EuroLeague: Victories for Olympiacos and Panathinaikos – Watch highlights

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Olympiacos Hits 100 successful Vitoria: Baskonia 96–102 Olympiacos

Despite blowing a 15-point pb (4–19), Olympiacos fought done a pugnacious conflict successful Spain to assertion a roadworthy triumph with triple digits connected the scoreboard. Coach Giorgos Bartzokas reintroduced Vezenkov, Fournier, and Milutinov successful the last minutes, and they turned a 92–91 Baskonia pb into a 102–96 Olympiacos triumph with an 11–4 tally successful the past 2 and a fractional minutes. Big threes from Vezenkov and Walkup sealed it.

Two Olympiacos players posted double-doubles:

Sasha Vezenkov: 24 points, 13 rebounds
Nikola Milutinov: 12 points, 14 rebounds

Tyler Dorsey added 21 points, portion Tyson Ward scored 11 successful his EuroLeague debut. Walkup dished 8 assists.

Quarter scores: 20–27, 48–49, 70–73, 96–102

Panathinaikos Handles Bayern successful Athens: Panathinaikos 87–79 Bayern Munich

Panathinaikos overcame first-game stress, rebounding issues, and conscionable 5-of-15 shooting from 3 to unafraid a coagulated triumph astatine the Telekom Center Athens. Kendrick Nunn was the prima with 21 points and 10 assists, supported by Nikos Rogkavopoulos (15 pts) and Omer Yurtseven (14 pts).

After a shaky archetypal half, Panathinaikos recovered bushed successful the 3rd 4th and built a double-digit lead, extending it to +12 (77–65) aft a Kostas Sloukas three-pointer successful the 33rd minute, efficaciously putting the crippled retired of reach.

For Bayern, Xavier Rathan-Mayes (18 pts), Isaiah Mike (18 pts), and erstwhile Panathinaikos guardant Wenyen Gabriel (13 pts) stood out.

Quarter scores: 23–22, 47–41, 68–61, 87–79

Armani Milan Too Much for Crvena Zvezda: Red Star 82–92 Armani

Armani Milan showed extent and balance, with 8 players scoring 8+ points, to instrumentality a 92–82 triumph successful Belgrade. Zach LeDay led with 21 points, portion Niccolò Mannion added 9 points and 5 assists.

For Red Star, Jordan Nwora scored 19 and Izundu Ibuoka was cleanable wrong (14 points, 7/7 FG).

Quarter scores: 20–22, 41–45, 63–69, 82–92

Virtus Bologna Upsets Real Madrid: Virtus 74–68 Real Madrid

Dusko Ivanovic’s Virtus Bologna stunned defending champions Real Madrid with a 74–68 win. Real’s three-point shooting was disastrous (3/23), needing astir 30 minutes to deed their first.

Virtus maintained power late, with Luca Vildoza’s timely 3 pushing the pb to +8 (60–52). Despite a last-minute chance, Campazzo missed, and Morgan’s escaped throws sealed it.

Carson Edwards (14 pts) and Saliou Niang (12 pts) supported Vildoza’s large night. Mario Hezonja went 0/7 from 3 for Madrid.

Quarter scores: 14–19, 38–35, 55–50, 74–68

Anadolu Efes Opens with a Win successful Montenegro: Efes 85–78 Maccabi Tel Aviv

In neutral-site Podgorica, Efes rallied past Maccabi with a beardown 4th quarter. Maccabi led by 8 successful the archetypal half, but Efes stormed backmost with a 15–8 tally successful the last play and ne'er looked back.

Five Efes players scored successful treble figures, led by Rolands Smits (16 pts) and Jordan Loyd (16 pts). They besides dominated the boards (40–32). Maccabi’s Hilliard and Sorkin each had 15.

Quarter scores: 21–19, 40–44, 60–59, 85–78

Historic Debut for Dubai: Dubai 89–76 Partizan

In their first-ever EuroLeague game, Dubai made past with a commanding 89–76 triumph implicit Željko Obradović’s Partizan successful the Coca Cola Arena.

Dubai excelled from heavy (11/20 3PT) and shared the scoring load with 4 double-digit scorers:

Davis Bertans (20 pts, 5/7 3PT)
Dzanan Musa (19 pts)
Mfiondu Kabengele (15 pts)
Filip Petrušev (14 pts, 8 reb)

Dylan Osetkowski led Partizan with 12.

Quarter scores: 28–18, 47–40, 68–54, 89–76

Hapoel Tel Aviv Lights Up Barcelona: Hapoel 103–87 Barcelona

Dimitris Itoudis’ Hapoel Tel Aviv opened their EuroLeague run successful style, routing Barcelona 103–87 successful Sofia.

Hapoel changeable 13-of-24 from three, blowing the crippled unfastened successful the 2nd quarter. Antonio Blakeney (20 pts), Vasilije Micić (18 pts), and Daniel Oturu (18 pts) led the way. Will Clyburn scored 23 for Barça.

Quarter scores: 26–26, 51–45, 82–70, 103–87