Euroleague: Olympiacos removes Barça from the Final Four in Berlin | Euroleague 2023

Updated Wednesday, May 8, 2024 – 23:30

A visiting team had never managed to win a fifth game in the Euroleague and, in just a few hours, that statistic was twice broken. Fenerbahe won on the Monaco court and Olympiacos also beat Barcelona at the Palau, in a match in which the Blaugrana only trailed in the last five minutes. [Narracin y estadsticas (59-63)]

The outstanding performances of Laprovittola y Ricky Rubio, almost always providential in recoveries. The late but timely scoring explosion of McKissictogether with the good performances of Father Nicholas y Milutinovended up condemning them to defeat.

Everything that was at stake was more than evident in a first quarter with an inappropriate score. Barcelona managed to take the first round 12-9. Above all, Laprovittola shined, recovering his best feelings, and the emergence of Ricky Rubio was also vital, with a reading of the game that allowed him to exasperate the Greek team with his steals of the ball.

The start of Grimau’s team in the second period seemed to push the Blaugrana to clearly break the duel for the first time with a 6-0 run that allowed them to go nine up (18-9). Olympiacos, far from despairing, found a way to tighten things up again, with an eminently choral attack. The partial victory, in this case, will fall on the side of those of Bartzokas (15-16).

Partial 2-15

Olympiacos, however, displaying an iron mentality, confirmed its apparent recovery by forcing a tie at the end of the third quarter, after responding forcefully to an escape attempt that had veselyLaprovittola y you open as protagonists. Canaanabove all, and Petrusev They were the great arguments to not only prevent the Blaugrana from feeling comfortable on the court again, but also led to everything being left pending in a final quarter not suitable for weak hearts.

A period in which the Blaugrana’s knees shook at the worst moment. With a partial score of 2-15, in which a very inspired finish shined McKissicthe Greeks achieved a 49-57 that ended up becoming too heavy a slab for Grimau’s team, even though, in a final attempt, they seemed capable of getting back into the game, and which ended up crystallizing in a defeat final 59-63.

2024-05-08 21:30:02
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