Euro League
Fenerbahce – Olympiakos 94-80: sick and frivolous
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Patient in the first half, disappointing in the second, Olympiakos paid for the nine mistakes in the third period and lost to Fenerbahce in Istanbul (94:80). Bartzokas was sent off and McKissick was injured.
The 19 days without a game, the 19 days with coronavirus cases, quarantines, endurance tests and medical examinations shaped Olympiacos, who played against Fenerbahce (94-80) in Istanbul on Tuesday evening (November 1st) for the 20th game of the EuroLeague.
Piraeus fell to 12-6, lined up completely in the Ulker sports hall, they were in control in the first part, but in the second part they made a lot of mistakes and collapsed. They lost their coach early on, as George Bartzokas was sent off with two technical penalties in the same phase, they also lost Sakil McKissick, who hit his knee in a fall to the ground and was ultimately out of breath with few in good shape. Costas Sloukas, Costas Papanikolaou and George Printezis.
Fenerbahce went on 8-10 and tried to fit the octave. It covered the absences of his two top players Nando de Colo and Jan Veseli, it covered the gap of Marial Sayok and that of Danilo Bartel and to see result with the quartet of Pieria Henry, Dyson Pierre, Achilles Polonare, Devin Pejo, Devo with more optimism the continuation of the period.
The MVP
Great match by Pieria Henry and don’t let the statistics tell you everything. The American Guard was great at defense, he did acrobatic hoops, he had 11 points (4/4 two points, 3/3 shots), he got three rebounds, he shared eight assists and stole a ball, all in less than 27 minutes. Pierre, Polonara, Booker, Guduric and even Mahmutoglu all set their own stone, but it all started and ended with Henry making the difference on both sides of the floor.
The weak link
A bad night for Tyler Dorsey, who continues to have ups and downs in his performance. The guard living abroad scored 14 points (0/3 two points, 4/7 three points, 2/2 shots), had two assists for 7 mistakes (!). His teammates tried hard to help him find the rhythm, which he did not offer Piraeus. In the final, when everything was counted and he should have more consistency in general, he put down two more shots.
The statistics that stood out
The two teams closed with 2/12 three points in the first ten minutes (1/6 each), while Printezis made the difference with six points in 2:32 at the end of the season. At halftime, the red-whites had 10 points from Fenerbahce’s mistake, they had only made three, but their big problem was returning to the defense, as the hosts had taken 12 points against only two of their own in the surprise. Everything changed in the third period when Olympiakos made NINE mistakes, giving 14 points to Fenerbahce, who finished the forty minutes with 15/29 threes and 27 final passes for 12 mistakes. The points in the surprise were 21-5, the points from mistakes made by the opponent were 23-12.
The race
Olympiakos opened the game with their classic five (Wookup, Dorsey, Papanikolaou, Vezenkov, Fal), with their main striker in the role of creator and their main center finishing the phases under the basket with 6-7 in the fifth minute. Nevertheless, the big attacks did not justify the Piraeus, which was clumsy in half of the field, they held on to seven points until the eighth minute, but also saw the hosts from the periphery very out of place. The red-and-whites’ good time was at the end of the season, with Printezis helping significantly and making the Fenerbahce fans groan against the referees at 11:17.
The Olympiacos captain did a great job and at the start of the second period when the Turks were trying to get the momentum from the intensity of their world he scored a three for 20-22 in 12 ‘, adding another for 22 -25, after McKissick previously went to the bench with a knee injury. A little later, 2:56 before half-time, Bartzokas was punished with technical penalties in a row and sent off. Mahmutoglou shot and scored 36:32, but Olympiakos stood, immediately ran a 5-0 streak and ended the first half three points clear with just three mistakes and 10 points from seven of their opponents.
After Booker and Polonara met in shots from the periphery, Fenerbahce ran 14: 5 in four minutes at the beginning of the second half, but Olympiakos kept his composure and with Dorsey – Papanikolaou not only let the difference to escape, but also got the lead ( 52-50) with a series of 8-0. The red-whites’ problem now were the slight mistakes, they had made six in eight minutes and nine in the period (66-59) to accept 14 points while not using the fouls properly, leaving Pierre the ten minutes with a three point for +7.
The +14 (74-59) of Birsen’s three at the beginning of the fourth and beyond that the task of Olympiacos was not only difficult, but a little more. The hosts were in full control, they had the psychology and with the threesome of Mahmutogloustos 36 ‘(82-65) they wrote the end of a night where they were simply superior.
THE REFEREES: Perez, Lotermoser, Rossi
THE TEN MINUTES: 11-17, 36-39, 66-59, 94-80
Fenerbahce (Djordjevic): Birsen 5 (1), Hazer 5 (1), Akpinar 1, Mahmutoglou 17 (4/5 three points, 5/5 shots), Henry 11 (4/4 two points, 3/3 shots, 3 rebounds , 8 assists), Pierre 14 (4/8 two points, 2/4 three points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists), Gooduric 11 (2), Floyd 2, Booker 12 (3/5 two points, 2/4 three points , 6 rebounds, 5 assists), Polonara 15 (3/3 two points, 3/6 three points, 7 rebounds), Duverioglou 1
OLYMPIC (Bartzokas): Wookup 5 (1), Dorsey 14 (0/3 two points, 4/7 three points, 2/2 shots, 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 7 mistakes), Larentzakis, Fal 6 (3/3 two points ), Sloukas 14 (1/4 two points, 2/4 three points, 6/7 shots, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals), Martin 10 (4/4 two points, 2/2 shots), Vezenkov 5 ( 1/2 two points, 1/2 three points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists), Printezis 12 (2/4 two points, 2/2 three points, 2/2 shots), Papanikolaou 12 (2/2 two points, 2 / 5 three points, 2/2 shots, 4 assists, 2 steals), McKissick 2
Fenerbahce team statistics: 19/33 two points, 15/29 three points, 11/13 shots, 28 rebounds (24 defensive – 4 offensive), 27 assists, 9 steals, 2 blocks, 12 errors
The Olympiacos team statistics: 15/26 two points, 12/27 three points, 14/15 shots, 26 rebounds (24 defensive – 2 offensive), 20 assists, 7 steals, 5 blocks, 15 errors
The next games of the two teams: Fenerbahce and Olympiakos will not play in the 21st game as Alba and Zenit have a significant spread of the coronavirus leading to the games being postponed.
Source: sport24
Jessica Martinez is an author at Sportish, a publication dedicated to sports news and analysis. She covers various topics related to sports and provides insightful commentary on the latest developments in the world of sports.
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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