THE Olympic lost the first of the three opportunities he has to qualify for the Euroleague Final Four, with Real Madrid To stay alive and hope for an epic overthrow.
Olympiacos lined up without Evan Fournier and was defeated by Real in Madrid with 80-72 In the third game for the Euroleague playoffs.
The Madrilenes reduced the series to 2-1 and stayed alive in the qualification battle, renewing their appointment with the Piraeus for Thursday night (1/5/2025).
Olympiacos was unable to “wipe” Real as he committed enough easy mistakeswhile they were and particularly misplaced In the second half.
Characteristic is the fact that George Bardzokas’ team scored a total of just 28 points In the second part, failing to find solutions against the Madrilen defense.
At the same time he did Enough errors (ed. 14 in total, 10 in the second part)as a result, Real will overturn the third period and eventually reaching the victory.
Rescued Vezenkov and Goku
George Bardzokas was unlucky to have only two players on a particularly good night. The fixed Sasa Vezenkov, who tried to turn the game on his own in the end and Williams Goku, who was a team alone in the first half, but disappeared in the second.
With Fournier absent, Olympiacos had no third pole in the attack, with the highs losing the battle from Tavares and the rest of the regional staying in the shallow, with the exception of Seyben Lee.
Profit Seyben Lee
The American guard took several time (17 minutes) and was the third double -digit (11) behind Vezenkov (21p) and Goku (17p).
He had 3/4 two -pointers, 1/2 three -pointers and 2/2 shots, and he lowered 4 rebounds, helping Olympiacos a lot as he competed.
On the contrary, the shadow of themselves were Fal and McCisik, who offered nothing to the Piraeus, while Papanikolaou and Milutinov were still in a bad evening, whose presence went unnoticed.
Few things from Vildosa and Peters, while Wokapap, although generally helped the Piraeus, was bad in the last critical minutes, making a major mistake in attack and having 0/2 shots when the ball was burning.