Unexpected losses for Greens and Reds

Despite being favorites connected paper, some Panathinaikos and Olympiakos mislaid their Euroleague games this week, the Greens astatine location to Monaco and the Reds successful Belgrade to Partizan.

First connected Thursday, Olympiakos went down 78-70 successful Serbia, arsenic Partizan snapped the Piraeus team’s six-game winning streak.

The Greeks started perfectly, with 5 successful 5 triples, to pb by 14 points, but then imploded, with conscionable two successful 26 extracurricular the 6.75-meter line. Partizan persisted, turned things astir with the assistance of its noisy fans and deservedly prevailed with a strong 4th fourth (partial 28-13).

Playing without Sasha Vezenkov erstwhile again, Olympiakos had Evan Fournier marque 16 points and Nikola Milutinov notch up 13 points positive 8 rebounds.

On Friday Panathinaikos mislaid 91-88 to Monaco astatine home, with the Monegasques having Greece manager Vassilis Spanoulis debuting connected their bench.

The Greens’ supremacy successful rebounds (38 to 25) was offset by their precocious fig of turnovers (14 to 8) while Monaco were very businesslike successful triples (45%). That kept the crippled perfectly balanced from start to finish, and the singular show of Alpha Diallo (24 points) made the quality successful the extremity for the visitors.

The 23 points by Kendrick Nunn and 22 from Mathias Lessort were not capable for Panathinaikos, that is present connected a 7-5 record, while Olympiakos is connected 8-4.