Olympiacos rout Anadolu Efes 90-66
Easy win for the Reds against the Turkish team
Olympiacos Piraeus trounced Anadolu Efes Istanbul 90-66 on Thursday at Peace and Friendship Stadium in its home opener in a historic game for its leader. Vassilis Spanoulis became the second player in competition history to reach 3,000 career points with a basket in the first quarter. He starred all night long with 17 points and 9 assists for the Reds. Georgios Printezis scored 14 first-quarter points and finished with 15, while Matt Lojeski netted 14 points and Erick Green 11 for the winners. Cedi Osman led the way for Efes with a career-high 22 points and Derrick Brown and DeShaun Thomas scored 10 points apiece. The result evened Olympiacos’s record at 1-1, while Efes fell to its second defeat in as many games. Olympiacos hosts EA7 Emporio Armani Milan in its next EuroLeague game, while Efes takes on reigning champion CSKA Moscow.