A comfortable premiere

Olympiacos beat Kolossos Rhodes 88-62 for the Basket League SKRATS premiere. Matt Lojeski was the top scorer for the Greek Champions with 20 points.

The Greek Champions proved to Kolossos who was the boss on the floor from minute 1. Printezis and Lojeski helped the 'reds' with consecutive scoring to lead 32-16. In the second quarter, the game outlook was the same. Hackett, Strawberry and Mantzaris playing great defense kept the guests away from the Olympiacos basket, the offense was working well and half time closed at 55-31.

Things did not change into the third quarter. Olympiacos played amazing defense stopped the Rhodes team at 9 points and the score at 30' was 67-40. In the last quarter, Giannis Sfairopoulos tried different players and rotations and the game ended 88-62.

The quarters: 32-16, 55-31, 67-40, 88-62
Οlympiacos (Sfairopoulos):Spanoulis 5 (1 3p, 8as), Papapetrou 2 (4as), Milutinov 5 (7reb, 4as), Pritnezis 12 (5reb), Mantzaris 9 (3 3p, 4reb, 1as), Tsairelis 10 (5/5 2p, 2reb), Young 7 (5reb), Strawberry 4 (2reb, 3as), Lojeski 20 (3 ep., 6reb, 3as), Agravanis 11 (1 3p), Hackett 3 (1 3p, 2 reb, 4as), Αthinaiou.
Kolossos Rhodes (Lykogiannis): Larentzakis 7, Linden 2, Relefford 4, McGee 9, Lewis 17, Bilis 2, Ekonomopoulos, Manolopoulos 10 (1), Davis 4, Georgalis, Angelakos, Achonen 7.

VANGELIS MANTZARIS: "Good evening and a good and healthy season to all. For sure we are disappointed from the Cup game, mainly because there is no way to cover for this defeat. A title is lost. We need to work and become better, game by game. We are now looking at the game against Cedevita which we want to win and also play a good game".