EL 2023/24 Play-Offs: Barcelona - Olympiacos

[paspalj]

Wright is much better with Petrusev. Oly's biggest advantage is their frontline and today they didn't have that.

[EverGreen]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1779956560313131208

Juancho's little off-ball screen for Papanikolaou to swtich on Sloukas from McKissic is a thing of beauty. Papanikolaou was never going to follow Sloukas' footwork. Sloukas tafter scoring then does a brilliant job stopping Willams- Goss's right dribble sending him to his weaker left side to deal with Mitoglou.

The refs did all they could to help Oly but they fell short. Bartzokas also forgot Canaan on the bench for the whole of the 4th quarter which was lucky for us since he already had 15 points. Mitoglou did a great job on Fall and Lessort dominated Wright. That's where the game was won. Our PF and C's scored 39 points compared to Oly's (Fall, Wright, Papanikolaou) 17 points.

https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/ESAKE/2434015/bs.html

The cheat code for Oly is played a stretch C and pulling Fall away from the paint to open the floor for slashing from 60 degrees.

[EverGreen]

Wright is much better with Petrusev. Oly's biggest advantage is their frontline and today they didn't have that.

Oly fixed their PF problem with Petrusev without him they have a major problem against any team.

[Harbinger]

Good things for Oly are NWG and Canaan who are in good form.

Good thing (for barca) is that coach B will keep Canaan benched the entire 4th period.

[saras]

Yesterday's game showed the only way loserbiakos can cope with top tier teams. Foul in every possesion and referees 80-20 on their side even in away matches. Such a satisfaction seeing the disgrace of human race, mr bean aka barjokeass losing with a 3pt in front of his eyes from sloukas and then acting like an asshole on flash interview and court against staff from PANATHINAIKOS.

This loser who was kicked away from barcelona even though he had one of the biggest budgets of their history represents exactly the typical loserbiakos fan. Someone with 0 knowledge of the game, who wants to win by any means (remember the waters from csska in 1995) and when they lose crying about refs,dpg,sloukas,ataman,obradovic, diamantidis, or just simpy their daddies

[R1ou]

if they want to see how they cope with top tier teams they might as well rewatch anyone out of 4 games they have beaten your ass this season including the 2 times they had you watching them lifting trophies while losing both finals to double digits.

hard times for dpg's army of junkies.

[saras]

if they want to see how they cope with top tier teams they might as well rewatch anyone out of 4 games they have beaten your ass this season including the 2 times they had you watching them lifting trophies while losing both finals to double digits.

hard times for dpg's army of junkies.

the only hard times are seeing your team trying to reach alvertis on the 100 years of existence of the criminal organization from peiraus. and dude you are still down to one single player who has more trophies than the mafia club you support has on its entire history. the only experience of lifting for your team is lifting banners with NOTHING written on them. even players from other teams laugh when they those NOTHING banners, like carroll.
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[Edgar]

Satoransky is the biggest thief in the European basketball. Dude is jogging for one of the biggest salaries. Mr. 0 points.

[Dreamcatcher]

It's disaster how bad Barca played at home and it still was a clutch time.

[Jazz]

Satoransky is the biggest thief in the European basketball. Dude is jogging for one of the biggest salaries. Mr. 0 points.

Ha, not the first time you've mentioned him. Do you think he's out in the summer?

[berry]

It's disaster how bad Barca played at home and it still was a clutch time.

Oly: 19 turnovers,most in season.Peters,first scorer,1 pt.Captain Pap injured.Walkup playing with injection.Barca more rebs.Lost 9fts.Made only 5 3pts with 29%.
So actually insane that Oly dominated the game and won.

[Dreamcatcher]

Oly: 19 turnovers,most in season.Peters,first scorer,1 pt.Captain Pap injured.Walkup playing with injection.Barca more rebs.Lost 9fts.Made only 5 3pts with 29%.
So actually insane that Oly dominated the game and won.

Yes, Oly also played bad. Bad at least Kanaan who i like the most from Oly's roster played good. He knailed two 3pointers shutting down Barca's comebacks.

[paspalj]

The outcome of this game was very simply due to the gargantuan gap between the coaching levels. Bartzokas is an all time incredible coach while Grimau would struggle to find a job in A1 Greece if not for his name imo.

[Edgar]

Ha, not the first time you've mentioned him. Do you think he's out in the summer?

Yep, I think they will try to get rid of him. It's crazy how much they pay him for literally nothing. 0 pts, 4 reb, 4 ass...what the hell is that hahaha

[coinho]

Olympiacos are one of the most balanced rosters in EL, they had (have) lot of problems with injuries this season and only injuries costed them better placement in regular season.
Also that balanced roster is very well coached by Bartzokas.