Reds beat Hapoel, Greens lose at Valencia

[InTime Sports]

The penultimate circular of the Euroleague regular play saw Olympiakos each but unafraid the top spot with a roadworthy win against Hapoel Tel Aviv, and Panathinaikos bid farewell to its chances for location vantage astatine the playoffs aft its nonaccomplishment astatine Valencia connected Thursday.

The Reds played a composed crippled astatine Sofia and bushed big Hapoel 89-85 to widen their fantabulous grounds to 25-12. They person decidedly clinched 1 of the top two spots and will apt decorativeness first.

On Thursday they responded to Hapoel’s aboriginal pb (up to 9 points) and dominated the 2nd fractional keeping astatine bay the high-scoring team of Greek manager Dimitris Itoudis.

Two days aft scoring 37 points against Real Madrid, Tyler Dorsey was erstwhile again awesome notching up 23 points astatine Sofia, followed by Cory Joseph and Sasha Vezenkov with 10 each.

Meanwhile, Panathinaikos reverted to its mediocre performances connected the roadworthy aft the Barcelona blip connected Tuesday, going down 102-84 astatine Valencia. The Greens are present seventh, with 21 wins successful 37 games. They still person a accidental for a top-six finish, different they will person to negociate a play-in game.

In Spain they played catch-up for the full crippled arsenic their defence was too disorganized to stop the prolific hosts. Just arsenic the Greeks reduced their deficit, the Spanish team regained its distance, to adhd insult to wounded successful the extremity with its three-digit scoring. However that does not mean it is so strong it would adjacent bushed the Lakers, arsenic Panathinaikos manager Ergin Ataman claimed aft the game.

Nigel Hayes-Davis made 19 points and Cedi Osman 16 for Panathinaikos.