May 25, 2013
Regular Season Game 14 - February 01, 2007 CET: 20:15 Local time: 21:15 - PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP STADIUM
Olympiacos 77 - 73 RheinEnergie

Records

Ave.   Ave.
0-0 Final Four 0-0
0-0 Playoffs 0-0
0-0 Top 16 0-0
1-0 Regular Season 0-1
9-4 Overall 2-11

Referees

Crew Chief
MITJANA, JUAN CARLOS, Spain
Referee
BACHAR, SHMUEL, Israel
Umpire
MUHVIC, DUBRAVKO, Croatia

Team Stats

Ave.   Ave.
83.7 Points 73.8
36.2 Rebounds 30.4
11.0 O. Rebounds 9.4
25.2 D. Rebounds 21.0
12.9 Assists 13.4
9.5 Steals 7.9
2.9 Blocks 2.8
15.2 Turnovers 16.8
52.9 % 2PT 54.3 %
35.3 % 3PT 34.1 %
78.2 % FT 73.1 %
88.5 Index 70.6
Team Stats - Olympiacos
Team Stats - RheinEnergie

Player Stats

Ave.   Ave.
15.5 / Acker Points 12.0 / Mallet
6.8 / Acker Rebounds 5.8 / GORTAT, M.
1.8 / Zizic OR 2.1 / GORTAT, M.
5.2 / Acker DR 3.7 / GORTAT, M.
3.7 / PENN, SCOONIE Assists 2.8 / McELROY, IMMANUEL
2.2 / Acker Steals 1.2 / GORTAT, M.
0.7 / VASILOPOULOS, PANAGIOTIS Blocks 1.1 / GORTAT, M.
3.2 / Acker Turnovers 2.2 / GORTAT, M.
77.1 % / Bourousis 2PT 64.7 % / FAISON, MARCUS
44.8 % / Domercant 3PT 60.0 % / Strasser
100.0 % / HARISSIS, C. FT 92.1 % / FAISON, MARCUS
19.1 / Acker Index 13.4 / GORTAT, M.
Team Roster - Olympiacos
Team Roster - RheinEnergie

THE TAKE

In a final Group A game between teams going different directions afterwards, Olympiacos hopes to finish as high as possible when it hosts last-place RheinEnergie in Pireaus, Greece on Thursday. Olympiacos (9-4) has the chance to finish second in this group if it wins and Efes Pilsen (8-5) beats Dynamo Moscow (9-4). In that case, it will also join the four top seeds in the Top 16 Draw next Monday as the best second-place finisher in the competition. Nevertheless, Olympiacos will be fourth if a three-way tie involving Efes and Dynamo takes place. To prevent that and finish at least third, the Reds need to beat RheinEnergie (2-11), which has no chance to reach the Top 16 and will fight for the pride of a prestigious road win in the final game of its debut Euroleague season. RheinEnergie reaches this game with three key players doubtful to see minutes, as Ronnie Burrell (13.1 ppg., 6.3 rpg.), Mlajden Sljivancanin (5.8 ppg.) and Johannes Strasser (60% 3FG) continue to nurse injuries. As such, Demond Mallet (12 ppg.) is set to lead his team again after becoming the German League all-star MVP this weekend. He will find plenty of help in both wings, as Devin Green (11 ppg.), Immanuel McElroy (9.7 ppg., 63.4% 2FG) and Aleksandar Nadjfeji (9.4 ppg.) will be ready to shine in their last Euroleague game of the season. Mallet will have an elite matchup against Scoonie Penn (12.2 ppg., 3.7 apg.), while Green and McElroy will try to play physical against Alex Acker (15.5 ppg., 6.8 rpg.), Henry Domercant (12.5 ppg., 44.8% 3FG) and Manolis Papamakarios (3.2 ppg.). Christos Harissis (2.6 ppg.) is also expected to see extended playing time, as Arvydas Macijauskas will not be ready for this game. The Reds' main concern will be slowing center Marcin Gortat (11 ppg., 5.8 rpg.), who has been unstoppable lately. If Burrell is not ready to play, both Gortat and Guido Grunheid (2.8 ppg.) will have to step up with some help from Janar Talts (2.8 ppg.) and Nadjfeji. Without Sofoklis Schortsianitis (6.6 ppg.), who is still sidelined, Olympiacos counts on Ryan Stack (5.2 ppg.) and Andrija Zizic (13.3 ppg., 84% FT) to stop Gortat, as well as Panos Vasilopoulos (5.9 ppg.) and a very productive Giannis Bourousis (8.6 ppg., 4.3 rpg.) coming off the bench. The Reds are the heavy favourites in this game, but RheinEnergie hopes to battle to the end of its Euroleague season.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Euroleague.net - Kostas Sotiriou, Athens - Jan Hieronimi, Cologne

