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Five straight wins for Olympiakos, who also got past Maccabi Tel Aviv (94-91) with another good performance from Evan Fournier and the decisive players Vezenkov – Milutinov.
Olympiacos celebrated its fifth consecutive victory in the EuroLeague on Thursday night (14/11), beating Maccabi Tel Aviv 94-91 at Hala Pionir in Belgrade for the 10th game of the competition.
Piraeus went up to 7-3 (5-0 at home and 2-3 away), who saw the duo Fournier – Vezenkov doing a great job and Vildosa – Milutinov supporting them. The Piraeus were fully attacking in the first quarter, ineffective in defense and attack in the second, spacey in the third and cool in the fourth when a lot went against them, as a result of which they got another devil’s week with 2/2.
Maccabi Tel Aviv fell to 3-7 (3-2 at home and 0-5 away), with Jalen Hord making a breakthrough in scoring near the basket, Levi Randolph outdoing himself, but Saben Lee, Roman Sorkin, Rokas Yokubaitis, Tamir Blat to stay in shallow water. Oded Katas is missing Hasiel Rivero, with the Israelis in the market for a tall, possibly even a short as a surprise move should not be ruled out.
The MVP
Fournier – Vezenkov deserve to share the prize of the most valuable of the evening. The French kept Olympiakos, the Bulgarian cleaned up with his shots, from close range and Milutinov who reached the double-double and confirmed his upward trajectory again. These three stood out from Olympiakos, in another crazy night in the EuroLeague.
The stats that stood out
Olympiacos closed the first period with 8 assists without a mistake, while also scoring seven points from second chances. At halftime, Maccabi shot 82% on two-pointers (18/22), as the Piraeus team found one final pass for five mistakes in the second quarter. In the second half, the hosts had 9/25 two-pointers, with Olympiakos closing the forty minutes with 67% on two-pointers and 85% on shots. 19-8 the points on surprise, 21-15 the points from the opponent’s mistakes, 14-12 the points from second chances (offensive rebounds) for the two teams.
The fight
With Walkup, Vildosa, Fournier, Vezenkov, Fal, Olympiacos opened the match, amazingly circulating the ball and building an eight-point lead (2-10) after just two minutes. Vezenkov had no opponent, he reached 11 points for 12-20 in the sixth minute, Barzokas opened the rotation and if the defense had been a little tougher, the end of the period would have found the Piraeus at a greater distance than +5 (24 -29) that flattered DeJulius’ Maccabi (7 points).
The hosts gnawed away at the difference and cut to the basket (31-33) early in the second period, with Olympiacos responding with a short run and going to +7 with a goal-foul by Dorsey. And yet, while everything was looking positive for the Piraeus, Maccabi increased the intensity and pressure on the ball, scored in bursts in the surprise and with Hord’s goal-foul, built a six-point lead (44-38 at 17′). It went to +12 (53-41), before McKissick closed the first half with a shot for 53-42.
Olympiacos didn’t start well in the second half, but Vildosa with a three-pointer and Fournier with a goal-foul reduced the lead from 13 to seven (59-52 at 24′) and to four (59-55 at 25′) and to a point (61- 60 at 27′) with a three-pointer by the Frenchman from the top. He put Olympiakos ahead with shots, with Williams-Goss scoring on a breakaway to make it 63-70 in the 29th minute. In seven minutes, the Piraeus team ran ahead 6-26, felt better and now had complete control of the game.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Hord was down to five (69-74) and Randolph to three (71-74), but Olympiacos had answers again. Even if Maccabi stayed around his neck. Bartjoks went three-pointer at 35′, Williams-Goss made a foul shot for 76-81, Fournier came back at 37′ to make a three-pointer for 81-85, Williams-Goss made another for 83 -88, Maccabi came back once more (88-90 on Sorkin’s shot), before Vezhenkov went 2/2 for 88-92 and cleaned up as Shaben Lee missed a tying 3-pointer against Milutinov.
THE REFEREES: Belosevic, Aliaga, Obrknezevic
THE DECADES: 24-29, 53-42, 63-70, 91-94
MACCABI TEL AVIV (Katas): Hord 20 (8/8 2-pointers, 4/4 shots, 4 rebounds, 3 steals), Lee 4 (2/6 shots), Sorkin 13 (1/5 2-pointers, 2/3 3-pointers, 5/6 shots ), Rayman 6 (1), DiBartolomeo, Cohen, Randolph 15 (4/5 2-pointers, 1/2 3-pointers, 4/4 shots, 5 rebounds), Gabriel 6 (3/9 shots), Yokubaitis 8 (4/6 2-pointers , 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals), Blatt 12 (2/4 2-pointers, 2/5 3-pointers, 2/2 shots, 4 rebounds, 8 assists), DeJulius 7 (2/5 2-pointers, 1/3 3-pointers)
OLYMPIC (Bartzokas): Walkup 2 (1/6 shooting, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 1 block, 2 turnovers), Williams-Goss 10 (3/6 2-pointers, 1/4 3-pointers, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals), Vildosa 10 (2/2 2-pointers, 2/7 3-pointers, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals), Vezhenkov 21 (4/5 2-pointers, 1/2 3-pointers, 10/11 shots, 4 rebounds, 2 assists) , Papanikolaou 5 (1), Dorsey 3, Peters 2, Milutinov 11 (4/5 2-pointers, 3/4 shots, 8 rebounds), McKissick 2, Fournier 20 (4/5 2-pointers, 3/7 3-pointers, 3/3 shots , 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 4 fouls)
The team statistics of Maccabi Tel Aviv: 27/47 2-pointers, 7/21 3-pointers, 16/19 shots, 34 rebounds (21 defensive – 13 offensive), 17 assists, 12 steals, 3 blocks, 14 turnovers, 23 fouls
The team statistics of Olympiakos: 24/36 2-pointers, 8/27 3-pointers, 22/26 shots, 34 rebounds (23 defensive – 11 offensive), 18 assists, 7 steals, 4 blocks, 14 turnovers
The next games of the two teams: In the 11th matchday, Olympiacos will welcome Baskonia (21/11 at 21:30), while Maccabi will play in Milan against Armani (21/11 at 21:30).
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