Olympiakos VS Zalgiris Kaunas ( BETTING TIPS, Match Preview & Expert Analysis )
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PREVIEW & TIPS Olympiakos VS Zalgiris Kaunas
Olympiacos – Zalgiris – Sixth placed team from regular part, Lithuanian Zalgiris (18-12), was the only one in the first matches of the quarter-finals of the play-offs to be away in the third place in the Olympiacos (19-11). Zalgiris, therefore, took the advantage of the home court of the Greek vice-champion and led the series in three victories with 1-0. Olympiacos continues to lead 11-6 in the mutual proportions, but Zalgiris has won all three rounds this season.
Olympiakos News
Olympiacos ended the regular season as third, but also with a defeat after an extra time on his field exactly from Zalgiris (85:86), who surprised them on Thursday night in the first match play-off (78:87). This was the third of this season’s defeat against this rivals, as Zalgiris was better at home (74:68) and, with Spanish Barcelona, the only team in the regular part of this season won both times Olympiacos. Without injured Agravanis, Papanikolaou and Wiltshire, who did not enter the game, they recorded the third Euroleague defeat in a row. The best was with 25 points and the ninth was Spanoulis.
They also appeared insufficiently recovered and Strelnieks and Printezis, which they surely spent, and it will also be an additional burden to coach Sfairopoulos in the preparation of the second game. Olympiacos was the second best defender of Euroleague with 77.1 points, but only 13 points were scored from 77.8 points. However, it records as much as 11.8 lost balls, and only Zalgiris, who loses 12.7 balls, is the worst player in the match, but the Lithuanians in this segment surpassed them in the first match. Namely, Zalgiris had only seven, and Olympiacos had 15 lost balls.
Olympiakos VS Zalgiris Kaunas STATS
The guests did what they did to Piraeus and could get a lot more relaxed in the second match, but it is quite certain that they will not relax even this time. Olympiacos will again be in great temptation, because, apart from losing all three this season’s duels against Zalgiris, it’s hard to imagine what an earthquake in the club would cause a second defeat to home.
Zalgiris Kaunas News
When arriving in Athens, Zalgiris had problems with the fire on the plane, but they forgot it immediately and in the first game of the play-off showed that this season they decided to return to the very top of European clubhouse after almost two decades basketball. Namely, at the final tournament (F4) they were not there since 1999, when they were the only ones who were the champions of the Euroleague. Unlike Olympiacos, the triumph in Piraeus was the third consecutive Euroleague triumph in April, but not against any rivals. Namely, they received the leader of CSKA, and then away twice Olympiacos, who in this decade has five participation in the F4 tournaments and two championship titles.
Zalgiris was persistent and brave, and after opening them poorly, he lost the 1st period from 12:23. They managed to get all three remaining periods, and even “the triple” of Milaknis, at the finish, had a lead of 72:69, but Spanoulis hit the “troika” for the home team and took the game to an extra time. Even then they did not mourn and scare, and in the end they celebrated with a convincing result. He was the best, just like two weeks ago, he even scored 18 points and six rebounds, was Davis. He now scored 21 points and eight rebounds, while Pangos added 20 points and six assists, while Milaknis scored 16 points. Davis extended the contract before this series by 2020. They recovered Toupane, but they still do not have significant minutes.
Olympiakos VS Zalgiris Kaunas Predictions
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