The Olympiacos forward netted 12 of his team’s 20 points in the fourth quarter
Alec Peters stepped up to cover for Milutinov in Bartzokas’s small ball
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Missing Nikola Milutinov through gastroenteritis, Olympiacos Piraeus took to Unipol Forum with just one available center in Moustapha Fall. New signing Nathan Mensah may have traveled with the team to Italy, but throwing the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague rookie in at the deep end at a strong side like EA7 Emporio Armani Milan was not an option. Head coach Georgios Bartzokas had already tried playing small ball due to injuries of his bigs in previous games, but his experiment didn’t always work out well.
Yet, on Thursday night everything clicked and it was Alec Peters who delivered big time in the fourth quarter, leading Olympiacos to an 83-84 road win. The Olympiacos forward started the closing quarter at the ‘4’ before moving to the center position when Fall was replaced with 3 fouls with 8 minutes to go.
"We had to play with a short lineup because we had only Moustapha Fall [at center] and it wasn’t easy for him to play 40 minutes and he had 3 fouls," Bartzokas told EuroLeague TV after the game. “And then we had a lineup with forwards and guards. So, protecting the paint and grabbing defensive rebounds was the key."
Peters scored 12 of Olympiacos’s 20 points in the fourth quarter, including a huge triple to open a 74-80 lead with 2:22 left on the clock. In fact, he netted his team’s last 7 points of the game, allowing the Reds to maintain an edge until the final whistle. Peters ended the game with a season-high 14 points, going 3-for-3 from inside, 1-for-3 from deep and 5-for-5 from the line in 15:43 minutes on the floor.
Before coming to the fore in the fourth quarter, Peters saw his teammate, Evan Fournier, set the tone with an extraordinary third-quarter display. The Olympiacos forward scored 14 of his team’s 23 points in the third, allowing the visitors to establish a narrow lead. His complete outing on both sides of the floor saw Fournier finish the game with 18 points, 7 assists and as many as 5 steals.
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“We’ve been struggling with injuries,” the Olympiacos forward told EuroLeague TV. “Guys in and out the lineup. We didn’t have Milu[tinov]. We just have to find some consistency regardless of who is in and who is out and play Olympiacos basketball, which is [being] tough, together and hard.”
Having previously gotten back to winning ways with two victories in the double-round week, Olympiacos has now extended its streak to three wins. At Milan it was Peters who stepped up and, should the Reds manage to consistently demonstrate this next-man-up mentality, they will be sending a strong message to the rest of the top-four spot contenders.