Euskaraz irakurri: Baskoniak garaipena nahi du Pireon, Olympiakosen aurka, Euroligako play-offetarako txartela bermatzeko

He Baskonia bucket going to search this Thursdayin Piraeusbefore him olympiacosstarting at 8:00 p.m.in its last game of the regular phase of the Euroleaguea victory to grant him the ticket to the play offs of the maximum continental competition. If the team from Vitoria wins in Greece, at the field of the current championship leader, they will be in the play-offs; if he doesn’t, he needs Zalgiris Kaunas to lose to Bayern Munich on Friday in the German city. Joan Peñarroya’s men, who are currently eighth and occupy, thus, the last place that has the prize of the play-offs, could even be fifth, if they manage to win in the La Paz and La Amistad pavilion and other results are recorded that could help them.

Baskonia’s career in the Euroleague has been very brilliant, and the team from Álava depends on itself to move forward. In case of achieving it, he would return to the top eight in Europe four years after doing so for the last time. The game against Olympiacos, in this way, is crucial: Baskonia has its pass at stake, and the local team, for its part, wants to secure first place in this regular phase that is now ending. Of course, if the Basque team could not win, they have a second chance: they must wait for the victory of Bayern Munich, currently fifteenth and without play-off options, against Zalgiris Kaunas, which is ninth and is tied on wins with the Baskonia.

Olympiacos and Baskonia have met 45 times since the creation of the Euroleague, which began in 2000. The Greek squad has won the last three meetings between the two, but the Basque team won in Piraeus, for example, ago Just two seasons, in 2020-21.

Joan Peñarroya will not be able to count on Tadas Sedekerskis for this match, while Georgios Bartzokas, the Olympiacos coach, will have full availability of a very complete squad; the team he leads has only accumulated three defeats in the last 30 games it has played between the Greek league and the Euroleague, which has placed it at the top of the league table.

The Bulgarian Sasha Vezenkov, number one candidate to become the best player of the European season, is the leader of a team that has innumerable sources that Peñarroya’s team will have to pay attention to. Kostas Sloukas, Kostas Papanikolau, Thomas Walkup or Moustapha Fall are key pieces of a squad in which former Baskonia player Alec Peters appears in the background.

Olympiacos and Baskonia are two of the teams that best pass the ball and recover the most balls; the biggest difference between the two occurs in the shooting percentages, since Bartzokas’ team dominates the two and three point launch. Baskonia will be able to hold on to its power on the rebound, an aspect in which it has improved remarkably.

Source: Eitb

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