This is where “what the man does” comes into play. dads! In his first three games, he has 22 points and 11.2 rebounds. He is the league’s second goalscorer, first rebounder, and top of the rankings. Real found him good, Sasha constantly played in red and was ready to do anything on the pitch.
He will score from long range, play off the ball to get an assist and finish an easy basket, hit all rebounds hard, hold his own against his opponent to win an offensive foul, be unstoppable, tireless and currently undefeatable. ..
Larentzakis’ three-pointer and boloboi
Of course, Olympiacos is not a team of one or two players. Bartzokas said that too last week. “We are many“Everything counted for the win after Madrid. Kanan’s only three, staying at five throughout the third quarter, also played its part.
The ‘red-whites’ were misled from afar (6/21 tr), an element that could have robbed them of an easier win, but a three-pointer hurt Real badly and came just as Olympiacos desperately needed it needed: 1:33 to go and while the home side were ahead by +4 points, Larry took the ball, stepped back and scored correctly from the corner.
It was the time when Olympiakos constantly played with Joel Boloboi. His return to the squad came with a very full performance, with back-to-back points at the end where they finished the big doubles alongside Slukas and Larentzakis. Walkup and Fal had done all the work in the first half of the fight and Olympiacos made sure he took what the players who hit the ground could give every time.
We’ll say it again. Not everything is perfect at Olympiakos. Not all of his players are at the same level. But that also shows the special skills of this year’s squad. That he wins by making mistakes (as in Yule’s basket, who had a foul to concede and let Real’s ace go into his basket unmolested) or with Kanan, who has only 3 points.
After all, a team that beats Barcelona and Real in Barcelona and Madrid is very capable and ready to play a very serious role in the competition.
Yes, it’s still early days, but in the Euroleague, wins count from the start. They have the same meaning whether they take place in October or April. We don’t remember any other time when Olympiacos won both Barcelona and Madrid. Since the EuroLeague became a single league with either 16 or 18 teams (2016), it hasn’t done so again.
If he succeeds and wins through the Fernando Buesa Arena, then we can talk about a successful start, because he will have won for the third time on Spanish soil. Baskonia is only winning in Europe, in contrast to their mediocre start in the Spanish league (2-2 in four games) and the terrible Marcus Howard is the competition’s top scorer with 25 points and 58.6% of threes (17/29).
This time Olympiacos will definitely need their good defense to come back unscathed and undefeated!
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.
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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