Reds finish first, Greens must beat Monaco to enter the playoffs

[InTime Sports]

Olympiakos and Panathinaikos finished the regular play successful the Euroleague with location wins that confirmed the Reds connected the top spot and the Greens connected the seventh.

Olympiakos defeated Armani Milano 85-76 successful Piraeus connected Thursday and sealed the top presumption connected the table with 26 wins successful 38 games. It will look the past team to win a summons to the playoffs from the play-in process.

Milano really enactment much unit than expected connected the Reds, trailing by conscionable two points astatine half-time (47-45), but a very bully third 4th (21-10) for the Greek champion sufficed to connection it victory.

Sasha Vezenkov made 20 points and Tyler Dorsey 18 for the hosts.

On Friday Panathinaikos thrashed bottommost team Anadolu Efes 97-62 for its 22nd win successful 38 games. Its seventh spot means it will request to negociate a knockout play-in crippled astatine location against Monaco connected Tuesday. If the Greens win, they will beforehand to the playoffs and look a best-of-five necktie with Valencia, that will person location vantage arsenic it has finished 2nd lone to Olympiakos.

Panathinaikos had a memorable 29 assists for conscionable six turnovers against Efes, often scoring astatine will successful the 2nd half. For astir 8 minutes successful the third 4th the hosts held the Turkish team to conscionable 1 point, with the partial people of Q3 finishing 26-5.

Nikos Rogavopoulos stood retired with his 24 points, followed by Kendrick Nunn with 18.