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Greek championship: Olympiacos comes back in final five minutes to take game three, 76-68

Though a bit distracted by referees’ calls early, Olympiacos survived to play another day in the Greek championship series, thanks to an amazing 15-2 run to close out the game against Panathinaikos for a final score of 76-68.

The Greens led early as the Reds carried some heavy weight after two games that some felt had been handed to PAO by the zebras; check out the video below for an almost panicky Vassilis Spanoulis heavily disputing the game’s first personal foul call with about one minute elapsed off the game clock.

Olympiacos managed to build as much as an eight-point lead in the first quarter, getting the score up to 24-16 early in the second quarter, though this deficit was swiftly erased by the likes of Drew Nicholas and the Greens’ jump-shooters.

The Reds threw away a more tenuous lead in the fourth quarter as well: Taking a 58-56 into the fourth, Antonis Fotsis put in a three to make it 59-58 to Panathinaikos, a lead that would become a 66-61 score with five minutes to play. However, just went things seemed darkest, Olympiacos put together an 11-0 run highlighted by a pair of three-pointers from Michalis Pelekanos (!) and never looked back.

O, and incidentally, the free throw tally for the match read thusly: Olympiacos 24, Panathinaikos 9.

Of course, this being Greek basketball, the fans played their part as well. An official complaint will reportedly be filed with the league for which “Olympiacos will be held accountable,” as the Reds’ home crowd threw plastic bottles onto the court, lit firecrackers before and during the match “in the vicinity of the stadium,” used laser pointers and were their usual raucous selves verbally.

In fact, upon hearing the insults to the effect that Panathinaikos never would have won games one and two without referee assistance, Dimitris Diamantidis addressed the masses, yelling “What are you talking about?” at fans while leaving the court.

Jun 2, 2011ballineurope
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Comments: 9
  1. Manager
    9 years ago

    Where are Olympiacos fans now to speak about refereeing and free throws numbers?

    Anyway, Olympiacos won square and fair, just like Panathinaikos will win on Sunday 😉

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  2. Paul
    9 years ago

    Who is this manager person? Is he actually saying that series is not fixed? If so he is a total douche bag.

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  3. Manager
    9 years ago

    At least I’m not posting using a different name everyday, many times commenting on the same article using difference names. I’m sure the page administrator has already taken notice.

    Trolling every basketball forum out there was not enough for you VS666, FIBA Europe Basket and so on?

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  4. Zoran
    9 years ago

    “Manager” is the poster known as KWSN-Men at forums.interbasket.net

    ReplyCancel
  5. Manager
    9 years ago

    So you’ve said in the previous A1 final article, under the name Zisi. Confused by the so many names you’re using already?

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  6. Mika
    9 years ago

    KWSN-MEN huh? Just great. The biggest jerk in any basketball forum on the planet. There goes this site. I bet he is also the troll guy Gabe. Would make sense. Same total racism, xenophobia, arrogance, ignorance and idiocy.

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  7. Ioannis
    9 years ago

    Sorry BiE, but your work is very bad.
    You put here information that isn’t true and makes people believe that the greek finals between PAO and OSFP are fixed.

    You posted this here:”O, and incidentally, the free throw tally for the match read thusly: Olympiacos 24, Panathinaikos 9.”

    But this isn’t the truth.
    If you visit the official site of the greek basketball league (esake) you will see that this isn’t t the real statistics!!!
    For those who want to take a look -> http://www.esake.gr/game/1016

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  8. Manager
    9 years ago

    Ioannis are you drunk?

    The free throws in the link you provided say 24-9 to Olympiacos, like the article says.

    Not that Olympiacos didn’t win fairly, on the contrary.

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  9. Zigalo
    9 years ago

    They switched refs after game 2. What a shock after they switched refs Olympiakos won.

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9 years ago 10 Comments EuroLeague, MoreAntonis Fotsis, Dimitris Diamantidis, Drew Nicholas, ESAKE, Greece, Ioannis Bourousis, Michalis Pelekanos, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, Vassilis Spanoulis
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