How Olympiacos Spoiled Sloukas’ Revenge 

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Olympiacos is a one of a kind basketball team. It's a family. I'm going to Greece just for tht reason. Can't wait to watch those superstars up close ASAP!!!

Finally Peters getting real chance.....dude crazy good shooter,good rebounder....finally his time arrived to shine

Milutinov - Canaan - Walkup is such a sick defensive base to build a team on

After this match are all happy, Olympiacos won the game and Sloukas played 30+ minutes...

Great job, Basketnews! You did an excellent analysis of the match. We can't wait to see Mous and Ignas fit in Bartzokas' masterpiece ⚪🔴⚪🔴

actually Pao would never have a 10 point advantage if Fall was ready to play, so i am pretty confident that Olympiacos has the upper hand in every situation from now on

It really wasn't clear to me that you didn't mention Milutinov as one of the best reinforcements this year. In my opinion, he is what Campazzo is for Real, a returnee to the team in which he dominated and now he is even better, much better...

That's why Bartzokas was using him 20 mins max, with that time he was maximizing his effectiveness, scoring, best assist season for him last year, and letting him take important shots but no, his ego was too much and he wanted to play 30 mins minimum, what happened? He scored 20 points assisted only 2 assists! (While being there main point guard of the team) and in the end he choked hard because at this age (33+) you can't play in this rythm effectively and with clear mind, now Enjoy your place as a leader in the most toxic team of Euroleague, feeding your ego and of course your pockets, Traitor.

Last season I watched Olympiacos live several times. During every warm-up Alec was simply FANTASTIC. And when it was time to play, he went in like a SCARED FART making one blunder after another, foolishly not believing to himself. Everyone watching knew that the problem was mostly psychological. Bravo to him for the step-up and bravo to Bartzocas for waiting. As a GAVROS I am happy that he, at-last, freed himself and took that first step. I got one thing to say to him: ABOUT FU... TIME ALEC!!!...HAPPY TIMES COMING...WISH YOU HEALTH AND KOLOFARDIA RE MAN.😆

this 3-guard system bartzokas used in the second half will cause problems to many teams this year!can't wait to see how well iggy will fit in! Nikola-Fall duo will dominate! Nice win,1-0 and thats all

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Wrong title, Sloukas did us wrong. That was OLYMPIACOS REVENGE

The big difference between the two teams is called Bartzokas....he has an amazing skill to adapt to every game challenge plus lead the way to modern basketball plays and ideas while others just follow or even get stuck into traditional outdated tactics.......Pao will get better but so will Oly when Fall and Ignas roll in the rotation and Shaquille is healthy...plus we still haven't seen Sikma in good shape which will happen sooner or later

He was so much in revenge mode that miss the Juancho 3pts at the last attack

Sloukas wanted to play hero ball and win the game himself. He played too much, got exhausted and had a record high of turnovers. At the last play he had Juancho ready to shoot it, but instead went for a floater (if you can even call it that) from the 3 point line with Canaan all over him 😂 Panathinaikos will regret paying so much for a player that puts himself first over the team.

Congratulations for the analysis...

Panathinaikos overpaid for Sloukas and simply lacks the personnel to play good perimeter defense. Vildoza cannot play alongside Sloukas because of that and Grant is their only really good defender. That will be an issue all season long. Yesterday Olympiacos scored 15/32 3p shots and if Larentzakis and Papanikolaou weren’t frustrating to watch, it would be a much easier win. Not to mention Fall missing the game forcing Olympiacos to play with a one center rotation.

It is very sad that you have not mention yet the death of Giannis Ioannidis, one of the best European basketball coaches of all time...

Excellent video man! Well done!

Barzokas clearly commanded to defend against Sloukas asist actions and no to scoring action. It was proved to be right decision, Sloukas is not an elite scorer but he is an elite asist man.

