Is this the year of the first all-Greek Euroleague final?

Olympiakos and Panathinaikos showed connected Tuesday they are acceptable to marque up the archetypal brace of teams successful an all-Greek last this May, astatine the Euroleague Final Four to take spot successful Athens, too. They thrashed Real Madrid and Barcelona respectively and showed Europe they are the teams to beryllium compared with successful the past fewer games of the regular season, astatine least.

The Reds are present unsocial astatine the top of the table, with a 24-12 record, aft dismissing Real Madrid 102-88 astatine the Peace and Friendship Stadium.

They started with an obscene 17-2 and dominated their visitors for the full game, led by a mesmerizing Tyler Dorsey (37 points) who was seconded by Sasha Vezenkov (26 points).

With 27 assists for conscionable 7 turnovers, this was easy 1 of the champion games by the Greek champion each season, adjacent if the borderline of victory successful the extremity was lone 14 points.

Panathinaikos was adjacent much awesome connected the night, dismantling big Barcelona successful Spain with a show that the last 93-79 people does not truly bash justness to.

That was due to the fact that astatine 93-61, the Greens appeared to take their corporate ft disconnected the gas, conceding 18 unanswered points arsenic they already had their adjacent game, astatine Valencia, successful their minds.

Barcelona fans started leaving their seats to spell location from arsenic aboriginal arsenic the third quarter, due to the fact that their team was simply unable to lucifer the tremendous defence and shooting rates (55% successful triples) of the Greens.

Cedi Osman paced Panathinaikos with 21 points. Kendrick Nunn and Nigel Hayes-Davis followed with 14 apiece, arsenic Panathinaikos improved to a 21-15 record.