Reds conquer Barcelona, Greens lose to Maccabi

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Olympiakos has taken the pb successful its Euroleague playoff conflict with Barcelona scoring a roadworthy triumph connected Wednesday successful Game 1, portion Panathinaikos has conceded location vantage to Maccabi Tel Aviv losing successful Athens connected Tuesday.

The Reds bushed Barcelona 77-75 and person taken the precocious manus successful the best-of-five playoffs that pb to Berlin’s Final Four adjacent month.

Olympiakos dominated its big successful Spain, starring for astir the full crippled and going up by up to 13 points (60-47) precocious successful the 3rd quarter.

Barcelona tried to combat back, but that was not capable to instrumentality this precious triumph distant from the Greek champion, that is present 1-0 up successful the series.

Nigel Williams-Goss made 15 points and Isaiah Canaan added 14 connected the night.

Panathinaikos wasted from Game 1 the location vantage it had been moving hard each play for, losing 91-87 astatine the Olympic Sports Hall to a determined Maccabi.

The Greens showed important problems successful defence that the Israeli squad exploited successful the 2nd fractional to overturn its 12-point shortage (56-44) and triumph intelligibly successful the end.

With less rebounds (33 against 37) and doubly arsenic galore turnovers (12 against six) arsenic its rival, Panathinaikos could hardly expect a amended result.

Kostas Sloukas had a singular 13 assists positive 12 points, portion Mathias Lessort scored 22 points but missed 7 retired of his 11 escaped throws.

On Thursday Panathinaikos hosts Maccabi again for Game 2, a time earlier Olympiakos visits Barcelona.