Crazy game

Nice vid! Pao at this stage looked scary. It's not a "team" yet, but there's great prospect, especially with Mitoglou to replace Lesort / Huancho. There is a definite gap there and both Papapetrou and Mitloglou can help, though still Pao does not have a secondary center of high caliber. Vildoza does not impress, but Grigonis does so. It's not just his difficult shots, but the timing showed mental fortitude. In terms of defence? Well, that remains to be seen, the prospects are not great there. I have to stress here that Euroleague is brutal and if you have weaknesses they will be exploited. Olympiakos on the other side, looks even more scary. I will dare say that Miloutinov & Fall combo is one of the best in the league. Yes, Tavarez is probably better than either of them, but together they look so solid and strong. I see that Olympiakos has picked a great deal of players that showed prospect in the shadow of better ones, or while playing on lesser teams: * Walkup is top-class and notice how he shot without any hesitation - the same player that teams gave 1 meter gap to shoot last year and he didnt dare!!! He is just getting better and better! * Goss can play the 2nd guy, but he can adapt to being the first or close. He didn't look scared taking big shots and so far he has delivered on all the preseason and initial games. * Peters wow! Losing the Euroleague MVP only to have his backup who played little last year be the MVP of the round! Impressive work on his body, he used to be weak defensively! As people say, if you want to become a great player and earn money, go play for Bartzokas at the '4' position!! * Sikma looks totally out of place for this team. It's early I know, but this looks like a terrible risk! He is too slow and i can't fathom what he can offer to the team that we couldn't have found on a more versatile player who can help on the center position more.. Olympiakos does not really need his passing..His slow feet got effortlessly exploited on the very first game. Not sure how this move can be salvaged. * Fun fact about last offence, the question we all had, Canan was screaming for a pass, Walkup rose to the challenge and i'm sure Goss could have taken that too. At least people want to take responsibility. Now can they actually score? We'll see..

Amazing Video really high quality analysis. Thank you so much !

At least kwstas played for 31 minutes, happy for the man. He got what he wanted.

veery good analysis...the question is 'why panathinaikos didn t forces the only center of olympiakos ,and why didn t used kostas Antetokoumpo for that issue?

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@augustas great analysis of the game. My impression is that Panathinaikos is stronger/improved. This is good for Euroleague. Olympiakos is different than last year. I get the impression that the reds have more versatility in their game this year. The improvement of Panathinaikos will make Olympiakos stronger. I believe both teams will be in the Euroleague's play offs. Ernangomez is probably the best new player for Panathinaikos.

@augustas spot on Analysis man. Good job! A great video exposing PAO’s lack of defensive cohesiveness (and/or lack of personnel to be good at it), while pointing out Walkup’s excellence on both sides of the court. Olympiacos will crumble without Thomas Walkup. Thats why Sloukas’ departure is important and will affect OLY’s chances of getting back to the F4. I wonder whats going to happen without him in a couple Playoff games 🤔

Great analysis once again guys! Keep up the good work!

Olympiakos is so much better " team " than pao... Olympiakos for ever... Best team in Euroleague for the past 4 years....

Best analysis!good job basketnews🔴⚪️

Nice breakdown Augie. Peters went to college at Valparaiso, Indiana, not far from where I live.

Sloukas will be the tombstone of Panathinaikos

you must feel very lucky in Lithuania..Ignas will become a true leader in coach B hands very soon...

Sikma have to become better, than Olympiakos nearly has not a weakness

PAO will need time and Olympiacos seems to find the solutions to overcome Vezenkov's loss (mostly) and Sloukas loss (secondly).. William Gos and Milutinov were extraordinary additions but Kannan and Peters will step up this year and they are like new additions too..Ignas is an addition for the future.. Probably both teams will need extra additions.. PAO will wait for Michailiuk (Celtics won't keep him until January) and Olympiakos should search for an athletic 4-5..

I told you about Nigel Williams-Goss. An MVP in he hands of coach B. And we all expected Alec Peters to step up

Olympiacos chose to cut slou$ creation... and just let him score like he is rookie on league

Sloukas almost did the double double, 20 pts 7 turnovers. Ego above team. Rumors say that Juancho still waits alone in the corner for the three at the end of regular time. So glad he left and double happy he joined our archrivals. Such an ego does not fit in OLY's locker room.

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very nice game, but really... 19 wins out of the last 20 games.. the difference between these two teams is enormous

I think you should mention how Bartzokas didn't let Sloukas, create letting him score 20 points bit also making him end with only 3 assists and 8 turnovers

My main impresion from this game was the giantic or better collossal ''poutsa'' that all panathinaikos fans,players and in general organisation had in their mouths in the end.Thanks for asking!Have a great evening and keep up he good work.

