Olympiakos came from down to bushed Zalgiris astatine Kaunas and stay top of the Euroleague table, and Panathinaikos changeable its way to victory against Virtus Bologna astatine home.
The Reds are connected a 13-6 record, associated archetypal astatine the standings on with Monaco, aft their 92-85 effect successful Lithuania connected Thursday.
The Piraeus team returned from 14 points down (54-40) to win comfortably successful the end, thanks to some awesome defending successful the 2nd fractional and a 15-0 partial people that turned the crippled connected its head, from 71-65 to 71-80.
Sasha Vezenkov paced the Greeks with 24 points, followed by Shaquielle McKissic with 17.
Panathinaikos had a season-leading 30 assists and thrashed Virtus 111-90 successful yet different violative crescendo astatine the Olympic Sports Hall connected Friday.
The reigning champion improved to a 12-7 grounds and roseate to 4th thanks to its unstoppable offense, adjacent though it fto successful 90 points to 1 of the Euroleague’s little strong teams.
The Greens broke distant aft a 38-38 necktie and ne'er surrendered their pb since. They were led by Omer Yurtseven with his career-high of 27 points, matching the tally by Kendrick Nunn connected the night.