Olympiacos hosted Fenerbahce at Sunel Arena with several key players out (Fournier, Montero, Dorsey) for Round 7 of the EuroLeague, and after a thrilling “thriller” in which the visitors rallied late with a 6-0 run to secure the win, 64-61, after Vezhenkov missed the tying shot.
The Piraeus team now has a 5-2 record and has suffered its first home loss, while Fenerbahce shares the top spot with Panathinaikos with a 6-1 record.
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The top performers for Giorgos Bartzokas’s team were Vezenkov with 17 points, 8 rebounds, and 2 assists, Miller-McIntyre with 12 points, 7 assists (2 steals), and 5 rebounds, Milutinov with 6 points and 13 rebounds, and Ward with 11 points, 4 rebounds, and 2 assists.
For Sarunas Jasikevicius’s Turkish team, Shields stood out with 17 points, 5 rebounds, and 2 steals, and Larkin with 11 points and 5 assists, while Kleber was clutch (7 points, 5 rebounds) and Baldwin, who had 15 points and 5 assists, were clutch.
Next up for Olympiacos at the start of the upcoming “hellish week” is Besiktas in Istanbul (10/28) and for Fenerbahce, a game against Valencia (10/27) in Spain.
Quarter scores: 20-8, 34-24, 49-45, 61-64.
*photo source: euroleaguebasketball.net
