Barcelona beat Panathinaikos for Euroleague fifth day

Barcelona hosted and beat Panathinaikos for Euroleague fifth day. Panathinaikos was not accurate in three pointers and made its second defeat in two away Euroleague games. Panathinaikos was competitive until 28-30, but Justin Doellman with 7 consecutive points gave Barcelona the lead by 43-33 and then his team rolled. Panathinaikos had a poor 2/20 three pointers and only 9 assists. For the winners Ante Tomic had 16 points and 10 rebounds, Juan Carlos Navarro and Brad Oleson had 12 points each. For Panathinaikos only Esteban Batista had more than 10 points and Diamantidis had 9 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists but 0/4 three pointers.
Quarters' scores: 18-18, 47-38, 64-56, 78-69

Barcelona: Doellman 9, Huertas 8 (2), Abrines 1, Navarro 12 (2), Satoransky 6, Thomas 2, Oleson 12 (2), Lampe 12 (2), Nachbar, Tomic 16.
Panathinaikos: Slaughter 5, Bochoridis 2, Giankovits 6, Fotsis 5 (1), Pappas 8 (1), Mavrokefalidis 7, Diamantidis 9, Gist 9, Batista 14, Blums 4 (1).

Barcelona beat Olympiacos for Euroleague Top 16

Barcelona hosted and beat Olympiacos for Euroleague Top 16. Olympiacos that was playing without Vasilis Spanoulis and Giorgos Printezis had little chances against Barcelona in Spain. Ante Tomic finished the game with a double double, 14 points and 11 rebounds. Kostas Papanikolaou scored only 3 points against his previous team. Bareclona had 10/26 three pointers against 5/19 that Olympiacos had. Stratos Perperoglou finished the game without score, having 0/4 field goals and 0/4 three pointers. Only Bryant Dunston and Brent Petway finished the game with two digits score for Olympiacos. Bad game for Euroleague back to back winners that will struggle to make it in the next round.
Quarters' scores: 18-13, 33-27, 55-44, 70-58.

Barcelona: Pullen 8, Dorsey, Sada, Huertas 7, Abrines 3, Navarro 7, Todorovic, Papanikolaou 3, Oleson 15, Lorbek 13, Nachbar, Tomic 14.
Olympiacos: Petway 17, Shermandini 4, Dunston 18, Perperoglou, Sloukas 4, Collins 2, Simmons, Mantzaris 4, Katsivelis 2, Lojeski 7.

Olympiacos lost from Barcelona for Euroleague TOP 16

Olympiacos hosted Barcelona for Euroleague TOP16. It was the first game that Kostas Papanikolaou returned to Piraeus as an opponent. Olympiacos started better the game and created a 9 points difference in the first 9 minutes, 23-14. Barcelona finished the first quarter with a 4-0 run and continued to lower the difference in the second quarter. Half time finished with Euroleague winners leading the score by two points. Second half was better for Barcelona that changed the lead and created a difference of 7 points by the end of the third quarter. Olympiacos tried to counter attack and win the game in the last minutes, when it approached to two points, 64-66. Then Olympiacos made two turnovers, but also complains about the referees decisions. Barcelona not only won the game but broadened the difference to 11 points in the end. Vasilis Spanoulis and Giorgos Printezis scored 17 points each for Olympiacos. Kostas Papanikolaou scored only 2 points but Navarro scored 21 points and Brad Oleson 14 points for the winners. After this game Olympiacos counted 2 defeats and Barcelona 3 victories in 3 games for Euroleague TOP 16.

Quarters' scores: 23-18, 34-32, 48-55, 72-81.

Olympiacos Piraeus: Dunston 6, Spanoulis 17, Perperoglou 8, Papapetrou, Sloukas 9, Collins, Simmons 5, Begic 2, Printezis 17, Mantzaris 3, Katsivelis, Lojeski 5.

Barcelona: Pullen, Dorsey 6, Sada 4, Huertas 6, Abrines 9, Navarro 21, Papanikolaou 2, Oleson 14, Lorbek 6, Lampe, Nachbar 5, Tomic 8.