Quotes Head Coaches

GERSHON, PINI
Olympiacos
"We could have accomplished our goal earlier, but things came differently. Now, we have to pay our debt and beat RheinEnergie at home to reach win numer 10. If we don't make it with 10 wins, so be it. We have to give our best in the final game of the regular season and beat our opponents. Definitely, our minds will be on this game only."
OBRADOVIC, SASA
RheinEnergie
"We practiced a lot in the last week, and already, some improvements are noticeable. Recently, we had some problems with our conditioning because we didn’t have enough players in our rotation, so we had problems in the second halves a lot. But this has been getting better. We want to finish the season with a win, which would be hard even if our team was complete. It’s tough to win in Olympiacos’s gym regardless of how well their team is doing. I am disappointed that we were not able to face our opponents with our best team on the floor on most nights this season. When you lose some of your main players, it gets that much harder to win in the Euroleague. But if we can say goodbye with a victory, why not?"

Players

ZIZIC, ANDRIJA
Olympiacos
"Perhaps RheinEnergie has no interest in the victory, but that means nothing to us. We have to face this game like a final and give them no right to think they can beat us. I am saying that because they have no pressure in this game and if they feel comfortable, they can make us pay. In my opinion, we need to think only about the game against RheinEnergie, not the game between Efes Pilsen and Dynamo Moscow in Istanbul. And whatever will be, will be."
MALLET, DEMOND
RheinEnergie
"We had the all-star weekend in our domestic league, so we used the time off to get in as much practice as we could have. The coaches have been working us really hard. This is our last game, and we want to play it like it’s our last - not only the last game of the season, but the last game of our lives! We can’t advance anymore, obviously, but still it’s an important game for us in terms of pride. It’s unfortunate that we weren’t healthy for most of the season; had we not had as many injuries, it would have been a different ballgame. But we've got to take it as it is."
Ioannis Bourousis - Olympiacos Olympiacos held off a feisty RheinEnergie Cologne for a 77-73 win at the Peace and Friendship Arena in Piraeus, Greece, on Thursday to finish the regular season in third place in Group A. The Reds' win improved their record to 10-4, while RheinEnergie dropped its eighth straight game to finish its inaugural Euroleague campaign at 2-12. Andrija Zizic shot 10-for-14 from the field for 25 points and Ioannis Bouroussis had a double-double of 12 points, 11 rebounds and 4 steals to lead the home team. Scoonie Penn and Manolis Papamakarios added 11 points apiece. Demond Mallet drilled six three-pointers on his way to a season-high 23 points to lead RheinEnergie. Devin Green added 18 points and Immanuel McElroy posted 15 points and 10 rebounds. Olympiacos used an 11-0 run in the third period to build a double-digit lead that sat at 47-37 at halftime. Mallet led the charge as the visitors stormed back in the fourth quarter and tied the score. It came down to the final minute before Green came up short and Penn sealed the win from the line.

Olympiacos started with three missed shots, but as many offensive rebounds, too. Bouroussis dunked with force, but Green answered with a triple at 2-3. The hosts looked to feed the ball inside as Zizic exploded for 5 consecutive points. Alex Acker used his left hand to increase the Reds run to 7-0 before Green added free throws to make it 9-5. The visitors had trouble creating opportunities and had only scored 5 points – all from Green – in the first 5 minutes. But RheinEnergie strengthened its defense and when Mallet drove to the basket the score stood at 10-7. Zizic's dominance on the offensive end gave him 8 as the hosts led 12-7. Green answered in style and McElroy brought the visitors even closer at 13-11. Zizic kept hurting RheinEnergie in the paint and Henry Domercant and Panagiotis Vassilopoulos came in off the bench to score and build a 7-point cushion. Mallet stepped up with a pair of triples help Cologne stay close at the end of the first period, 20-17.

Janar Talts nailed a jumper, Zizic a layup and Mallet another three-pointer that resulted in a tie at 22-22. Acker threw down a dunk to give Olympiacos the lead back, but Mallet really was in the zone; his fourth consecutive triple put RheinEnergie ahead for the first time at 25-24. However, Zizic remained hot too – a basket-plus-free-throw of his made it 27-25. When Papamakarios stole and ran the fast break, the Reds had restored a 29-25 difference. Zizic reached 17 points in 13 minutes with an easy layup as RheinEnergie proved unable to push him out of the paint. Bourousis increased the hosts’ run to 11-0 and made it 35-25 before McElroy scored for the visitors. Acker dunked on the fast break to make ti 38-27 as Olympiacos found the opportunities to run-and-gun. RheinEnergie coach Sasa Obradovic called for a timeout to slow down the game’s tempo. But, as much as Cologne tried to get closer, Olympiacos answered back. Papamakarios’s triple made it 43-31. The hosts did not give up, though. A 6-0 run punctuated by McElroy’s dunk made it 45-37, but Penn brought it to double digits again, 47-37, before the buzzer sounded for halftime.

