Olympiacos did not bring them at the end of the extra time
Olympiakos suffered a 79-78 defeat in overtime from Barcelona to Barcelona for the 3rd game of the Euroleague.
The hosts had serious problems in their attack, due to the pressure, with Larentzakis equalizing (61-61), at 2:30 ” before the end. From that point on, Mirotic kept the “blaugrana”, but Vezenkov put them again in front of Piraeus (65-67), at 1:10 ”.
Then, Kuric made 2/2 shots, with Slouka and Higgins failing from both sides and thus the match leads to extra time with the score at 67-67.
Until the middle of the extra five minutes the two teams were together (69-70), but then Olympiakos was unlucky, with Mirotitsos on the other hand he was not “hot” and did not send Barcelona to +5 (75-70), at 43 ‘.
With McKissick and Slouka, the “red and whites” reduced to the point (75-74), with both teams scoring mainly shots later, but the Piraeus to make a defense and Dorsey to put them in front of the line (77 – 78), at 22 ” before the end.
Then, Higgins failed, with Oriola getting the rebound and the foul and with 2/2 making it 79-78, at 7.6 ”. In the last attack, Sloukas missed and so Olympiakos suffered a defeat.
The quarters: 10-17, 27-32, 55-47, 67-67 (etc.), 79-78
BARCELONA (Yasikevicius): Davis 10 (5/10 two points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists), Martinez, Smith, Hayes 2, Oriola 7 (1/1 two points, 1/1 three points, 2/2 shots), Laprovitola 7 (1 / 4 three points), Higgins 11 (3/9 two points, 1/1 three points, 2/2 shots, Kuric 9 (1), Mirotic 22 (5/11 two points, 1/4 three points, 9/10 shots, 6 rebounds, 2 assists), Kalathis 9 (3/7 two points, 0/3 three points, 3/4 shots, 13 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals, 1 foul)
OLYMPIAKOS (Bartzokas): Wookup 6 (2/3 two points, 0/2 three points, 2/2 shots, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 errors), Dorsey 12 (0/2 two points, 2/5 three points, 6/7 shots ), Larentzakis 6 (0/4 two points, 2/5 three points), Fal 11 (4/6 two points, 3/5 shots, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 4 errors), Martin 2 (0/3 two points, 2/2 shots, 4 rebounds), Vezenkov 12 (4/6 two points, 1/3 three points, 1/2 shots, 5 rebounds, 2 assists), Printezis, Papanikolaou (0/1 two points, 0/2 three points, 4 rebounds), Jean -Charles 5 (2/2 two points, 1/1 shot), McKissick 10 (4/7 two points, 0/3 three points, 2/2 shots, 5 rebounds, 2 assists)
Andreas Chanias