2019-20Regular SeasonRound 11
November 29, 2019 CET: 20:30
Local time: 21:30 PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP STADIUM

Olympiacos rolls past Milan, 91-70

Olympiacos Piraeus used a big third quarter to run away with a 91-70 victory over visiting AX Armani Exchange Milan on Friday and win back-to-back games for the first time this season. Kostas Papanikolaou led the way with 17 points for Olympiacos, which took the third quarter 31-16 for its third victory in the last four games to improve to 5-6. Vassilis Spanoulis made Turkish Airlines EuroLeague history as he collected 14 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists, while Nikola Milutinov posted 13 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals for a performance index rating of 30. Sergio Rodriguez collected 14 points and 3 assists for Milan, which fell to 7-4 with its third defeat in the last four contests. Nemanja Nedovic added 12 points and Vladimir Micov chipped in 11 in his 200th EuroLeague game.

Papanikolaou scored the game's first 5 points, to which Milan responded with a 0-7 run for its first lead. Papanikolaou hit another basket as the hosts jumped back in front 11-9, only to see Shelvin Mack and Nedovic both knock down three-pointers in Milan's 4-10 finish to the first quarter to lead 15-19. After Olympiacos went 0 for 9 from three-point distance in the first quarter, Sasha Vezenkov and Brandon Paul both hit from downtown to start the second and even the score at 21-21. Vezenkov then added a basket as Olympiacos moved ahead 25-23. The lead soon flipped again as Rodriguez hit a three-pointer and a layup for a 30-35 Milan advantage. Olympiacos managed a few defensive stops and finished half with a 10-2 run featuring 5 more points from Papanikolaou to enter the break ahead 40-37. Rodriguez opened the second-half scoring to trim the deficit to 40-39, but Milan's offense stalled thereafter. Milutinov converted a three-point play and Papanikolaou nailed a triple as the Olympiacos lead grew to 46-39. Antonios Koniaris and Spanoulis both hit from long range, as well, then Spanoulis tallied 4 more points in an 18-5 surge over 6 minutes to see Olympiacos pull away 58-44. Taylor Rochestie and Paul both nailed triples to extend the margin to 71-53 after 30 minutes. Augustine Rubit increased the advantage to 74-53 and Olympiacos did not allow Milan to score until Nedovic made free throws almost 4 minutes into the final quarter. The gap was 78-55 before Jeff Brooks finally scored Milan's first basket of the quarter with 4:30 minutes left. Michael Roll tallied 7 points for the guests down the stretch but Milan could not make a dent in the deficit.

Milestone, season high for Papanikolaou

Kostas Papanikolaou tallied 17 points to move to 1,510 for his EuroLeague career. The scoring outburst was the 29-year-old's best of the season and the most since he picked up 22 points against KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz last season in Round 17.

More history for Spanoulis

Vassils Spanoulis finished with a performance index rating of 17 to move his career PIR to 3,900, taking him past Barcelona legend Juan Carlos Navarro's 3,890 into first place on the EuroLeague all-time leaderboard.

Telling numbers

Olympiacos connected on 63.2% of its two-point shots while turning the ball over just 9 times. The hosts also won the battle of the glass, too, 37 to 23, including 9 offensive rebounds.

Next games

Olympiacos will stay in Greece for its next game but will be heading to rival Panathinaikos OPAP Athens on December 6. Milan meanwhile will look to move to 6-1 at home when it welcomes Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade on December 5.

