In spite of its new misfortunes, Olympiacos stays a top-class cautious group, permitting simply 73.6 points each night. Adversaries are battling to score against the Reds inside the curve, making only 49.8% of their two-point shots overall. Defending the paint against great scorers like Bryant Dunston and Tibor Pleiss is significant for Olympiacos.

Keeping Larkin and Micic from ruling the game beat could be basic and Olympiacos depends on Thomas Walkup and Kostas Sloukas to direct the right cadence. Olympiacos positions toward the end in offensive rebound (8.9 orpg.). Fueling the offensive glass harder could be one more key to preventing Efes from running the floor.

Olympiacos head coach Georgios Bartzokas stated before the big derby: "What makes a difference is to win and how extreme you are, the means by which great a protective game you will be setting up. Thus, I accept that we will be doing this tomorrow, we will be truly intense in light of the fact that Efes has a great deal of hostile ability in each position.”

He added: “In the first round game we were restricted to the final quarter, nonetheless, a brief period when they got to score a ton caused us a loss of in excess of ten points. They are a group that assuming you permit them to play their game, they have sufficient ability to score a ton, that is the reason we should be truly extreme in this game."

Anadolu Efes Istanbul will depend on Shane Larkin's remarkable shape to assume a major part in its Round 26 game against Olympiacos Piraeus. Larkin falls off a major twofold round week in which he found the middle value of 22.5 points, 8.5 assists and a PIR of 29 in driving Efes to consecutive triumphs.

Halting Sasha Vezenkov should likewise be a major key for Efes, which can go to drive advances Adrien Moerman and Chris Singleton to play intense against him. Efes should continue to search for three-point shots subsequent to shooting 30-for-62 (48.4%) in its last two games. Larkin, Rodrigue Beaubois, Vasilije Micic and Krunoslav Simon will be generally prepared to pull the trigger from past the circular segment.

Coach Ataman said: "We have a difficult and important game in Athens. Sloukas and Dorsey are the scorers of Olympiakos, with Vezenkov being a threat from the periphery and Fall being very effective under the basket. If we make a few mistakes, make the right double-team and control the defensive rebounds, then we will be able to take the victory."

Dunston who used to play for Olympiakos some years ago added: “We needed to play with a great deal of energy to affirm the success. Tragically, we didn't make it, however we need to remain intellectually solid and be ready for the game against Baskonia. It's truly critical to match their energy and stop their change game. We should accept the ideal choices on offense, all together not allow them the opportunity to run in an open court."

The two teams have faced each other in 43 Euroleague games. Olympiakos has 21 wins, while Anadolu Efes has won 22 times.

Let's take a look at main and special odds markets offered at bet365 website :

• FullTime Result: 1.76 (Olympiakos) – 2.10 (Anadolu Efes)
• Over/Under 158.5 points : 1.90 (Over) - 1.90 (Under)
• Race to 20 points: 1.80(AX Olimpia Milano) - 1.86(Zalgiris)

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Walkup vs. Larkin

The American combo guard of Olympiakos is in a mission tonight. He has to stop Shane Larkin as he is the best Olympiakos’ defender in the perimeter. He has the ability to keep great players in low scoring, so Bartzokas counts on him a lot.

On the other side of the court, when Larkin is in the rhythm almost nothing can stop him. He has some great performances in the last games, and he wants to do the same tonight at Piraeus. Larkin knows that it will not be difficult but he is a player for the big derbies.