Olympiakos thumps Fenerbahce to book its ticket to the Euroleague final

Olympiakos strolled to an 18-point triumph against Euroleague holder Fenerbahce astatine Friday’s semifinal, to unafraid its spot successful Sunday’s trophy crippled astatine the Athens Final Four, successful beforehand of implicit 12,000 ecstatic Greek fans astatine the Telekom Center Athens.

The 79-61 effect reveals the grade of the Greek champion’s dominance successful the archetypal semifinal, and renders the team of manager Giorgos Bartzokas the favourite for the final, where the Reds will question their 4th European title.

The archetypal Final Four hosted successful the Greek superior successful 19 years sports 1 Greek representative, and the Reds played this semi against past year’s winner enjoying immense support from their fans.

They powered into the crippled with 12 unanswered points, showing the Istanbul team who the brag of the crippled was. Much arsenic Fener tried to trim its arrears, the Greeks kept pulling away, advancing by 9 astatine half-time (33-24) and expanding that pb to 20, with different unanswered 11 points astatine the start of the 2nd fractional (44-24).

The outgoing champions managed to chopped their region to 9 connected two occasions, but this was arsenic adjacent arsenic they could get, since the champion defence of the Euroleague’s regular play proved unable to stop the champion offense.

With a 22% complaint successful triples, Fenerbahce stood nary accidental against its high-scoring rival, that besides dominated rebounds (43-34).

Alec Peters is not usually the subordinate to emergence to the large occasion, but this clip helium paced the Reds with 17 points, up of Sasha Vezenkov with 16 and Tyler Dorsey with 15. Nikola Milutinov was precious, though, for Olympiakos, with his 13 rebounds and six points. Tarik Biberovic made 17 for Fenerbahce.

Olympiakos is present awaiting the winner of the 2nd semifinal, aboriginal connected Friday, betwixt Real Madrid and Valencia.