Kostas Papanikolaou - Olympiacos Piraeus - EB19
Friday, November 29, 2019
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Referees: BOLTAUZER, MATEJ; DIFALLAH, MEHDI; ALIAGA, JORDI
Attendance: 7657
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Olympiacos Piraeus
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
0 PUNTER, KEVIN 5:33 4 2/2 0/2   1   1               3
1 ROCHESTIE, TAYLOR 8:13 3 1/2 0/1 1/1       2   1     3 1  
2 BALDWIN IV, WADE 10:38 8 2/3   4/6                 4 3 4
3 PAUL, BRANDON 15:44 7   2/3 1/2   2 2           2 2 7
6 KONIARIS, ANTONIOS 9:55 5 1/1 1/1     1 1 1 1       2   6
7 SPANOULIS, VASSILIS 23:34 14 4/6 1/4 3/4   2 2 5   3     1 6 17
10 CHERRY, WILL 22:07 4 2/2 0/1   2 1 3 2 2 2     2 1 7
11 MILUTINOV, NIKOLA 25:45 13 3/5   7/9 3 8 11 2 2       1 7 30
14 VEZENKOV, SASHA 19:40 8 1/2 2/2   1   1           1 1 8
15 PRINTEZIS, GEORGIOS 20:20 4 2/6 0/2   1 4 5 1       1 1 2 4
16 PAPANIKOLAOU, KOSTAS 24:16 17 4/5 2/5 3/3 1 3 4 1 1 1     1 4 21
21 RUBIT, AUGUSTINE 14:15 4 2/4       4 4     2     3   1
Team             3 3     1         2
Totals 200:00 91 24/38 8/21 19/25 9 28 37 14 6 10 0 1 21 27 110
        63.2% 38.1% 76%
Head coach: KEMZURA, KESTUTIS
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
AX Armani Exchange Milan
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
00 DELLA VALLE, AMEDEO 13:15 3 1/2   1/1         1       4 1  
1 MACK, SHELVIN 21:16 7 2/5 1/3         1 1 2       3 5
5 MICOV, VLADIMIR 30:01 11 2/2 1/4 4/4   1 1     1     3 2 7
6 BILIGHA, PAUL 14:06 2 1/3     1 3 4     2 1   5 1 -1
9 MORASCHINI, RICCARDO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
10 ROLL, MICHAEL 20:36 9 3/4 1/3     2 2 3 1 2     2   8
13 RODRIGUEZ, SERGIO 21:35 14 3/8 2/3 2/2 1   1 3   2     2 3 11
15 TARCZEWSKI, KALEB 17:45 3 1/1   1/2   2 2   1       4 2 3
16 NEDOVIC, NEMANJA 18:28 12 3/5 1/5 3/3   1 1     1     2 3 7
30 WHITE, AARON 0:57                              
32 BROOKS, JEFF 24:54 4 2/3     1 2 3 1 1 3     2 3 6
40 SCOLA, LUIS 17:07 5 1/5 0/1 3/4   4 4           3 2 2
Team           1 4 5               5
Totals 200:00 70 19/38 6/19 14/16 4 19 23 8 5 13 1 0 27 20 53
        50% 31.6% 87.5%
Head coach: MESSINA, ETTORE

Head Coaches

KEMZURA, KESTUTIS
Olympiacos Piraeus
"A credit to the guys. I also want to say a big thank you to the fans for their loyalty, coming here and cheering for us and giving us extra energy. We managed to do what we needed to do and the guys really showed toughness and character. And we won this game on the defensive end."
MESSINA, ETTORE
AX Armani Exchange Milan
"My congratulations to Olympiacos, Coach Kemzura, Vassilis and all the rest of the team for an excellent performance, especially in the second half. We were down one after the first two possessions of the third quarter. From that moment on it was a blackout. We will have to analyze the reason for this, and we move on."

Players

PAPANIKOLAOU, KOSTAS
Olympiacos Piraeus
"I feel good but most important is the team and how we are playing the last few weeks. In the Zalgiris game, we really played how we want to play, played like how we are practicing and that is the most important thing. We had two good games in Germany and we got one win. We wanted to make a statement that this is the way we want to play and this is the way we want to fight in the games. And I think that everybody is happy that we achieved it for another game. But still, it's a long way to go and everybody has to be concentrated."
MILUTINOV, NIKOLA
Olympiacos Piraeus
"We played good both halves. It's not so easy to have a big lead against Armani and we had to work hard for 40 minutes. And I think we worked hard for 40 minutes and we deserved to win. We are working hard at practice and have guys who have only been here a month, and we will get better and better."
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