Virtus surrenders at the last shot, Olympiacos goes to the Fiera

Virtus surrenders to Mickey’s last missed shot, having the chance to go into extra time with Olimpiacos. Instead, it ends 83-85 and it is the second knockout in a row in the Euroleague, but the match was weighed down by an referee’s whistle 49” from the end, penalizing Ojeleye for a rather dubious foul. From tense nerves, Vu came out battered who lost Teodosic due to protests and lost the inertia that had brought her to the brink of crowning an unexpected comeback. Finished at -10 at the end of the third quarter, Vu had in Teodosic and Pajola the push to overturn the direction of the match, and 4′ from the end overtook on 70-69. Then in the final sprint the experienced Vezenkov, 22 points and Papanicolaou, 17, made the decisive baskets.

For Teo another evening as a king, even if tarnished by the knockout with 21 points and 4 assists, 11 for Ojeleye, too bad for a wrong triple at the end, and the 8 points and the defense of the usual Pajola could have been worth gold.

The match had opened with a basket from Shengelia, but Vu immediately suffered the vehemence of the Greeks. Going to strike in the heart of the black and white area, Piraeus immediately found an extension, 9-18 with a triple from McKissic but the magician Milos took care of avoiding the skid. Two triples in a row, an imaginative assist for Cordinier and the 22 all reached at the siren to make the Segafredo Arena explode in a roar. Olimpiakos tried to regain focus, put in a three with Peters and then Launtzis and kept their lead. Over there, Teo was always there to give the time and Ojeleye signed a pass 3′ from the interval, hitting it from the corner. But Piraeus went ahead of the break finding a triple from Larentzakis, thwarted by a three-point shot from Teo, for 38-42 which left Vu with the idea of ​​being in the game. And overtaking, 43-42, crushed by Jaiteh could give wings. But the Greeks had more energy, Vu fiddled a couple of times in attack, enough for the expert Venezenkov to hoist his +7, 43-50, after a 0-8 to stun Vu . And so a fraction born on the wave ended up with ten lengths to recover, 53-63, for a Segafredo unable to pick up the right rhythm.

Cordinier tried to give energy and 6′ with a challenge from Pajola and a counterattack from Shengelia, Vu reappeared alive: 64-67. A technician at the Piraeus coach unleashed Teo: free and triple for another overtaking 70-69 with 4′ to go. Vezenkov riddled the Virtus basket but 49” from the siren at 77-80, a clean steal from Ojeleye but sanctioned by the whistles overturned the final: coaching for Teodosic and Piraeus at 77-82. Three free throws for Milos: 80-82 and 47” to play. McKissic inbound. 80-84 with 27” remaining. Teo out due to a second technical foul, at 17” Ojeleye with a 2+1 made it 83-85. 0/2 to free throws by Larentzakis, Vu shot for the match: post by Michey and game over. Scariolo, having heard about him for a long time, could not fail to notice the referees’ mistakes: “Never seen so many in the last minute …”.

He returns to the field in the cup on January 19 again at the Segafredo Arena against Panathinaykos.

very bad game