Of course this was a... "happy" embarassment. Olympiakos showed no mercy to CSKA Moscow and made them look like a semi-professional team. With their very strong Defence and their determination in Offence the champions of Europe gave no chance to the Russians.
Many were trying to find out who was the MVP for Olympiakos, but the most valuable factor for the Greeks was their coach Giorgos Bartzokas, who studied CSKA's game very well and blocked its' weapons. Even though this is his 1st Final 4, the Greek coach showed how it is done against the most experienced coach that went to London, Etore Messina. Actually, both Messina, and the former Greek National Team's captain and play-maker Thodoris Papaloukas looked like they were... too old for this shit...No spark, no ideas, no alternative plans...It's like they are both saturated with titles and have no thurst for more.
As for the 2 Serbian stars, Milos Teodosic and Nenad Krstic, they came in the O2 Arena with very negative psychology and allowed Olympiakos to play with their mind and easily switch them off. The only player who really made an effort for CSKA was Viktor Khryapa, but even he wasn't in his best form ever.
In the later "Spanish civil war" we saw that Sergio Rodriguez and Felipe Reyes made the difference. Tha game was tough and great to watch for 40 minutes as the lead changed drastically at least 4 times. The Catalans could not overcome the injury of Nathan Jawai which made Ante Tomic play for almost the whole match and eventually collapse. Other than that though, Erazem Lorbek was a big dissapointment once more and I think that this is the end of his high-level career.
As for the Final, predictions are difficult but we will talk more about it from tomorrow.
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