Euro League
Olympiacos wants victories, health and minds
Olympiakos outscored Bayern in the first quarter, losing the other three, but with walkups like this and their ever-steady defense, they were able to get a game they desperately needed. Bartzokas is preparing his team for 2024. Pantelis Diamantopoulos writes.
The win against Bayern was imperative for two reasons. First, a breather in the standings, as the groups with the same records in the standings are starting to grow and Olympiacos has already given some gifts. The second is psychology. No matter how much you believe in yourself, no matter how improved your appearance is, no matter how much they believe in you, it’s a given that validation is needed.
What a good team you are, what goals can you say if you don’t win? And yes, winning the game against Bayern is a must, even if things go downhill within 40 minutes. Because that’s what happened. The port team ended the devil’s week with one loss and one win. Both home games, the lost game against the Madrid Express and the win against the ambitious team from Bavaria.
Pablo Lasso did better than any other year, but that’s also why he was hired. Okay, they don’t have much in common with their otherwise terrorizing soccer team, but the Germans are now struggling to achieve anything in basketball.
That ends up being a mix of some world champions, some players that have come through the NBA, and now there’s also Francisco, who was great in our area last year with the Peristeri jersey and who, if he made a layup at the end had , can it also put more pressure on the red side?
Crashes and dice!
Bayern scores 80 points and eats over 81. Olympiacos had managed to take just… 4 points from the German team in the 8th minute, leading its players down paths Lasso didn’t even expect them to cross would. The little ones fell, Edwards eventually went crazy and started pulling the handbrakes in one-on-all surprises, and the big ones were completely suffocated by the beasts of Olympiacos. It was the most correct and easiest start for Piraeus at this year’s event. It was similar to last year and threw Bayern into… the three-point maelstrom.
The Germans struggled to close, and they did so by shooting well outside the 6.75 meter mark. Even when the two benches started to rotate, Olympiacos Piraeus kept its balance and, above all, I liked that the ball left their hands quickly, which was not only the result of good basketball, but also forced Bayern to stop. The hosts scored 20 very early on, but the guests’ reaction was also appropriate, which brought the half-time difference to twelve…
Crash and Thomas!
Olympiacos Piraeus made this game look easy several times, but the cold truth is that they dismantled Bayern at the start and then lost the second, third and fourth halves by separate points. Maybe some of you think there’s no point in losing three shutout quarters if you’re… confident your opponent doesn’t have the momentum to hurt you, but Bartzokas, who demands perfection and does very well, has that Team caught several times We work under the status of… paratrooper.
The last few minutes went like that too. I can fully support the Red and Whites turning a game into a riot, but Bayern aren’t as bad as many believed at the start of the game. Therefore the difference was collected. First, they are one of the few teams in the competition that jumps at every ball in the rebound zone. They are betrayed by the impulsiveness of the little Americans and especially Francisco and Edwards, but you can never rest with teams like this.
On the other hand, Bayern were an easy case because of Olympiakos’ defensive teeth as long as they insisted on obsessive threes. Larentzakis gave a lot by supporting the Miloutinov-Peters duo. But the player who decided the fate of the game was the one who passed silently to those who didn’t look at the statistics.
Because those who sat down to crunch the numbers easily came to the conclusion that, after a night of non-stop shots against Real, Walkup this time raised the flag of composure and logic by holding the entire team. Until he scored, Papanikolaou had done classically what many understand, and classically what only few understand…
No wisdom
Olympiakos was better from the start and only at the end did it try to beat its world. We gained nothing from this game and in the end it was a victory that, as I wrote in the foreword, was non-negotiable. We didn’t see Petrusev, the team kept the rebounds and shot much better than their opponents.
There are still players who have more to give, like Brazdikis, who kicks the floor very well, but still lacks the psychology to put it in the basket. If Williams-Goss returns, he will give Olympiakos his organizational basketball again, and there is also curiosity about how Barzokas will use Mitrou-Long in the EuroLeague in the new year. Because that’s what the coach expects. In 2024 he should find his players healthy and with brains in their heads…
In and out again…adventure!
The next European commitment will find Olympiacos again in SEF. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, the team has played enough home games. That’s true, but it’s all out by the end of ’23, and think that the following week will be double, just like the first week of ’24 will be double, when the world will see Olympiakos in SEF again .
Maybe the next time the Piraeus team meets with their own people, they will have all their players healthy and ready to fight. Because let’s not forget: no matter what was done, no matter what we said, it all happened with an Olympiacos who never fully trained. It’s not an excuse, it’s a fact…
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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