BIg road wins for Reds and Greens

Olympiakos produced an unlikely comeback against Maccabi, and Panathinaikos thoroughly outplayed Anadolu Efes, arsenic some Greek teams scored roadworthy wins successful the second fractional of the Euroleague’s treble week.

The Reds defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 95-94 successful Belgrade connected Thursday for their third win successful 5 games, adjacent though they had respective cardinal players missing and they trailed for astir of the game.

Maccabi felt they had won the game, that they had dominated done to the 37th minute, when they led 93-81, looking bully for scoring astatine slightest 100. Yet it was Olympiakos that had the past laugh, scoring a partial 14-1 to turn things astir close astatine the extremity and win the crippled by the narrowest of margins.

Sasha Vezenkov scored the winning handbasket and 23 points successful total, arsenic galore arsenic Nikola Milutinov.

Panathinaikos is present associated top of the Euroleague table with a 4-1 record, aft defeating Efes 95-81 successful Istanbul connected Friday, successful a crippled marred by the wounded of two Efes players, Ercan Osmani and Giorgos Papagiannis – a erstwhile Panathinaikos center.

These injuries allowed Panathinaikos to enforce its accelerated gait and turn Efes’ 44-43 pb aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional into an imposing 72-52 vantage that the Turkish team could ne'er overturn.

Cedi Osman scored a career-high 29 points for the Greens, with 6/10 triples, and adjacent got applauded by the fans of Efes, his erstwhile team. Another Turk, Omer Yurtseven followed with 15 points, while Kostas Sloukas distributed 12 assists and was singled retired by his coach, Ergin Ataman, for his performance.