Olympiacos was devastated and took a hard lesson

They went to Berlin and “ate their faces”. All. Both Bartzokas and the players. You may have wondered what happened, but everything went smoothly in Berlin. They were the ones who gave Alba hope. They themselves allowed everything they suffered. And as soon as the Germans became confident, they began to place them everywhere. A tragic picture of the port crew. If we exclude the Slouka-Martin collabs, the Piraeus team showed nothing else to watch. Away from everything. From the averages. By plane”. From stubbornness. From everything that made him strong and gave him the right to hope for an advantage.

Alba had a magical night. Most will remember them. Lo’s birthday was…on the birthday of Olympiakos. And the others followed him. I will write them at the end of the article for the near future, what should remain of the Berlin adventure is that the team left and made a … hole in the water, missed a solid opportunity. On the night Real-Milan played between them, Olympiakos went with a shot and was slammed into the wall.

The five”

Alba’s defense early in the game with the super push and closing the corridors was the first element of the game. Piraeus hardly found a good shot, but even when it happened – rarely – there was no good result. The safest solution was to bring the ball to Fal. They struggled not to give the Greek side an easy shot and they succeeded. Well, once he got the balls, Fal provided the balance if nothing else in scoring. And it seemed that even before the game started, if Olympiacos could put their money anywhere, it was known that it was the “5”.

No matter how good a team Alba is, no matter how brave they are, their players can’t put up with the red middles. Martin came in and continued the Frenchman’s work well. The team had a problem when Bartzokas eliminated the American.

She passed Jean Charles alongside Brindisi, Alba hasn’t been threatened for a long time and without anyone noticing she made a difference. The home side found a rhythm in attack, they broke out in the last minutes of the first part. With a side unable to score on the bench (it started unlucky) from 7′ to the end of the half for Olympiacos and Dorsey but also the two 5-pointers outside it was definitely interesting how that Deck shuffled would attempt to overthrow.

All drowned…

If Bartzokas was right about something, he would at one point shout “this is the level, hold on”. The “Red-Whites” were also a bit more relaxed, I won’t write Brand because it reduces them. But it certainly wasn’t how it should be. The picture improved for a while, but it deteriorated again. and the team, as you can see, was forced to reach the last period and run to … arrive. connected to Vezenkov. Dorsey gave two-point solutions, not three-point solutions. Sloukas suffered from Alba’s pressing defence, the rest of the shorts did little and Martin did best big. But nothing. All drowned. And no one is justified, not for basketball, but for the style they played. Bad night …

One of the problems the team faced was defensive transition. He put in a systematic basket and accepted in a few seconds. The defense didn’t get any psychology and the suffering increased. The magic of Sloukas, of course, was that as soon as he saw that he wasn’t going to get through aggressively as usual due to the limiting defense, he distributed balls and increased his assists. With a bit of stress, the Germans threw the balls from everywhere and they came in!!! If you have it all, you have that too… Check out the stats and arm yourself before you do it.

hard lesson

The worst game for Olympiacos is coming now. Yes, that’s according to the schedule with Panathinaikos, but let’s not forget the postponement with Zalgiris that precedes it. Two games in a few days.

The irrelevant rating would say that the “red-whites” with the two greens are clear favorites. Yes, but we all know how different every match is and especially the one with the eternal opponent. In all sports. And SEF will be crowded, the pressure, the stress, everything will be on the red side. Panathinaikos will be comfortable. If he doesn’t lose a lot, he won’t open his nostrils.

Surely, after the defeat in the Cup, the friends of the “Cloverleaf” will be upset if their team will lose again (if it happens), it will be a third defeat in a row, but I’ll paraphrase it, all the weight will lie in this period on the opposite side and not in green. Now to quartet scenarios, pros and cons, they probably got a hard lesson in Germany. And to end with the title of my article from a week ago. I was wondering: Olympiakos in Belgrade? Find it? Well, you probably don’t say that yet… That right doesn’t exist. Still…