Euro League
Olympiacos spends his life in the EuroLeague and drowns in mistakes
Fener’s lesson didn’t become a lesson for Olympiakos and Giannis Fileris writes about the guns wasted by the ‘Red-Whites’, the identical way the defense was defeated, the many mistakes and the lack of reaction when Maccabi passed the goal. The EuroLeague is tough and doesn’t forgive, on the contrary, it exposes.
Olympiacos seems to spend their lives on the way to the Euroleague playoffs. The two back-to-back defeats in match chances (to the decimated Fener and the coronavirus-stricken Maccabi a few days ago) should normally ring the bells of the Diocese of Piraeus or Evangelistria, which is even closer to SEF. If you go to matches with that mentality, he’s not going to be lucky enough to win. His style doesn’t suit him either, much more the constant mistakes he made in Tel Aviv, both in the preparation and in the handling of the match with Maccabi.
The match with Fener should be a lesson. Probably nobody saw the video. Even when they saw it, they didn’t pay much attention to it. Maccabi hit the middle of the Olympic racquet in much the same way, having first…changed his own game. Perhaps it did her good to play in the white anniversary jerseys and leave the yellow ones in the dressing room for a night.
Giannis Sfeiropoulos, of course, also had to hold off Scotty Wilbekin, who usually takes the ball and… suffers until the final pick (usually his own difficult shot).
Punishment in Transition
Both he and the rest of Maccabi’s guards were careful to punish the changes in Olympiakos’ defense by allowing Fal to come out no matter what. The direct pass to the big one, that is Andrija Zizic, who scored 23 points (one less than his personal record) in an orgy night and lost only two shots out of 12 he attempted.
It’s not that the Croatian defeated Mustafa Fal, it’s a question of whether he scored two or three against the Frenchman (but he fouled him). Most of the damage was done when he won all stages of Miss matches with his closest opponents. And when Olympiacos’ defense didn’t change, Maccabi punished almost any help. The goal was clear. Fal’s huge body was not supposed to be present in the Israeli team’s indoor shooting racket.
To achieve this, Sfeiropoulos even kept Wilbekin on the bench so the others could pass the ball inside. When Jean Charles went down, Maccabi’s coach threw Zizic back in the match and aimed squarely at the soft Frenchman. Maccabi, ahead by goal difference at half-time, had scored two points 12/17.
Wookup’s three at the start of the replay gave Olympiakos the lead for the final time (41-40). What followed has no explanation. The “Red-Whites” were completely deregulated, Zizic did exactly the same, Evans found two long shots and a 12-2 series from the hosts, with the difference going to +9, the game was practically over.
Olympiacos’ tradition, its mistakes (15 in total) made an even bigger impression as the team seemed to play without a background. Bartzokas, who acknowledged the overall very poor performance, yelled “we have to play defensively, we won’t win the game by attacking”, but on the ground you could see nervousness and accidental mistakes. Maccabi escaped, going to +19 and winning very comfortably, breaking his ugly streak as it counted eight losses in a row and had to win from November 17 (95-84 Monaco).
The worst thing is that Olympiakos didn’t even manage to find solutions aggressively in the second half. The only threat seemed to be Fal, Papanikolaou who started with 7 lost points in a row, Vezenkov hesitated, Wokap and Dorsey were limping, nobody could get the team over him. Sloukas went to do something when he came over (probably late) and was caught afterwards while Printezis came back in while everything had been judged. And yet he had played very well in the comparatively better ten minutes of Olympiacos (second) in the match.
The Euroleague does not primarily forgive mistakes
The Euroleague is difficult because you have to be in the red every week. Mistakes are not forgiven. Olympiakos had made five at the end of the first period. He’s made six in the second period with Fener. “Style” is also not assigned. The “Red-Whites” who defeated Panathinaikos at Christmas matched the 12 wins in the first round, but… they got nothing. They haven’t won a title, nor can they face their opponents without the flame and spirit to play well, at least where spirit counts most. For defense.
Olympiakos now has only two games left…no defense plays. He accepts the basket very easily and, among other things, seems unable to react. The organization is very demanding, it doesn’t take long for a good course to go awry and the tribulation to begin. Olympiacos spends his life (as in electronic games) and needs to recover quickly to make new excesses, because among other things, a very difficult program awaits him in a series of games in March, which can decide the fate of the final ranking.
With 12-7 now, Olympiacos looks to Armani to have the same wins but with one game less (playing with CSKA today) and three more (Kazan, CSKA, Zenit) to have the same record. He still has the advantage over Kazan and Milan, who won away, but he still can’t take anything for granted, especially when he loses away as easily as happened in Istanbul and Tel Aviv.
With the exception of the Real-Barcelona duo (we will call the Madrilenians favourites), the other ten teams are gearing up for a tough battle to complete the eight of the playoffs. So it’s good not to lose cannons so easily that you would like at the crucial moment . The fact that Olympiacos were not at a disadvantage, that they can endure these two bad performances in a row, is due to the good course of the first round. In order not to lose oil, he has to remind himself very quickly, starting with the next game at SEF, against the Red Star.
And something else. Nervous moments also appeared on television. It’s reasonable to say that when everything goes wrong on a night, the pulses are in the red, sometimes you get away with it. Here it’s a question of technical leadership, curbing egos and reminding that the team was not admired for performance on an individual level, but for the overall performance when playing for each other.
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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