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The three years in decline are definitely in the past and Giannis Fileris writes about the performance of Olympiacos returning to the playoffs with home advantage and anticipation of the final ranking and opponent
A game before fulfilling their regular-season commitments, Olympiacos have fully achieved their goals. Not only is he returning to the playoffs after three years, but he also has home field advantage en route to the Final Four. The seal went to Astrobal in Lyon, against Villeurbanne. Fourth or third will depend on what he will do in his last game, next Friday against Barcelona, but also against Milan in the three upcoming games.
For a team that started with a basic quest to get into the octave, success is a given. Consistently from the first game, he obviously had some ups and downs due to the extreme conditions (coronavirus, people, game postponements etc.), but he was able to stay on top, overcoming hurdles and hurdles. Often he even played quality basketball.
The “Red-Whites” would be in the top four even if the Russian teams played until the end of this season. We remind you that they were denied a win (this one away against Kazan) while they had to face all three clubs at the Peace and Friendship Stadium.
That means 18 wins from four home games (the three against the Russians and one against Barcelona) and the prospect of +20 wins, which based on previous years’ data offered a head start towards the playoffs.
Nothing was donated to this year’s European Olympic Games. Last season, from the very beginning, served to correct mistakes, the team improved its weaknesses, slowly gained the trust of its people and the recognition of opponents. It’s not perfect, but it has some of the aura of the past and it looked boldly to its future, in what has been a great season considering it started without the totem leader of the last decade, Vassilis Spanoulis.
Bartzokas and his players (and of course the administration) are credited with this journey, which is still ongoing, or rather, reaching its climax. The playoffs are coming, an opponent is emerging, maybe European champions Anadolu Efes, maybe Maccabi, or some other surprise. What is certain is that Olympiacos will have the people and power of SEF close by, where so far they have only been beaten by the Red Star and in games with special routines due to the coronavirus and empty stands.
After scoring the first goal completely, he knows that anything more can take him to the Final Four in Belgrade. However, one after the other. Only at the end of the year against champions Barcelona, then the opponent who will emerge in April, the Final Four.
The bottom line is that Olympiacos are regaining their European profile after three years of decline. The club needed him, his people, his people who had almost forgotten what it was like to play and win at your best. The team has been on a winning streak, has returned to the arenas very forcefully and is ready to give it all in the playoffs.
Coincidentally, in 2018, when he last moved into the “8”, the Final Four was held in Belgrade. Opposite him were the wealthy Zalgiris of Sara Jasikevicius, Pangos, Davis and Mitsic, who broke SEF’s seat and qualified for the Final Four. However, those who remember the details do not forget the enormous injury problems that almost decimated him.
Stefan’s son…
The victory that sealed qualification took place in a historic stadium. Villeurbanne HQ, who played against Olympiakos with a special contract composition, has ASVEL… a match cap for the French Cup and quarter-final stage against Gravelin as of today Saturday (26.3). TJ Parker kept some players out of the dozen (some like County and Howard are injured).
Zakari Rizase was also against Olympiakos. French TV cameras captured father Stefan, who wore the Olympiakos shirt for two years 20 years ago, with an average of 11.5 pence and 45% in the three-pointer. An excellent (and very fast) striker, one of the most underrated foreigners of all time for the “Red-Whites”.
His petite son, who scored a corner kick in the first half, is not even 17 years old. He was born on April 8, 2005, he has a lot of talent, and his father was proud of the Astrobal stands. Villeurbanne also had Tony Parker’s brother on the bench, Giannis Antitokoumbo on the floor and Fal… Savior (and namesake).
No worries though with Okobo flying low but the demon Strazel or Germany’s Dylan Ostekowski on alert and former ‘Green’ Reymar Morgan in his first appearance for the year after his long absence through injury, the hosts had 7/13 three-pointers in the first half which caused some problems in the not so strong Olympiacos defence.
At some point, in the first ten minutes, the game actually seemed to end, and the three-pointers rained down. Tyler Dorsey took over the baton from Costas Papanikolaou and together they held the bosses. Olympiakos stayed in the bay but couldn’t get the differences that would give him any hint of victory.
Sloukas broke up with…
Dorsey was on a good night (21p-7p), Vezenkov made another double-double (18p-10p) but the one who put an end to Villeurbanne’s ‘challenge’ was Costas Sloukas. Olympiakos’ defense, without being perfect, had greatly improved by blocking the ball’s movement, hence the free three-point shots.
The international playmaker took charge after a rather ‘mediocre’ first part (0/2tr, 5 assists), put all his points (15), shared four more finishing passes and was the one who finally turned the knob for dominance of his team, that would either easily or hardly achieve victory. Olympiacos eventually secured the away advantage for Belgrade’s Stark Arena.
One such season last year he retired from racing, forced to prepare for the season to come very soon. A year later, he’s ready to make it into the Final Four, he’s won the cup and he’s also thinking about the championship title. Everything is different.
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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!
Source: sport 24
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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“.
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
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