Reds and Greens ran out of steam against the Spaniards

Olympiakos and Panathinaikos ran retired of steam for the second crippled of this treble week successful the Euroleague, losing to their Spanish absorption connected Thursday and Friday respectively.

The Reds went down 89-77 astatine Real Madrid successful a crippled they had led for implicit 30 minutes, to suffer their 2nd nonaccomplishment successful 48 hours successful Spain.

The Piraeus team had a very strong start, going 12 points up (23-11), but Real Madrid gradually reduced its arrears, and successful the 2nd fractional it overtook its visitor that got ever little businesslike successful offense.

Tyler Dorsey paced Olympiakos with 20 points, Evan Fournier added 14 and Sasha Vezenkov scored 13.

Panathinaikos was adjacent much disappointing, arsenic it mislaid 103-96 astatine location to Barcelona, to take its grounds to 1-1.

The Catalans made the astir of the galore turnovers and missed rebounds of the Greeks, scoring astatine will and starring by up to 16 points. The Greens intelligibly request much work with their caller roster earlier they gel into a due team, but it is acold too aboriginal for immoderate conclusions.

Certain strange referee calls, that were simply too galore to beryllium a coincidence, helped Barcelona widen its pb and added to the hosts’ nerves connected the night.

Juancho Hernangomez stood retired for Panathinaikos with his career-high 27 points and 8 rebounds, followed by Kostas Sloukas with 18 points and 11 assists.