Euro League
Milan threaten Olympiakos because they learned to win everywhere without the player who did it all
Passer Savon Shields has not played in the Euroleague since December 16. And yet Milan count 7/8 with four doubles in equal number of tries and a cup inside the walls. The cup winners Olympiacos have to overcome a high hurdle to establish themselves in the top 4 of the ranking.
Milan join SEF for the eighth time in their history as Italian Cup winners. Hours after Olympiacos tipped Panathinaikos’ double-digit lead and triumphantly lifted the trophy in the Greek Final Four at Heraklion after 11 years, Ettore Messina’s team – with MVP Malcolm Dilleni – defeated the “78” 61) who had previously defeated Virtus Bologna had caused the surprise.
It was the 18th game in a row (7 leagues, 8 European championships, 3 cups) that Armani played without Savon Shields. In mid-December, the 27-year-old American hit hard after a controversial Rudy Fernandez defense, underwent surgery and was out of action for the next two months, leaving Hector without the key player in his plan as he linked defense with attack.
Milan seemed to deregulate at the beginning, losing to Trieste and Pesaro in Serie A. Troy fell out from the inside. However, in the period leading up to the victorious Italian Final Eight, the Italian team struggled to regain their balance and won 83% of their games. Especially in the EuroLeague, where the demands/needs are greater and mistakes are severely punished, he has measured 7/8 on away wins in Barcelona, Moscow, Belgrade and Kaunas (easy or difficult).
That performance placed her third in the rankings, behind Barcelona and Real, having largely secured home field advantage in the playoffs, as her program heading into the home stretch is cheap enough not to lose anything hard-earned.
What he lost to Shields
Shields was invaluable in the first half of the season. It’s no coincidence that he’s still a member of the two most prolific fives Messina fielded at the event. With the first (Hall, Shields, Datome, Meli, Hines) in almost 52′, Milan was at +37 and with the second (Delaney, Hall, Shields, Mitoglou, Hines) at +22, according to its Instat Scout database.
In any case, the American was the one who played the longest than anyone, he was the top scorer (12.6 pence) with the highest accuracy rate from the squad’s peripherals (44% FG) and led 24.3% of attacks from Milan from behind the screens. He was also the third rebounder and most effective defender, according to data from the same source, with impressive numbers at both the operator after the change (0.77p per opponent possession) and the post (0.21 per opponent possession)!
Theoretically, Milan should be heavily influenced, but Dinos Mitoglou, who was also injured, was actually absent. Instead, he appeared resilient, developed defenses, and after learning to live without shields, made sure to win. Messina took the cards to his mother and re-dealt the deck, re-defining the roles.
The new data
The most typical example had to do with Troy Daniels, whose average participation increased from 9’57” to 12’30” to fill the gap in the long shot. The 30-year-old American has doubled his goal tally (from 4.4 to 8.4) in his 8-year tenure in the NBA as he now shoots more than before. He was previously vulnerable on defense, so his offensive support offset that invariable disadvantage.
Dilleni has also become much more determined with the ball in hand and has improved his percentages from the three-pointer. Up until the game against Real, the one Shields hit, he was shooting 30.8% from behind 6m75, but since then he’s hit almost 1 of the 2 he executes (48.6%).
As a team, without changing pace, Armani has increased his productivity on defense and lowered his opponents’ scores. Yes, he played 2 games with bottom Zalgiris, but at the same time he held CSKA to 57 (3/24 three points, only 6 assists).
It was already a set with a defensive approach in his game, but it’s gone from 71.9 points and 0.91 per possession to 67.5-0.88 per possession. A performance that reflects dedication and focus, constantly pushing the ball and stopping the long shot as he now receives a 7.3 out of 8.6 per game.
The…Shield of Olympiacos
What is certain is that something like this will succeed at SEF to steal the double: playing at a low tempo and pressing the respective operator affects the productivity of Olympiacos, who achieve 81.2 possessions and count 1 point per possession (3rd best performance in the Euroleague). In this case, it will depend on the right distances and good reading of the situations by the respective Bartzokas “ace” in order to ensure excellent circulation and liberation from difficult situations.
Sloukas, Wookup and second-degree Dorsey, Papanikolaou and McKissick (who download all the time) have a lot to do as a pair, but the red-whites are superior (in stats and tradition).
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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!
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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“.
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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.
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