Devin Green - RheinEnergieZizic opened the third quarter the same way he closed the first half; with an easy layup. Guido Gronheid connected for Cologne to make it 49-41 as Olympiacos now suffered some bad decisions and poor shooting. The Reds had scored just one basket after 4 minutes of play in the third period, but RheinEnergie did not take advantage of that and only managed to cut it to 49-43. The guest were going to the line, but with poor results. The game lost its rhythm as neither Olympiacos nor Cologne could take charge of the tempo. Domercant nailed a three-pointer to give the hosts a push forward to 54-43. Mallet reached for his gun again as an off-balance triple of his allowed RheinEnergie get as close as 54-50 and cause Olympiacos coach Pini Gershon to call timeout. Talts grabbed an offensive board and scored to make it 54-52 before Papamakarios popped in a triple at 57-52 as the score stood at 59-53 after 30 minutes.

Zizic and Talts exchanged baskets before Green nailed a triple to bring it to 61-58. Bourousis went for a basket-plus-free-throw at 64-58. Then RheinEnergie changed its defense to zone and Olympiacos missed three straight shots. Talts punished the Reds with a triple from the corner, 64-61. Vassilopoulos turn-around jumper was immediately answered back by Mallet’s sixth triple so far, 66-64. It was obvious that the never-give-up spirit was leading Cologne till the end. After some free throws for both teams, Green and McElroy found easy layups to tie the game at 71-71. Green dunked with force to put the guests ahead 71-73 as Olympiacos kept having big trouble setting up its offense against RheinEnergie's defense. Penn tied it with free throws and Bourousis gave the hosts’ the lead back with a dunk, 75-73. Green missed the opportunity to tie it and when Penn made another two from the line, there was no time left for RheinEnergie to survive.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Stelios Kyriakoglou, Athens
Referees: MITJANA, JUAN CARLOS (ESP), BACHAR, SHMUEL (ISR), MUHVIC, DUBRAVKO (CRO)
Attendance: 2500
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Olympiacos20271218
RheinEnergie17201620
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RheinEnergie17375373
Head coach: GERSHON, PINI
Olympiacos
# Player Min Pts 2FG
M-A
 3FG
M-A
 FT
M-A
 Rebounds As St To Bl Fouls PIR
O D T Fv Ag Cm Rv
4 PENN, SCOONIE 35:00 11 1/5 1/2 6/6 1 1 2 2 2 4     2 5 11
5 PAPAMAKARIOS, MANOLIS 28:15 11 1/2 2/3 3/4 1 2 3 4 2 2   1 5 2 11
6 ACKER, ALEX 24:45 8 3/9 0/3 2/2 1 1 2 2   3   1 4 1 -4
8 ZIZIC, ANDRIJA 38:00 25 10/14   5/6 3 4 7 3   3     3 7 31
9 BOUROUSIS, IOANNIS 29:45 12 5/6 0/1 2/3 5 6 11 3 4 1 4   4 2 28
11 HARISSIS, CHRISTOS 9:00   0/1 0/2     2 2 1 1 2     1 1 -1
12 BARLOS, NIKOS 3:00                         1 1  
13 VASILOPOULOS, PANAGIOTIS 11:15 4 2/2 0/1   1 2 3 1   2 1   2   4
14 STACK, RYAN 0:15 1     1/2                   1 1
44 DOMERCANT, HENRY 20:45 5 1/2 1/4   1 1 2 1   1     2 2 3
Team           1 5 6               6
Totals 200:00 77 23/41 4/16 19/23 14 24 38 17 9 18 5 2 24 22 90
56.1% 25% 82.6%
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
Head coach: OBRADOVIC, SASA
RheinEnergie
# Player Min Pts 2FG
M-A
 3FG
M-A
 FT
M-A
 Rebounds As St To Bl Fouls PIR
O D T Fv Ag Cm Rv
8 NADJFEJI, ALEKSANDAR 21:00 4 1/3   2/4   1 1   1 5   1 2 4 -2
9 STRASSER, JOHANNES 8:00 2 0/1 0/1 2/2   1 1 3 1 1       1 5
12 TALTS, JANAR 16:00 5 1/2 1/3   2   2 1   1     5   -1
13 GORTAT, MARCIN 23:00 2 1/2       4 4     1 1   4 1 2
16 CARDUCK, STEPHAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
18 PLEISS, TIBOR DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 MALLET, DEMOND 35:45 23 2/3 6/10 1/2   2 2 3 2 2     2 5 25
21 GREEN, DEVIN 38:15 18 3/10 2/5 6/10   5 5 4 4 4 1 2 3 10 19
23 McELROY, IMMANUEL 36:00 15 7/12   1/2 7 3 10 4   1   2 4 2 18
31 GRUNHEID, GUIDO 22:00 4 1/2 0/2 2/2 1 2 3     2     2 1 1
Team           1   1               1
Totals 200:00 73 16/35 9/21 14/22 11 18 29 15 8 17 2 5 22 24 68
45.7% 42.9% 63.6%
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