Reds sweep Monaco, as Greens miss their first chance

Olyjmpiakos has grabbed the archetypal summons to the Athens Final Four of the Euroleague sweeping Monaco successful the playoffs, while Panathinaikos will get different accidental to marque it past Valencia connected Friday aft losing astatine location connected Wednesday.

The Reds won the best-of-three bid with Monaco with a 3-0 score, thanks to their 105-82 triumph astatine Monte Carlo connected Tuesday.

The effect is really alternatively flattering for the depleted Monegasques, who trailed by arsenic galore arsenic 19 from the archetypal 20 minutes (61-42), arsenic the Greek champion was intolerable to contain.

The multitude of options for manager Giorgos Bartzokas gave Olympiakos a large variety successful scoring, with Evan Fournier making 22 points and Alec Peters adding 18.

In the Final Four Olympiakos will look the winner of the Fenerbahce vs Zalgiris series.

Panathinaikos, connected the different hand, went down 91-87 to Valencia successful Athens, adjacent though it astir sent the crippled to overtime successful the extremity having trailed for the full game. The bid present is astatine 2-1 for the Greens.

In a crippled of sizeable tension, pursuing the ugly scenes astatine the extremity of Game 2 successful Spain, some coaches were ejected successful the third play aft coming very adjacent to virtually trading blows.

Valencia imposed its accelerated crippled connected the Greens, arsenic it had done successful the regular play some astatine location and away, but appeared to tally retired of steam successful the past quarter, when the location support gave the Greeks a boost. They turned the 19-point pb (62-43) of the Spanish to conscionable three with 20 seconds near (90-87); however, the Greens missed the important triples astatine the extremity and are present waiting for their 2nd accidental successful Game 4 connected Friday, besides successful Athens.

TJ Shorts notched up 17 points and Nikos Rogavopoulos 16.