BASKETBALL | FC BARCELONA WINS OLYMPIAKOS TO BECOME EUROPEAN BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS 2010

Great night for Spanish Sports, Spanish Basketball & for the city of Barcelona after FC BARCELONA (the Basketball section) defeated Greek side OLYMPIAKOS 86-68 in the Final of the European Final Four tournament in Paris to proclaim themselves the EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS.

FC Barcelona palyer JUAN CARLOS NAVARRO (above) was chosen the MVP of the tournament making him the first Spaniard to win this honour in the final four competition.

The Spanish side was by far the best team with the Greeks getting close in the 2º & 3ºrd quarters . However, good defending on Greek play-maker Papaloukas reduced the efectiveness of Olympiakos which also suffered as their zone play did not work at all well tonight. The latter part of the match the Spaniards opened a big psychological gap with triple shots flying in from all angles.

Details:

Regal FC Barcelona (28+19+17+22) 86: Ricky Rubio (9), Navarro (21), Mickeal (14), Ndong (7), Lorbek (8) -initial five-, Fran Vázquez (6), Sada (7), Basile (6), Morris (8), Grimau (-), Lakovic (-) & Trias (-).

Olympiakos (19+17+14+18) 68: Penn (-), Teodosic (10), Childress (15), Kleiza (13), Schortsanitis (6) -initial five-, Bouroussis (9), Papaloukas (12), Halperim (-), Mavrokefalides (1), Vujcic (2), Vassilopoulos (-) & Beverley (-). Tweet

Share