Zalgiris Kaunas VS Olympiakos ( BETTING TIPS, Match Preview & Expert Analysis )
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PREVIEW & TIPS Zalgiris Kaunas VS Olympiakos
Zalgiris – Olympiacos – The sixth placed from the regular part of the Lithuanian Zalgiris (18-12) is on a good way to kick off the third-placed Greek Olympiacos (19-11), against which, after a convincing victory on Tuesday evening on the field with 80:60, s 2-1. The Lithuanians are the hosts and the fourth match, in which they can finish the ¼ final series and win the F4 tournaments ticket in Belgrade. Olympiacos leads 12-7 in the mutual duel.
Zalgiris Kaunas News
For the first time since 1999, when they were the winners of the FIBA Euroleague with 24 teams, that is, for the first time since the Euroleague has been reformed and is playing under the auspices of ULEB, Zalgiris is ahead of placement in the final tournament F4. It is interesting that in 1999 they eliminated Olympiacos in the semifinals, against which they again lead in this series in three victories. They are determined to end the series on the home court, which was enabled by the triumph after the extension in the first match in Piraeus (87:78), while in the other they lost (68:76). With an average of 81.24 points per game, they share the fourth position with Fenerbahce in the most efficient teams.
In front of some 14,500 spectators, all dressed in green t-shirts and fantastically cheering, they completely broke the Greeks and celebrated with 80:60. Although they were poorer opened the game, they still got all four periods. In the last, against the best defense of Euroleague, they had even 24 points advantage (80:64). Davis was again the most effective at 18 points again, and Jankunas woke up when he scored 13. It’s interesting that Davis was the most effective player of the team in four consecutive years this season, and he scored 18, 21, 20 and again 18 points. Only in the first match of regular part was the most effective Pangos with 14 points.
Zalgiris Kaunas VS Olympiakos STATS
The question is who will be willing to run out of the injured players in such a short time and make a significant contribution to the game. However, even the complete ones are hardly resisted by the euphoric attacks of Zalgiris, who won four of the five interlocutors this season.
Olympiakos News
Olympiacos played in the big Euroleague final last season, and now he is already in the play-off before relegation. Apart from the problem of injuries, the play-off encountered fanatical Lithuanians who smashed them with their weapons-defense. Zalgiris allowed them only 34% of the game’s shot in the third match, ie 18.2% for three points, and they had fewer jumps of 24-31 and almost double the number of assistances (12-23). All this is enough to say under what pressure they were in the third match in Kaunas. Spanoulis was the most effective at 14 points, but he also scored 3-12 in the game and missed all six shots for three points.
The only double-digit was Roberts, who scored 11 points. Without a real performance and a healthy Printezis, who plays injections, it is difficult for the series to return to Piraeus. Printezis scored three points and scored a catastrophic 1-10 in the game. Strelnieks, Milutinov and Papanikolaou also played injured or insufficiently recovered. Agravanis has long been injured, and there was neither Wiltjer and Thompson in the team. Shooters are the weakest team in the playoffs – they average an average of 76.97 points, and from them, when taking into account the performance of the teams from the regular part, only Bamberg is the weakest striker.
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