THE Olympic She showed suicide tendencies in Berlin, but in the finale she showed character and dominated Alba with 100-92 for her 33rd match Euroleague. Piraeus returned to victories, after three consecutive defeats, climbed to the top of the rankings again and will hardly lose first place in the regular season.
Olympiacos found big differences ahead, but he made them … the sea at the beginning of the fourth period and saw Alba Berlin take the lead shortly before the final.
The terrible Alec Peters was, however, the one who spoke in the end, giving the victory to George Bardzokas’ team. The American forward put the big shots, scored critical shots and saved the Piraeus from the defeat.
The amazing Peters made a career record with 33 points, having 8/9 three -pointers.
But Williams Goku was also terrible, who lifted the red -white region on his own, completing the match with 22 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds.
In terms of losers, Wetzel stood out, who took advantage of Piraeus’ absences on the racket and scored 19 points.
On 23-10 the Reds (12-4 in and 11-6 away) went up, who need either a victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv (11/4 at 21:15), or Fenerbahce’s defeat in Munich to complete the regular season at the top.
Alba (3-14 inside and 2-14 home) fell 5-28, which is likely to play its last home game at EuroLeague. The Berlin team seems to be not in the next period.
Concerning the evolution of the race, Olympiacos had total control of the match until the mid -term. It was preceded by 20 points differences and seemed to party in Berlin.
However, Alba reacted, skipped the difference and managed to get ahead of the score. At that point, Peters came forward again with big three-pointers, making it 90-92 in the final seconds.
The Piraeus played all the big defenses in the end, were apt in the shots (6/6 from Lee, Peters and Goku) and reached the victory.
The ten minutes: 17-36, 46-61, 73-80, 92-100.
Alba Berlin (Cags): Spring 12 (2/3 two-pointers, 1/3 three-pointers, 5/7 shots), Wetzel 19 (9/12 two-pointers, 6 rebounds), Derlou 3 (1/6 shoots), MacDuel-Weete 7 (2/3 two-pointers, 1/6 three-pointers) rebound), Thomas 12 (3/5 two -pointers, 2/4 three -pointers), Hermanson 6 (3/8 two -pointers, 10 assists, 4 errors), Oldi 5 (1), Baker 6 (2), McCROMAG 8 (2/3 two -pointers, 4/4 shots), bin 7 (1 three)
OLYMPIC (Bartzokas): Williams-Gos 22 (4/8 two-pointers, 2/3 three-pointers, 8/9 shots, 5 rebounds, 7 assists), Wright 8 (3/4 two-pointers, 3 rebounds), Mitrou-Long, Larentzakis 8 steals), Vezenkov 18 (5/8 two -pointers, 2/8 three -pointers, 2/2 shots, 7 rebounds, 2 assists), Papanikolaou 4 (0/4 three -pointers, 2/2 shots, 5 rebounds, 5 assists), Peters 33 (2/3 two -pointers, 8/9)
Alba Berlin group statistics: 26/41 two -pointers, 10/29 three -pointers, 10/12 shots, 33 rebounds (20 defenses – 13 offensive), 27 assists, 4 steals, 2 blocks, 13 errors, 24 fouls.
Olympic team statistics: 17/27 two -pointers, 14/30 three -pointers, 24/26 shots, 28 rebounds (20 defenses – 8 offensive), 26 assists, 6 steals, 2 blocks, 12 errors, 18 fouls.