This Friday Olympiacos won the third game of the Greek League final of basketball against Panathinaikos. The Pireo players beat the rival fief and put the 2-1 in the series, staying at a single match to raise the title. However, everything that happened around this final makes what happens on the track very secondary.
For a start, This tie resumed on Friday after a few days suspended by Greece's own government. An emergency decision after the second game of the series after threats of rape, insults and even an order of search and capture for dimitris giannakopoulos, the owner of the Panathinaikos.
Without almost a protagonist stained by the controversy, in the center the mentioned owner of the green team was again. After the incidents last Sunday, June 1, and after a long history of critical behavior, to Giannakopoulos was sanctioned with 10 months without being able to attend matches of the Greek League and a fine of 20,000 euros.
With all this, the final resumed. But far from calming down, The match continued to fueling the flame of rivalry between these teams of Athens And, seen the multiple behaviors, the meeting seemed more like a chapter of a series of action than a confrontation between two of the best clubs in European basketball.
Fournier dedicates a 'masturbation' to Oaka
Starting at the end, the most notorious act was that of Evan Fournier. Receiving insults of all kinds, The French Olympiac player went to the side and made the gesture of 'ejacular' about the public of Panathinaikos. Something that greatly angered the fans who launched an advertising poster on the track.
The Pireo player was taken by his classmates, while security members prevented any fan from jumping to the track. For their side, the referees sent both teams to the benches and the game stopped for a moment. Subsequently, They pointed to a technique to Fournier that was expelled from the meeting After committing a previously antide.
Kendrick Nunn's unsportsmanlike
Evan Fournier not only had prominence in this action, he was also a container of ugly action. In a counterattack play, the Frenchman went to penetrate, but fell and picar Kendrick Nunn. A Nunn who fell on Fournier and decided to grab him from the shirt and throw it to the groundwhich caused a small brawl and that the companions of both sides will separate the players.
The American base was pointed out more than deserved antidesomething that would end up expelling him from the game, since he received a technique at the last minute of the game. He was not the only one in the Panathinaikos to leave ahead of time, because his coach, Ergin Ataman, also received a second technique before finishing the match and went to changing rooms early.
Ataman did not want the Olympiac flag
The Turkish coach has never set aside his role as showman provocative And in these Greek finals he had another episode. Calling Olympiac fans “bastards” after the second game, before starting this third, he continued to add firewood to the fire with an ugly gesture before his counterpart, Georgios Bartzokas.
As is traditional, before the match the technicians who greet and exchange flags of their clubs. However, this time, Ergin Ataman simply shared Bartzokas and then left without accepting the Olympiac flagleaving the Greek coach with a face of circumstances, without understanding very well what was happening.
In the end, Bartzokas team took the victory and is closer to lifting the title in Greece. But for that to happen, the fourth game will have to be played and seeing how the spirits are, one can expect anything but sportsmanship between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos.
