Whether you like it or not, Thomas Walkup does my Saturdays!

A week ago, after Olympiakos’ victory over Bayern, I came across a statement from him that represents the quintessence of sportsmanship at this high levelOh, before you call me Alektra, here you are in my frame again…

This time, of course, his statement had nothing to do with a victory, but with a defeat, which in my opinion is the worst of the seven that Piraeus has experienced so far, and perhaps it will even be recorded as the worst of all that is to come. Suffering in the current season!

We’re talking about a terrible defeat!

The wreck and the trouble

What did Thomas Vakopoulos say yesterday?

It simply highlighted the value of rallying and the need for immediate regrouping so Olympiacos can avoid failure!

Now that I think about it, last evening at the Peace and Friendship Stadium turned into a competition full of jokes…

I of course exclude the racist abuse of the referee Joseph Bisang by the… nameless one from the stands, which has already caused difficulties for the three European champions, who are trying by all means to resolve the matter so that they do not pay dearly . She.

That’s what we say: Mariori has everything, she was missing her Feretzes!

Olympiacos sighs in the maternity wards!

There is no shortage of genitals at Olympiakos either, and Giorgos Bartzokas confessed to this suffering at the press conference last night.

Although his statement could be misunderstood and blamed on him by the vengeful and alleged moralists of the internet, I completely understand him and already share his outburst…

Hell, it’s truly paradoxical that it’s a recurring coincidence that three of his players (Nigel Williams-Goss, Mustafa Fal, Alec Peters) give birth within two and a half months of each other and go to the maternity ward at dawn instead of on the pitch !

Just kidding, apart from the other sponsors, Olympiakos can also enter into an agreement with “Iaso”, “Mother” or “Rea”!

“Dad, don’t be born again on Friday”!

Of course it is good that the fathers who give birth and the mothers who tickle their newborn children are also in good health, but so many births together is a case in point!

Here, too, it is good that Kostas Papanikolaou became a father on August 15th and only traveled to Abu Dhabi (for the national team’s two friendly games) late, otherwise the Olympiacos coach would have lost track…

Here too, the title of the black comedy by Alexandros Rigas and Dimitris Apostolos can be distorted and said: Bartzokas in the role of the director, instead of ““Dad, don’t die on Friday again”to shoot another version of her…

“Dad, don’t be born again on Friday.”!!!

Roosters and Whites Crows of the Poet Fanfare!

Unlike the players, Barzokas was not born yesterday by his roosters, but as a result of the evening his crows were born!

I also mix in the crows, influenced by the edification of the great actor Giorgos Michalakopoulos, who appeared in the film “Wake up Santa Claus“, who embodies the poet Timoleon Fanfaras, recites a poem that has left a deep mark on the collective cinematic memory…

“Black crows, red crows, what do black and red crows mean?”!

In this case, the White Crows of Valencia predicted Olympiacos’ seventh defeat in a 14-game cluster and fourth against a Spanish team at home!

4:0, 0:4 and the dripper

Barcelona, ​​​​Baskonia, Real and Valencia lost the SEF in turn and even got their blood back because Olympiacos Piraeus saw all four in their seats last season!

I mean what I wrote earlier about the who and the nature of the defeat, because it is one of those that should never happen to you!

Olympiacos was defeated -7 in a game where opponents scored 63 points but only scored 56!

Either way, his productivity this season is filtered through the droppers and yesterday, when he went under 60 for the second time (like in Milan, 53-65), his defensive efficiency wasn’t enough to shoulder that.

The Red-Whites played without their top scorer (Alec Peters), but Valencia also appeared absent and with an emergency squad…

The identity of Valencia and the armor of Mubru

Leading scorers Semi Ojelei, Jared Harper and Xabi López-Arostegui were missing, but the so-called Neo Faliro carried the all-but-false identity of the EuroLeague’s top defense, averaging 74.1 passive points.

It may be that Valencia, which (like Sevilla in the football Europa League) has the EuroCup titles for breakfast (four in six finals), never managed to qualify for the final four of the competition, but in the In recent years it has always shown that a virtue that brings trouble to all its opponents …

Under Bojan Dubljevic and coached by Jaume Ponsarnau, they were considered the team with the most assists and the best distance in the EuroLeague in recent years, but Alex Moubru has now given them impenetrable defensive armor.

Papanikolaou’s cynicism, Laziness and provocation

Their bulletproof costume could not be pierced yesterday by Olympiacos, who – as Kostas Papanikolaou also cynically pointed out – “not overcrowded with attacking talent”.

So two things: Olympiakos’ offensive weakness and Valencia’s defensive ability…

As if these given conditions were not enough, the Piraeus had other problems yesterday: they seemed listless, they developed slowly, they lacked liveliness, they never found a rhythm that suited them, they gave more to dribbling and passing out and less on straights and threats to the basket and, aside from a few lengthy picks, had low shooting percentages.

To add a more sophisticated and specialized touch that Katsikaris gave to the NOVA post-match show, Olympiacos also failed to score any points and therefore failed to score on close attacks and even against a defense that closed in on the inside of the stick and relentlessly provoked the hosts to do so Score points by shooting from outside.

Mark and read

Fotis’ observations are always important, apart from the fact that he knows well the reasoning and now the coaching philosophy of Moubro, who was one of his first boys in Bilbao for three seasons (2020-2013).

I’m not saying that Bartzokas was unread, but the so-called was well-read and weighed all the obvious or disguised weaknesses of Olympiakos for the glory of his homeland: he broke the executions of Isaiah Kanaan, set traps for Nikola Milutinov, marked the slow feet of Luke Sikma and it doesn’t fit together…

From my perspective, as Valencia asserted their game, it seemed that Olympiacos needed a spectacular win to change the course of history. When Papanikolaou reduced the difference to -5 (53-58) with a three-pointer, they had great success in narrowing the time horizon.

The voices of Fundedakis and the whiskeys from Giatzoglou

With the exception of Walkup and Papanikolaou, Olympiakos Piraeus had no foundation in their game and – just to joke a little – in the end their most lively player was the renowned presenter Michael Fundedakis!

He shouted as always:Let us all go together, let us go with our voices.”but it turned out that it appealed to unhearing ears!

At the end of the evening, when the score was 56:63, Olympiacos, after defeating Bayern, found themselves once again in the… tough and forbidden situation and now had to submit to a double suicide mission, on Tuesday in Bologna and on Friday in Lyon.

These things happen as long as they don’t happen often, often, repeatedly…

It happens and whoever… bathes has to keep cool and (everyone) Bartzokas can use the tactics of Steve Giatzoglou, who wrote his own history at Olympiakos, both as a player and as a coach…

When Aris was defeated by Olympiakos in Alexandrio in January 2021 in a shootout and also in an ugly game with a score of 55-54, the then coach of “Emperor” was asked how he would react and he gave an epic answer. .

“I’m upset, but what can I do? I’ll drink a few whiskeys in the evening to drown out my pain, see some nice girls and I’ll be back on the pitch tomorrow.”!