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End of the friendlies with a victory, time for the official games

Olympiacos edged Galatsaray 89-68 for the last friendly game of the pre-season and now the Greek Champions focus on the jump ball of the new season.

The Sfairopoulos' team hosted Galatasaray in Glyfada on Saturday (1/10) and won 89-68 thus completed the pre-season games with a victory. Now, the Greek Champions are focusing on the first official game of the new season against Kolossos Rhodes for the Greek Cup which shall be played at the Peace and Friendship Stadium.  

Olympiacos showed to mean business from the beginning of the game, was leading 25-14 at the end of the first quarter. Lojeski, Spanoulis and Printezis were doing a great job offensively and together with Birch and Papanikolaou, they were unstoppable to reach the 51-29 of half-time.

The Turks reacted in the third quarter, and ran a partial 8-22, returning in the game and closing in at eight points (59-51) at 30'. However, in the last quarter, Olympiacos stepped on the gas and disappeared in the … horizon winning the game 89-68.

The quarters: 25-14, 51-29, 59-51, 89-68
Οlympiacos (Sfairopoulos): Green 4, Birch 10 (9 reb.), Young 2, Toliopoulos 3 (1), Papapetrou, Spanoulis 17 (4 3p., 6 as.), Agravanis 8 (2), Milutinov 10, Printezis 14 (1), Papanikolaou 6 (1), Mantzaris 2, Lojeski 13 (1), Maragkos.
Galatasaray(Αtaman): Smith 7,Haciyeva, Korkmaz 4, Thompson 5, Tyus 6, Pleiss 9, Day 18 (1), Guler 14 (2), Diebler 3 (1), Dentmon 2, Koksal.

GIANNIS SFAIROPOULOS:  "Results don't count in friendly games. To us, the only important things are the aspects the team shows on the court, positive or negative ones, things that we may need to improve on. We have been making trials and testing things we want to do. We want to find rhythm. The team is gaining momentum. The game had a good rhythm, apart from a period into the third quarter. In general however, we were effective on both ends of the floor. I'm satisfied. For now, we are only focusing on the Cup. We still have ten days till the Euroleague starts".