Reds climb to the top of the Euroleague table, as Greens falter

Olympiakos bushed Villeurbanne connected Friday and roseate to the top of the Euroleague standings, while Panathinaikos mislaid precious crushed losing to Hapoel Tel Aviv away.

With three much games to play till the extremity of the regular season, the Reds person returned to the summit courtesy of their 82-74 victory successful France against big ASVEL.

The French, who are bottommost of the table, posed a greater-than-expected situation to the Greeks, but could ne'er truly get immoderate person than three points successful the 2nd fractional (61-58).

After staying sidelined owed to wounded for 10 agelong months, Moustapha Fall returned to the Olympiakos squad connected Friday, but did not get to play successful this game.

Sasha Vezenkov made 23 points and Donta Hasll 14 successful this 23rd win of Olympiakos successful 35 games.

On the contrary, Panathinaikos wasted a large accidental for victory successful Sofia connected Thursday, losing 92-88 to Hapoel, successful a tribunal that had thousands of Panathinaikos fans astatine the stands and felt similar a location crippled for the Athens giant.

Pushed connected by its supporters, Panathinaikos had a bully archetypal fractional and an fantabulous third 4th that saw it pb by up to 12 points (75-63).

Yet somehow the past play was disastrous for the Greens, who conceded 29 and scored lone 13, with Kendrick Nunn being unable to marque immoderate of the important shots successful the past fewer possessions.

Panathinaikos is present seventh, with a 20-15 record, aft having Juancho Hernangomez people 17 points and Nunn 15.