Sloukas is a good player but basketball is a team-sport. With his play he actually proved and showed why coach B was right and he was not using him more than 20-25 min. Big players dont realise that after 31-32 no matter how much training you do, you lose weight ... noone can beat time! Thats why he was so prone to mistake, from tiredness he kept losing balls and did so crucial turnovers that cost his team the loss. Pana played slightly better than my team, had more choices (Fall was not playing, so Milu was the only center) but Sloukas cost them their loss For the sake of Greek basketball I hope we see more games like these, without idiot fans spoiling the fun and the joy. It is a game and not a war, for gods sake!

slou cash 😂😂😂😂😂

It's crazy how people base their whole opinions on one or two moments. Because if PAO didn't make simple mistakes in the end they would have won. And now because of one or two moments Olympiacos is unbeatable now. I should stop reading these dumb comments, not good for my brain. 😅

olympiakos is still building after the loss of the best euroleague player..

4:26 may I ask how many steps these were?? 😂

Olympiacos also needs work.the players have new roles. Pao also has a very deep bench. If pao had win it would be because of oaka.

Giannakopoulos Ataman Sloukas difficult personalities to work with,let see..

Ataman's style of play doesn't fit Greek teams who are used to play more defensively. I don't know if he is going to succeed but every other coach like him Kazlauskas, Pini Gershon failed at that style of Basketball. Coach Bartzokas needs players of that type and I was very puzzled when the name Mike James came up. he had one prima donna in the team, Sloukas, which he had trouble managing. Bartzokas needs soldiers not stars.

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Who knows! It's only the first game. Too early to say.

Just few days before in the greek super cup final, Olympiacos destroyed pao with 24 points on the head. There's no sloukas revenge or anything. Too much hype for a role player. Goss or Walkup are ten times the player sloucash is. W/o Moustapha Fall, without Mckissick essentially and with 90-10 help from the refs. I don't even count Brazdeikis as an absence. 18-1 wins against pao in the last 19 games.

It's too soon for any conclusions, Panathinaikos is a one-month team, they haven't been trained on more than 8 times all together, even though has showed the potential of this team, forcing Olympiakos to extra time, with all the respect to Olympiakos on how good team is. PAO needs to improve the perimeter defense as they don't have strong bodies to make it easy and learn how to break the screens. On the offense, they have to learn how to play pick and roll the guard with the center, I counted at least 3 times sloukas and lessort failed to communicate therefore the turn-overs, also the spacing and ball movement are a problem. All these problems are problems of a new team. I hope at the end all the athletes will remain strong and healthy for a nice competitive season. P.S. I am a PAO fan

Sloukas playing too much on his own. Very similar to what Vildoza did when he was on the court. Both of them had to share ball a little bit more, especialy with Grigonis shooting well in the game

Pick and roll master? Lol he can pick and roll as much as he wants now just to bite his jersey at the end of the game in tears 😂

We shouldn't forget that Panathinaikos lost the victory in the last shot. So easily the result could be different. Then what would we say about the players and who made a great performence or not? I believe Panathinaikos made a big game, but Olimbiakos wan the game in the end, because of his bigger experience and better shooting in the overtime.

Ataman véry slow in his responses. Mpartzokas is very smart. At o.t he could put kalaitzakis high pressure on Yuokap to destroy his creation. He could put the fresh Antetokoumbo on Miludinov. Oly played such hard defense and pao does not score. He had to respond with high defense he did not.

Ο προπονητης του Ολυμπιακου ηξερε ολες τις αδυναμιες του Σλουκα για αυτο και δεν το κρατησε,σε κατι φασεις στην αμυνα απλα περπάταγε,ο κανονικος Ολυμπιακος θα ειναι δυσκολη ομαδα και φετος λογο του προπονητη!

poutsoula se krazei olh eurwph

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Sloukas revenge for what?? What did olympiacos do to him 😂😂

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Good job, as for Oly fans you can be happy for a few more months (The refs had protect Milutinov ,see Juancho dunk)...

All I am seeing is that Pao is at top level so early already. If they find chemistry by March, then watch out. Time is on their side more than most of their opponents. Imo Mitoglou was a bigger miss for Pao, than Fall for Olympiacos.

If referees calls all the faouls make the olympiakos other team win the mats, olympiakos defence only for the wwf