Top seed!
Olympiacos beat Kimi 93-45 for the 26th and last day of the STOIXIMAN.GR Basket League Regular Season and finished top seed securing absolute home court advantage.
Olympiacos stomped over Kimi from minute one. The Piraeus team got a 29-6 lead in the first quarter and the game ended before it even began.
The outlook remained the same in the second quarter. The Greek Champions continued running a wild race and half time was 50-19. The 'reds' offered a show despite many and important absences the tempo never waned with the third quarter ending 78-32.
Giannis Sfairopoulos gave minutes to players that don't get to play much, but still the game ended on a high note, 93-45.
Hence, the Piraeus team finished the Regular season first seed securing absolute home court.
THE POINTS
The quarters: 29-6, 50-19, 78-32, 93-45.
Οlympiacos (Sfaropoulos): Αgravanis 11 (1), Milutinov 10, Papanikolaou 12 (1), Μantzaris, Spanoulis 14 (2), Green 6 (1), Young 16, Τoliopoulos 5, Papapetrou 13 (1), Waters 6.
Κimi (Bratsiakos): Cadee 7 (1), Κatranas 6 (2), Kostov 6, Τoutziarakis 11, Dixon 8, Schizas, Sigounas, Tzolos 4, Koukoulas 2, Konstantakopoulos, Palmblad1.
THE QUOTES
GIANNIS SFAIROPOULOS: "I would like to congratulate our players for winning to top ranking, we deserved this according to our course through the season, we only lost one game, just like last year. Should we compare the two seasons, I think we won first seed a little easier this year. This may mean something; maybe it means nothing, last season we lost the first play-offs final. The important thing is to protect your home court, and its crucial that we secured home court for both the Greek League and the Euroleague. So everything is going to be decided at the Peace and Friendship Stadium. Now, it's the time to remove ourselves from the Greek League for a while and focus on the Euroleague. On the upcoming play-offs but still only focusing on the first game. We have the day off tomorrow and then its practicing until the first game. We want to work a few details, to incorporate Birch and Printezis who did not play as a precaution so as to be ready for the upcoming games".
Asked about what happened with Athinaiou, the Olympiacos' coach said that «Athinaiou is on mandatory leave, its an internal issue why this is, the rest of the players continue. The team is above all else, above me and everyone else. Each one has a role and each one has to participate to the best of their abilities. The team needs all its players and each player has to be ready to contribute for 40 minutes. This goes for everyone. Happy Easter to all».
DIMITRIS AGRAVANIS: «Today we were playing the last game that would be deciding home court advantage for the play-offs. I think we played a good game and got an easy victory. Now we are focusing on the games against Efes, because that's where our whole season will be determined a successful one or not».