Baskonia 74-75: Cody Miller-McIntyre knocked him to the canvas at 0.7′

There is no easy match in the EuroLeague and every week he will come to confirm that. Olympiacos knows it, it understood it on Thursday night (9/11), as Baskonia reached its limits and defeated it (75-74) with a basket by Cody Miller-McIntyre seven tenths before the finale of the match for on the 7th matchday.

At 3-4 Olympiacos (2-2 at home and 1-2 away), at 3-4 Baskonia (1-3 at home and 2-1 away).

The race

With the score remaining low at the start, Olympiacos had a great defense, but it took two consecutive 3-pointers from Papanikolaou-Peters and 3/3 shots from the latter for 11-2 in 4′. Immediately after, Fahl became the… Foul of the match against PAOK, he passed amazingly and Peters made it 20-9 in the 7th minute, before making another long shot to see Kanan make it 26-16 towards the end period.

And yet, Baskonia stepped on the gas, went on a 2-17 run and went ahead by five (28-33), with Olympiakos’ second unit not working well in the first half of the second quarter. The situation did not improve, the Basques went to +13 (32-47 in 19′) and SEF froze, as did Barzoka’s team, which also found itself at -18 (32-50) in a match that was developing into a nightmare .

Kanan came back in the second half to score a series of three-pointers, but Howard also made it 41-56 at 22′ and the match became… a crazy rodeo! Kanan kept Olympiakos upright, it was reduced to eight (53-61), but the extra effort made by the Piraeus did not lead to a balance. Baskonia remained in front late in the third, with Marinkovic and Sendekerskis providing plenty, while Kannan and Peters had 40 of the home team’s 60 points.

With a small 6-0 at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Olympiacos dropped to a point, but did not go ahead. In the 37th minute, Larentzakis made a survival shot for 69-71, Peters put Piraeus in front with a shot for 72-71, Moneke wrote 72-73 and Larentzakis with shots for 74-73 at 10.6″. Miller McIntyre played Kanan, hit from six yards out, hit 74-75, and with 0.7″ left, Walkup’s layup to Fall didn’t lead to a game-winning field goal.

THE REFEREES: Belosevic, Zamoiski, Konstantinovs

THE DECADES: 26-20, 35-50, 60-67, 74-75

OLYMPIC (Bartzokas): Walkup (0/3 3-pointers, 5 assists, 2 turnovers), Williams-Goss 3 (2/7 shots, 3 assists), Kanan 23 (4/6 2-pointers, 5/8 3-pointers, 3 steals), Lountzis , Larentzakis 7 (1/2 2-pointers, 1/2 3-pointers, 2/2 shots), Fal 10 (4/6 2-pointers, 2/4 shots, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 blocks), Papanikolaou 6 (2/5 3-pointers , 3 rebounds, 4 assists), Brazdeikis 2, Peters 22 (3/5 2-pointers, 4/6 3-pointers, 4/4 shots, 8 rebounds), Milutinov

BASCONIA (Ivanovic): Howard 11 (0/4 2-pointers, 2/6 3-pointers, 5/7 shots), Raieste 2, Chioza 5 (1), Sedekerskis 12 (3/4 2-pointers, 1/2 3-pointers, 3/3 shots, 13 rebounds, 3 assists), Marinkovic 10 (2/7 three-pointers), Miller-McIntyre 4 (2/4 two-pointers), Kochar 4, Costello 7 (2/5 two-pointers, 1/7 three-pointers, 4 rebounds), Monecke 20 ( 6/7 2-pointers, 2/2 3-pointers, 2/2 shots, 4 rebounds, 2 assists)

The team statistics of Olympiakos: 15/27 2-pointers, 12/29 3-pointers, 8/10 shots, 26 rebounds (21 defensive – 5 offensive), 20 assists, 5 steals, 4 blocks, 13 turnovers, 17 fouls

Baskonia’s team statistics: 19/33 2-pointers, 9/28 3-pointers, 10/12 shots, 34 rebounds (24 defensive – 10 offensive), 18 assists, 6 steals, 2 blocks, 14 turnovers, 12 fouls

The next matches of the two teams: In the following devil’s week, Olympiacos will first play Maccabi Tel Aviv in Belgrade (14/11 at 21:05) and then host Red Star (16/11 at 21:15), while Baskonia will host Barcelona (15/11 at 21:30) and will then face Villeurbanne away (17/11 at 21:00).