With an offensive crescendo in the last quarter, when he scored 32 points, Olympiacos defeated AEK at the “SUNEL Arena” 96-77 for the 5th game of the GBL regular season.
The Union managed to balance the very good start of the “red and white”, who were leading 24-12 in the 38” before the end of the first quarter with 7 points from Fournier.
With five points by Dorsey and a basket by Milutinov, the “red and white” managed to escape with 33-18, but the Union increased the pressure on its defense and with 9 points by Kuzminskas it was reduced to four (45-41) at the end of the first half.
With baskets by Golden and Gray, the home team equalized (45-45) in the first minute of the second half, but a 7-0 run against them gave the score 52-45 with 24′.
Olympiacos escaped again with a double digit difference (64-54) with shots by Peters and with seven points in a row by MVP Milutinov, it reached 77-62 (33′) and a little later with 91-74 at 2’17 ’ previously. end, although the final difference (+19) was the maximum in the game.
Vezenkov with 18 points (and 3 assists) was the main scorer of Olympiakos. Milutinov had 17 points on 8/9 2-point shooting, Dorsey 15 on 6/8 shooting and Fournier 14.
From the Union, Kuzminskas was excellent, scoring against his former team 25 points on 6/8 two-pointers and 3/5 three-pointers.