Kosner Baskonia has competed well against the Olympiakos, but has not been able to win (90-80)
The Basque team has played a good game, on a very difficult court, but in the end it has lost, and is still on a bad streak in the Euroleague.
Trent Forrest scored 11 points.
Kosner Baskonia has lost to the Olympiakos, 90-80, on the thirty-second day of the Euroleague 2025-2026, in Piraeus, on Thursday night, so the Basque team remains at the bottom of the European competition and has not been able to put an end to the bad streak it is going through, but it has played a good game and has competed well on a very difficult court.
In the match played in Greece, Paolo Galbiati's men have been ahead of the scoreboard in the first two quarters N. In the break, the result was 41-40, so the Baskonia had every chance to contest the victory; in the third quarter, the Olympiakos have taken a seven-point lead, since when the last ten minutes stopped it was 69-62.
In this last stretch, the Greek team has also placed an 11-point lead (73-62, 77-66 and 80-69), but the Baskonia has not given up and has only placed itself at four, 82-78. The Basque team has not been able to go back completely and, after all, the Olympiakos have pocketed the victory in the decisive minutes of the match.
The Kosner Baskonia players have been good overall, but it is remarkable how Eugene Omoruyi scored 18 points; Luwawu-Cabarrot scored 14 more, and also captured five rebounds.
Data sheet
90 – Olympiakos (19+22+28+21): Walkup (2), Dorsey (15), Ward (3), Vezenkov (20) and Milutinov (17) -five initials-, Peters (3), Papanikolau (3), Fournier (6), Joseph (4) Jones (15), Morris (-) and Mckissic (2).
80 – Kosner Baskonia (24+16+22+18): Forrest (11), Villar (4), Radzevicius (2), Omoruyi (18) and Diakite (11) -five initials-, Luwawu-Cabarrot (14), Spagnolo (1), Frisch (9), Simmons (10) and Nowell (10).
Referees: Emin Mogulkoc (Turkey), Tomislav Hordov (Croatia), Sergio Silva (Portugal).
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