OLY trailed 1-2 in the quarterfinal series before going 3 wins, but rallied powerfully on Thursday.
The Piraeus club crushed the “Barcelona” team in the home fortress even 92:58 (21:23, 32:14, 19:10, 20:11).
The decisive – the fifth – battle of the series will take place in Barcelona.
The turning point of the game on Thursday happened in the second quarter, when the home team went on a 17-0 run, took a 36-23 lead and never looked back.
Ignas Brazdeikis was not even registered in the ranks of the winners this time, and Rokas Jokubaitis scored 2 points (1/5 doubles, 0/1 triples), 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 utility point in 12 minutes.
In the utility score graphs, the difference between the teams was even greater: Olympiakos scored 118, while Barcelona scored just 45.
The visitors shot tragically from long range (5/22 – 22.7%) and from the free throw line (7/17 – 41.2%) and clearly lost the battle for rebounds (31-47).
Shaquille McKissic, who came off the bench, played an impressive game for the hosts. The American scored 21 points, grabbed 6 balls and collected 28 utility points.
Olympiakos: Shaquielle McKissick 21 (6 rpg, 28 rpg), Moustapha Fall 12 (5 rpg), Isaiah Canaan (3/5 trg) and Nigel Williams-Goss (3/4 trg) ) – 11 each, Filipas Petruševas 10 (5 rebounds), Kostas Papanikolaou 9 (3/6 triples, 6 rebounds), Nikola Milutinov 8 (11 rebounds), … Ignas Brazdeinis was not present registered.
Barcelona: Jabari Parker 10 (2/3 treys), Janas Vesely 9, James Nnaji and Tomaš Satoransky (3 overs) – 6 each, … Rokas Jokubaitis 2.
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