With ease at Ilisia...
Without Kostas Papanikolaou (he suffers from a muscle pull) and Milos Teodosic (he didn’t play for precautionary reasons), Olympiacos had no problem reaching victory against Ilisiakos.
Dusan Ivkovic used all his players against the League’s trailing team and had six players with two digit scoring points. The “reds” kept complete control of the game from the beginning and retained it to the end, stepping on the gas at the beginning of the fourth quarter when the difference climbed above thirty points.
Τhe quarters: 19-28, 29-44, 50-65, 60-91.
Ilisiakos (Flevarakis): Κapniaris, Κarydas 4, Webb, Κyritsis 13(1), Chatzis 5(1), Papantoniou, Κanonides, Κoukoulas, Τodic 11, Κaselakis 4, Baxter 21(2), Galiotos 2.
Οlympiacos (Ivkovic): Papaloukas 3, Νesterovic 11, Gordon 4, Spanoulis 14(2), Bourousis 13(1), Κeselj 11(1), Pelekanos, Μavrokefalides 14, Halperin 13(1), Erceg 8(1).
The quotes…
DUSAN IVKOVIC: «After a seven day trip a strange weather awaited for us in Athens. We paid the price with the absence of Papanikolaou who suffered a muscle strain, Nielsen is not ready yet, while Teodosic also had a muscle problem and we wanted to rest him, as well as give a few more minutes to Gordon and Halperin. Tomorrow he will practice. I’m not quite happy with the rhythm. We definitely played better in the fourth quarter. We have had a tough schedule, we keep going and I hope that we will be able to work more organized during the Christmas break and become “smoother” as a team.
I want the gyms open and family friendly. From what I have understood Olympiacos has had the support of his fans, but I haven’t seen anything like that in the gym. I heard a noise cracker go off, it’s obvious things like that shouldn’t be happening”.
KOSTAS FLEVARAKIS: «Unfortunately, the Greek League is at a point where there is of importance who the winner of the game is going to be and the second negative factor is that I have witnessed some incidents against me, which we constantly condemn, but we actually do nothing about. I can say that many young players were used against players that they hand only got to see on TV. At least this is a good thing that happened. Not that if we had played with more experienced players, we would have been able to achieve something better, but we chose to give our younger players some opportunities. We have been unlucky since we have been looking an inside player to help us and Bromwell was also injured. What else is there to do? We keep fighting…”