Euro League
Olympiakos, April Fool’s Day and Belgrade
Olympiakos sets the afterword of their qualification (with home advantage) in the Euroleague play-offs tonight and Vassilis Skoundis unfolds the tangle of all his dealings.
I’m not careful but because most athletes and coaches are obsessed with luck and luck, today I have an extra for Olympiacos!
So today is April Fool’s Day and on such a day 14 years ago, in the Euroleague, Piraeus achieved one of the greatest victories in its history: in fact, the greatest that went wrong !!!
It wasn’t a joke, but that’s how it ended after a few days…
In the first game of the playoff series, Olympiakos, playing at home disadvantage, defeated Moscow 76-74 thanks to a Lynn Greer buzzer-beater, but then suffered two losses and was left out against Nymphon…
“Please don’t break my principles”
There’s also a cunning story from the third race that I’ve rewritten, but I’m repeating it because it has its nonsense…
After the end of the third game and while Messina was mourning the death of his brother, who was also his… Batzanakis since they were married to two sisters, his colleague Giannis Lampiris (of “NEA”) had the good idea of killing him wondering how he feels if he won’t face Zeljko Obradovic in the Madrid Final Four because Panathinaikos didn’t even qualify for the playoffs this season…
Hector glared at him and, being known for his athyrostomy, told him a heavy talk…
“I’m enjoying a great success and that’s what you’re asking me now? bow @@@ a“.
In the end, Lampiris turned out to have asked a key question, as the now-award-winning Messina said it himself in the press conference after the final in Madrid…
“My wife Laura, when we sit at home in the evening and talk, she tells me that I’m a good coach, but Obradovic is better! I have to agree with her because yes, I have more wins in our games, but.” I lose until the final”.
It seems that Messina then saw in his crystal ball what would happen (and did) in Berlin after a year.
The result of the disaster
On April 1, 2008, Olympiakos shocked the eventual European champions (Madrid) and today, April 2022, his Tsarouchia seals the qualification for the playoffs with a home field advantage…
Here are two prisms under which to feel Olympiacos’ performance: one has a historical texture and the other is based on statistics…
The reason why Olympiacos qualified by home advantage is so historic because it restores and repairs our historic disaster of last year!
I mean that because in the 2020-21 season, the Greek basketball nation suffered disaster for the first time in 29 years and we have been conspicuous by our absence in all seasons where the playoff formula is used.
A prisoner, then…
The throne of Kelemegdan and the demons
Statistics don’t always tell the truth, except that Americans (who invented and even marketed them) consider them the most scientific way to lie!
In any case, Olympiakos marks its eleventh qualification for the Final Four and therefore expects to travel all the way and reach the throne that will be erected in Kelemegdan!
His desire to achieve the same goal in April 2018 didn’t materialize, let’s look at, among others, two guys who now belong to his current opponent (Barcelona): Saronas Jasikevicius and Brandon Davis, who went to Barcelona as a package from Kaunas…
Incidentally, there are two Olympiacos players who ‘survived’ this ineffective operation: Giorgos Printezis, who had injections to ease the pain in his calluses this series, and Costas Papanikolaou.
Total playoffs
Of those ten qualifiers in the Final Four, Olympiacos reached seven with home advantage and all three with one disadvantage: in fact, of course, the first are eight and the second four!
How is that explained? Due to the formula in force at the time, the three European champions had to go through two playoff rounds in two cases.
So here it is – give it to them in the playoffs χρον
The seven qualifiers with home advantage
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1994, Tel Aviv (finalist): Olympiacos-Buckler Bologna 2-1
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1995, Zaragoza (finalist): Olympiakos – CSKA Moscow 2-1
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1999, Munich (3or): Olympiacos 2-0 Varese and Olympiacos 2-0 Villeurbanne
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2009 Berlin (4or): Olympiacos – Real Madrid 3-1
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2010, Paris (finalist): Olympiacos-Prokom 3-1
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2013, London (Champions): Olympiacos-Efes Pilsen 3-2
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2017, Istanbul (finalist): Olympiakos – Efes Pilsen 3:2
The three qualifiers with a home disadvantage
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1997, Rome (champions): Partizan Belgrade 1-2 Olympiakos, Panathinaikos 0-2 Olympiakos
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2012, Istanbul (Champions): Montepaschi Siena-Olympiacos 1-3
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2015, Madrid (finalist): Barcelona-Olympiakos 1-3
In addition to their ten appearances, the Reds and Whites have qualified eleven more times via the playoffs for the Final Four or a series of Euroleague finals (2001):
Here are their results at this point:
The four exclusions with home advantage
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1998 (Barcelona): Olympiakos-Partizan Belgrade 0-2
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2001 (best of five final): Olympiakos 2-0 Verona, Olympiakos Taugres 0-2
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2011 (Barcelona): Olympiakos – Montepaschi Siena 1-3
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2018 (Belgrade): Olympiakos – Zalgiris Kaunas 1-3
The seven home disadvantage exclusions
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1993 (SEF): Limoges 2-1 Olympiacos
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1996 (Paris): Real Madrid 2-1 Olympiacos
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2000 (Pylaia): Olympia Ljubljana 2-1 Olympiacos
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2006 (Prague): Maccabi Tel Aviv – Olympiakos 2-1
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2007 (OAKA): Taugres 2-0 Olympiacos
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2008 (Madrid): CSKA Moscow – Olympiakos 2-1
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2014 (Milan): Real Madrid – Olympiacos 3-2
The headquarters and the case with Siena
There is (no) moral lesson in this story: I put the negative particle in parentheses because home field advantage is a strong advantage, but not the whole, while disadvantage in turn is not an insurmountable obstacle.
This was evident in the 2010/11 season when Piraeus beat Siena 89-48 in the first game but suffered three multiple defeats on the cover and the dreams turned into nightmares!
At least, considering that Olympiacos are back in the elite of the octave after four years and have been at it for 22 yearsthe For once in his history, he realizes the wise meaning of this French proverb that says “Rome wasn’t built in a day”!
Not even Belgrade was built in one day
In fact, it took Rome and Romulus longer to build what could be called the “eternal” city, but the people of Piraeus know full well that Singidunum wasn’t built in a day either…
What is that again? The ancient chromed name of Belgrade that Olympiakos is building (again) four years ago!
He didn’t like it in 2018 when he tagged it, but he saw Zalgiris Kaunas grab his qualifier and grab it, as they say in my village, for the second time, hoping he’ll make it, after all, barring this achievement before trouble it needs a way!
As I wrote in the foreword, statistics do not always tell the truth and traditions do not speak for the future: what is certain is that Olympiacos will be rewarded for its efforts and, among other things, will see its objectives upgraded.. .
I mean that because while his initial ambition was to qualify for the playoffs, he’s accomplished that with home field advantage and can push for more reserves and shape his dreams…
Source: sport 24
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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
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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