The third game was not going to serve anything more than to color the tie in one color and settle the bets. And now he looks like a Barça player (2-1) although the panorama, deep down, is identical to the one he had before taking the plane to Athens: he had to win at least one game. If the second is added, within two days, the tie will be resolved. And if not, we will always have the Palau Blaugrana.
This victory required a huge effort and extracted from the Barcelona fans a demonstration of fortitude and tenacity, in addition to an extension after the tie in regulation time with two points from Laprovittola (71-71). Among the Czechs Satoransky (5) and Vesely (4) The points of the continuation were distributed and with the second tie (80-80) and two tenths remaining, Petrusev took the bait after believing a triple by Jabari Parker. The American scored two shots and missed the third.
Tomas Satoransky calls a play in front of Alec Peters’ defense. / Georgia Panagopoulou / Efe
Petrusev believed a triple from Parker with the tie (80-80) and committed a foul two tenths from the end. Jabari scored two and missed the third.
They had started with the same quintets from the second game and the erratic start revealed the overtension that the series is acquiring with the pyrrhic score they put together (13-13). A street runner in which the mistakes that Barça was infected with, more stable with their first shots, followed one another. If not for the extension, it would have been the weakest marker of the three.
Olympiacos corrected one of its great shortcomings: the offensive rebound. They always obtained less than Barça and this time they balanced the contest, gaining new shooting options. Bartzokas will leave for another day the enormous task of correcting the success in the triples due to the terrible percentages that he accumulates. Barça made theirs worse due to the aggressive defense, and Grimau remembered Darío Brizuela. Unprecedented in the two previous games, he played the last three minutes of the first half. He missed two three-pointers and scored a two-pointer.
The Blonde Rebounder
In that aspect in which the Blaugranas are clearly better, the recovery was conceived. Satoransky, Laprovittola and Parker scored three consecutive triples at the restart and adjusted the score that was so black at 37-29 in the second quarter. The maximum local advantage became 51-57 at the end of the third quarter with a triple against Parker’s board, the fifth of the six attempted. Rubio escaped like a wild boar and in addition to giving the ball to Hernangómez, he became the team’s second rebounder, the one who most in the opposite ring.
Rubio fought so hard that he accumulated four fouls, the same as Vesely, and Barça’s attack was interrupted. Olympiacos made a growth spurt until they were six points ahead (69-63), a moment that, as is tradition, The entire pavilion stood up to enjoy the finale. Two triples from Abrines made everyone happy. That wasn’t over. What remained next left them flat.
At 69-63, the entire pavilion stood up to enjoy the end; Two triples from Abrines made everyone happy.
Olympiacos, 80 – Barcelona, 82
Olympiakos: Walkup (10), Canaan (0), Peters (8), Sikma (0), Fall (8) –cinco inicial–, Petrusev (18), William-Goss (9), Larentzakis (3), McKissic (8) , Wright (16).
7 of 26 triples (Walkup, Peters, 2)40 rebounds, 12 offensive (Fall, 5), 18 assists (Walkup, 6).
Barcelona: Rubio (0), Laprovittola (12), Kalinic (5), Parker (13), Vesely (16) – starting five – Jokubaitis (0), Satoransky (13), Hernangómez (13), Abrines (6), Da Silva (2), Brizuela (2).
11 of 25 triples (Parker, Satoransky, 3), 42 rebounds, 12 offensive (Rubio, 3), 26 assists (Laprovittola, 8).
Partials: 13-13; 24-19; 14-25; 20-14; 9-11.
Referees: Ilija Belosevic, Mehdi Difallah, Milan Nedovic.
2024-04-30 20:52:55
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