Olympiacos Advances to EuroLeague Final After Dominant Win Over Fenerbahce

Olympiakos. Credit: Georgia Panagopoulou / AMNA

Olympiacos overpowered Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul 79-61 connected Friday successful Athens to scope the EuroLeague Final Four Championship Game, making it their 2nd last quality successful 4 years.

Sunday’s EuroLeague last volition spot Olympiacos instrumentality to the level successful Athens, with Fenerbahce eliminated pursuing the 18-point defeat. The Reds volition look the victor of the Valencia Basket versus Real Madrid semifinal, which was besides played connected Friday. Tipoff for the Championship Game is acceptable for 21:00 section clip Sunday.

Alec Peters paced Olympiacos with 17 points connected a cleanable seven-of-seven from the field. Sasha Vezenkov added 16, with 14 of those coming successful the 3rd quarter. Tyler Dorsey scored 15, portion Tyson Ward and Evan Fournier each contributed 10.

For Fenerbahce, Tarik Biberovic finished with 17 points and 4 three-pointers. Talen Horton-Tucker scored 16 to spell with six rebounds, and Wade Baldwin added 10.

Olympiacos silences Fenerbahce aboriginal successful Athens Euroleague semifinal

Only 1 tract extremity was scored successful the archetypal 4 minutes arsenic some teams struggled to settle. Dorsey past deed back-to-back three-pointers, and Vezenkov added a basket, putting Olympiacos up 12-0.

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Fenerbahce converted their archetypal tract extremity with 3 minutes near successful the 4th and pulled backmost to 18-12 by the extremity of the archetypal period.

Peters sparked different burst aboriginal successful the 2nd 4th arsenic the location broadside pushed its pb to 16 points. Fenerbahce toughened their defense, limiting Olympiacos to 1 tract extremity successful the last 5 minutes of the fractional and cutting the shortage to 33-24 astatine the break.

Vezenkov and Dorsey combined to unfastened the 3rd 4th with an 11-0 run. Fenerbahce replied with 10 straight, with Horton-Tucker scoring to bring them wrong 48-39. Olympiacos steadied and carried a 56-41 pb into the fourth.

Ward halts Fenerbahce fightback to seal commanding victory

Biberovic opened the last 4th with 5 consecutive points to trim the spread to 56-49. Ward responded with 5 of his own, stopping Fenerbahce’s propulsion and extending the pb to 71-55. Olympiacos held steadfast to decorativeness 79-61.

The assemblage astatine Telekom Sports Centre (OAKA Basketball Arena) was large passim and played a portion successful the aboriginal 12-0 tally that gave the hosts power from the outset.