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Red reign forecast? Olympiacos on brink of Greek title after beating Panathinaikos, 84-72

May 28, 2012

Olympiacos shrugged off both history and the Dimitris Diamantidis-Mike Batiste duo last night in taking game three of the Greek League championship series over rivals Panathinaikos, 84-72. With a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series, the Reds are poised to take its first domestic league title since 1997; historians will of course note that ’97 marked Olympiacos’ last Euroleague championship until 2012 – and a string of six consecutive runner-up finishes could be broken.

The Reds got out to a 7-0 lead which expanded to 20-8 within the first quarter and ballooned to a 78-55 advantage in the fourth quarter before Olympiacos took feet off the pedal. Individually speaking, several Oly players contributed memorable performances: Euroleague heroes Vassilis Spanoulis and Giorgios Printezis were good for 31 points together while Marko Keselj added 10. Joey Dorsey grabbed eight offensive rebounds in snagging a game-high nine boards overall.

Of particular note, however, was Pero Antic. Playing an overtly physical game, Antic continuously frustrated the likes of Stratos Perperoglou, Kostas Kaimakoglou and even Ian Vougioukas when coach Obradovic called on him: These three committed 10 fouls in a combined 54 minutes of floor time, and the Greens racked up 29 PFs as a team.

The result was the freedom for Olympiacos’ shooters to jack up threes – the Reds were 11-of-22 beyond the arc on the night – and to dominate possession time. Plus, we get this classic, utterly European basketball highlight clip that demonstrates how intangibles can rule a game.

Game four will be played in Athens on Wednesday night.

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  1. Aleksandar Zoran
    13 years ago

    EVERYONE HERE ARE SOME OF THE ALTER-EGOS AND NAMES APOLLO USES IN OTHER SITES F YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH OF A JOKE HE IS:

    InsideHoop:Euroleague -he impersonates an Arkansas ugly American redneck type of character there, every post is about how great Spanoulis is they have an over 90 page long thread about him and about how much of a troll he is and how everyone thinks he is a joke
    http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=227480&page=47

    RealGM: Italia Raps Fan – tries to pose as an Italian Raptors fan while constantly bashing the NBA and praising Greeks.
    http://forums.realgm.com/boards/memb…eaed85f2650e86

    RealGM: Ricky Business – acts like he’s a Rubio fan but bashes him and praises his beloved Spanoulis
    http://forums.realgm.com/boards/memb…ofile&u=115388

    RealGM: Kill-Bill-Pana
    http://forums.realgm.com/boards/memb…ofile&u=108879

    SpursTalk: Kill-Bill-Pana – does the same shit he does on here except tries to act like he can’t speak English.
    http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=9403

    ClubLakers: Kill-Bill-Pana
    http://www.clublakers.com/member/Kill_Bill_Pana/

    ClutchFans: BEXCELENT
    http://bbs.clutchfans.net/member.php?u=22915

    ClutchFans: BBall Scientist
    http://bbs.clutchfans.com/member.php?u=24050

    Interbasket: Fiba Europe Basket – same shit he does on here; he’s apparently English now
    http://forums.interbasket.net/member.php?u=15127

    Interbasket: Vasileios Spanoulis – now he’s American
    http://forums.interbasket.net/f28/ro…s-better-6742/

    Talkbasket.net – got renamed “Forum troll” for spamming the board
    http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/ind…8-forum-troll/

    RealGM: KWSN-Men – tried to impersonate a reputable Greek poster on interbasket.

    Spurstalk: Manu_Forever – same stuff he posts here

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  2. Apollo
    13 years ago

    Os Davis, please do something about this Aleksandar Zoran guy. People should not be allowed to make claims like that here.

    He put this false claim against me on every thread here. Surely you must have some rules against this. Please remove these false spam posts by him and tell him to stop.
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