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Olympiacos did not have the slightest problem against Koroivos Amaliada, besting them 84-65 and hence remaining at the ranking top. An excellent performance by Johnson-Odom.

The ‘reds’ reached 19 victories following 20 games for the Basket league SKRATS and are alone at the top of the ranking table. The team of Giannis Sfairopoulos was trailing by 8 at the beginning of the game (16-8), which rang the necessary bell. The reaction of the Greek Champions was impressive, the difference went up to +22 and hence ‘Thrylos’ reached a comfortable 84-65.

THE DEFENSE: With the exception of the third quarter, when the team received 27 points, Olympiacos played the kind of defense Giannis Sfairopoulos likes. Especially in the last quarter, when they only received 7 points in 10 minutes, the ‘reds’ played an amazing defensive game.

THE OFFENSE: It was prolific, with Johnson-Odom and Spanoulis standing out.In general, Olympiacos easily surpassed 80 points despite the great absence of Matt Lojeski.

THE MVP: Darius Johnson-Odom. The American guard changed the flow of the game and put ‘Thrylos’ in the driver’s seat. All the more, the left handed American scored 5/7 threes giving an excellent performance of third game in a row.

KEEPS, FORGETS: Keeps the defense of the last quarter, when only received 7 points. Forgets the partial 27-20 of the third quarter, where Koroivos Amaliada took down the difference from -15 of half time to -8.

THE POINTS
The quarters: 20-14, 31-46, 58-66, 65-84
Koroivos Amaliada (Μarkopoulos): Seretos, Poulianitis 3, Harding, Trotter 10 (2), Slaftsakis 6, Vassilopoulos 12 (3), Chapin 17 (3), Harris 17.
Οlympiacos (Sfairopoulos): Odom-Johnson 17 (5), Hunter 12, Papapetrou 5, Spanoulis 16 (3), Strawberry 7 (1), Milutinov 4, Printezis 3, Agravanis 3 (1), Mantzaris, Hackett 3, Papanikolaou 11 (1), Αthinaiou 3 (1).

THE QUOTES

GIANNIS SFAIROPOULOS: «I would like to congratulate Koroivos for their effort today. They played with a lot of key players missing and they still reacted very well. We have had some good moments and some bad ones. We need to improve on those bad moments in our defense and on the blank spaces. We had built a safety difference, Koroivos fought once or twice to close in, but we played good defense at these particular moments and widened the difference once again. Congratulations to Koroivos and all the best for the rest of the League».

DARIUS JOHNSON-ODOM: «Koroivos began with a lot of energy that forced us to play with more energy than what we originally had in our mind as necessary, they did a good job and forced to play a hard game».